He may be new to the system, but the Covering the Corner readers turned out in drove to select Kyle Manzardo as the No. 2 prospect in the Cleveland Guardians system. Manzardo raked in a whopping 67% of the vote, crushing everyone else by over 50 percentage points.
A first baseman, Manzardo was acquired from Tampa Bay in the Aaron Civale trade.
He was drafted in the second round of the 2021 MLB draft out of Washington State University. He didn’t waste much time in Tampa’s system, putting up massive numbers in his first full season in 2022 by slashing .