I'm gettting all technological...

I'm on twitter now...garrioch13

I'll try to post a decent post one of these nights.

Top 300

It's pretty top heavy with hitters right now. I need to find a little better way to correlate the 2 but it's not too bad considering I used nothing but basic stats I manipulated.
I think I can tweak it a little more to make it better. I'd love to input draft status/signing bonus info but that would take a while. Maybe I will try it for the offseason rankings.

Well here is the top 300 in my new ranking system

1. Madison Bumgarner
2. Elvis Andrus
   
3. Josh Harrison
   
4. Andy LaRoche
   
5. Carlos Triunfel
   
6. Frederick Freeman
   
7. Jason Heyward
   
8. Carlos Santana
   
9. Andrew McCutchen
   
10. Alcides Escobar
    
11. Ben Revere
    
12. Tim Alderson
    
13. Michael Stanton
    
14. Cedric Hunter
    
15. Michael Brantley
    
16. Jesus Montero
    
17. Kyle Blanks
    
18. Dexter Fowler
    
19. Tyler Colvin
    
20. Christopher Tillman
    
21. Ivan DeJesus
    
22. Engel Beltre
    
23. Kila Kaaihue
24. Derrick Robinson
25. Jason Taylor
26. Matt Wieters
    
27. Vincent Mazzaro
    
28. Billy Butler
    
29. Mat Gamel
    
30. Arturo Pena
    
31. Derek Norris
    
32. Michael Pineda
    
33. Christopher Coghlan
    
34. Che-Hsuan Lin
    
35. Nick Noonan
    
36. Logan Morrison
    
37. Peter Bourjos
    
38. Christopher Carter
    
39. Eric Sogard
    
40. Donell Linares
    
41. Caleb Gindl
    
42. Ray Van Gurp
    
43. Brett Gardner
    
44. Julio Izturis
    
45. Nicholas Weglarz
    
46. Austin Jackson
    
47. Willie Cabrera
    
48. Marcus Lemon
    
49. Mike Moustakas
    
50. Gorkys Hernandez
51. Matt Dominguez
    
52. Michael Bowden
    
53. Fernando Martinez
    
54. Tyson Gillies
    
55. Everth Cabrera
    
56. Sean Rodriguez
    
57. Hector Rondon
    
58. Jonathan Kibler
    
59. Ruben Tejada
    
60. Angel Salome
    
61. Aneury Rodriguez
    
62. Cameron Maybin
    
63. Dominic Brown
    
64. Matt Tuiasosopo
    
65. Colby Rasmus
    
66. Ian Stewart
    
67. Josh Reddick
    
68. Rick Porcello
    
69. Tim Collins
    
70. James Simmons
    
71. Neil Walker
    
72. Brandon Wood
    
73. Reegie Corona
    
74. Pablo Sandoval
    
75. Luis Sumoza
    
76. Joseph Dickerson
    
77. Nate Schierholtz
    
78. William Inman
    
79. Gerardo Parra
    
80. Jose Tabata
    
81. Xavier Paul
    
82. Angel Villalona
    
83. Freddy Galvis
    
84. Jonathan Niese
    
85. Reid Fronk
    
86. John Shelby
    
87. Abraham Almonte
    
88. Bradley Emaus
    
89. Tyler Flowers
    
90. Sean Henry
    
91. Wilfredo Boscan
    
92. Adrian Cardenas
    
93. Anthony Norman
    
94. Jeff Clement
    
95. Jarrod Parker
    
96. Trevor Reckling
    
97. Brandon Erbe
    
98. Beau Mills
    
99. Sean O'Sullivan
    
100. Roberto Velasquez
     
101. Lars Anderson
     
102. Lonnie Chisenhall
     
103. Wilkin Ramirez
     
104. Eric Young
     
105. Clayton Kershaw
     
106. Jose Vallejo
     
107. Travis Snider
     
108. John Raynor
     
109. Thomas Hanson
     
110. Jeanmar Gomez
     
111. Clayton Fuller
     
112. Joaquin Arias
     
113. Daniel Duffy
     
114. Stephen Figueroa
     
115. Jordan Schafer
     
116. Jairo Heredia
     
117. Steve Garrison
     
118. Blake Beavan
     
119. Edilio Colina
     
120. Hank Conger
     
121. Richard Castillo
     
122. Ryan Tucker
     
123. Mike Carp
     
124. James Skelton
     
125. Jay Bruce
     
126. Trayvon Robinson
     
127. David Bromberg
     
128. Elys Blanco
     
129. Gregory Halman
     
130. Trevor Cahill
     
131. Travis Jones
     
132. Andrew Lambo
     
133. Martin Perez
     
134. Ezequiel Carrera
     
135. Darin Holcomb
     
136. Brandon Laird
     
137. Kellen Kulbacki
     
138. Jhoulys Chacin
     
139. Thomas Field
     
140. Zachary McAllister
     
