Right-handed pitching dominates Reds' top prospect list

Once again, right-hander Robert Stephenson is the Reds' top prospect, according to Baseball America.

The magazine released its Top 10 list for the Reds' system on Wednesday. Here's the full list:

1. RHP Robert Stephenson

2. RHP Raisel Iglesias

3. OF Jesse Winker

4. RHP Michael Lorenzen

5. RHP Nick Howard

6. RHP Anthony DeSclafani

7. LHP Amir Garrett

8. RHP Nick Travieso

9. OF Aristides Aquino

10. OF Yorman Rodriguez

Stephenson, 21, was 7-10 with a 4.74 ERA for Double-A Pensacola last season, striking out 140 in 136 2/3 innings, walking 74.

Iglesias was signed to a seven-year, $27-million contract last June out of Cuba. Iglesias, 25, pitched in the Arizona Fall League and could compete for a spot in the Reds' rotation this spring.

Winker, 21, hit .287/.399/.518 with 15 home runs and 57 RBI between high-A Bakersfield and Double-A Pensacola last season, but his season was cut short by a wrist injury suffered in a car accident in July. Winker missed most of the last two months of the season, but rebounded to win the batting title in the Arizona Fall League, which he also led in OPS.

The team's strength, just by the list, is right-handed pitching, comprising six of the top 10 prospects. Recently traded Ben Lively would have been ranked No. 12 overall, Baseball America's J.J. Cooper said.

Right-hander Anthony DeSclafani, 24, was acquired from the Marlins in the trade of Mat Latos.

Stephenson topped last year's Top 10 list, followed by Billy Hamilton, Phillip Ervin, Winker, Rodriguez, Lorenzen, Carlos Contreras, Travieso, Lively and Tucker Barnhart.