The Top 10 Prospects… The First 20 in Review
In case you’ve missed the Top 10 lists so far, here they are. Click the team names for the scouting reports/profiles.
30. The Chicago White Sox
29. The Houston Astros
28. The Detroit Tigers
27. The New York Mets
26. The San Diego Padres (Pre-Boston Trade)
25. The Florida Marlins
24. The Milwaukee Brewers (Pre-Kansas City Trade)
23. The Baltimore Orioles
22. The St. Louis Cardinals
21. The Oakland Athletics
20. The San Francisco Giants
19. The Chicago Cubs
18. The Washington Nationals
17. The Los Angeles Dodgers
16. The Seattle Mariners
15. The Minnesota Twins
14. The Colorado Rockies
13. The Pittsburgh Pirates
12. The Cleveland Indians
11. The Boston Red Sox
Marc Hulet is the second longest serving writer at FanGraphs. His work focuses on prospect analysis, as well as the annual amateur draft. He can be reached via email at: marc.hulet@fangraphs.com, or follow him on Twitter @marchulet.
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Are the teams placed in a particular order?
Doesn’t the numbers in reverse order give it away?
Sorry, meant how were they ranked.
According to the organization rankings. Prior to the Greinke trade, the White Sox were the worst organization.
when are the org rankings?
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Get to the Jays already!!
Great job on these.
agreed other than the fact that it would mean they were not top 10
How Would you revise it after the Greinke and A.Gon trades? Does Milwaukee have the worst system in baseball?
I think so. Their best prospect is Mark Rogers, a hard throwing righty who may not even stick as a starter and has injury concerns.
Boston 11th, and Philly and NYY in the top 10. The rich get richer, I suppose.
Philly doesn’t even spend huge amounts of money on the draft. They’ve traded a number of prospects on other team’s lists for Lee, Halladay, and Oswalt. And their system is much better than it was a few years ago. It’s sort of baffling. They’ve really done well on late round $100k-$300k bonus kind of draft picks.
Agreed. I’m not as high on their farm system as a lot of people, with most of their prospects being down at lower levels, but they really have done well to build a solid system that has handed them talent to trade and perhaps also build with.
Yeah, the Yanks buy free agents AND draft picks. What jerks.
Boston ahead of Cleveland and Seattle? Uh, no.
So much for the Phillies draining their farm system for these pitchers…
It is pretty amazing, made even more so by the fact that they traded Cliff Lee to SEA to “re-stock the farm system” and none of the guys that they got from SEA are in their top 10 prospects now.
Yep. So imagine how stocked their system would be if Amaro was a competent GM and wasn’t relying on the groundwork of his predecessor and his scouting team to make him look good.
It could be argued that Gillies is the 9th or 10th best prospect in the system. The top 6 is fairly set (Brown, Singleton, Calvin, Cosart, May, and Valle), but after that its really a lot of upside, toolsy guys. Really how can you rank Jiwan James, Gillies, Domingo Santana, and Aaron Altherr in some sort of logical order, when they are all young, athletic and unproven?
Phillies just have a lot of depth, and they do a good job of getting value in later rounds in the draft. I give them credit. Colvin was pretty well known but most teams felt they couldn’t sign him. Phillies did it anyway.
Anthony Rizzo is a top 25 prospect and should bring the Padres up higher than Boston
In what universe is Anthony Rizzo a top 25 prospect? Borderline top 50.
The difference between a prospect being 20th and 60th can come down to what to value, which scouts you believe, etc. I wouldn’t get too worked up about it.
That’s true. But it still doesn’t make Rizzo a top 25 prospect.
Texas in the top 10 after trading Smoak and many other prospects plus losing Feliz’s eligibility…
I think people tend to underestimate the depth of the Texas system last year when it was ranked #1.
How can you underestimate something ranked #1? Should they be #1 with a star and smiley face?
3. Atlanta Braves
2. Tampa Bay Rays
1. Kansas City Royals
Sound about right?
Also, where would the Cubs rank now that they’ve sent a pretty decent package to Tampa for Garza?
I think you are spot on with the top 3.
Pretty close on the Top 3 organizations…
you guys probably have Atlanta and Tampa Bay switched. Im guessing this.
1. Kansas City
2. Atlanta
3. Tampa Bay
4. Toronto
5. Yankees
6. Cincinnati
7. Philadelphia
8. Texas
9. LA Angels
10. Arizona Diamondbacks? (which is way out of whack if you ask me, but we all have our opinions of things)
I must say, Marc, that it’s strangely gratifying to see a ranking list on FanGraphs that doesn’t have Seattle ranked sixth.
Seriously, thanks for doing these.
Six months ago this comment would have been old. Now its just sad.
Seattle has a good farm system. They wouldn’t be out of place in the back half of a top 10. Lot of uspide in their system, more so than most.
Yankees in the top 10? I love it.
Cashman has barely been getting any credit for the farm he’s built up since he’d been given the reigns in 2007.
Darn media, always picking on the Yankees.
Those poor Yankees never get any recognition for anything, do they?
the cubs and the red sox should probably move down because while the lists are correct, their 11 and 19 seeds where probably made before the two trades they made with padres and rays respectivley.