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So you’ve heard of Starlin Castro right?  Starting in about 2009, he’s been the most talked about Chicago Cubs prospect in the last couple years.  You still hear about Josh Vitters, Andrew Cashner and Brett Jackson but Starlin Castro has been stealing headlines, landing on everyone’s best prospects lists and talked about as being on the fast track to the majors.

He’s already been on Baseball Americas Top Prospects list, ESPN’s top prospects list (#12) and he’s just landed on MLB.com Top 50 Prospects of 2010 list at #22.  Everyone seems to be saying that Starlin Castro is the Chicago Cubs shortstop of the future.

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So who is this Starlin Castro that everyone is talking about?  Starlin Castro is a 19 year old shortstop originally from the Dominican Republic signed by the Cubs in 2006.  Castro has three seasons of minor league experience and has had success at each level of the minor leagues he has played.

After hitting .311 in the Arizona Rookie League in 2008 he captured the Cubs management’s attention and gained a promotion to the Cubs Daytona affiliate in 2009 where he hit .299 and was promoted to the Cubs AA Tennessee Smokies affiliate where he played for Ryne Sandberg and hit .288.  From there he was promoted to the Arizona Fall league so he could continue progressing and finished with a .376 average there.

“I haven’t had a player go through the system who has done what he’s done” said Cubs player development director Oneri Fleita at the end of the 2009 season. “It seems like it takes some guys a year before we see any gains. We’re seeing gains in Castro weekly, monthly, if not daily.”

Starlin Castro is progressing at as a player, both offensively and defensively.  His hitting has been good and continues to improve but scouts say that his defense at shortstop is already major league caliber.  From everything the scouts are saying, they expect that he could be ready for the major leagues in another year.

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In fact, some are saying we could see Starlin Castro in the majors before the 2010 season is even over.  At the very least, Cubs fans and his future teammates will see him in this years spring training.  Castro will get his chance for Lou Pinella and the Cubs coaching staff to take a look at him and to learn from the big league players.

Time will tell if Starlin Castro is the real deal or just the next Felix Pie but we do have reasons to believe in Castro.  He’s young, he’s hungry, he keeps getting better.  The Cubs won’t be calling up the 19 year old to the major leagues just yet but he is on the fast track.

Starlin Castro is going to be a star.

We’ll see you soon.

GO CUBS!

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Starlin Castro Stats

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
2007	DR	60	221	47	66	6	2	2	31	13	23	24	.299	.371	.371	.742
2008	RL	51	196	33	61	11	5	3	22	6	14	33	.311	.364	.464	.829
2009	A	96	358	45	108	17	3	3	35	22	19	41	.302	.340	.391	.731
2009	AA	31	111	11	32	6	3	0	14	6	10	12	.288	.347	.396	.744
Totals		238	886	136	267	40	13	8	102	47	66	110	.301	.354	.403	.757

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Starlin Castro headed for stardom – ESPN.com
Castro cracks Top 50 prospects list – MLB.com