Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Baseball America's Top 100 List

Baseball America released it's top 100 prospect list today and Jesus Montero represented the Yankees at #4 overall, coming in behind Jason Heyward, Stephen Strasburg and Mike Stanton. While the Yankees only had two prospects crack the Top 100 (Montero and Austin Romine at #86), the Yankees farm system was well represented by two prospects the Yanks dealt during the offseason, Arodys Vizcaino at #69 and Austin Jackson at #76.

The Red Sox had Ryan Westmoreland and Casey Kelly crack the top 25, coming in at #21 and #24 respectively. Josh Reddick came in at #75 and Lars Anderson is still grasping at a top 100 spot at #87 after a year in which he saw huge dropoffs in every major offensive category.

2 comments:

Dan said...

Can't deal with keeping track of prospects or drafts or college players in any sport. Here's why: of the 44 starters in the Super Bowl this year, 19 were undrafted. That's nearly half. all these prognosticators get their jollies from being the cool guys with the best information, yet no one holds them to task when they're totally wrong.

Dennis said...

I really don't think you can compare MLB prospects to the NFL. In football you basically have to be an exceptional athlete and avoid concussions or torn knee ligaments to find success. And 80% of those divide themselves amongst 20 college programs who would rather beat up on smaller opponents than play each other. Given this, it is very difficult to evaluate them.

In baseball on the other hand, most of the top prospects have been professionals playing against a known level of competition for 3, 4, even 5 years.