Sickel's Top 150 for 2014

[Tryptamine]

Be warned, this list is pretty damn awful.

 

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2014/5/1/5640414/top-150-prospects-for-2014-baseball-john-sickels

 

Baez 10

Bryant 12

Almora 32

Edwards 42

Soler 62

Alcantara 87

Pierce 114

 

Things that really stand out to me. Robert Stephenson is apparently the second best pitching prospect in baseball? There is no way there are 8 pitching prospects better than Taijuan Walker who comes in at 23. Sano at 21 and Bundy at 31, both too low. Trevor bauer at 26 is way way too high. The single most egregious ranking is having Jameson Taillon at 99.

Edited May 2, 2014 by Tryptamine

[fan_in_China]

Be warned, this list is pretty damn awful. Sickels also claims he didn't factor any of this year's performance into his rankings. Where he put Jon Singleton makes me think he's a liar.

 

 

The bold part isn't right

John Sickels

***The lateness of the book and the prospect lists this year enables some incorporation of early-season 2014 data. However, sample sizes (both sabermetric data and scouting reports) at this point of the season are still small, especially for pitchers, and can be misleading if over-emphasized.

 

Taillon, Bundy, and Sano all take hits for their injuries (loss of development time and possible position shift for Sano). I like his list better than Law (he doesn't justify his sleepers very well), Parks (way too tool heavy), and BA (seems to try to make fan bases, especially Yanks and Red Soxs, happy). But my favorite list is always the community prospect list over there.

[Tryptamine]

Yup you're right, he changed rankings but not the grades. I read the part about grades and thought that meant both.