141. Justin Maxwell
     
142. Austin Romine
     
143. Josh Thole
     
144. Juan Ramirez
     
145. P.J. Phillips
     
146. Daniel Cortes
     
147. Nelson Cruz
     
148. Luis Valbuena
     
149. Felix Pie
     
150. Jaime Pedroza
     
151. Taylor Green
     
152. Wladimir Balentien
     
153. Edgar Osuna
     
154. Gaby Sanchez
     
155. Brett Cecil
     
156. Daniel Murphy
     
157. Pedro Ciriaco
     
158. Jamie Hoffmann
     
159. Lee Haydel
     
160. Clayton Tanner
     
161. Carlos Carrasco
     
162. Greg Veloz
     
163. Cliff Pennington
     
164. Kristopher Medlen
     
165. Yefry Castillo
     
166. Stolmy Pimentel
     
167. Joseph Ortiz
     
168. Ryan Mount
     
169. Justin Sellers
     
170. Luis Valbuena
     
171. Bradley Bergesen
     
172. Zachary Britton
     
173. Eduards Tolo
     
174. Chih-Hsien Chiang
     
175. David Winfree
     
176. Seth Smith
     
177. Ryan Strieby
     
178. Matthew Mitchell
     
179. John Tolisano
     
180. Alex Liddi
     
181. Felix Doubront
     
182. Alex Burnett
     
183. David Hernandez
     
184. Andrew Romine
     
185. Edward Cegarra
     
186. Richard Castillo
     
187. Aaron Cunningham
     
188. Francisco Soriano
     
189. Alexander Mejia
     
190. Nick Adenhart (RIP bro)
     
191. Todd Redmond
     
192. Corey Wimberly
     
193. Mitchell Moreland
     
194. Chris Heisey
     
195. Justin Jackson
     
196. Henry Henry
     
197. Nathan Samson
     
198. Josh Vitters
     
199. Mitch Talbot
     
200. Dylan Owen
     
201. Maikel Cleto
     
202. Christopher Marrero
     
203. Sean Doolittle
     
204. Zelous Wheeler
     
205. Gio Gonzalez
     
206. Nick Evans
     
207. Neftali Feliz
     
208. Brock Huntzinger
     
209. Austin Gallagher
     
210. Brett Anderson
     
211. Nick Barnese
     
212. Matt LaPorta
     
213. Aaron Poreda
     
214. Rather Trujillo
     
215. Kelvin De La Cruz
     
216. Carlos Pimentel
     
217. Dan Robertson
     
218. Juan Francisco
     
219. Jhoulys Chacin
     
220. Allen Craig
     
221. Lou Marson
     
222. Thomas Neal
     
223. Eury Perez
     
224. James McOwen
     
225. Wilson Ramos
     
226. Jason Pridie
     
227. Marwin Gonzalez
     
228. Freddy Sandoval
     
229. Matthew Sulentic
     
230. Nolan Reimold
     
231. Hendry Jimenez
     
232. Mitch Canham
     
233. Eric Campbell
     
234. Nicholas Additon
     
235. Brad Nelson
     
236. Jaime Garcia
     
237. Ricardo Garcia
     
238. Hector Sanchez
     
239. Jai Miller
     
240. Carlos Carrasco
     
241. Kasey Kiker
     
242. Steffan Wilson
     
243. Trevor Cahill
     
244. Jenrry Mejia
     
245. Nate Spears
     
246. Christopher Volstad
     
247. Angel Nieves
     
248. Carlos Willoughby
     
249. Bryan Anderson
     
250. Andrew Cumberland
     
251. Roberto Lopez
     
252. Danny Espinosa
     
253. Evan Anundsen
     
254. Julio Borbon
     
255. Jared Keel
     
256. Wes Hodges
     
257. Jacob Jefferies
     
258. Daryl Jones
     
259. Casper Wells
     
260. Jeremy McBryde
     
261. Ryan Feierabend
     
262. Peter Kozma
     
263. Jeremy Hellickson
     
264. Jordan Walden
     
265. Cole Gillespie
     
266. Carmen Angelini
     
267. Mark Trumbo
     
268. Jose Rivero
     
269. Neftali Feliz
     
270. Jorge Minyeti
     
271. Jim Negrych
     
272. Lars Anderson
     
273. Pablo Sandoval
     
274. Danny Taveras
     
275. Jeffrey Locke
     
276. Chris Gimenez
     
277. Julian Sampson
     
278. Moises Ciriaco
     
279. Deolis Guerra
     
280. Travis Denker
     
281. Jack Shuck
     
282. John Whittleman
     
283. Jordan Zimmermann
     
284. Oscar Tejeda
     
285. Alexander Cobb
     
286. Johnny Giavotella
     
287. Tyler Robertson
     
288. Carlos Rivero
     
289. Brett Anderson
     
290. Tommy Hunter
     
291. Cody Johnson
     
