This post originally appeared at Steal of Home.

I did something similar to this with Preseason Prospect Rankings. This time around, I only have Keith Law (Insider), Baseball America, Kevin Goldstein (Baseball Prospectus Subscriber) and Bullpen Banter. However, there is some difficulty in comparing the lists, as they all have different criteria, so I won't make graphs or do the Likes/Dislikes as I did previously. Also, Bullpen Banter is the only full Top 100 list. Each of the other three lists 50. Since BB's is the only list that contains 2011 draftees, I deleted those 18 players and re-ranked the rest of the 82 eligible players, keeping only the top 50.

List Criteria:

Keith Law (KL, ESPN): This list doesn't include players who've graduated to the majors, who have exhausted or are on pace to exhaust their rookie eligibility for 2012, and there are no 2011 draftees on this list because the draftees who might be good enough to make the list haven't signed yet.

Baseball America (BA): Prospects have to have not used up their rookie eligibility or currently be in the big leagues to be eligible. Also, 2011 draftees are not yet eligible.

Kevin Goldstein (BP): The latest top 50 is restricted to players still in the minors.

Bullpen Banter (BB): If a player has thrown a MLB pitch or had a MLB plate apperance they are disqualified. All players from the 2011 Draft - signed or unsigned - were available to be selected regardless of signing speculation.

Consensus Top 25: Definition: Each time a player appears in a list, he gets a score of 51 minus his rank. These are added for each list and the players are ranked by total points.

Players in Top 50 of all Lists:

Definition: Only players who appear in every one of the KL, BA, BP and BB lists.

New Appearances:

Definition: Players who were not in any single preseason list but that appear at in at least one midseason list.

Missing Faces:

Definition: Players who were ranked in the preseason consensus Top 50 but that don't appear in the top 50 of any midseason list. A majority of these will be players who have simply lost their eligibility for these lists.

Risers:

Players who have moved the highest up the rankings from the preseason consensus list.

Fallers:

Players who have fallen the farthest from the preseason consensus list, but who still appear on a midseason list. Trout and Belt were not eligible for most lists, so they have fallen only for that reason.

Top 74:

Here is the overall list, ranked in order of total points: