WESTERN BASEBALL CIRCUIT
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
09/17/1896
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Minneapolis Sawyers Dwight Seward 1st 1st(tied) 1st
Toledo Mudcats Sam Montrose 2nd 1st(tied) 2nd
Chicago Crows Charlie Zorn 3rd 1st(tied) 3rd
Des Moines Pioneers Sam Andrews 4th 1st(tied) 4th
Kansas City Stockmen Ben Norcross 5th 1st(tied) 5th
Milwaukee Knights Jesse Cullinan 6th 1st(tied) 6th
Indianapolis Regulators Benny Fleming 7th 1st(tied) 7th
St. Louis Sports Will Jensen 8th 1st(tied) 8th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kansas City Stockmen George Marbach 1st 3rd(tied) 2nd
Milwaukee Knights Will Farnsworth 2nd 3rd(tied) 4th
Des Moines Pioneers Charles Fairly 3rd 3rd(tied) 5th
Toledo Mudcats Norman Baldwin 4th 3rd(tied) 6th
Indianapolis Regulators Frank Lytle 5th Walter Holmes 1st 1st
St. Louis Sports William Stephenson 6th Frank Anderson 2nd 3rd
Minneapolis Sawyers William Cookson 7th 3rd(tied) 7th
Chicago Crows Samuel Intemann 8th 3rd(tied) 8th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Indianapolis Regulators Sam Dew 1st 2nd(tied) 2nd
Toledo Mudcats Frank Moody 2nd William Merrill 1st 1st
Chicago Crows Tommy Atkins 3rd 2nd(tied) 3rd
Minneapolis Sawyers Ernest Worley 4th 2nd(tied) 4th
Des Moines Pioneers Miles Sheridan 5th 2nd(tied) 5th
Kansas City Stockmen George Black 6th 2nd(tied) 6th
St. Louis Sports Sam West 7th 2nd(tied) 7th
Milwaukee Knights Ernest Stone 8th 2nd(tied) 8th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Milwaukee Knights Fred Lakes 1st 1st(tied) 1st
Chicago Crows Tom Yeomans 2nd 1st(tied) 2nd
St. Louis Sports George Ketcham 3rd 1st(tied) 3rd
Kansas City Stockmen Freddie Myers 4th 1st(tied) 4th
Toledo Mudcats Jimmy Sheets 5th 1st(tied) 5th
Minneapolis Sawyers Ed King 6th 1st(tied) 6th
Indianapolis Regulators Jimmy Baxter 7th 1st(tied) 7th
Des Moines Pioneers 8th 1st(tied) 8th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Milwaukee Knights Jimmy Bowman 1st 1st(tied) 1st
Indianapolis Regulators Frank Gray 2nd 1st(tied) 2nd
Chicago Crows Thomas Chapman 3rd 1st(tied) 3rd
Des Moines Pioneers Walter Pritchett 4th 1st(tied) 4th
St. Louis Sports Jimmy Coyte 5th (tied) 1st(tied) 5th(tied)
Toledo Mudcats Joseph Harrington 5th (tied) 1st(tied) 5th(tied)
Minneapolis Sawyers Joe David 7th 1st(tied) 7th
Kansas City Stockmen Walter Freeman 8th 1st(tied) 8th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Milwaukee Knights Saul Lippmann 1st 1st(tied) 1st
St. Louis Sports Benny Ashworth 2nd 1st(tied) 2nd
Des Moines Pioneers Edward Guidry 3rd 1st(tied) 3rd
Minneapolis Sawyers Joe Devine 4th 1st(tied) 4th
Kansas City Stockmen Sam Huskey 5th 1st(tied) 5th
Toledo Mudcats Fred Stephens 6th 1st(tied) 6th
Indianapolis Regulators Charles Winterscheidt 7th 1st(tied) 7th
Chicago Crows Albert Wickham 8th 1st(tied) 8th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chicago Crows Harmon King 1st Ed Ursin 1st 1st
Milwaukee Knights Joe Irving 2nd Tommy Valentine 3rd 2nd
Des Moines Pioneers Jack Leaf 3rd 5th(tied) 4th
Minneapolis Sawyers Jack Rowe 4th Jack Orton 2nd 3rd
Toledo Mudcats Freddie Vaughan 5th 5th(tied) 6th
St. Louis Sports Frank Newsome 6th 5th(tied) 7th
Indianapolis Regulators John Bradbury 7th (tied) 5th(tied) 8th
Kansas City Stockmen Harry Miller 7th (tied) Joe Rohrbacher 4th 5th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Des Moines Pioneers Royce Johnson 1st 1st(tied) 1st
Milwaukee Knights Sam Jaynes 2nd 1st(tied) 2nd
Toledo Mudcats Jesse Pendleton 3rd 1st(tied) 3rd
Chicago Crows Will Owens 4th 1st(tied) 4th
St. Louis Sports Juan Delgado 5th 1st(tied) 5th
Kansas City Stockmen Charlie Early 6th 1st(tied) 6th
Minneapolis Sawyers Jim Lyttle 7th 1st(tied) 7th
Indianapolis Regulators Clarence Cooper 8th 1st(tied) 8th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Toledo Mudcats Henry Engel 1st 3rd(tied) 2nd
Indianapolis Regulators Freddie Ingles 2nd Jimmy Cole 2nd 1st
Chicago Crows Charles Johnson 3rd 3rd(tied) 4th
Kansas City Stockmen Dwight Rathbone 4th 3rd(tied) 5th
Milwaukee Knights Merritt Halberd 5th Benny Roberts 1st 3rd
Des Moines Pioneers Benny Neville 6th 3rd(tied) 6th
Minneapolis Sawyers Will Bratton 7th 3rd(tied) 7th
St. Louis Sports Benjamin Carruthers 8th 3rd(tied) 8th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Indianapolis Regulators Ed Benjamin 1st 2nd(tied) 1st
St. Louis Sports Jimmy Shaw 2nd 2nd(tied) 3rd
Minneapolis Sawyers Frank Phillips 3rd 2nd(tied) 4th
Milwaukee Knights Jesse Callahan 4th 2nd(tied) 5th
Chicago Crows Benny Stanton 5th 2nd(tied) 6th
Toledo Mudcats James Mueller 6th 2nd(tied) 7th
Des Moines Pioneers John Lankford 7th 2nd(tied) 8th
Kansas City Stockmen Walter Ulrich 8th Charlie Aberdeen 1st 2nd
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Indianapolis Regulators Ed Benjamin 1st 2nd(tied) 1st
St. Louis Sports Jimmy Shaw 2nd 2nd(tied) 3rd
Minneapolis Sawyers Frank Phillips 3rd 2nd(tied) 4th
Milwaukee Knights Jesse Callahan 4th 2nd(tied) 5th
Chicago Crows Benny Stanton 5th 2nd(tied) 6th
Toledo Mudcats James Mueller 6th 2nd(tied) 7th
Des Moines Pioneers John Lankford 7th 2nd(tied) 8th
Kansas City Stockmen Walter Ulrich 8th Charlie Aberdeen 1st 2nd
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