292. Edgar Garcia
     
293. Cesar Hernandez
     
294. Drew Sutton
     
295. Rafael Torrealba
     
296. Eric Fryer
     
297. Alfredo Marte
     
298. Michael Saunders
     
299. George Kontos
     
300. Michael Mitchell

Ranking system

My post earlier this year had my ranking of 2325 players. This took a lot of time using a variety of scouting reports, my old stat analysis formula and gut feeling. I am currently working on a system to rank ever minor leaguer. Right now, I'm using 2008 end of season stats and eliminating anyone less than 50 AB due to small sample size. Rookie ball players are not being quantified properly at all, but otherwise it is looking decent. There are some surprises to me, but that is what I'm looking for. I would like a way to integrate draft pick info, but I would have to manually enter that for each person and that would take a ridiculous amount of time. Maybe someday. I am going to continue to tweak this a little before I post the results, but it shouldn't be long before I post it.

Draft Day!

I am mad Dish Network doesn't have MLB network, but I listened to some of the draft on MLB.com when I wasn't working on the new bathroom in the basement.
Sanchez at 4 was a bit of a surprise. I guess the Bucs are trying to make up for passing on a little known polished Catcher from a few years back..at least they got a stud pitcher instead, oh wait.
Well, maybe this will make up for it as I do think Sanchez is underrated and has a chance to be a solid big league hitter.
Hobgood reminds me a bit of Tillman going to the O's. I would have thought he might have made it to them in round 2, but he probably would have went in the early 20's and maybe the O's didn't want to take the chance, but I see it as an overdraft.
Mike Minor breaks from the Bravos mold a little but I see him as a solid big league pitcher, as good as a #2 potentially.
Drew Storen was a solid #10 pick to compliment the obvious Strasburg pick. He could end up closing for the Nats as soon as next year some time or join Stras in the rotation.
I like Grant Green to the A's. Another version of Bobby Crosby, maybe v.2 will be better.
As a Twins fan, I'm a bit dissappointed in the Gibson pick, but I'm also excited. I'm upset because I'm afraid this will be another college guy whose arm is wore out but he may have the upside of a #1 starter if he's healthy.
I love Levon Washington to Tampa Bay. Looks like they'll keep adding to their prospect stockpile.
Tim Wheeler to Colorado could work out very well, as he could be a star in that park.
Steve Baron at #33 was expected as Seattle had been working on a pre draft deal. I think I heard Jeff Clement just utter an expletive.
I love Arizona's draft so far. Hard not to with 7 picks in the first 2 rounds but Borchering, Pollock, Davidson and Krauss would have been enough for me besides the others.
I love Kentrail Davis to Milwaukee. I think you know how I feel about him.
Tanner Scheppers at 44...wow. I don't think anybody saw that slide, but he should sign fast as he has nothing to hold out for. Not saying that's what will happen, I'm just saying that's what he should do.
Kind of surprised to see Robert Stock go as a catcher, but I'm not ready to dismiss his skills as an everyday player. I think the Cards just need to be a little patient with him.
I'm glad Mychal Givens went as a pitcher, as I don't think he could cut it as a SS.
I'm really dissappointed to see that Max Stassi is still out there but Kentrail going as high as he did and to a team I like in the Brewers makes me happy.
Of the top 100 prospect I posted, 62 of them were taken in the top 100. That is 8 players less than I was shooting for. It's a good learning experience and maybe I can do better next time. Comparatively, BA got 72 of their top 100.

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