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by John Sickels on Nov 8, 2008 6:38 PM EST Comment 11 comments

I am buried in the book right now. I will finish the Rays sometime Sunday and should have the Top 20 for you Sunday evening. After that, the next teams on the schedule are the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Baltimore Orioles, the Washington Nationals, and the Chicago Cubs. I am going to push really hard on the book this week.

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Fair enough, except...

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by grover on Nov 8, 2008 7:14 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Good news

The good news is that the Nats section should take about 15 minutes.

by Joltin Joe Orsulak on Nov 8, 2008 8:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah right...

John’s got to find 20 prospects for the list… that’ll take days. :D

by demondeaconsbaseball on Nov 8, 2008 8:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm confused...

The Nationals have 20 prospects?

by Grudyfan on Nov 9, 2008 3:00 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Na

He’s just going to fill it up with Expos prospect retros.

by mraver on Nov 9, 2008 11:21 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

A quick question

I’ve gotten the Baseball America prospect book the past two years, and I’ll defiantly be getting it this year. I’ll also probably grab of copy of John’s book as well, but is there a sample review, or can somebody explain how it differs from the BA book?

by matt0177 on Nov 9, 2008 8:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Prospects

…are arranged in alphabetical order, with grades following them. So you can use it as a reference for prospects while ignoring team affiliation. He’s also got team indexes at the end, and top 50 position player/top 50 pitchers rankings at the front.

by demondeaconsbaseball on Nov 9, 2008 10:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

BA Vs. John

John delves much more deeply into statistical evaluations.

by Birdfan01 on Nov 9, 2008 10:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Good info

exactly the type of stuff I was looking for.

by matt0177 on Nov 9, 2008 11:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's just different analyses

If you like what he says on this site, then you’re probably going to be interested by why he says in the book. He is probably somewhat more statistically interested, but I think BA also uses statistical analysis, and JS uses scout analysis as well. If there is a difference, it’s a matter of degrees.

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by OldProspects on Nov 10, 2008 10:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs