July 13, 200421 yr I have a short farm system draft tonight for a fantasy league to fill spots vacated by moving guys up (this year for me, Blalock and Teixeira. I currently have Greinke, Floyd, and Harden on the farm still). I've been reading Baseball Prospectus and looking around Baseball America to get an idea of which few guys i want. I have a few guys in mind, I just wanted some opinions on who you think are THE top prospects in baseball, giving the nod to guys that will have an impact sooner than later, if needed. Thanks for any opinions on who to take.
July 13, 200421 yr Upton should make a pretty immediate impact for the Drays. Some other guys that could make a pretty quick impact are Edwin Jackson, Grady Sizemore (Cleveland system) and of course there is Jeremy Reed.
July 13, 200421 yr I have a short farm system draft tonight for a fantasy league to fill spots vacated by moving guys up (this year for me, Blalock and Teixeira. I currently have Greinke, Floyd, and Harden on the farm still). I've been reading Baseball Prospectus and looking around Baseball America to get an idea of which few guys i want. I have a few guys in mind, I just wanted some opinions on who you think are THE top prospects in baseball, giving the nod to guys that will have an impact sooner than later, if needed. Thanks for any opinions on who to take. Rios from Toronto.
July 13, 200421 yr I think Rios is already up with the Jays, could be wrong. But also if David Wright a 3B of the Mets isn't up yet, he could be a good choice. Dallas McPherson could be a good choice if the Angels can find playing room, or trade him. Matt Cain of the Giants is a very good pitching prospect in AA now, but he's still young. Carlos Quentin could help the Diamondbacks out soon with their rebuilding.
July 13, 200421 yr Jeff Francis, Pitcher in the Rockies organization. He's been called up to AAA after dazzling AA batters. He may be called up to Denver in September given how bad the Rox suck. Other pitchers... Hernandez, Felix (SEA) San Antonio (Texas/AA) Ledezma, Wilfredo (DET) Erie (Eastern/AA) B.J. UPTON, SS (TB) Durham Bulls AAA DAVID WRIGHT, 3B (NYM) Norfolk AAA IAN KINSLER, SS (TEX) FRISCO AA BRANDON MOSS, LF (BOS) Augusta A ERICK AYBAR, SS (ANA) Rancho A DAN JOHNSON, 1B (OAK) Sacramento AAA
July 13, 200421 yr I have a short farm system draft tonight for a fantasy league to fill spots vacated by moving guys up (this year for me, Blalock and Teixeira. I currently have Greinke, Floyd, and Harden on the farm still). I've been reading Baseball Prospectus and looking around Baseball America to get an idea of which few guys i want. I have a few guys in mind, I just wanted some opinions on who you think are THE top prospects in baseball, giving the nod to guys that will have an impact sooner than later, if needed. Thanks for any opinions on who to take. Felix Hernandez
July 13, 200421 yr Dallas McPherson (AA/AAA) - ANA Michael Morse (AA) - SEA Carlos Quentin (AA)- ARZ Nick Swisher (AAA) - OAK Brad Thompson (AAA) - STL Jeremy Reed (AAA) - SEA Matt Cain (AA) - SF Brian Anderson (AA) - CWS B.J. Upton (AAA) - TB John Gall (AAA) - STL Dan Haren (AAA) - STL Joe Blanton (AAA) - OAK David Aardsma (AAA) - SF Ian Kinsler (AA) - TEX Jeff Francis (AA/AAA) - COL
July 13, 200421 yr Cole Hamels. I watched this guy on ESPN during Spring Training and he made A-Rod look STUPID with 3 straight changeups. He's a pitcher in the Phillies system so he might not get a callup this year but he'll be worth it. Oh and I guess you could always just go with Upton. That guy is going to be a stud.
July 13, 200421 yr Upton (for sure) Kazmir Baker Weeks Barfield Fielder Gutierrez Santana There's others.
July 14, 200421 yr Dallas McPherson (AA/AAA) - Yes Michael Morse (AA) - God no. Carlos Quentin (AA)- No. Nick Swisher (AAA) - Not even close. Brad Thompson (AAA) - No. Jeremy Reed (AAA) - Maybe. Matt Cain (AA) - No. Brian Anderson (AA) - No. B.J. Upton (AAA) - Yes. John Gall (AAA) - Any St. Louis prospect is disqualified. Dan Haren (AAA) - See above. Joe Blanton (AAA) - No. David Aardsma (AAA) - What the hell? f*** no. Ian Kinsler (AA) - Wait and see. Jeff Francis (AA/AAA) - Yes, finally. Edited that post. Barfield is not a top flight prospect. Baseball Prospectus hit the nail on the head when they said that Lake Elsinore (High A California League affiliate for San Diego) inflates numbers like crazy. Look at Barfield's numbers in AA Mobile and you'll see an enormous dropoff. I'm surprised that Floyd and Hamels, the top two prospects in Philadelphia's system, haven't been mentioned. Petit from the Mets is now emerging as a top flight prospect. Jason Stokes from FLA is still a great power hitting prospect, as well as Ian Stewart from COL. As mentioned earlier, Felix Hernandez is probably the best pitching prospect in all of baseball now, and to think that Seattle still has Nageotte and Blackley in the bigs now is frightening. While Nageotte could be hell out of the bullpen with a Ryan Wagner-esque slider, it'll be interesting to see what he does starting. Staying in the AL West, John Danks from Texas and Earvin Santana are also good bets. AL Central wise, one word comes to mind: Sizemore.
