It's that time of year, folks. Time for the amazing minds at Red Reporter to come up with our community prospect list. If you're unfamiliar with how we do this, listen up. Starting today, you will be voting on who you think are the top prospects for the Reds minor league system. We'll start voting for #1 today, and after that's decided #2, and so on. Voting for each spot will last one day, unless it's too close to call, in which case we'll give it a second day. The lists of players for each spot on the list will be determined by nycredsfan and myself, so if you think we missed somebody in our poll, feel free to let us know in the comments (with a coherent and well-reasoned case, of course). The only difference from last year to this year is that we'll be voting on 25 players instead of 15.
Let's get started. Here are your choices for the #1 Reds prospect for 2010:
Todd Frazier, OF/2B/3B:
Baseball America rank: 1
2009 RR CPR rank: 3
Age: 24
Draft/Acquisition Details: 1st round (pick 34), Reds, 2007
Highest Level Played: AAA (Louisville)
2009 Statistics:
Carolina (AA): 119 G, 451 AB, 14 HR, 68 RBI, 7 SB, .290/.350/.481/.831
Louisville (AAA): 16 G, 63 AB, 2 HR, 9 RBI, 2 SB, .302/.362/.476/.839
Yonder Alonso, 1B:
Baseball America rank: 2
2009 RR CPR rank: 1
Age: 23
Draft/Acquisition Details: 1st round (pick 7), Reds, 2008
Highest Level Played: AAA (Louisville [playoffs]), AA (Carolina [regular season])
2009 Statistics:
GCL Reds (R): 6 G, 15 AB, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB, .133/.278/.133/.411
Sarasota (A+): 49 G, 175 AB, 7 HR, 38 RBI, 0 SB, .303/.383/.497/.880
Carolina (AA): 29 G, 105 AB, 2 HR, 14 RBI, 1 SB, .295/.372/.457/.829
Peoria (AFL): 23 G, 86 AB, 2 HR, 23 RBI, 0 SB, .267/.353/.395/.748
Caguas (PRWL): 16 G, 61 AB, 1 HR, 6 RBI, 0 SB, .213/.304/.377/.681
Mike Leake, RHSP:
Baseball America rank: 3
2009 RR CPR rank: NR
Age: 22
Draft/Acquisition Details: 1st round (pick 8), Reds, 2009
Highest Level Played: NCAA (Arizona State), AFL (Peoria)
2009 Statistics:
Arizona State (NCAA): 18 GS, 16-1, 1.71 ERA, 142 IP, 162 K, 24 BB, 0.84 WHIP
Peoria (AFL): 5 GS, 1-2, 1.37 ERA, 19.2 IP, 15 K, 3 BB, 1.17 WHIP
Chris Heisey, OF:
Baseball America rank: 4
2009 RR CPR rank: NR
Age: 25
Draft/Acquisition Details: 17th round (pick 504), Reds, 2006
Highest Level Played: AAA (Louisville)
2009 Statistics:
Carolina (AA): 71 G, 271 AB, 13 HR, 40 RBI, 13 SB, .347/.426/.572/.998
Louisville (AAA): 63 G, 245 AB, 9 HR, 37 RBI, 8 SB, .278/.323/.465/.788
Peoria (AFL): 24 G, 91 AB, 5 HR, 14 RBI, 5 SB, .297/.379/.593/.972
Juan Francisco, 3B/LF:
Baseball America rank: 5
2009 RR CPR rank: 6
Age: 23
Draft/Acquisition Details: Signed in 2004 out of Dominican Republic
Highest Level Played: MLB (Cincinnati)
2009 Statistics:
Carolina (AA): 109 G, 437 AB, 22 HR, 74 RBI, 6 SB, .281/.317/.501/.818
Louisville (AAA): 22 G, 92 AB, 5 HR, 19 RBI, 0 SB, .359/.384/.598/.982
Cincinnati (MLB): 14 G, 21 AB, 1 HR, 7 RBI, 0 SB, .429/.520/.619/1.139
Cibao (DWL): 46 G, 182 AB, 11 HR, 42 RBI, 0 SB, .302/.352/.566/.918
There are your candidates, voting goes all day today and tomorrow. If your #1 player didn't make our list, say so in the comments and we'll consider adding it to the poll. Vote early, vote often.