2015 top 100 year in review

There are some bizarre individual rankings in there, but overall a pretty good list, and anybody who ranks 100 prospects in a single organization gets plenty of respect from me.
 
Very thorough with solid analysis. Just disagree with the use of the term, "prospect," after around Top 20 for any organization. At a certain point, many of them are simply minor league players.
 
Knucksie said:
Very thorough with solid analysis. Just disagree with the use of the term, "prospect," after around Top 20 for any organization. At a certain point, many of them are simply minor league players.
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I get what you're saying, but 1) I think the Braves legitimately do have more than 20 (and actually more than 30) guys who are legitimate major league prospects. That doesn't mean they all have a chance to be a star, but I think anyone with a legitimate major league future or real chance can be considered a prospects. And 2) On some level, I think any minor league player is a prospect on some level. For example, that list itself has guys like Minter, Cabrera, Roney, Withrow, Weigel, and Whalen outside the top 40 and lists Povse at 39. A lot of those guys are RP prospects, but they are undoubtedly major league prospects. There's really nothing stopping any minor league player from having at least a chance to progress and advance to the major league level. So I'm fine with calling all minor leaguers 'prospects' on some level.
 
smootness said:
I get what you're saying, but 1) I think the Braves legitimately do have more than 20 (and actually more than 30) guys who are legitimate major league prospects. That doesn't mean they all have a chance to be a star, but I think anyone with a legitimate major league future or real chance can be considered a prospects. And 2) On some level, I think any minor league player is a prospect on some level. For example, that list itself has guys like Minter, Cabrera, Roney, Withrow, Weigel, and Whalen outside the top 40 and lists Povse at 39. A lot of those guys are RP prospects, but they are undoubtedly major league prospects. There's really nothing stopping any minor league player from having at least a chance to progress and advance to the major league level. So I'm fine with calling all minor leaguers 'prospects' on some level.
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In addition, guys like Weigel come out of nowhere to surprise every year. There are a lot of guys in the Majors who at one time were not considered legitimate prospects until the broke out.
 
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