Rene Tosoni collected 65 of 263 votes (24%) to win the last spot in this year's Top 20. Tosoni had a tremendous start this past year, then spent the majority of his season on the disabled list which caused him to drop from our ninth spot last year. Trevor Plouffe was a close second with Anthony Slama also receiving almost fifty votes.
Two players, Brian Dozier and Danny Rams did not receive enough votes to keep them in the next round. They will be replaced by last year's third round pick, Pat Dean, who was included in earlier rounds. Also included in the next round will be former fourth round pick, Daniel Ortiz. After missing all of 2009 with an injury, Ortiz hit .259/.299/.498 for Elizabethton last summer. The final player added will be third baseman, Anderson Hidalgo. Hidalgo led Beloit in hitting at .316/.375/.443 which would have been second best (league leader hit .318) in the Midwest League had he not been injured, missing enough time to not qualify for the league leadership.
Our top Ten, with last year's ranking included, have been: 1) Kyle Gibson (4), 2) Aaron Hicks (2), 3) Miguel Sano (1), 4) Ben Revere (5), 5) Alex Wimmers (nr), 6) Joe Benson (16), 7) Oswaldo Arcia (44), 8) Liam Hendriks (nr), 9) Max Kepler-Rozycki (13), and 10) Angel Morales (7).
Our second Ten are: 11) David Bromberg (8), 12) Carlos Gutierrez (14), 13) Adrian Salcedo (15), 14) Chris Parmelee (11), 15) Kyle Waldrop (36), 16) Deolis Guerra (10), 17) Billy Bullock (21), 18) Eddie Rosario (nr), 19) Manuel Soliman (nr), and 20) Rene Tosoni (9).
Voting for this round will remain open through 3pm, Tuesday, January 4th. Please continue to comment as to who you are voting for and the reason as well as players you would like to see added.