2001 Baseball America's Top 100 prospects 10 years later

[erik316wttn]

Interesting read from Angels blog, where the writer lists BA's list as it appeared in 2001, and the "adjusted" list based on how everything panned out. I take issue with a few of those rankings, but I still think it's interesting to look back and see how accurate (or inaccurate) it was.

 

http://angels.ocregister.com/2011/02/23/baseball-americas-top-prosects-10-years-later/73283/

[Guest]

Seeing Roy Oswalt, Albert Pujols, Alfonso Soriano, Jimmy Rollins and Vernon Wells on that list makes me feel like I've entered a time warp. Don't think I would have guessed any of those guys on a 2001 prospect list.

[imb]

wow, i really loved brad wilkerson

[Northside Blues]

Chin-hui Tsao was a stud coming up. He apparently touched 101 some. But I found this funny (from his wiki)

On December 31, 2008, Tsao was drafted by the Brother Elephants in the Chinese Professional Baseball League annual draft in the first round 2nd overall pick. On March 23, 2009, he signed with the team with NT$ 350,000(ca. USD 11,000) monthly salary, but without signing bonus. In the whole 2009 CPBL season Tsao achieved a 8-win, 8-loss, 3.939 ERA, 1.33 WHIP record in his 93.2 inning pitching. Tsao was the losing pitcher in the final 7th match in the 2009 Taiwan Series.

After the 2009 Taiwan Series Tsao had been under investigation for game fixing allegations. On February 10, 2010, the Banciao District Prosecutors' Office announced that during the 2009 CPBL season Tsao had been accepting unsuitable benefits, including wine and sex, from the gamblers and therefore had agreed to throw two CPBL games in August 2009 for them. However, Tsao narrowly escaped because one game was cancelled due to Typhoon Morakot while Tsao declined the other game when not enough of his teammates agreed to go along. Tsao was not finally indicted but was still expelled by the Brother Elephants immediately due to misbehavior, ending his baseball career.[4][5]

[Little Slide Rooter]

I remember Sean Burroghs. Never heard of Ryan Anderson, and had no idea that John Rauch was ever a top 5 guy. Is #19 the same Jerome Williams we got in the Latroy trade? I never ever knew he was a one time top prospect.

[Mark Priors Calves]

wow, i really loved brad wilkerson

I loved him in MVP Baseball 2005.

[Guest]

I remember Sean Burroghs. Never heard of Ryan Anderson, and had no idea that John Rauch was ever a top 5 guy. Is #19 the same Jerome Williams we got in the Latroy trade? I never ever knew he was a one time top prospect.

 

I seem to recall that Ryan Anderson was ranked even higher than that at some point, and he was going to be the right handed Randy Johnson. Turns out the only thing they had in common was they were both 6'10". I believe he was in the Mariners farm system when injuries derailed his career.

 

Jerome Williams was part of a 4 or 5 man rotation that the Giants had coming through the system all at the same time that was going to make the Giants special for many years. Boof Bonser was part of that group, but I don't remember any of the other guys now.

 

ETA: Looking back at the list, I'm sure Joe Nathan was one of those guys as well.

[illiniguy]

I remember Sean Burroghs. Never heard of Ryan Anderson, and had no idea that John Rauch was ever a top 5 guy. Is #19 the same Jerome Williams we got in the Latroy trade? I never ever knew he was a one time top prospect.

 

I seem to recall that Ryan Anderson was ranked even higher than that at some point, and he was going to be the right handed Randy Johnson. Turns out the only thing they had in common was they were both 6'10". I believe he was in the Mariners farm system when injuries derailed his career.

 

Jerome Williams was part of a 4 or 5 man rotation that the Giants had coming through the system all at the same time that was going to make the Giants special for many years. Boof Bonser was part of that group, but I don't remember any of the other guys now.

 

ETA: Looking back at the list, I'm sure Joe Nathan was one of those guys as well.

I am pretty sure that Anderson was also lefthanded.

 

Jesse Foppert and Kurt Ainsworth.

[SouthSideRyan]

wow, i really loved brad wilkerson

 

I can't believe how dumb the Nationals are. They gave up 2 players better than Soriano (Wilkerson and Sledge) in that trade, all to pay Soriano 10M to OBP 300.

[treebird]

great read. also,

Quite frankly, the Baseball America organizational rankings come out terribly by this (extremely simplistic) measure. I ran a correlation query between Baseball America’s system rankings and the WAR produced by the top 5 prospects in the system, and the result was 0.0. That means, statistically speaking, no correlation whatsoever, no different than flipping coins to determine which team goes where.

[Guest]

I remember Sean Burroghs. Never heard of Ryan Anderson, and had no idea that John Rauch was ever a top 5 guy. Is #19 the same Jerome Williams we got in the Latroy trade? I never ever knew he was a one time top prospect.

 

I seem to recall that Ryan Anderson was ranked even higher than that at some point, and he was going to be the right handed Randy Johnson. Turns out the only thing they had in common was they were both 6'10". I believe he was in the Mariners farm system when injuries derailed his career.

 

Jerome Williams was part of a 4 or 5 man rotation that the Giants had coming through the system all at the same time that was going to make the Giants special for many years. Boof Bonser was part of that group, but I don't remember any of the other guys now.

 

ETA: Looking back at the list, I'm sure Joe Nathan was one of those guys as well.

I am pretty sure that Anderson was also lefthanded.

 

Jesse Foppert and Kurt Ainsworth.

 

Yes on those two guys. And you are right about Anderson being left handed.