Victor Robles

Robles signed with the Washington Nationals as an international free agent in 2013. He made his professional debut in 2014 in the Dominican Republic with the Dominican Summer League Nationals in the rookie-level Dominican Summer League, batting .313 with three home runs, 25 runs batted in (RBIs), and 26 stolen bases in 47 games. Robles started 2015 with the Gulf Coast Nationals in the rookie-level Gulf Coast League, playing in 23 games and hitting .370 with two home runs, 11 RBIs, and 12 stolen bases before he was promoted to the Auburn Doubledays in the Class A-Short Season New York-Penn League. He finished the season with Auburn, hitting .343 with two home runs, 16 RBIs, and 12 stolen bases for the Doubledays, giving him an overall batting average of .352 with four home runs, 27 RBIs, and 24 stolen bases for 2015.\n', ' Robles began the 2016 season with the Hagerstown Suns of the Class A South Atlantic League, and played in 64 games for the Suns, hitting .305 with five home runs, driving in 30 runs, and stealing 19 bases. He earned a promotion to the Potomac Nationals of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League, where he spent spent the rest of the season except for a brief rehabilitation stint with the Gulf Coast League Nationals after returning from the seven-day disabled list. He went 3-for-20 (.150) in five games with the Gulf Coast League Nationals with a home run and an RBI, and in 41 games with Potomac he batted .262, hit three home runs, drove in 11 runs, and stole 18 bases. For the three teams combined, he hit .280 with nine home runs, 42 RBIs, and 37 stolen bases during 2016.\n', ' Following the trade that sent pitcher Lucas Giolito to the Chicago White Sox on December 7, 2016, Robles became the top-ranked prospect in the Washington Nationals\' farm system. Baseball writer Jim Callis said that same month that he believed Robles could be considered the top overall prospect in baseball by the end of the 2017 season. In July 2017, MLB Pipeline listed Robles as the fifth-ranked prospect in baseball.\n', '