Padres Top 50 Prospects: #40-#36 Premium Story

Greg Sain
By Denis Savage
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Date: Feb 28, 2005

The Top 50 continues, and with the exception of the numbers before the names there is no pattern to be picked up on. Record breaking power hitters alongside 19 year old pitchers? The rankings are in. 40. Mike Thompson suffered through seasons of mediocrity in the Padres’ system before finally “getting it” this past season. To hear scouts in the system recant his tale, they say some players, and more precisely pitchers, take longer than others to grasp the game.


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