"A lot has changed in the Padres' farm system over the past year.

For the good.

"We've added a lot of quality," Padres General Manager Josh Byrnes said recently while discussing the Padres' system.

Two years ago, it was difficult to find 10 legitimate prospects in the Padres system. Today, the list of prospects in the Padres' system easily reaches double figures with the majority added over the past 13 months through the draft or trade.

And the current list of top 20 prospects doesn't include two players listed in the top 10 a year ago — right-handed starter Simon Castro, who was as high as No. 2 on some Padres prospect lists going into last season, and center fielder Reymond Fuentes."