{"id":13247,"date":"2016-12-16T14:39:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13247"},"modified":"2016-12-16T14:39:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:39:55","slug":"updated-master-prospect-list-in-google-xls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=13247","title":{"rendered":"Updated Master Prospect List in Google XLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13251\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nav1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13251\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13251\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nav1.jpg\" alt=\"The official Logo of the St. Louis Prospects. Apropos to this post.\" width=\"227\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official Logo of the St. Louis Prospects. Apropos to this post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since we&#8217;ve been talking a lot about prospects, i thought i&#8217;d note that I&#8217;ve been catching up the Master Prospect rankings list (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ufpQabmX1XLTN9ShcgBDOLeOnfoIQLfXlk01qelJZbA\/edit?usp=sharing\">here&#8217;s the direct Google xls link<\/a>) that I maintain. \u00a0Major edits lately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve noted those who have lost Rookie status in 2016: <strong>Trea Turner<\/strong> and <strong>Wilmer Difo<\/strong>, even if Baseball America and MinorLeagueBall insist on ranking him. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure what to do with <strong>A.J Cole<\/strong> in this regard, nor <strong>Pedro Severino<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Koda Glover<\/strong> still seems to be a &#8220;prospect&#8221; by everyone&#8217; standards so he&#8217;s still ranked.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve noted those traded in 2016: <strong>Taylor Hearn<\/strong>, <strong>Max &#8220;<\/strong>future hall of famer<strong>&#8221; Schrock, Chris Bostick<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve noted those former &#8220;prospects&#8221; who were DFA\/Waived\/released in 2016: <strong>Abel de los Santos, Matthew Spann, Cutter Dykstra<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve noted those post-2016 MLFAs who at some point were ranked: <strong>Erik Davis, Paolo Espino, Kevin Keyes, Jason Martinson, Drew Vettleson, Neil Holland, Michael Brady<\/strong>. \u00a0If they re-sign, i&#8217;ll un-do the &#8220;out of the system&#8221; categorization.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, we&#8217;ve noted those prospects traded in the Winter Meetings: <strong>Dane Dunning, Lucas Giolito <\/strong>and<strong> Reynaldo Lopez<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve now put in a couple of the early rankings from major pundits that have come out post-2016: BA top 10, minor league ball top 30, MLBpipeline&#8217;s top 30 as of the end of the 2016 season, and JP Schwartz&#8217; post-2016 list. \u00a0We expect a ton more to hit in the Jan\/Feb time-frame.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Spreadsheet now has more than 100 &#8220;lists&#8221; from various sources dating to the beginning of the Nats franchise (Nov 2004 BA list, ahead of 2005 system).<\/p>\n<p>Each off-season I generally expect to get 7-8 rankings lists from what I call the &#8220;major pundits&#8221; who follow prospects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baseball America\/BA Prospect Handbook (<strong>J.J. Cooper, John Manuel<\/strong>, formerly\u00a0<strong>Aaron Fitt<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Baseball Prospectus (<strong>Chris Mellon\/Jason Parks\/Ezra Wise<\/strong>):<\/li>\n<li>MLB\/MLBpipeline.com (<strong>Jim Callis\/Jonathan Mayo\/Mike Rosenbaum<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>MinorLeagueBall.com (<strong>John Sickels\/Nick Melotte<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Fangraphs (<strong>Dan Farnsworth<\/strong>, formerly <strong>Marc Hulet\/Kiley McDaniel<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>ESPN (<strong>Keith Law<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Prospect Digest ( <strong>Joseph Werner<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>TopProspectAlert.com (<strong>J.P. Schwartz<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen other pundits rankings in the past but not consistently year over year like the above seven lists. \u00a0If you know of any pundits who i&#8217;m missing, please let me know.<\/p>\n<p>This year we&#8217;ll start to see a new #1 prospect in\u00a0<strong>Victor Robles<\/strong>, after seeing 47 straight lists with Giolito ranked #1. \u00a0Robles becomes the 11th distinct player to be ranked #1 in our farm system at any point.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;ve been talking a lot about prospects, i thought i&#8217;d note that I&#8217;ve been catching up the Master Prospect rankings list (here&#8217;s the direct Google xls link) that I maintain. \u00a0Major edits lately: I&#8217;ve noted those who have lost Rookie status in 2016: Trea Turner and Wilmer Difo, even if Baseball America and MinorLeagueBall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[394,2690,17,2689,2765,1803,3385,3187,2236,61,3382,732,2224,440,771,530,590,475,2767,3386,110,3381,2273,2827,852,1249,2404,2878,3056,3383,29,3384,2658,2000,1875,2824,1016,2426,2650],"class_list":["post-13247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-aaron-fitt","tag-abel-de-los-santos","tag-aj-cole","tag-chris-bostick","tag-chris-mellon","tag-cutter-dykstra","tag-dan-farnsworth","tag-dane-dunning","tag-drew-vettleson","tag-erik-davis","tag-ezra-wise","tag-jason-martinson","tag-jason-parks","tag-jim-callis","tag-jj-cooper","tag-john-manuel","tag-john-sickels","tag-jonathan-mayo","tag-joseph-werner","tag-jp-schwartz","tag-keith-law","tag-kevin-keyes","tag-kiley-mcdaniel","tag-koda-glover","tag-lucas-giolito","tag-marc-hulet","tag-matthew-spann","tag-max-schrock","tag-michael-brady","tag-mike-rosenbaum","tag-neil-holland","tag-nick-melotte","tag-paolo-espino","tag-pedro-severino","tag-reynaldo-lopez","tag-taylor-hearn","tag-todd-boss","tag-trea-turner","tag-wilmer-difo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13262,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13247\/revisions\/13262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}