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February 4, 2016 The Top 101 Prospects of 2016 VisualizedPart TwoWe’re continuing coverage of our top 101 prospects this week with some that just missed and ten more candidates for the next iteration. It was my great pleasure to make a few visualizations of the top 101 list and since we subtitled that piece “Part One,” you might have guessed this was in the pipeline. Tuesday’s were probably more aesthetically pleasing, but today we’re going to simplify the visuals while digging a little deeper in to the characteristics of the players in the 101. 2016 Opening Day Age vs 2015 Highest Level A few thoughts in no particular order:
Rank versus Signing Bonus I deselected bonuses above $15 million because, man, it’s hard to learn anything here when you have Moncada’s $31.5 million dollar bonus in the way, to say nothing of the $31.5 million fellow Cubans Yadier Alvarez and Yusniel Diaz combined for. On the opposite end of the spectrum, some of the bonuses handed out to international free agents who are now among the game’s elite prospects are laughable in comparison to their peers. I don’t know how many other $95,000 signings the Brewers had to make to find one Orlando Arcia, but it only takes the one to make the whole enterprise worth it.
Greg Wellemeyer is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @gregwellemeyer
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so pretty.