Who is the Cubs #26 prospect? (run-off)

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Gleyber Torres vs. Shawon Dunston Jr. The loser of this poll will be #27. The poll will be open for 48 hours.

 

Results so far:

 

1. Javier Baez

2. Kris Bryant

3. Albert Almora

4. Jorge Soler

5. CJ Edwards

6. Arismendy Alcantara

7. Pierce Johnson

8. Daniel Vogelbach

9. Christian Villanueva

10. Jeimer Candelario

11. Mike Olt

12. Kyle Hendricks

13. Arodys Vizcaino

14. Paul Blackburn

15. Rob Zastryzny

16. Corey Black

17. Neil Ramirez

18. Eloy Jimenez

19. Josh Vitters

20. Ivan Pineyro

21. Armando Rivero

22. Dillon Maples

23. Duane Underwood

24. Willson Contreras

25. Tyler Skulina

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Dunston. Not a significant number of AB in Boise, but the K/BB is really intriguing. Could end up being a top 10 prospect in the system or John Andreoli.

[craig]

Easy vote for Torres. Dunston is still down the list for me. Nice K/BB, but Dunston's ceiling looks like a singles-hitting left-fielder. Hard for me to get very interested. Maybe some power will emerge eventually, and that's the hope. But seems like a low-level Szczur without the CF or the formerly perceived SB potential.

[rawaction]

Easy vote for Torres. Dunston is still down the list for me. Nice K/BB, but Dunston's ceiling looks like a singles-hitting left-fielder. Hard for me to get very interested. Maybe some power will emerge eventually, and that's the hope. But seems like a low-level Szczur without the CF or the formerly perceived SB potential.

 

This.

[wekim81]

i'd have both of these guys higher than 26/27 (but i've already stated my case on that and what's done is done), so for me.. Dunston>Torres by a hair.

[Guest]

Dunston stole 12 bases in less than 50 games with an 85% success rate. Not sure why he wouldn't be considered a pretty significant value add on the bases.

 

Both of these occupy pretty similar space, both in terms of type of player they project to be and quality. Dunston is the easy vote because Torres is a got dang 16 year old who hasn't played meaningful baseball yet. Dunston's actual performance(and tools to improve on that) beat out Torres' positional scarcity.

[davell]

Agree with Craig 100%.

[toonsterwu]

I think this is high for both guys, but pushed to choose, I'll go with Torres. Both are upside picks - yes, there's some track record with Shawon Dunston Jr., but not enough for me to give an overwhelming edge to, and as such, I'll go with the better perceived upside.