Smoak
He is a 1B, I think PP is trying to keep positional differences in mind judging off comments I’ve heard which is why Wallace has taken a hit in value from their perspective. 1B/LF do get overrated a bit from time to time based on their bats because, generally speaking, sooooooo many prospect fans are really fantasy baseball fans.

Stanton/Santana
The difference between the 2nd best prospect in all of minor league baseball and the 8th best prospect is insignificant. You can’t really knock them on that.

Bumgarner
Their concerns with Bumgarner have been well noted and after his meltdown the other day slightly reinforce some of their concerns. When all he has is a plus FB and he has lost velocity, how can you not be concerned? I’m surprised they even have him in the top 25 given the stance they have taken with him to be perfectly honest.

Parker
The Parker ranking is a bit confusing because I thought they were really high on him. I haven’t read anything on their forum that gives me an idea why they have dropped him (if they have dropped him).

Rondon
He has been impressive, may be a bit to high too early but it’s a judgment call as are a lot of their rankings.

Carrasco/Alonso
I agree with both of these, to high for me.

I think they may have 1 guy right on the entire list! Bumgarner at 23 and Smoak at 9 kills this list!

did you post this just so you could ridicule it? Why not post your top 25 for everyone to see and critique, since you think you’re more right about this than they are?

I disagree with some of their assessments, sometimes significantly so, but these guys are as good as anybody as far as breaking out of groupthink.

I tend to think they overvalue rate statistics a bit . . .Santana is a little Hermida-esque to me at this point, as is Weglarz. Personally I really can’t Weglarz anywhere near this high - for a guy who’s almost all bat, he does have significant questions left to be answered offensively speaking.

No Michael Taylor? :( But that’s nitpicking . . .I’d say a lot of this list is pretty close to dead on.

but overall I like it. Don’t like Weglarz, Morrison, or Gamel too much though. I think Martinez is alo too high. I would have moved Parker, Latos, and Alvarez up a little. I think Parker is the third or fourth best pitching prospect right now.

I don’t understand the criticism this guy receives on prospect lists. Okay he is age appropriate and not younger, but he is mashing AAA (especially recently), and it is the Indians fault for not bringing him up earlier. I think it’s too early to write off LaPorta as a top prospect (1-15ish).

I wonder what they see in Carrasco that puts him on this list as compared to Wade Davis and Jeremy Hellickson who are not.

Fernado martinez ahead of Stanton that’s crazy

Carrasco ahead of Parker and Latos???

Bumgarner 23???? One bad start doesn’t drop him that far

Gamel at 13 is too high

And he has substantially cut his strikeout rate while showing huge month to month improvement. He just has to be on a list like this at the moment, although there are those who have recently said that he won’t be an option until 2011 I don’t see why you don’t promote him to AAA tomorrow and perhaps even give him a taste of the majors in September with the idea of calling him up for good mid-season next year if everything continues to come together for him.

I wonder how close he is to king some lists. may be too far away still. Same with Westmoreland. And I have Neal in my top 25 now, but I could understand people wanting to see him keep this up in AA.

first off, jarrod parker at 21 is crazy. he’s easily top 15, possibly 10. same thing for bumgarner. matt gamel at 13? i wouldnt even have him on this list. being a rangers homer, i love smoak, but he should not bet at 9(yet). i think hes got top 5 prospect potential, but give him some more time. and forgive me, but why the hell is nick weglarz on this list? dude has moderate power, not much else. i wouldnt even have him in my top 50, let alone top 25. you know, usually prospect rankings end up with a lot of discussions regarding minor differences. i.e. so and so should be 2 more spots up, etc. but this list is quite possibly one of the worst lists i have ever seen. there are so many things on here that make me wonder wtf these guys were smokin when they wrote up this list, cuz i may want some.

Heck Stanton can and has played CF plenty as well, he could easily play it in the mlb with maybin he wont have to. Should be above of Fmart, but.

83 AB, .313/.500/.554 (1.054), 31/15 BB/K, 5 HR,

What more can you ask for morrison last month? Finally healthy for the season and he walked over 1/4th of his at bats, had double the BB to K ratio and on top of that is averaging almost a walk a game. Not even gonna get into the power showing up finally.

wish could of seen what would of happend if he didnt get slowed with an injury for the first half.