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Fangraphs Top 15 Phillies Prospects

Top Prospect Lists

Marc Hulet of Fangraphs released his Top 15 Phillies prospects today.  The full article is here, http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2014-top-10-prospects-philadelphia-phillies/.  Here is the list of prospects:

  1. Maikel Franco
  2. Jesse Biddle
  3. J.P. Crawford
  4. Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez
  5. Severino Gonzalez
  6. Carlos Tocci
  7. Aaron Altherr
  8. Roman Quinn
  9. Cesar Hernandez
  10. Tommy Joseph
  11. Andrew Knapp
  12. Dylan Cozens
  13. Cord Sandberg
  14. Shane Watson
  15. Adam Morgan

General Discussion – Week of 1-27-2014

Weekly Discussion

Hey, it’s Wednesday. I forgot to post this all week so far. Blame my employer for wanting me to, you know, work for the hours they pay me to work. Pfft.

Discuss.

Keith Law Ranks Crawford #46 Franco #63 Biddle #77 in Top 100 Prospects

Prospect Rankings

After ranking the farm #14 in baseball yesterday Keith Law rankeds Crawford the #1 prospect in the system and the #46 prospect in baseball.  On Friday Keith will release his Top 10 Phillies prospects and I will have a full recap up at that time.

Full Top 100 – http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10166140/byron-buxton-tops-2014-ranking-top-100-prospects-mlb

MLB Draft Insider Phillies Top 14

Top Prospect Lists

Chris Crawford is go to source for all sorts of news and reports on the draft.  This year he has launched his own site and is putting out minor league rankings as well.  The list is free   http://mlbdraftinsider.com/2014/01/top-14-in-14-philadelphia-phillies/.  He also has stated that the Top 3 guys all make his Top 75 overall prospects.

Top 14:

  1. J.P. Crawford
  2. Maikel Franco
  3. Jesse Biddle
  4. Roman Quinn
  5. Cord Sandberg
  6. Adam Morgan
  7. Andrew Knapp
  8. Ken Giles
  9. Carlos Tocci
  10. Shane Watson
  11. Jan Hernandez
  12. Jake Sweaney
  13. Aaron Altherr
  14. Ethan Martin

Keith Law Ranks Phillies System #14 in Baseball

Prospect Rankings

Here is a link to the article http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10354393/houston-astros-top-farm-system-rankings-mlb.

There will be a full recap and reaction to all of Keith Law’s rankings at the end of the week when all of his work as been released.

Reader Top 30 #17 – Deivi Grullon

2014 Reader Top 30

Cameron Rupp narrowly edges Deivi Grullon for #16 Continue reading Reader Top 30 #17 – Deivi Grullon →

Maikel Franco #52 and Jesse Biddle #94 on Baseball Prospectus Top 101

Prospect Rankings

The Baseball Prospectus list is compiled by Jason Parks with input from the various members of the prospect team.  You can read the full list here http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=22670.  Overall two low rankings and no J.P. Crawford makes this the least optimistic list yet.

A pair of former Phillies prospects made the list in Travis d’Arnaud at #48 and Jonathan Singleton at #57