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1 hour ago, Tony-OH said:

Absolutely. Melewski gave a nice little piece for the casual fan to know some names that they may not know. All I was saying that it was probably not a useful exercise to start debating the rankings.

Yep, no disagreement here. My post was pretty much just a continuation of the thought you teed up in your post.

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Even with Tony's Hangout rankings, there's an acknowledgement that after guys like Rutshcman, Rodriguez and DL Hall, prospects fall into tiers where the order isn't really definitive.  5 could really be 7 and 10 could really be 6.  At that point its more a group of players with similar talent/floors/ceilings.  This is even more true with young international talents that few of us have seen much of and even when we do, it's hard to judge against the different levels of talent that they're going up against.  The main thing is to read the reports and scouts impressions vs. the # ranking and stat lines at that age/level.  And enjoy the conversations.

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