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Comparison: Sickels and Mound Talk's community lists

It was remarkable how similar the 2 lists were 1 thru 29.  But there's been a divergence since then.  Here are the players on either list that are ranked as high as #61, plus the ones on our current poll:

John    Mound
Sickels    Talk
1    1    Jay    Bruce
2    3    Evan    Longoria
3    2    Colby    Rasmus
4    4    Clay    Buchholz
5    5    Clayton    Kershaw
6    6    Joba    Chamberlain
7    11    Cameron    Maybin
8    8    Homer    Bailey
9    9    David    Price
10    10    Andy    LaRoche
11    7    Jake    McGee
12    16    Johnny     Cueto
13    13    Travis     Snider
14    14    Brandon    Wood
15    15    Matt    Wieters
16    12    Jacoby    Ellsbury
17.5    17    Joey    Votto
17.5    18    Andrew    McCutchen
19    19    Wade    Davis
20.5    21    Reid    Brignac
20.5    20    Chase    Headley
22    22    Daric    Barton
23    23    Rick     Porcello
24    25    Franklin    Morales
25    26    Jeff    Clement
26    24    Matt    LaPorta
27    29    Mike    Moustakas
28    28    Chris    Marrero
29    27    Fernando    Martinez
30    32    Matt    Antonelli
31    33    Desmond    Jennings
32    40    Carlos    Gonzalez
33    41    Jason    Heyward
34    30    Fautino    De Los Santos
35    64    Jed    Lowrie
36    44    Angel    Villalona
37    35    Gio    Gonzalez
38    42    Ian    Kennedy
39    47    Carlos    Triunfel
40    51    Stephen    Pearce
41    43    Jordan    Schafer
41.5    NA    Kosuke    Fukudome
42    65    Adam    Miller
43    38    Nick    Adenhart
44    31    Wladimir    Balentien
45    46    Austin     Jackson
46    36    Eric    Hurley
47    39    Jose    Tabata
48    87    Geovany    Soto
49    58    Lars    Anderson
50    70    Chin-Lung    Hu
51    NR    Chris    Davis
52    91    Luke    Hochevar
53    61    Jarrod    Parker
54    34    Taylor    Teagarden
55    NR    Manny    Parra
56    75    Deolis    Guerra
57    62    Neil    Walker
58    53    Josh    Vitters
59    57    Ross    Detwiler
60    59    Hank    Conger
61    49    Elvis    Andrus
x    45    Carlos    Carrasco
NA    52    Carlos    Gomez
x    67    Brett    Anderson
x    76    J.R.    Towles
x    81    Mike    Burgess
x    82    Ian    Stewart
x    99    Brent    Lillibridge
x    NR    Jordan    Walden
x    NR    Cole    Rohrbough
x    NR    James    McDonald
--    37    Justin    Masterson
--    48    Beau    Mills
--    50    Tim    Alderson
--    54    Max    Scherzer
--    55    Scott    Elbert
--    56    Will    Inman
--    60    Jeremy    Jeffress

x = on current poll

The players that differ by more than 13 places on the lists are Lowrie (+29), Soto (+39), Davis (at least +49), Hu (+20), Hochevar (+39), Teagarden (-20), A. Miller (+23), Guerra (+19) and C. Carrasco (at least -16).  Of these, I think they have Lowrie, Hochevar and Davis more where they should be (altho I think Davis should be on the back end of the list), whereas I think we're more right on Guerra, I think they're even more wrong on Teagarden than we are and I think we'll end up being more right when we rank Carrasco.  Also, we'll be closer on Walden, who should get ranked soon, whereas he didnt make their list.  And, I think they're way off on Masterson, Mills, Scherzer, Elbert and Jeffress who we havent ranked.  I think all these belong toward the back end, and Jeffress probably shouldnt be on at all.

Gomez wasnt eligible for our list, and evidently Fukudome (and Kuroda) werent eligible for theirs.

Overall, both lists are good, but I like ours better right now.  

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Thanks
For the comparison.  Well done.

by MHD on Jan 23, 2008 2:15 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Hoch
you have to be kidding me on this one. Definitely not a KC guy here. But Hoch put up solid numbers while actually working on his game instead of working on his numbers. Ask the KC crew here they'll chime in.

btw-nice work.

ps:please modify the original to include the major differences on this. It's the most important piece IMO.

by pedrophile on Jan 23, 2008 3:20 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Modify?
Thanx for the repsonse, Pedro.

I noted the major differences in my text, so what exactly do you want me to modify?

by rhd on Jan 23, 2008 8:02 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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