Polanco entered the 2014 season as the number 10 prospect in baseball according to Baseball America. That ranked two spots below 2015 National League Rookie of the Year and 2016 National League Most Valuable Player Kris Bryant. In this piece written by J.J. Cooper of Baseball America, he gives this tidbit of Gregory Polanco:
“There simply aren’t many hitters in the game who can hit a towering home run and turn in a sub-4.0-second time to first on an infield grounder in the same game. Polanco can do both of those things.