Donald never showed real in-game power until he was a 22-year old in the FSL. I worry more that he’s going to end up a third baseman with a second baseman’s glove. Granted, a lot of people said that about Utley, and Triunfel’s extremely high risk, so I’m prepared to be wrong some day, and I don’t think Donald should be too far down our list. But right now, I think Donald’s much more likely to be a major leaguer, while Triunfel’s much more likely to be a true star, and I skew to the latter in my voting.

Does not even remotely belong on a top 100 prospects list.

It’s nearly impossible to be a valuable player with ZERO power.

He probably has more upside than Bowden and maybe Zimmermann, but the walks in his SSS in A+ worry me a bit. He’s got good groundball numbers, which is very important in evaluating pitchers in my book, but I need to see less than 3BB/9 from him in A+/AA to put him ahead of Cecil and Bowden for sure, and probably Zimmermann too. I’d slot him Walden 4th, ahead of only Arrieta for certain. Now, by next year that could really change, and if Cecil ends up a RP, then it changes even more. Upside wise, I’d probably go Cecil first, then Arrieta/Walden as pretty interchangeable, followed by Zimmermann and then Bowden. I’m a pretty conservative guy when it comes to pitchers though, so I could totally buy someone ordering them differently.

As for Latos, who you mention further down here, I really need to see some actual innings from him to put him in the top 60 or so, but I do think he’s got lots of potential and could really rocket up the list in the next year or two.

“A better value than either of the Jays’ first two picks. Cecil has a very good slider that should make him a major asset out of the pen if he’s not capable of lasting as a starting pitcher. Ideally, he’d turn out to be a third or fourth starter.”-Rotoworld

This is just one quick one I found, but I’m positive it was a big thing at draft time that because Cecil is basically a FB/SL guy the concern was he may not develop a third pitch, so he’d end up a reliever, but a pretty good one at that I think.

I think Poreda’s the only guy on that list who can match Cecil’s upside, and Poreda (though I like him very much) hasn’t performed nearly as well as Cecil.

Hither and Yonder…..well played sir.

Jackson should be an average to above average CFer. He is more sure to be that, than some of these guys like Flores, M. Perez or Inoa.

If you count the fall league. Which maybe we shouldn’t unles he gets traded to the Rockies. :)

But 10 homers in 60 some at bats in Arizona, i know it is a hitters paradise, but da-yum.

Speaking of, maybe Hanson is even better than I thought. Another 9k, 5 inning style outing the other day. 22 innings, 39 Ks. Kid has been lights out in Az.

BTW, king Billy, good to hear you’re health is coming back to allow you to work. I didn’t know.

The polls have created some good debates so far and you have done a great helping maintain this atmosphere despite certain issues that have come up.

Hey I don’t need to vote in every poll, either. And one or two spots on the list don’t make much difference. As long as you are getting near to 300 votes in each poll, might as well keep it moving.