Archie Bradley ranked ninth-best MLB prospect by ESPN insider
May 28, 2013, 4:23 PM | Updated: 4:31 pm
Right before the 2013 Major League Baseball season started, ESPN’s Keith Law released his list of the top prospects in all of baseball.
Twenty-year-old Archie Bradley ranked 29th on Law’s list.
What a difference two months can make.
Law released his revised list Tuesday morning and Bradley has moved up 20 spots to number nine overall.
Bradley always had ace-quality stuff, with a fastball up to 98 mph and a curveball from hell, but his control troubles last year appear to be behind him. He has walked just more than 10 percent of hitters this year after walking more than 14 percent of them last year. Diamondbacks fans should be gritty — I mean, giddy — over the prospect of a rotation with Bradley, Pat Corbin, Tyler Skaggs, Wade Miley and Daniel Hudson by Opening Day of 2015.
Bradley, who was drafted seventh overall by the Diamondbacks out of Broken Arrow High School in Oklahoma in 2011, has been dominant at the Minor League level this season.
In 10 starts between Class-A Visalia and Double-A Mobile, Bradley is 6-0 with a 0.99 ERA. He has struck out 73 and walked only 23 in 54.2 innings. In 39 appearances in the minors (38 starts) over three seasons, Bradley is 18-6 with a 2.99 ERA and 229 strikeouts in 192.2 innings.
On Law’s list, Bradley is the second-ranked pitcher behind only Seattle prospect Taijuan Walker.
