As I mentioned in the Halladay analysis, we have to re-start the voting since we just lost 3 of our 4 best prospects and also added 3 more prospects in the deal. So, you know the drill. Vote for 1 prospect per day, highest vote total moves on, and we go till we get to #30. Check below the fold for the first vote…
Category Archives: Prospect Rankings
Reader Top 30; #2
We kicked off the Reader Top 30 on Friday, and as I close down the voting, Kyle Drabek ends up taking the top spot, with a total of 260 votes, with Domonic Brown coming in 2nd at 219 and Michael Taylor coming in 3rd with 94 votes. It should make for an interesting debate at #2, so we won’t waste any time in getting there. I’m going to add one player into the mix, though I doubt we’ll need him this round. Check below the fold for the poll…
Reader Top 30; #1
Ahhh, its that time of year again. The time where you, the loyal and faithful reader, begins to select the community version of our Top 30 prospects. Last season was a success, we had over 200+ votes per day, and it sparked lots of great conversation. As I mentioned a few days ago, we’ll take this moderately slow, since there isn’t a whole lot to discuss right now outside of the Rule 5 selections and the endless debate about who we should or shouldn’t trade for. Any comments of that sort will be deleted from these posts. If you’re new here, check out last year’s process by clicking the Reader Top 30 link. The basic premise is simple. Each day, 7 candidates get put into a poll, you the view votes, and the prospect with the most votes wins that day’s voting. He’s then eliminated from all subsequent votes. We move on until we get to 30. Its fun. Check below the fold for more…
Phillies Top 10 at BA
Just remembered that the list will be posted tomorrow. The list itself will be free content, but the scouting reports will not be, so please don’t post them here. I was going to roll out the SONAR scores for pitchers today, but I haven’t had a chance to finish writing it up, and we’ll have other stuff to discuss with the Top 10 list, so I’ll hold off till Tuesday or Wednesday. I have no inside knowledge of the list, obviously, but I’m going to take a guess, based on BA’s tendencies.
01. Kyle Drabek
02. Domonic Brown
03. Michael Taylor
04. Anthony Gose
05. Travis D’Arnaud
06. Trevor May
07. Sebastian Valle
08. Yohan Flande
09. Kyrell Hudson
10. Brody Colvin
Im pretty sure the top 10 of my top 30 won’t look like this, but this is my expectation, or something close. We’ll see.
Check below the fold for the actual list
Three Phillies in the Eastern League Top 20
A central theme is developing here; top prospect list, three Phillies will be named. This time its the Eastern League, and the Phillies are represented by Kyle Drabek (3rd overall, 2nd pitcher), Domonic Brown (6th, top OF), and Michael Taylor (9th, 2nd highest OF). So, the second best pitching prospect and the top two OF prospects. Not a bad haul. For those of you who ask for snippets from the scouting reports. Drabek = 3 above average pitches, needs to work on command. Brown = great all around profile, only question is eventual power production, and needs to work on route running, his arm is good. Taylor = good all around athlete, might be limited to LF, needs to continue to rake.
Three Phillies in the FSL Top 20
Yesterday BA put their Top 20 in the Florida State League up, and the Phillies are again well represented. Domonic Brown (3rd), Kyle Drabek (5th) and Freddy Galvis (19th) all made the top 20. In a 12 team league, having 3 guys is pretty solid. Brown was the 2nd outfielder behind Mike Stanton (Marlins), Drabek was the top pitching prospect, and Galvis was one of only 2 shortstops on the list of 20. As I said before, please do not post the full scouting reports.
Three Phillies make the SAL Top 20
BA continues with their league Top 20’s, and the Phillies end up with 3 guys on the list; Gose (13th), D’Arnaud (17th) and May (19th). The list is here. Again, the scouting reports are subscription only, do not post them here.
The SAL is one of the biggest leagues in the minors, so for the Phillies to grab 3 guys is mildly impressive.
4 Phillies in the GCL Top 20
Its that time, Baseball America lists its top 20 prospects from each US domestic league. The Phillies placed 4 guys in the GCL top 20; Jarred Cosart (4), Jon Singleton (7), Domingo Santana (10) and Jonathon Villar (18). Its notable that Cosart was ranked the top pitching prospect in the league, a very promising sign. Please do not post the full scouting reports/blurbs here. Thanks.
3 Phillies on the Baseball America Top 25
BA always does an updated midseason Top 25, and this year 3 Phillies made the list; Dominic Brown (17th), Michael Taylor (23rd), and Kyle Drabek (24th). This also got me thinking about how the Phillies Top 10 would look now, and how our best prospects would be lined up if you were dividing them into tiers. For me, our Top 20 or so would look like this…
Tier 1: Drabek, Taylor, Brown
Tier 2: Knapp, Carrasco, Marson
Tier 3: Donald, D’Arnaud, Worley, Savery, May, Gose, Collier, Dugan, Santana
Tier 4: Pettibone, Sampson, Shreve, Stutes, De Fratus, Correa, Cisco, Mattair, Flande
Does that seem accurate? Am I missing anyone?
Review of my Top 100 prospects for 2008
I am planning on cranking out another Top 100 for this season, probably sometime next week, but I was thinking about last year’s list, so I figure I’d take a look back and see how good/bad my list was last year at this time. At some point I’m also going to collect the Top 100 lists from BA, BP and Keith Law and add them into a spreadsheet for comparison’s sake. But for now, here’s a review of my top 100…
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