Community Prospect #50

by BaseballBrain on Dec 22, 2006 12:26 PM EST

Here's what we have so far:
1. Alex Gordon 3B-KC
2. Delmon Young OF-TB
(Daisuke Matsuzaka RHP-SEI)
3. Philip Hughes RHP-NYY
4. Brandon Wood SS-ANA
5. Homer Bailey RHP-CIN
6. Billy Butler OF-KC
7. Cameron Maybin OF-DET
8. Chris Young OF-ARI
9. Justin Upton OF-ARI
10. Matt Garza - RHP-MIN
11. Andy Laroche - 3B-LAD
12. Troy Tulowitzki - SS-COL
13. Jay Bruce - OF-CIN
14. Reid Brignac - SS-TB
15. Elijah Dukes - OF-TB
16. Andrew McCutchen - OF-PIT
17. Carlos Gonzalez - OF-ARI
18. Adam Miller - RHP-CLE
19. Evan Longoria - 3B-TB
20. Tim Lincecum - RHP-SF
21. Mike Pelfrey - RHP-NYM
22. Yovani Gallardo - RHP-MIL
23. Andrew Miller - LHP-DET
24. Jose Tabata - OF-NYY
25. Ryan Braun - 3B-MIL
26. Scott Elbert - LHP-LAD
27. Fernando Martinez - OF-NYM
28. Luke Hochevar - RHP-KC
29. Clayton Kershaw - LHP-LAD
30. Adam Jones - OF-SEA
31. Jason Hirsh - RHP-HOU
32. James Loney - 1B-LAD
33. Hunter Pence - OF-HOU
34. Nick Adenhart - RHP-ANA
35. Joey Votto - 1B-CIN
36. Colby Rasmus - OF-STL
37. Jeff Niemann - RHP-TB
38. Daric Barton - 1B-OAK
39. Brandon Erbe - RHP-BAL
40. Adam Lind - OF/DH-TOR
41. Jacoby Ellsbury - OF-BOS
42. Felix Pie - OF-CHC
43. Chris Iannetta - C-COL
44. Phil Humber - RHP-NYM
45. Josh Fields - 3B-CHW
46. Ian Stewart - 3B-COL
47. Jarrod Saltalamacchia - C-ATL
48. John Danks - SP-TEX
49. Billy Rowell - 3B-BAL

The lowest vote getters this time are Patton and Clement. They drop off in favor of Joel Guzman and Ryan Sweeney, as well as Elvis Andrus. Clay Buchholz is on deck for a chance.

Poll

Who is the #50 prospect?

Kevin Slowey

20 votes

Chuck Lofgren

26 votes

Joel Guzman

16 votes

Ryan Sweeney

27 votes

Elvis Andrus

25 votes

Other (please specify)

7 votes

Franklin Morales

35 votes

Travis Snider

38 votes

Humberto Sanchez

36 votes

Kevin Kouzmanoff

30 votes

260 votes | Poll has closed

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Veal!

i voted other..because of the cubs LHP Donald Veal...

he is in all the other top prospects lists and i dont see whay he doesnt get any love from this site...i guess there are no cubs fans in this forum... he had a great year and should garner some consideration...at least a tester

im a mets fan and think veal should have been on the list already...what do you guys think of him???

by matsfan526 on Dec 22, 2006 1:40 PM EST reply actions

well

i dont love veal as much as others but i know i'd vote for him over like 3 people on this particular list...

by Rob Castellano on Dec 22, 2006 2:04 PM EST up reply actions

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Veal is a good prospect and almost certainly will be somewhere in the Top 100. But I think it is too early for him, and apparently most of the community thinks the same. He had a tester before. We can give him another tester, but I dont think he'll get much support at this point.

by rhd on Dec 22, 2006 2:13 PM EST up reply actions

Another vote for Veal

by Wheelhouse on Dec 22, 2006 8:19 PM EST up reply actions

Kouz!

Which one of these players has nothing left to prove? Kouz! Who did SD send they're young prized Josh Barfield for? Kouz! I don't think he's top ten, but he's as good or better than half this list so far, what has Bill Rowell done?

by strums on Dec 22, 2006 5:24 PM EST reply actions

yup

for the last 5 spots or so

I'll be the first A+ prospect... www.myspace.com/posingforpennies

by ufoboy90 on Dec 23, 2006 1:22 AM EST up reply actions

Sweeney

I had temporarily given up on him in these polls due to the lack of support, but he looks to officially be in the mix and I will now vote for him til he wins. Looks like he still has a shot to make the top 60.

by mcq fesijiba on Dec 22, 2006 5:38 PM EST reply actions

An "Other" Vote

For Troy Patton, mostly because I believe that, among the available selections, only Ryan Sweeney even compares to Patton but also in protest of his being dropped despite at last check having one less vote than Kevin Slowey and more than half as many votes as the second-place finisher.

It is one thing to be dropped, it is another thing to be dropped in favor of Joel Guzman. As much as I appreciate the efforts of Joel's mom and his 13 cousins to recognize the accomplishments of a player that managed to regress offensively while playing in two of the most favorable hitting environments this side of the moon yet still found time to race down the defensive spectrum in near-record speed, Patton and Clement are just two of an Antonio Alfonseca-handful of prospects better than Guzman that are not listed on this poll.

by Joy in Melville on Dec 22, 2006 6:52 PM EST reply actions

The hard reality

Is that if there we took the ten guys who had received some support in previous testers, and added them to this list, it would change the outcome, and the vote would spread even more...Past the top 25 or 30 guys, everybody has got their favorites and every prospect has a hole or flaw...

So as much as we gnash our teeth that such and such a player is disrespected, the fact is that the rankings don't necessarily tell you that the majority of the board prefers ellsbury to pie

Or for that matter, we don't know that the majority of the board wouldn't prefer Sweeney to, say, Barton or Stewart. The more candidates, the less certainty we have regarding the board's actual preference between two prospects. After all, 86% of us think somebody on that list is better than Travis Snider but he's the leader...

by BGWoodsman on Dec 22, 2006 11:35 PM EST reply actions

50 spot

I think is a bit different here than at say 40, because most everyone wants their guy to make the top 50, and probably doesn't necissarily think he's the best of all current choices right now. But guys getting the most votes right now, are people who have been getting votes for a while, and I know that I've been voting for Snider since about 44.

Rios is the next Juan Gonzales, thats right, I said it.

by KaoticKlown on Dec 23, 2006 12:37 AM EST up reply actions

Add to poll

It looks like Guzman and Slowey will come off the poll this time so there'll be room for 3 new players. It looks like the Mets fans are not stuffing our ballot box anymore, so how about a tester for Carlos Gomez? Also, how about seeing how much support there is for Chris Parmelee now? And re: pitchers, I'd like to see Guerra get a tester, but mine seems like a minority opinion. We could put Patton back on, or if you want to give Veal another tester, that's fine. But to me the best pitcher left is Carlos Carrasco. How about a tester for him? McGee and Inman are other pitchers that deserve testers soon.

by rhd on Dec 23, 2006 10:17 PM EST reply actions