Prospect List-Mania - MLB Edition
A couple months back, I put together as many of the Cubs prospect lists as I can find. But those all focused on how the Cubs ranked amongst each other. Now it's time to see how the Cubs prospects rank in the grand scheme of baseball heading into 2007.
We have a variety of sources here and their methods of evaluating are all a bit different. Most of the sites I imagine everyone is familiar with and for those you haven't heard of, feel free to read up on them. Some of the links will get you to the entire list, many of them will only get you to a portion of the list and some navigating is necessary to access the full lineup. The current Scout.com 300 list is only available in their prospect magazine.
Top Prospect Alert
#53 - Felix Pie
#61 - Donald Veal
#76 - Sean Gallagher
#78 - Tyler Colvin
#93 - Eric Patterson
Baseball Prospectus' Top 100
#36 - Donad Veal
#42 - Felix Pie
#82 - Sean Gallagher
Ten Who Barely Missed the Top 100: Eric Patterson
Scout.com Top 300
#25 - Felix Pie
#104 - Donald Veal
#142 - Mark Pawelek
#153 - Eric Patterson
#203 - Sean Gallagher
#210 - Scott Moore
#245 - Tyler Colvin
Former Cub Jae-kuk Ryu was #226
Rotoworld's Top 150
#28 - Felix Pie
#69 - Donald Veal
#118 - Mark Pawelek
#125 - Sean Gallagher
#148 - Eric Patterson
Baseball America's Top 100
#49 - Felix Pie
#52 - Donald Veal
#80 - Jeff Samardzijia
Scouting Book Top 150+
#70 - Felix Pie
#74 - Sean Gallagher
#79 - Donald Veal
#112 - Tyler Colvin
#118 - Eric Patterson
Aaron Gleeman's Top 50
#21 - Felix Pie
Dayn Perry at Foxsports.com Top 100
#46 Felix Pie
#64 Donald Veal
#94 Eric Patterson
Project Prospect's Top 100
#38 - Donald Veal
#41 - Felix Pie
#73 - Sean Gallagher
Sports Illustrated's Top 75
#34 - Felix Pie
#47 - Donald Veal
Diamond Futures' Top 150
#16 - Jacob Fox
#47 - Scott Moore
#78 - Felix Pie
#116 - Eric Patterson
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The one glaring omission is John Sickels whose top 100 list is available at rotowire.com along with his book and neither one have I purchased. I do know that he had Felix Pie originally ranked #22 although he talked about moving him up.
Felix ranks as high as #21 and as low #78 (that being on the sketchiest of the lists) and even gets topped by Donald Veal on a few of them. Reading through some of the profiles, it appeared that most agreed that Pie had the talent to be in the upper 20's if not higher, but seems to have dropped due to concerns of his strike zone judgement and never really dominating at any one level. But in the end, they're nothing more than subjective lists and in five years we'll all likely laugh at their foolishness.
I should also mention that I read recently that Jeff Samardzija's impressive spring training showing had the scouts drooling (my apologies as I cannot for the life of me produce the link). If I recall the blurb correctly, he may vault to the top of all the pitchers in baseball with a good year in Daytona. My apologies though if I recall that incorrectly. (Ed. Note - Some of the readers found the blurb I was talking about and it came from a Jayson Stark article, you need Insider access but Wrigleyville23 has the scoop as well.)
If you know of any other lists, feel free to mention them in the comments. Also, don't forget about our parachat/donation drive if you can spare a few bucks.
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