Future Shock

I must ask: Approx. how many phone calls does it take to finalize this list?

Where are all the Royals?

In case anyone was wondering, this is how the list breaks down by team:

AL East
Yankees and Rays - 4
Blue Jays - 3
Red Sox and O's - 2

AL Central
Royals - 10(!)
Indians and Twins - 4
Tigers - 3
White Sox - 2

AL West
Angels - 5
A's and Mariners - 4
Rangers - 3

NL East
Braves - 6
Nationals - 4
Phillies and Mets - 3
Marlins - 2

NL Central
Pirates and Reds - 4
Cubs - 3
Astros - 2
Cardinals - 1
Brewers - Goose Egg

NL West
Padres - 5
Dodgers - 4
Giants, Rockies and Diamondbacks - 2

Chris Archer (70) is listed as a Cub instead of a Ray.

who were the other canidates for no.101?

Tony Sanchez at 93? What am I missing? By the accounts I have read, he has near-elite defensive tools at catcher, and a bat/plate discipline that should lead to well above average OBP's. An 870 OPS in the FSL is nothing to sneeze at. I thought BA had him too low in the 40's!

OK, I will ask-where would Jerry Sands rank?

Jeremy Jeffress is pretty high on this list. Bam!

Where is the boundary between the 4 and the 5 star prospects? About where would the first 3 star prospect fall on this list?

Kevin, who do you think you made the boldest statement on with your list?

For a non-Christmas person like myself, today is Christmas. :-)

How can a position player who has awful fielding tools be ranked #3 out of all prospects? Is his hit tool THAT good? Montero would have to hit like Pujols or Cabrera, and maybe even then some. You'd think there would be plenty more prospects who had more than one tool.

I'm finding it difficult to believe a guy who can't field(and looks like he never will)or run is the third best prospect in all of baseball.

Kevin,

How does this ranking fit in with your team rankings, and the stars assigned to players there? For example, Wilmer Flores is listed as a 3-star in the Mets system, but is above 4-star players on this list. Is this due to the fact that the Mets write-up was done early, and the 3-star/4-star barrier shifted? Did he have an especially good winter league showing? There are a few other examples like this, where a player is above or below players with a higher or lower star ranking.

Thanks for posting this list here, so I could comment with my question. The hard copy isn't as interactive, although it does come with nice writeups!

It will be great when the upside numbers are released. I always appreciate comparing the qualitative assessment of prospects found here with the quantitative evaluations inherent to upside. When will upside be ready anyway?

Nevertheless, thanks for putting this together, Kevin.

Kevin .... could you have your editors include links in this article to your prior top 101 lists? Thanks!

Here's the year-by-year comparison: (apologies for formatting)

Team 2011 2010
Angels 5 5
Astros 2 2
A's 4 4
BlueJs 3 2
Braves 6 4
Brewers 0 2
Cards 1 1
Cubs 2 4
Dbacks 2 2
Dodgers 4 3
Giants 2 3
Indians 4 5
Mariner 4 3
Marlins 2 2
Mets 3 4
Nats 4 4
Orioles 2 4
Padres 5 4
Phils 3 2
Pirates 4 3
Rangers 3 4
Rays 5 7
Reds 4 3
RedSox 2 4
Rockies 2 2
Royals 10 5
Tigers 3 4
Twins 4 5
WSox 2 3
Yankees 4 1

How about putting their ages next to their names? I like to laugh when someone in my league drafts a 17 year old.

Britton ended up much higher on this list than on any other I've seen. Hail to the sinker, baby.

How many guys fell out of the top 100 rather than "graduating"
to the bigs?

Can we have your top 700? I don't think you're putting in enough work on this already.

I've heard that the 2011 draft class looks very good (maybe close to 2005). Where would guys like Rendon, Cole, and Purke fall on this list, if they were eligible? Anyone else in the 2011 draft class who would be top 100 if they were in the minors right now?

In the chat KG said that rendon and cole would be in the 7-12 range, nobody asked about purke.