Midseason Prospect Reports: AL and NL Central



Baseball America's major league correspondents file 25 prospect reports a year, providing essential information on the up and coming players in every organization. Yet a steady flow of content on our site sometimes buries their Organization Reports at the foot of the mountain, beneath an avalanche of words.

To make sure you don't miss our midseason prospect reports, we're unveiling them 10 at a time this week—we started with the East organizations yesterday, have the Central today and will post the West on Thursday. For each organization, we selected the best overall player (among those who have spent most of the season in the minors), the prospect who has taken the biggest leap forward, and the one who has been the biggest disappointment.

Our Organization Reports are a subscriber-only feature, so if you'd like to read them you can find your various subscription options here. But for everyone we present below a handy index to all 11 of the reports from the Central, with an overview of the category winners for Best Player, Biggest Leap Forward and Biggest Disappointment of the first half. The team name links you to the complete report, which includes an explanation of why each player won his respective category. You can find the overall Organization Reports index for 2012 here.

MIDSEASON PROSPECT REPORTS
ORGANIZATION BEST PLAYER LEAP FORWARD DISAPPOINTMENT
Chicago Cubs
Anthony Rizzo
Arismendy Alcantara
Ronald Torreyes
Chicago White Sox
Carlos Sanchez
Santos Rodriguez
Ozzie Martinez
Cincinnati Reds
Billy Hamilton
Donnie Joseph Neftali Soto
Cleveland Indians
Francisco Lindor
Steve Wright
Beau Mills
Detroit Tigers
Nick Castellanos
Steven Moya
A. Burgos/R. Lebron
Houston Astros
Jonathan Singleton
Nick Tropeano
Tanner Bushue
Kansas City Royals
Wil Myers
Yordano Ventura
Noel Arguelles
Milwaukee Brewers
Tyler Thornburg
Hiram Burgos
Wily Peralta
Minnesota Twins
Oswaldo Arcia
Caleb Thielbar
Rene Tosoni
Pittsburgh Pirates
Gerrit Cole
Alen Hanson
Stetson Allie
St. Louis Cardinals
Oscar Taveras Joe Kelly
Shelby Miller


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Arcia over Sano?

Honestly…. How is Sano not on top?

I would have thought the Brewers leap forward would have been Jimmy Nelson.

I'm surprised the Astros' leap guy is Tropeano. No doubt an impressive season from a previous unknown but former first rounders Delino Deshields Jr and Mike Foltynewicz made huge leaps/rebounds. 

what happened to lavon washington highly regarded cleveland indians prospect.


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