Texas Rangers Top 5 Prospects
Just a little over a year ago, this was easily a bottom ten farm system. What changed? Well, trading for two top 15 prospects as well as drafting another certainly helps. The Rangers are now among the top farm systems in baseball.
1. 1B Justin Smoak
Who?: Smoak is the best college hitting prospect since… well… Matt […]
Tampa Bay Rays Top 5 Prospects
Certainly no problem finding a top 5 in this organization - top 15, anyone? The system isn’t the same shining star it was at the beginning of the season thanks to graduations and some disappointing seasons, but it’s still about as good as you can get. Another good-looking draft should keep the Rays near the […]
Seattle Mariners Top 5 Prospects
This is one of the Top 5’s that I’ve really been dreading, because there’s just not much there. (Don’t ask me about the Cubs. Ugh.). Having Bavasi and Gillick as your only GMs of the decade will cause some serious long-term harm to your farm system.
1. 2B/SS Carlos Triunfel
Who?: Triunfel is the one really shining […]
Madison Bumgarner is Fantastic; Adam Dunn
I’m not going to go into any scouting reports or stuff, that’ll be for the Giants Top 5 prospects - assuming Bumgarner makes it, of course.
I have a hunch he might.
I just can’t remember any pitcher so consistently dominating for this kind of stretch at any level. In his last ten starts:
- 67 IP, 69 […]
Oakland Athletics Top 5 Prospects
The rejuvenation of the A’s farm system is usually attributed to the A’s recent re-building efforts. That’s certainly a large part of it, as 5 of the Athletics on the Mid-Season Top 100 have been acquired via trade in the last year. However, due to the large contingent of A’s on the list, that means […]
New York Yankees Top 5 Prospects
The Yankees used to be one of the worst systems in baseball. Then, a combination of good drafting and - *gasp* - keeping the players they drafted re-located them to the top ten organizations in baseball. Now, due to the graduations of Hughes/Joba/Kennedy, along with Tabata being all Tabata-y and a Pirate and all, the […]
Minnesota Twins Top 5 Prospects
The Twins have always been among the best teams in baseball when it comes to scouting and development. Occasionally, they’ve succumbed to Dodger-itis, in that they often don’t know what to do with the talent they have. (Letting Ortiz walk for nothing, putting terrible veterans in the rotation above good youngsters), and the farm […]
Los Angeles Angels Top 5 Prospects
The Angels have historically been near the top of organization rankings, but they’ve been on a bit of a downswing lately. Some top prospects have been disappointing (Wood, Adenhart), and they’ve gone two years without having a first round pick. Those kinds of things add up, and the Angels might even rank in the bottom […]
Comparing Fernando Martinez and Carlos Triunfel
In response to, erm, questions about Martinez’s absence from the Top 100, I’m going to do a little analysis of these two prospects. I hope this can do two things:
1. Shed a little light on how I evaluate prospects.
2. Give some pub for Carlos Triunfel, who is, in my opinion, the most interesting prospect in […]
Detroit Tigers Top 5 Prospects
We went from a quite bad farm system in the White Sox, to a quite good one in the Indians, now unfortunately we’re back to a quite bad one. The Tigers’ only representative in the Top 100 was Rick Porcello. Beyond him, there’s not a whole lot. The farm system was already pretty mediocre […]
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