SL OOZES TALENT IN BANNER YEAR
The Southern League was stacked with prospects this year, with perhaps its greatest quantity and variety of position players in a long time.
Despite being a 10-team league, the Southern League’s embarrassment of riches included 15 qualifying players who were first- or supplemental first-round picks. At least 20 players who ranked as Top 100 Prospects this season played in the league long enough to qualify for our ranking.
The talent pool was so deep that a number of players who joined the league later in the season were excluded from the ranking because managers and scouts didn’t get the same number of looks as the more tenured players.
Examples of quality prospects who were tough omissions from the top 20 ranking include Chattanooga third baseman Jonathan India, Montgomery second baseman Vidal Brujan and Mississippi lefthanders Kyle Muller and Tucker Davidson. In an ordinary year, all four would have made the cut.
1. Jo Adell, OF
Mobile (Angels)
AGE: 20. B-T: R-R. HT: 6-3. WT: 215. DRAFTED: HS—Louisville, 2017 (1).
Adell missed April and most of May because of hamstring and ankle injuries suffered
