Fangraphs Top 29 Braves Prospects

[cajunrevenge]

no. but if they had ranked allard, say, a 50 and said he's really a 45 but we decided to bump him up based on a gut feeling? yeah, i'd **** on that.

Whats the difference between a 45 FV and a 50 FV pitcher? Its just absurd to be so adamant that thinking a player might outperform their talent level a little bit is so controversial around here. I was never on the Camargo bandwagon but there were many people here with gut feelings he would develop into a quality MLB player and none of these people made their living through prospecting for 20+ years. At times it seems like many people here think prospecting is an exact science. I am not going to go out on any limb to predict success by Allard but I will be rooting for him as hard as I have anyone since almost everyone was pissed that we drafted Soroka because he didnt rank highly enough on the publicly available draft rankings done by the "experts".



edit - Apparently Pache went from a 60 FV to a 55 FV. How can that be. I thought there was no arguing with FV. Are the people with "gut feelings" that he was a 55 FV instead of 60 last year idiots?