Writers top prospects

[admin]

I thought it would be cool to do a top prospect countdown like that other Jays blog did, forget which one.

But we could get you guys to create a top prospect list, 15,20, or 30.

And we'll rank the prospects by the votes they got. And you guys could do a small paragraph on each one.

Like maybe do the paragraphs after we look at each other's rankings. Like you'll say why xxxx is ranked #Y.

But say two guys rank a guy in the low teens, and one of you rank him in the low 20s, you'll write a paragraph

why you disagreed with the other two guys. So it's like a little paragraph about the prospect, but it's almost

lke a discussion between the three of you as well.

What do you guys think?

 

And we could release these every second day to drag it on a bit. Unless we do 30, 60 days to count down might be

a little too stretched out.

[admin]

I think the best route would be to decide how many you guys want to do. Then create the list. Then after comparing rankings, write your prospect profiles.

[Laika]

We could pick our consensus top 20 and then Ace could write them all up, if he wants. And then put them out 2 at a time or whatever. I think Ace should write the meat of all of it since that's his forte, but Chris and I could give some input on their profiles and what that means in terms of their chances of working out, etc.

 

Maybe it would be a pretty good list since we have two angles going on. Ace is like our resident youtube scout, and Chris and I are the stat-filter BR couch analysts or whatever

[admin]

Okay. You guys decide how you want to handle it. I'm sure it'll be good any way it's done.

[ace3113]

We could pick our consensus top 20 and then Ace could write them all up, if he wants. And then put them out 2 at a time or whatever. I think Ace should write the meat of all of it since that's his forte, but Chris and I could give some input on their profiles and what that means in terms of their chances of working out, etc.

 

Maybe it would be a pretty good list since we have two angles going on. Ace is like our resident youtube scout, and Chris and I are the stat-filter BR couch analysts or whatever

 

Sounds good guys. We'll all vote on the top 20-30 and I'll write them up.

[GD]

Bout time. I've had my top 50 done for like a while lol.

 

Maybe we could have a bit of a roundtable.

Edited November 28, 2013 by GD

[ace3113]

We could pick our consensus top 20 and then Ace could write them all up, if he wants. And then put them out 2 at a time or whatever. I think Ace should write the meat of all of it since that's his forte, but Chris and I could give some input on their profiles and what that means in terms of their chances of working out, etc.

 

Maybe it would be a pretty good list since we have two angles going on. Ace is like our resident youtube scout, and Chris and I are the stat-filter BR couch analysts or whatever

 

I think releasing 30-21, then 20-11, then finally 10-1 is usually a good way to do it. That's how Batter's Box had done it for years, and I pretty much grew up on Batter's Box before all these other Jays blogs showed up .

 

I definitely would like to include more stats based analyses in some of the reports to incorporate Chris and Niks knowledge. For the sake of brevity I eliminated some of that from a couple of my prospects reports, but it certainly strengthens whatever case you're trying to make (like with the whole Dejong swing-and-miss debate). How comfortable are we though referring to stats from MLC? Hurl warned me that they may not always be accurate.

[Laika]

My current top 20: (a little harder to do 20-30)

 

1 Stroman

2 Sanchez

3 Osuna

4 Norris

5 Barreto

6 Jiminez

7 Nay

8 Tirado

9 Nolin

10 Davis

11 Robson

12 Smoral

13 Pillar

14 Labourt

15 Pompey

16 Dean

17 Dermody

18 DeJong

19 Lugo

20 Hollon

 

Any notable omissions?

 

Not that I can really notice. Alford, Burns, Smith, Urena?

 

Oh f***, Miguel Castro? Del Rosario?

 

I dunno!

[GD]

I'm not much of a prospect guy, but I've been keeping a top 50 since the summer. Here it is:

 

1.) Marcus Stroman

2.) Aaron Sanchez

3.) Roberto Osuna

4.) Daniel Norris

5.) Franklin Barreto

6.) Sean Nolin

7.) Mitchell Nay

8.) DJ Davis

9.) Alberto Tirado

10.) AJ Jimenez

11.) Jacob Brentz

12.) Jairo Labourt

13.) Dawel Lugo

14.) Rowdy Tellez

15.) Clinton Hollon

16.) Dalton Pompey

17.) Matthew Smoral

18.) Kevin Pillar

19.) John Stilson

20.) Andy Burns

21.) Miguel Castro

22.) Thomas Robson

23.) Emilio Guerrero

24.) Zakery Wasilewski

25.) Chase DeJong

26.) Matthew Dean

27.) Jeremy Gabryszwski

28.) Christian Lopes

29.) Dwight Smith, Jr.

