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| Top 10 Center Fielders Under the age of 25 | ||||||||||||
| No. | Player | Pos. | Comments | Age | Org | Lvl | ||||||
| 1 | B.J. Upton | CF | Breakout alert: huge postseason, shoulder repaired, K% down 7.2 ('07 to '08) and BB% up 3.3 | 24.1 | TB | MLB | ||||||
| 2 | Matt Kemp | CF/RF | Went .291/.340/.460 in 1st full MLB season (655 PA); BB, K rates both up slightly from '07 | 24.1 | LAD | MLB | ||||||
| 3 | Cameron Maybin | CF | Nearly replicated A+ (.406 wOBA) numbers in AA (.381); still K'd a ton (26.9%); .179 IsoP | 21.5 | FLA | MLB | ||||||
| 4 | Colby Rasmus | CF | After posting .397 wOBA in AA in '07, fell to .324 in AAA in '08; missed time w/ sprained knee | 22.2 | STL | AAA | ||||||
| 5 | Dexter Fowler | CF | Olympian had breakout year: career-best .401 wOBA; lots of BBs (12.9%), K's down (17.6%) | 22.6 | COL | MLB | ||||||
| 6 | Lastings Milledge | CF | Seems like he's been around forever, but '08 was 1st full MLB season: .320 wOBA, .134 IsoP | 23.5 | WAS | MLB | ||||||
| 7 | Adam Jones | CF | After putting up .409 wOBA in AAA ('07), went .309 w/ Orioles in '08; IsoP cut in half; great D | 23.2 | BAL | MLB | ||||||
| 8 | Jordan Schafer | CF | HGH use cost him 50 games; good power (.202 IsoP), good BB (14.0%), bad K's (25.2%) | 22.1 | ATL | AA | ||||||
| 9 | Carlos Gomez | CF | 7th youngest hitter in MLB last season; exceptional D; could be an average hitter in his prime | 22.9 | MIN | MLB | ||||||
| 10 | Fernando Martinez | CF/LF | Wasn't overmatched as youngest AA player (.332 wOBA); IsoP up from .106 ('07) to .145 ('08) | 20.0 | NYM | AA | ||||||
| Honorables: Denard Span (MIN), Andrew McCutchen (PIT), and Dustin Ackley (UNC). | ||||||||||||
| * Our rankings combine a player's ceiling with the odds that he'll reach it and favor recent production | ||||||||||||
| ** Ages are as of November 1st, 2008 | ||||||||||||
| *** Level is the highest level the player has reached | ||||||||||||
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