After a few close battles in the last few spots on our community list, we had a runaway in the battle for the sixth spot. With this spot we have our third former first-round pick from the organization and the third pitcher on the list. He may have a future in the bullpen, though the team will continue to fight that, and he beat out another right-hander that is certainly heading for the ‘pen. Taking the sixth spot with 25 of 47 votes (53 percent), Tanner Houck is sixth on our community top prospect list.
In our last spot we talked about a different first-round pitcher selection with Jay Groome, but this is certainly a different situation for Houck.