It wasn't really that close as Daniel Espino captured 43% of the vote, outpacing Gavin Williams for the No Bobby Bradley T-Shirt. 1 spot on our 2023 prospect ranking list.Cleveland's first-round draft pick out of high school in 2019, Espino is the top-ranked prospect in the Cleveland system, and based on performance when he was healthy, he absolutely deserved it.Espino entered the 2022 season on a ridiculous wave of hype that saw him compared to Jacob DeGrom and Stephen Strasburg, and he proved worthy of it based on his early appearances. The talented 21-year-old made his Double-A debut and the results were incredible. In four appearances, he dropped his walk rate to a career-low 1.96 per nine innings while spiking his strikeout rate to a ridiculous 51.5%. This includes a game where he struck out an absolutely ridiculous 14 batters in just 5.0 innings, which included whiffing the first 11 batters he faced in the game. After allowing a solo home run, he then struck out the next three batters Oscar Gonzalez Hoodie. He also didn't walk anyone.
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