San Diego WAUdres Top 20 Prospects

We're once again returning to the NL West in our Top Prospect series. This time, we're going to take a look at WAU San Diego Padres farm system. Again, as a reminder: I'm posting a bare-bones list of rankings, with grades for individual players, and system commentary at the end.

San Diego Padres Top 20 Prospects

Grade: B+
1.) Simon Castro, RHP, SD

Grade: B-
2.) Johnny Giavotella, 2B, KC
3.) Daniel Schlereth, LHP, DET
4.) Christopher Owings, SS, ARI
5.) Cory Luebke, LHP, SD
6.) Stolmy Pimentel, RHP, BOS

Grade: C+
7.) Chad Lewis, 3B, OAK
8.) John Barbato, RHP, SD
9.) Matt Lollis, RHP, SD
10.) Corey Kluber, RHP, CLE

Grade: C and Below
11.) Phillippe Aumont, RHP, SDP
12.) Anthony Bass, RHP, SDP
13.) Josh Spence, LHP, SDP
14.) Cody Decker, OF, SDP
15.) Jose Dore, OF, SDP
16.) Chris Bisson, 2B, SDP
17.) Rico Noel, OF, SDP
18.) Jeremy Hefner, RHP, SDP
19.) Tommy Medica, C, SDP
20.) Lance Zawadzki, 3B, KC

System Commentary:
Without a doubt, San Diego has one of the worst farm systems in WAU. While there are some names I like in the Top 10 (Giavotella, Schlereth, Lewis, Barbato), it's hard to envision them as being worthy representatives of most Top 10s in the league. Deeper down, the system thins out ridiculously quickly, and is so heavily reliant on auto-assigned San Diego AMAT prospects that it was difficult to find guys worth mentioning outside of those auto-assigns. I should point out that by #15 or so, I resorted to complete gambles, and by #20, I was annoyed enough to include Lance Zawadzki on a prospect list. Look Zawadzki up and you'll see why that's noteworthy. So, this Padres farm will live and die by the real-life Padres' last couple of drafts. And, given the lack of spending by real-life San Diego in those last couple of drafts, that's not a great thing.