Indians: 6 prospects that completely impressed during the 2021 season

1. SP Logan Allen

Ranked No. 42  in Prospect1500’s list of the Indians’ top minor league players.

The Indians have two Logan Allen’s on their roster. There’s the Logan Allen you’ve seen in the Majors before, the one who may make a decent fourth or fifth starter in time, and then there’s this Logan Allen. The one from the minors who had one of the most impressive rookie seasons in the history of rookie seasons.

Allen was drafted in the second round of the 2020 MLB Draft and has instantly gone to work, debuting for the Single-A affiliate, the Lake County Captains. Allen wasn’t in Lake County for long, quickly getting called up and doing work for the Double-A Rubber Ducks, who won the Northeast League championship, in part due to Allen’s dominance.

Let’s stress that word because that’s what he was across Single and Double-A. For 2021, he pitched in 21 games, starting 19, putting up a record of 9-0, with an ERA of 2.26, across 111.1 IP. All together he only gave up 77 hits, 33 runs, 28 ER, 12 HR, all while striking out 143 batters across the season.

That’s not at the same rate of strikeouts Shane Bieber was clipping at in 2020, but it’s not far off either. He’s only 22-years-old and is only going to get better over the next season or two, so an early call-up is certainly possible.

He’ll probably start 2022 in the minors, probably with Akron, but to think he’d be ready for a 2023 call-up isn’t out of line.