30.) Richard Urena

31.) Deck McGuire

32.) Michael De La Cruz

33.) Anthony Alford

34.) Matt Boyd

35.) Matt Dermody

36.) L.B. Dantzler

37.) Javier Avendando

38.) Adonys Cardona

39.) Yefry Del Rosario

40.) Marcus Walden

41.) Brendan Kalfus

42.) Santiago Nessy

43.) Shane Dawson

44.) Ryan Borucki

45.) Griffin Murphy

46.) Dan Jansen

47.) Michael Crouse

48.) Danny Barnes

49.) Justin Jackson

50.) Jacob Anderson

[GD]

Who's Smith? I'm blanking and that's a common freaking name.

 

If Smith is someone decent, then Stilson pushes Berti out of the top 30, and probably ends up somewhere around 20 (move De Jong down a bit, Wilson, etc). Probably in the 18-25 range.

[Laika]

Finally threw together a rough list. If Ace comes back from the dead and wants to write up a blog top 20 or so, then I can finalize it.

 

Stroman

Sanchez

Davis

Nay

Norris

Osuna

DeJong

Tirado

Jimenez

Nolin

Barreto

Smoral

Labourt

Hollon

Lugo

Castro

Robson

Pompey

Dean

Pillar

Smith Jr.

Alford

Nessy

Stilson

Dermody

Del Rosario

Urena

Burns

Tellez

Berti

Barnes

Wilson

Dantzler

Ybarra

 

Forget anyone important?

 

Is Goins still prospect eligible?

 

Also, have been pretty sick for the last week or so which is mainly why I haven't pub'd anything. Hard to write a long article.

[Laika]

Nice love for DeJong. I have to move him higher on mine.

 

Rookie ball numbers are just bonkers. I hope they're fairly aggressive with him.

[Laika]

I'll do this if we know ace is going to do something with it. Otherwise I can't really be bothered to rank the 10-20 guys.

 

It's kind of fun to re-acquaint yourself with the system, haha. It's definitely a deep system. Very "flat" though - hard to rank guys after the top tier.

 

I think I need to slide Jacob Brentz into my list somewhere. Project lefty that throws mid/high 90's, change and breaking ball flash plus at times...

[GD]

Brentz is a must imo. Boyd, maybe. I've actually completely reworked my list and it's still a work in progress, so here.

 

1.) Marcus Stroman

2.) Aaron Sanchez

3.) Roberto Osuna

4.) Daniel Norris

5.) Franklin Barreto

6.) Mitchell Nay

7.) Sean Nolin

8.) Alberto Tirado

9.) DJ Davis

10.) Miguel Castro

11.) Jairo Labourt

12.) Dawel Lugo

13.) Chase DeJong

14.) AJ Jimenez

15.) Andy Burns

16.) Clinton Hollon

17.) Dalton Pompey

18.) Matthew Smoral

19.) Jacob Brentz

20.) John Stilson

21.) Thomas Robson

22.) Richard Urena

23.) Rowdy Tellez

24.) Emilio Guerrero

25.) Christian Lopes

26.) Dwight Smith, Jr

27.) Shane Dawson

28.) Matt Dermody

29.) Matt Boyd

30.) Jeremy Gabryszwski

31.) Matthew Dean

32.) Zakery Wasilewski

33.) Deck McGuire

34.) Michael De La Cruz

35.) Anthony Alford

36.) L.B. Dantzler

37.) Connor Greene

38.) Adonys Cardona

39.) Kenny Wilson

40.) Javier Avendando

41.) Yefry Del Rosario

42.) Brendan Kalfus

43.) Ryan Borucki

44.) Shane Opitz

45.) Marcus Walden

46.) Brady Dragmire

47.) Griffin Murphy

48.) Michael Crouse

49.) Evan Smith

50.) Jacob Anderson