organizational prospect rankings

Here's the scene. You're sitting at home on a Thursday night, flipping through the channels, and you come across the World Series of Poker. While you're not a big poker fan, you notice that it's down to the final two at the final table, so you leave it there to see how it ends. One of them goes all in with a pair of Queens, thinking he has the upper hand. A coy smirk appears on his face as he looks across the table to his opponent who lowers his sunglasses and shoots back his own devilish smirk. By gawd, that's Billy Beane's…

November 1, 2015. That was the day the Kansas City Royals were crowned World Series champions for the first time since Dick Howser's boys took down the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. The Royals won 95 games in that 2015 season, their most in nearly 40 years. Fast forward three seasons and Kansas City could only manage 58 wins, which was the second fewest in baseball behind Baltimore's 47. The Royals ranked 25th in runs, 26th in home runs, and 29th in ERA. The only thing they really had going for them last season was a…

The 2018 season for the Washington Nationals can be summed up in three words: Juan Freaking Soto. And yes, the "freaking" was necessary. Due to all the injuries in the Nationals outfield early on, Soto was called upon out of sheer necessity, more than the Nationals wanting to bring him up. At the time, Soto was hitting a combined .362/.462/.757/1.218 with 14 homers in 39 games across three levels, which didn't just have him as the top dog amongst Nationals prospects, but as 1B to Vladimir Guerrero Jr's 1A overall.This…

Over the last several years, the Cleveland Indians prospects that have debuted have done quite well for themselves. Just look at the 2018 AL MVP voting for evidence of that.Jose Ramirez (3rd) - Signed by Cleveland as an amateur free agent in November 2009. Francisco Lindor (6th) - 1st round pick (8th overall) in 2011 June Amateur Draft.Those are obviously the two most prominent examples, but the Indians have been pumping out Major League talent on both sides of the ball, including most recently in 2018 with…

The Arizona Diamondbacks never get talked about as having one of the best and deepest farm systems in all of baseball and it's a damn shame. While this system was one of the bottom-10 a few years ago, the Diamondbacks have drafted well and made some intriguing signings over the last two J2 international periods, including an outfielder that signed in 2017 that ranks quite high on this list. I won't say where he ranks, but let's just say he's the current gold standard in this deep and talented crop of Diamondbacks prospects.…