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.
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Category Archives: 01. Site Features
Keith Law Ranks Crawford #46 Franco #63 Biddle #77 in Top 100 Prospects
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
Reader Top 30 #18 – Cord Sandberg
Deivi Grullon comes in at #17 Continue reading Reader Top 30 #18 – Cord Sandberg
MLB Draft Insider Phillies Top 14
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:
Keith Law Ranks Phillies System #14 in Baseball
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
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
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
Reader Top 30 #16 – Cameron Rupp
Week 3 of the list brings us into the second half Continue reading Reader Top 30 #16 – Cameron Rupp
Voting Trends and Mid Point
We are halfway through the Top 30, currently the list is:
- Maikel Franco
- Jesse Biddle
- J.P. Crawford
- Miguel Alfredo Gonzalez
- Carlos Tocci
- Roman Quinn
- Ethan Martin
- Aaron Altherr
- Kelly Dugan
- Cesar Hernandez
- Dylan Cozens
- Zach Green
- Tommy Joseph
- Severino Gonzalez
- Ken Giles Continue reading Voting Trends and Mid Point
MLB.com Top 100 and Position Rankings
If you follow me on Twitter you have seen me rant about the rankings all week, mostly involving non-Phillies prospects. For now here are the rankings as far as the Phillies are involved (all scouting grades are theirs not mine)
Maikel Franco – #26
60 Hit – 70 Power – 30 Run – 60 Arm – 50 Field
Jesse Biddle – #53
55 Fastball – 60 Curveball – 50 Changeup – 50 Control Continue reading MLB.com Top 100 and Position Rankings
