Updated Baseball America Top 100 List Out-Post Draft (Gunnar #1)

[Tony-OH]

2 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

Brooks Lee ahead of Holliday is just stupid unless you are solely valuing closeness to the majors and I think Holliday could be up as fast.

Sometimes you gotta really wonder about these rankings. It's kinda why I don't really care where our guys end up although it's good to see them in the conversation

[Frobby]

5 hours ago, btdart20 said:

 

As much as we're amped about Adley, I think Gunnar and Grayson will be better (health, etc., etc.)

 

As a rookie, Adley’s playing at a 6 WAR per 162 pace.  If Gunnar and Grayson are better that will be pretty astounding.  

[Paul in Virginia]

9 hours ago, Fiver6565 said:

How often does an organization have the number one guy two years in a row, and it’s two different guys? 
 

or was Witt #1 for BA last year?

How often has a team drafted two eventual #1 guys in the same draft?

[scarey1999]

2 hours ago, Paul in Virginia said:

How often has a team drafted two eventual #1 guys in the same draft?

Didn’t see this posted anywhere yet, but I found this in a Sun article today which announced Gunnar taking the number one BA spot.  
 

“If Henderson maintains his top prospect status from this midseason update through the offseason, it would be the first time since the publication began rankings in 1990that two No. 1 prospects came from the same organization’s draft class.”

[Gurgi]

1 hour ago, scarey1999 said:

Didn’t see this posted anywhere yet, but I found this in a Sun article today which announced Gunnar taking the number one BA spot.  
 

“If Henderson maintains his top prospect status from this midseason update through the offseason, it would be the first time since the publication began rankings in 1990that two No. 1 prospects came from the same organization’s draft class.”

Can you imagine the reputation Elias will have with his GM peers if he can pull this off?  What an amazing draft 2019 is turning out to be.  

[oriole]

So obviously we gotta keep this going…whose the next #1? Holliday? Cowser? Povich?

[Sports Guy]

22 minutes ago, oriole said:

So obviously we gotta keep this going…whose the next #1? Holliday? Cowser? Povich?

Holliday stands a chance…of course, he needs to actually play.

[oh-wee-ohs]

Looks like Gunnar was activated to the FCL exactly two weeks after he signed. We are at two weeks since Holliday signed on 7/27.  

[86this]

Steve Malewski on the case!  I guess this is closer than the Strasberg/Harper comp.  The problem with this is that Drew wasn't drafted by the Cardinals and used that loophole when he was drafted by the Phillies. https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2015/6/30/8790989/the-curious-case-of-drafting-j-d-drew

 

 

[Fiver6565]

9 minutes ago, 86this said:

Steve Malewski on the case!  I guess this is closer than the Strasberg/Harper comp.  The problem with this is that Drew wasn't drafted by the Cardinals and used that loophole when he was drafted by the Phillies. https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2015/6/30/8790989/the-curious-case-of-drafting-j-d-drew

 

 

Yeesh lets hope Adley and Gunnar work out better than Drew and Ankiel did...

[86this]

16 minutes ago, 86this said:

Steve Malewski on the case!  I guess this is closer than the Strasberg/Harper comp.  The problem with this is that Drew wasn't drafted by the Cardinals and used that loophole when he was drafted by the Phillies. https://www.vivaelbirdos.com/2015/6/30/8790989/the-curious-case-of-drafting-j-d-drew

 

 

My mistake, JD Drew was re-drafted in the first round the following year.  Melewski was close but they weren't in theory the same draft year.

[bluedog]

6 hours ago, oriole said:

So obviously we gotta keep this going…whose the next #1? Holliday? Cowser? Povich?

I would think Cowser will be top 10 by end of year if he continues to put up the numbers he's delivered so far in Bowie. If that happens, maybe a white hot start to next season at AAA gets him into the #1 prospect discussion?

Edited August 9, 2022 by bluedog

[ArtVanDelay]

1 hour ago, Fiver6565 said:

Yeesh lets hope Adley and Gunnar work out better than Drew and Ankiel did...

Drew put up 45 WAR.  That’s more than Hall of Famer Harold Baines. 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, ArtVanDelay said:

Drew put up 45 WAR.  That’s more than Hall of Famer Harold Baines. 

#BetterThanBaines is a good Twitter hashtag.

[Frobby]

4 hours ago, ArtVanDelay said:

Drew put up 45 WAR.  That’s more than Hall of Famer Harold Baines. 

Drew annoyed me, but he was very good.