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October 20, 2011

Future Shock Blog

Top 11 Prospects Are Coming!

by Kevin Goldstein

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The World Series is a wonderful, thing, but here's a reminder that once the post-season ends, prospect ranking season begins. Once again, I'll be talking to scouts and various front office officials to rank each teams Top 20 prospects, with in-depth scouting reports on the Top 11 for each team. Last year, I began doing the teams in draft order, and that will continue this year. Thus, here's the order.

I love doing these lists, and based on our traffic figures, you sure love reading them, so enjoy the World Series, and once it's over, you'll see how the Astros have improved through trades, and then get 29 more lists with scouting reports as the off-season rolls on.

Kevin Goldstein is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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SaberTJ

These series of articles are what get me through the off-season without any games.

Oct 20, 2011 11:12 AM

rating: 8

froston

What's the timeline here, is it roughly one list per week?

Oct 20, 2011 11:16 AM

rating: 0

Kevin Goldstein

BP staff

2-3/week.

Oct 20, 2011 11:28 AM

ofMontreal

Draft order good! Can't wait, these make for good fall & winter days.

Oct 20, 2011 11:40 AM

rating: 1

Josh Shepardson

Very excited. Looking forward to the lists. Reading prospect scouting reports and such is what the winter is good for.

Oct 20, 2011 12:09 PM

rating: 0

CRP13

Such a tease. I won't believe the Astros improved until I see it in their record.

But YAY for the lists!

Oct 20, 2011 12:51 PM

rating: 1

Jquinton82

KG any chance we can ratings on the 20/80 scale for tools and pitches now and future grades?

Oct 20, 2011 13:03 PM

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BillJohnson

I second (third? tenth?) the positive reception for doing this in draft order, but a question: is this order definitely set now? If so, how did the tiebreaks get resolved among teams with identical W-L records? Kansas City, San Diego and Chicago Cubs, for example, all finished at 71-91; when was that order (KC, CHN, SD) decided, and how?

Oct 20, 2011 13:04 PM

rating: 0

Kevin Goldstein

BP staff

Yes that is the draft order. Previous year is the tie breaker.

Oct 20, 2011 13:40 PM

Lloyd Cole

One of the best parts of the year. Nobody does this better.

Oct 20, 2011 14:26 PM

rating: 2

dianagram

Could I request that, when the lists come out for each team, that there are links to every prior year's top 11 lists for that team on the top of the page?

Many thanks!

Oct 21, 2011 08:21 AM

rating: 4

BillJohnson

Seconded enthusiastically, and if easy to do, I'd expand this request to have those links say where the team's farm system ranked that year compared to the 29 other teams. Watching trends in these systems is a fascinating exercise.

Oct 21, 2011 10:09 AM

rating: 1

CRP13

I thought he did that in 2011 already.

Oct 21, 2011 11:03 AM

rating: 0

Scott44

Loves it!

Oct 21, 2011 08:26 AM

rating: 0

elonbaseball

Huge fan, don't tell my boss

Oct 21, 2011 09:32 AM

rating: 0

Luke in MN

I do love these, and it will be nice not to have to wait so long for the Twins this year! The upside of sucking!

Oct 21, 2011 11:44 AM

rating: 0

serviceoutrage

I've been looking forward to these since the draft.

Oct 21, 2011 13:49 PM

rating: 1

Marycontardi

I think I speak for all of us "I heart KG!... (and his lists are pretty nice too)"

Oct 22, 2011 17:26 PM

rating: 2

yadenr

Can't we get this World Series thing out of the way and get down to the serious business of Winter Wishcasting? [with thanks to CK]

Oct 24, 2011 14:36 PM

rating: -1

hyprvypr

The definitive source for prospect mining has come. I wouldn't be surprised if these lists were frequented by MLB general managers and/or development departments.

Oct 27, 2011 09:17 AM

rating: 4

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