BA updated top 100

[Sports Guy]

Grayson tumbling down some.

Basallo enters the picture.

[oriolefan1035]

Nice to see some dividends working their way through the pipeline from international investment.

[Aristotelian]

I'm guessing Cowser and Westburg have moved up? Seems low for Kjerstad. 

[Fiver6565]

Is De La Cruz #1 or is someone else?  If it’s De La Cruz then that puts Holliday right in line for our third straight #1 overall since Elly just got called up. 

[Sports Guy]

10 minutes ago, Fiver6565 said:

Is De La Cruz #1 or is someone else?  If it’s De La Cruz then that puts Holliday right in line for our third straight #1 overall since Elly just got called up. 

Yea, he’s #1

[Sports Guy]

12 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

I'm guessing Cowser and Westburg have moved up? Seems low for Kjerstad. 

I think Cowser was 25th ish before. 

[Sports Guy]

 

[yark14]

They forgot a certain young catcher with a mullet.

[Chaka Garcia]

The prospect media outlets have fallen in love with our minor league guys.

I thought DL Hall would be dropped. Outside of strikeouts, not much to get excited about. Almost 25 and can’t handle starter innings and walks a ton of guys.

[Alasdaire]

Interesting the neither Fangraphs nor BA are particularly high on Mayo. I would've thought his recent production would be enough to bring him into these conversations even if you don't fall in love with the tools/age/pedigree alone.

[Brooks The Great]

1 hour ago, Alasdaire said:

Interesting the neither Fangraphs nor BA are particularly high on Mayo. I would've thought his recent production would be enough to bring him into these conversations even if you don't fall in love with the tools/age/pedigree alone.

They'll fall in line. A lot of prospect rankings and lists is groupthink among that community. Some of the scouts/analysts are afraid to be bullish or bearish on certain players without seeing peers change opinions on a player first.

Mayo has had a phenomenal season. He deserves to be a Top 80 guy now and I think he'll wind up a Top 25 guy or better before getting called up to the majors.

[Alasdaire]

16 minutes ago, Brooks The Great said:

They'll fall in line. A lot of prospect rankings and lists is groupthink among that community. Some of the scouts/analysts are afraid to be bullish or bearish on certain players without seeing peers change opinions on a player first.

Mayo has had a phenomenal season. He deserves to be a Top 80 guy now and I think he'll wind up a Top 25 guy or better before getting called up to the majors.

I definitely agree with you for many of these "rankings." They're just lists created based on others' lists with cursory glances at the slash lines.

And even a service like Fangraphs, based on my understanding, is basing their grades on statistics. They have the best statistics out there, but they're still just numbers that don't tell the whole story for minor league players.

But at least based on reputation, Baseball America isn't that. They're supposed to have actual evaluators out there scouting players in the field or at least breaking down tape. So their not including Mayo makes me wonder whether there's something about his build that bugs them.

BA just ranked Stoneman Douglas their number one high school program in the country for the second straight year, and Mayo was a star on that team when he came out in 2020, so presumably BA has had eyes on him for awhile.

Ultimately I too think he'll be undeniable enough that they'll have to rank him even if there's some esoteric reason why they haven't already.

[Sports Guy]

Liberatore graduated off the list…Mayo is now #100.  Makes 9 for the Os

[owknows]

Kjerstad way underrated

[emmett16]

Willems and Fabian should have a shot at future lists.  Norby could be a candidate if he has a second half like last year.  Wagner & Beavers could make some noise as well.  
 

They could have 5 guys graduate this year and have 6/7 guys on the list going into next season including the #1 prospect.  That’s pretty wild.

Holiday

Mayo

Kjerstad

Bassallo

Willems 

Fabian