I doubt we’re top 15 presently, given the pitching gap after Ashby and Small, coupled with a small question over how much the Mudcats’ hitting was inflated by horrid opposing pitching this season. To me, next year looks like the Year of the Latin Mudcats, as that investment starts really paying off, while I expect hitting talent to be nicely spread out across Nashville, Biloxi and Wisconsin, hopefully with large strides by Turang and Feliciano. The real question will be the development of attempted starting pitchers like (youngest to oldest): Figueroa, Vassalotti, Uribe, J. Cruz, Jarvis, Kelly, Lazar, Bullock, Murphy, Russell Smith, Castaneda, Knarr, Shook…