Fangraphs/BP/BA Cubs Top Prospects List

[TruffleShuffle]

bryant and russell should easily be in all top 10 lists. soler is the only one who might miss out on some top 10s.

[TruffleShuffle]

FWIW, john sickels' site is doing a community top 40 list, and this is where the prospects stand:

 

http://www.minorleagueball.com/2014/12/30/7467725/2015-minor-league-ball-community-prospect-list-40

 

1. Bryant

2. Correa

3. Buxton

4. Russell

5. Soler

 

the dodgers' top 3 prospects are ranked 7th (seager), 10th (urias) and 15th (pederson).

 

schwarber is 24th.

[Sammy Sofa]

bryant and russell should easily be in all top 10 lists. soler is the only one who might miss out on some top 10s.

 

Madness. Is this based on injury concerns?

[TruffleShuffle]

bryant and russell should easily be in all top 10 lists. soler is the only one who might miss out on some top 10s.

 

Madness. Is this based on injury concerns?

 

i would assume that, plus maybe some lag from him being outside many top 50 rankings last offseason.

 

in other news...

 

[Clem Fandango]

Good picture of Kris Bryant doing what Kris Bryant isn't the best at.

[TruffleShuffle]

yeah, a photo of him playing defense was kind of an odd choice.

[jersey cubs fan]

Good picture of Kris Bryant doing what Kris Bryant isn't the best at.

 

Looks like pretty solid contact with the ball to me.

[Guest]

@BenBadler: Tomorrow's the release of the Cubs Top 10 prospects at Baseball America. Can a team have four No. 1 prospects?

[Guest]

Baseball America ‏@BaseballAmerica 4m4 minutes ago

Cubs Top 10: 1) Bryant 2) Russell 3) Soler 4) Schwarber 5) Edwards 6) McKinney 7) Almora 8) Torres 9) Johnson 10) Underwood

 

Baseball America ‏@BaseballAmerica 6m6 minutes ago

Cubs fans have a lot to be excited about with Kris Bryant heading their Top 10 Prospects list: http://ow.ly/GOUjh

[Guest]

McKinney over Almora, would not have expected that from BA.

[Clem Fandango]

I miss the old days when BA would also list the players in the system with the best tools and which players received the highest bonuses, and the projected future lineups, etc.

 

BA has gotten so lazy. And their layout and design for the pages huff dong. I know I've mentioned that a year or two ago, but it's still true, sadly.

[Guest]

Gleyber!

[Cubswin11]

When will we do out NSBB top prospect list? Always a fun thing to do.

[Clem Fandango]

I wonder where BA would've ranked Baez if he didn't graduate to rookie status. Would he still be a Top 3 prospect to evaluators?

[davell]

http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/2015-chicago-cubs-top-10-prospects-chat/

 

Manuel retweeted this, thought it was under their pay wall, but evidently not. Good stuff.

[UMFan83]

http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/2015-chicago-cubs-top-10-prospects-chat/

 

Manuel retweeted this, thought it was under their pay wall, but evidently not. Good stuff.

 

@Jaypers413 (IL): Happy New Year John, and thanks for the chat. How many of your ten will you be making a serious push for to make the BA top 100 next month?

John Manuel: Thank you, same to you. I’ve done a preliminary, personal Top 100 (personal Top 50s appear in the Handbook from Ben Badler, JJ Cooper, Matt Eddy and myself), and I had 7 Cubs in the top 100. I could see Gleyber Torres making it too though, so maybe it will be 8 when it’s all said and done. The system has both potential star power and depth, the best of both worlds, really.

 

Good stuff. Damn, Torres potentially in the top 100

[Gilby]

Patrick (Sandpoint, Idaho): Did Addison come close at all to #1?

 

John Manuel: Not for me no.

 

Thought this was interesting. Maybe Manuel and others aren't paying much attention to contact rates and such, but it's clearly not just Cubs fans who are plugging their ears and looking the other direction when it comes to the K's.

[SouthSideRyan]

Wow, I thought we might have only had 6. The actual designation doesn't mean much, but that'd be pretty sweet to see Torres crack it.

[SouthSideRyan]

So,

 

Stinnett

Tseng

Mitchell

Sands

Blackburn

Zastryzny

Caratini

Vogelbach

 

 

are all in the top 30.

 

Villanueva and Jeff Baez are not.

[Guest]

Chris (Chicago): Do you see Edwards staying in the rotation or going to the pen?

John Manuel: Rotation. All pitchers have durability and health questions; they are pitchers! The guy’s fastball does not get squared up. That’s the No. 1 thing a starting pitcher has to do — throw quality strikes with his fastball. This guy does it. He has one knock — he’s skinny. I think he’ll figure it out.

[davell]

So,

 

Stinnett

Tseng

Mitchell

Sands

Blackburn

Zastryzny

Caratini

Vogelbach

 

 

are all in the top 30.

 

Villanueva and Jeff Baez are not.

 

Strongest 11-20 in baseball too, possible trades can be built using some from that grouping.

[craig]

He's also got Cease and Steele in his top 30.

 

He commented that all the pitchers in the Cubs first 7 rounds were in his top 30, but I think that was a mistake. 6th round covers Stinnett, Sands, Steele, and Cease, all of whom are in. But 7th is Norwood, I don't think he really has him in there.

[davell]

You're probably right, but Norwood was in their top 200 at draft time. So it's possible he made it in, I guess.

[Post Count Padder]

I miss the old days when BA would also list the players in the system with the best tools and which players received the highest bonuses, and the projected future lineups, etc.

 

BA has gotten so lazy. And their layout and design for the pages huff dong. I know I've mentioned that a year or two ago, but it's still true, sadly.

Do they not still do that? I know it's not in the free story but I thought it was included in the book and the subscription.

[SABR Gamer]

I miss the old days when BA would also list the players in the system with the best tools and which players received the highest bonuses, and the projected future lineups, etc.

 

BA has gotten so lazy. And their layout and design for the pages huff dong. I know I've mentioned that a year or two ago, but it's still true, sadly.

Do they not still do that? I know it's not in the free story but I thought it was included in the book and the subscription.

 

The paid version has that stuff.

Edited January 6, 2015 by New York Cubs Fan