Luke's Top 50 Orioles Prospects!

[weams]

http://www.orioleshangout.com/2018/01/15/lukes-top-50-orioles-prospects-2018-primer-41-50/

Talk about it!

[Luke-OH]

10 minutes ago, weams said:

http://www.orioleshangout.com/2018/01/15/lukes-top-50-orioles-prospects-2018-primer-41-50/

Talk about it!

31-40 coming soon! Any fringe prospects you all like?

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Luke-OH said:

31-40 coming soon! Any fringe prospects you all like?

I'm still hoping Seamus makes it based off of name alone.

Of course raw plus power from the left side is nice as well. 

[Chavez Ravine]

It is very cool that Luke/Philly has become an official OH contributor. I learn a lot from his observations.

[Luke-OH]

3 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I'm still hoping Seamus makes it based off of name alone.

Of course raw plus power from the left side is nice as well. 

Check out the list, he snuck onto it.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Luke-OH said:

Check out the list, he snuck onto it.

I thought you were calling the 40-50 group fringe.

[Luke-OH]

12 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I thought you were calling the 40-50 group fringe.

Everything after 18-20 is pretty fringe honestly, #35-36+ is really fringe. I was just wondering if there are any little known names you all think should be in the 30+ range. 

Curran has legit power, and an easy swing for a slugger. There is some length to it and he’s a raw player, so there are going to be swing and miss issues. The loss in development time hurts a bit, he’ll most likely be a slow mover.

[backwardsk]

Looking forward to seeing the whole list.  Curious as to why you have Josh Harrison as an example of a 45 player when he's had two AS appearances (including a 5+ WAR season).

[OFFNY]

2 hours ago, weams said:

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Lukes' 50 !!!

 

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When I first read the title of the thread, my reaction was "Luke Scott IS NOT 50 ....... he's not even 40 yet."

But if I had read it more carefully, I would have noticed that you put the apostrophe after the "s", not before.

 

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[billw76]

20 minutes ago, OFFNY said:

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When I first read the title of the thread, my reaction was "Luke Scott IS NOT 50 ....... he's not even 40 yet."

 

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I was thinking similarly, except I thought he hit 50 HR's in a season somewhere, but I couldn't think of any leagues playing right now.

Looking forward to the rest of the list Luke

[Luke-OH]

40 minutes ago, backwardsk said:

Looking forward to seeing the whole list.  Curious as to why you have Josh Harrison as an example of a 45 player when he's had two AS appearances (including a 5+ WAR season).

Yeah, I probably could of come up with a better example (he may be more of a 50), but I wanted an example of a non everyday player that still is a solid contributor. Outside of the career year, his other seasons have been .2, 0, 1.2, 1.4, and 2.6 fWAR which fits the role 45. rWAR likes him a lot more, so you are right.

Sticking with Pirates, Jordy Mercer is probably a better example of a 45.

The examples are hard to do because a player can change so much throughout their career, so I tried to pick guys who had consistent levels of performance over most of the career at least.

[El Gordo]

1 hour ago, billw76 said:

I was thinking similarly, except I thought he hit 50 HR's in a season somewhere, but I couldn't think of any leagues playing right now.

Looking forward to the rest of the list Luke

I thought the same. I think he's in Japan. whoops wrong It was Korea. But no more. https://www.si.com/mlb/2014/07/16/former-mlb-player-luke-scott-fired-korean-team-after-confrontation-manager

[sportsfan8703]

I know you’re down on Liranzo, but quite frankly our system isn’t good enough to have an arm like that in the 40’s. Especially if you rank a guy like John Means in front of him. I respect your opinion but come on.

[Bahama O's Fan]

11 hours ago, OFFNY said:

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When I first read the title of the thread, my reaction was "Luke Scott IS NOT 50 ....... he's not even 40 yet."

But if I had read it more carefully, I would have noticed that you put the apostrophe after the "s", not before.

 

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I was wondering the same thing.

[Frobby]

13 hours ago, backwardsk said:

Looking forward to seeing the whole list.  Curious as to why you have Josh Harrison as an example of a 45 player when he's had two AS appearances (including a 5+ WAR season).

I thought it was interesting that Strop was a 45 but Brach was a 50.   Their careers are pretty indistinguishable.   

Strop: 3.18 ERA, 130 ERA+, 3.26 FIP, 3.40 xFIP, 7.5 rWAR, 5.5 fWAR in 400 IP.

Brach: 3.00 ERA, 134 ERA+, 3.68 FIP, 3.86 xFIP, 6.4 rWAR, 3.4 fWAR in 393 IP.

But, I don’t mean to provoke a side-debate about that.    I’d rather discuss the Oriole prospects.   So far, I don’t have any quarrel with these guys being ranked as 35’s, though I’d hope that a year from now some of them might merit a higher ranking.