Tobias Streich at 1,971 way too low, imo. I have him at 1,896. Otherwise this looks good.

i saw that the other day and i couldn’t help but laugh at work.

on a semi-serious note, it’s hard for me to see Wes Darvill and Heath Rollins that low … but then again, I’ve never really thought past 200 before … so maybe they are.

Romine extremely low at 203. Duran is in the 200s and 400s. Melky Mesa is extremely high. Jimmy Paredes is extremely high. Marcos Vechionacci is not a prospect anymore. He just resigned with the Yankees and is outside their top 100 prospects with ease. Venditte in the 200s is a joke. Almonte/Stoneburner/Garcia in the 600s is debatable. I guess Stoneburner is alright, but Garcia is very much injured and Almonte has a ways to go. Humberto Sanchez is on the list though he isn’t currently signed (though he isn’t bad). Josh Schmidt is not a prospect as much as a gimmick who throws side armed. DeLuca is far too young and inexperienced to be at 700 say instead of Bryan Mitchell. I have never heard of Eladio Moronta. Matt Cusick is a minor league utility IF and he is in the 700s! Adams, Joseph, and Jairo Heredia are lower than I’d expect. Mikey O’Brien and Lance Pendleton have no business in the top 1000. Maybe 2000. Corona is a little high and Ryan Pope!!! He might make my Yankee top 100. Damian Arredondo isn’t even the guy’s real name. He will be much lower with his new name because he is older. Brett Gerritse cannot throw 90 mph yet do 1100 is high. Nova is frankly low and then we see Leonora again. He is probably about 400 spots away from the other one. At 1556, JB Cox retired. Robert Lyerly has no business on this list especially above Lassiter, Brewer, etc. Chris Smith got cut. Suttle is a bit low maybe because he was injured though. Sam Elam has not business here (what did the guy do, go by round b/c lyerly, gerritse and elam along with eventually Shane Green were high filler picks). Finally Pirela is low.

The guy puts a lot of emphasis on high draft selections and DSL players. There were some DSL players that should have been a little lower, but obviously he likes ceiling.

Some parts of the list are not that bad, but some are pretty funny. I try to give it a serious look as this comment shows, but it is hard not to laugh while doing it.

What exactly are you supposed to learn from this?

but for the Mets, why is Ryota Igarashi so low? His floor is MLB bullpen arm (I mean I guess it’s possible he flames out, but considering he’ll be a set-up guy in 2010).

Ezequiel Carrera, my argument for why I don’t consider guys like Tyson Gillies and Michael Brantley good prospects (as in, “what really separates these guys from someone like Ezequiel Carrera?”) is ranked in the top-100.

However, if I get bored I’m going to do dirty things to this list in ways it wouldn’t even know.

fire away. I’ll answer. If you want to blindly insult and make fun, enjoy. But this list is far from random. Some of the international signings and such are assigned a number with little information, that’s why they are bunched together.

Especially Wynn Pelzer (ranked 313), I know John’s grades aren’t the end all be all but he received a B there.

Others that stood out to me:
314. Marc Rzepczynski, P, TOR (Is he even a rookie, I would think not)
323. Noel Arguelles, P, KC
334. Scott Sizemore, 2B, DET
341. Fabio Martinez Mesa, P, LAA
343. Micheal Main, P, TEX
361. Chase D’Arnaud, SS, PIT
368. Daryl Jones, OF, STL
387. Cody Scarpetta, P, MIL

All of these guys belong somewhere between 75th and 175th for me.

but as a moderately attentive follower of the Cubs system, Smaily Borges (a 25 year old in 2009) first baseman with an .800 OPS in the VSL seems like an awful long reach. He’s, at best, 3 years from contributing, and to my knowledge has never played a game in the states.

But it is better than nothing.

Cameron Lamb not in the top 2k? He’s top 500 for me.
Arcia 400?
Marcell Ozuna, 12th on the Marlins list, at 1128? And not even a shortstop?
The Chen twins are next to each other. I don’t even know if they’re twins, but their the same age, same position, same team. WHO KNOWS. (withholds racial stereotype)
Brandon Allen at 1200 shouldn’t happen unless you want the worst players. Or you’re grading by speed. And he STILL wouldn’t be that low.

Gotta go, more later.