July 14, 200421 yr Edited that post. Barfield is not a top flight prospect. Baseball Prospectus hit the nail on the head when they said that Lake Elsinore (High A California League affiliate for San Diego) inflates numbers like crazy. Look at Barfield's numbers in AA Mobile and you'll see an enormous dropoff. I'm surprised that Floyd and Hamels, the top two prospects in Philadelphia's system, haven't been mentioned. Petit from the Mets is now emerging as a top flight prospect. Jason Stokes from FLA is still a great power hitting prospect, as well as Ian Stewart from COL. As mentioned earlier, Felix Hernandez is probably the best pitching prospect in all of baseball now, and to think that Seattle still has Nageotte and Blackley in the bigs now is frightening. While Nageotte could be hell out of the bullpen with a Ryan Wagner-esque slider, it'll be interesting to see what he does starting. Staying in the AL West, John Danks from Texas and Earvin Santana are also good bets. AL Central wise, one word comes to mind: Sizemore. Travis Blackley's from down here, lived bout 20 mins from my house actually. There was a big article in the paper down here after his debut, scouts down here thought he could be the best Aussie in the major leagues we've had, which is not too shabby at all considering we've had Dave Nilsson from the Brewers who had a nice career. Hernandez easily best pitching prospect right now, David Wright is probably the best postion prospect if I had to pick one.
July 14, 200421 yr Travis Blackley's from down here, lived bout 20 mins from my house actually. There was a big article in the paper down here after his debut, scouts down here thought he could be the best Aussie in the major leagues we've had, which is not too shabby at all considering we've had Dave Nilsson from the Brewers who had a nice career. Hernandez easily best pitching prospect right now, David Wright is probably the best postion prospect if I had to pick one. You'd be absolutely insane to pick Wright over Upton. One could argue that McPherson is a better 3B prospect than Wright, although Wright is still a solid prospect.
July 14, 200421 yr You'd be absolutely insane to pick Wright over Upton. One could argue that McPherson is a better 3B prospect than Wright, although Wright is still a solid prospect. That was just off the top of my head, Upton's going to be a great player, but he might have to play in the outfield if his fielding at shortstop doesn't pick up. McPherson and Wright is pretty much a WASH, McPherson probably has more power potential though.
July 14, 200421 yr That was just off the top of my head, Upton's going to be a great player, but he might have to play in the outfield if his fielding at shortstop doesn't pick up. McPherson and Wright is pretty much a WASH, McPherson probably has more power potential though. Upton doesn't have the arm to play OF, and there's no point to throw him out there with a future OF of Crawford, Gathright and Baldelli. Speaking of those three, that might be the fastest outfield ever assembled; Gathright is simply a freak of nature.
July 14, 200421 yr Edited that post. That's not my list of who I think are the Top prospects or anything. What I was trying to do is mainly list players who I hadn't seen already listed. Anyway, what's so bad about these guys that you say "no" to everyone except 3? And, why exactly is any STL player disqualified? Was I supposed to list players that could get called up to the majors or something? If so, I wouldn't have listed probably most of those guys.
July 14, 200421 yr Edited that post. Barfield is not a top flight prospect. Baseball Prospectus hit the nail on the head when they said that Lake Elsinore (High A California League affiliate for San Diego) inflates numbers like crazy. Look at Barfield's numbers in AA Mobile and you'll see an enormous dropoff. I'm surprised that Floyd and Hamels, the top two prospects in Philadelphia's system, haven't been mentioned. Petit from the Mets is now emerging as a top flight prospect. Jason Stokes from FLA is still a great power hitting prospect, as well as Ian Stewart from COL. As mentioned earlier, Felix Hernandez is probably the best pitching prospect in all of baseball now, and to think that Seattle still has Nageotte and Blackley in the bigs now is frightening. While Nageotte could be hell out of the bullpen with a Ryan Wagner-esque slider, it'll be interesting to see what he does starting. Staying in the AL West, John Danks from Texas and Earvin Santana are also good bets. AL Central wise, one word comes to mind: Sizemore. Hey, I mentioned Hamels! In fact that was the only guy I mentioned but I mentioned him nonetheless!
July 14, 200421 yr That's not my list of who I think are the Top prospects or anything. What I was trying to do is mainly list players who I hadn't seen already listed. Anyway, what's so bad about these guys that you say "no" to everyone except 3? And, why exactly is any STL player disqualified? Was I supposed to list players that could get called up to the majors or something? If so, I wouldn't have listed probably most of those guys. All of those guys you listed are not top flight prospects. Any St. Louis prospect is disqualified because they probably have the worst farm system behind Montreal.
July 14, 200421 yr You'd be absolutely insane to pick Wright over Upton. One could argue that McPherson is a better 3B prospect than Wright, although Wright is still a solid prospect. I'd take McPherson over him. McPherson is flat raking the ball and should be starting in Anaheim next year, possibly sooner, but doubt it. But ya, Upton is the best prospect in the minors, imo.
July 14, 200421 yr Ya know, I'm still not sold on Morse ever doing anything past AA. He'll be a wait and see. He's now the Mariner's shortstop of the future though. As for McPherson, he pulled an amazing feat quite recently: he pulled an 0-fer with 6 strikeouts in one game. Would one call that a chrome sombrero?
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