Bleacher Reports new farm system rankings are out.

[waynebug]

Orioles #8

Tampa Bay #1

Up and Coming Pirates #7.

My Braves got a "generous" # 11

Nationals were near the bottom, but they've got some good pitchers, the Catcher Ruiz from the Dodgers and Brady House.  And they signed  the Biggest international bonus the last 2 years.  A shortstop in 2021, an outfielder this year.

[TheWall]

Kind of baffling anyone could have us 8th when we've got like 5 consensus top 100 guys, but I'm also not expecting quality analysis from Bleacher Report. 

[waynebug]

They rate each team's top 10 prospects.

The Orioles have 4 Tier 1 prospects, only 3 Tier 2 prospects.  The other 3 are Tier 3 prospects.

All the teams ranked above the O's had more Tier 1 prospects.  Tampa Bay has 7 Tier 1 prospects.

[Frobby]

4 hours ago, waynebug said:

They rate each team's top 10 prospects.

The Orioles have 4 Tier 1 prospects, only 3 Tier 2 prospects.  The other 3 are Tier 3 prospects.

All the teams ranked above the O's had more Tier 1 prospects.  Tampa Bay has 7 Tier 1 prospects.

That is frightening.   

Do they explain what the Tiers mean?
 

 

[waynebug]

Tier 1 is a Bleacher Report Top 100 player.  An Elite prospect.

The Dodgers had 6.

The Yankees had 3.

Only the White Sox had none, and they were ranked 30th.

Orioles had 4.  You know the first 3 and Gunnar Henderson.  

 

[OriolesMagic83]

Bleacher Report farm system rankings are about as reliable as having random people on the street rank baseball farm systems.

[Frobby]

My feeling is, the Bleacher Report writer is entitled to his opinion.  My sense is that, although some evaluators rank the Orioles at no. 1, it is not that clear cut the way Tampa was last year.   8th sounds low but I won’t be surprised if some other evaluators have us outside the top 3.    At the end of the day, I only care what the farm system ends up producing, not how someone ranked them.  

[Frobby]

Interestingly, Fangraphs values the Cubs’ system at $189.5 mm, the Giants at $188.5 mm, the Yankees at $185 mm and the Blue Jays at $183.5 mm.   Very tightly packed.   Bleacher Report ranks them 12th, 4th, 15th and 24th.   So, obviously opinions can vary a lot.