Baseball America's Top 10 Full of Former Greeneville Astros

Baseball America released their Astros' Top 10 Prospects today. Five out of the six top ranked players were former G-Stros!

Here is the list with the year they played for Greeneville in parenthesis, along with any other accolades BA gave them:

1.	Jordan Lyles, rhp (2008) - best slider, best change, best control
2.	Delino DeShields Jr., of/2b (2010) - fastest base runner, best athlete
3.	Jonathan Villar, ss
4.	Mike Foltynewicz, rhp (2010) - best fastball
5.	Jio Mier, ss (2009)
6.	J.D. Martinez, of (2009) - best hitter for average
7.	Jimmy Paredes, inf
8.	Tanner Bushue, rhp
9.	Austin Wates, of
10.	Ariel Ovando, of

Villar & Paredes joined the Astros organization via trades this year. Buchue was a 2009 draft pick who jumped from the GCL to Lexington, bypassing Greeneville. Wates was a 2010 draftee out of Virginia Tech who started at Tri Cities. Ovando is a young Dominican prospect who was signed this summer for over 2 million dollars. I hope he makes his debut this summer in Greeneville.

Other former G-Stros listed among the best of the organization include:

Telvin Nash - best power
R. J. Alaniz - best curveball
Roberto Pena - best defensive catcher

I have created a google docs spread sheet that combines all the top prospect list I come across. You can access it at this link. Those on the spread sheet highlighted in green & bolded spent some time in Greeneville.