So, I’ve gone through our archives and found that Matt ran the Reader Top 30 last year. I’ve gone through the files and think I’ve figured out how to run a poll. If you want me to moderate a poll this year, let me know in the survey below. I propose two modifications.
First, I want to start a little earlier. Last year the poll ran into the first few days of spring training. I will be covering spring training and would like to finish the poll articles before it starts. I also need to work around my schedule in December and January. A convenient start time for me would be sometime in the next three weeks.
Second, I would like to propose that you submit a personal Top 30 early in the polling process. I‘m curious how a weighted vote would compare to the day by day survey (30 points for #1, 29 for #2, … 1 for #30). I’ll set up an e-mail account to receive those submissions. I would hope to get enough submissions to make a comparison between the two processes relevant.
So, please cast a vote below. This will also be a nice test to see if I can set up a poll correctly. (As you can see above, I have figured out how to insert a picture.) This poll will be active for one week.

Jim,
Just a caution.
A few years ago some posters would vote multiple times , usually in the dead-of-night and skew the count.
Matt set up a system to prevent that last year.
You may want to touch base with Matt on how he did that.
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Thank you, Romus. I remember that this was a concern last year, and that Matt mitigated it as well as he could. I’ve experimented with the polling sofware the past couple days and I think I can duplicate Matt’s efforts.
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Man…… I was going to spam yasmany tomas as our top prospect this year….
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