Law: Top 100 prospects of 2008

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Top 100 Prospect Day
Published 1/31/2008 by Pistol at Batter's Box Interactive Magazine
Keith Law and Kevin Goldstein rank their top 100 prospects.  Both have Travis Snider at #7.  Law had Brett Cecil at 63.  And that's it for the Jays on these lists. Law went a little against the grain with Evan Longoria as the top prospect.

Keith Law's Top 100 Prospects
Published 1/31/2008 by Shyster at ShysterBall
Keith Law has released his Top 100 Prospects list. Yes, I know it's on Insider, but this is really worth it. Unlike most of these sorts of things which typically only list names, Keith shows his work and provides a summary of the plusses and minuses of all 100 players. Highly recommended.

Keith Law’s Top 100 Prospects
Published 1/31/2008 by Mike A. at River Avenue Blues
RAB fave Keith Law posted his Top 100 Prospects list over at the Worldwide Leader. Five Yankee farmshands made the list, led by Joba at #3, who was also the top ranked pitcher. Jose Tabata (#21), Austin Jackson (#24), IPK (#45) and Andrew Brackman (#100) followed suit. Check it out, if for no other reason than to learn about guys named Weglarz, Gorkys and Chorye.

Top 100’s
Published 1/31/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
Anyone who has read this blog probably knows my opinion on these prospect lists: I don’t like them. Well, that’s not 100% accurate. I think the discussion that comes out of them is certainly valuable and some “prospect expert” ranking prospects is certainly better than picking names out of a hat. However, it’s the way they’re presented that always gets me … like without recognition that they’re going to be off on tons of guys. Just like you have to know the limitations of statistics, you have to know the limitations of scouting (or scouting and statistics, if you prefer).  Anyway, that doesn’t stop me from linking or ...

Ensberg Signs / Keith Law’s Top 100
Published 1/31/2008 by EJ Fagan at Pending Pinstripes
Tim Dierkes has it on a source. I’ve been waiting for someone to grab Ensberg off the scrap heap. We’re talking about a guy who is one year removed from a .396 OBP season. I don’t expect Ensberg to ever hit 30 home runs again, but he’s probably just as solid as any of our other options at the position, with any outside shot at being an asset. Hopefully its a minor league deal, so we can store him away at Scranton if necessary. Reader Nick emailed me Keith Law’s top 100 prospects.  Chamberlain is at #3, Tabata at #21, Jackson at #24 Kennedy at #45, and finally Andrew Brackman is at #100. That’s not a bad group ...

Minors: Law’s Top 100 Prospects
Published 2/1/2008 by Jordan Zakarin at MetsBlog.com
Keith Law, of ESPN.com and Scouts Inc., unveiled his Top 100 Prospects List yesterday, which is available right now as a free preview at ESPN.com Insider. After trading four of their top prospects to Minnesota for Johan Santana, the Mets were one of five teams to have just one prospect make the cut: OF Fernando Martinez, who checks in as the tenth-best prospect in Law’s rankings. Law, waving off people unimpressed with Martinez’s injury-plagued numbers at Double A this past season, writes: “Martinez shows huge raw power in BP that will make its way into his game ...

More Prospecting for Prospects
Published 2/1/2008 by Ian Casselberry <info@blessyouboys.com> at Bless You Boys: Front Page Posts
As Rob Neyer mentioned today, this early part of the year is when baseball prospect lists begin to hit the streets.  (Or the web.  Or whatever.)  We saw Baseball America's tally a couple of weeks ago.  Two big ones now available come courtesy of ESPN.com's Keith Law and Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein.  Both released their Top 100 Prospects list today.   In past years, such lists might have held a bit more meaning for Detroit Tigers fans, as we awaited the inevitable arrival of Cameron Maybin.  But thanks to a kind of a big deal you may have heard about, most of that minor league ...

Layin' Down the Law: Prospect Edition
Published 2/1/2008 by stoeten at Drunk Jays Fans
OK. Before we get too deep into this, let's get a thing or two straight. Once the season gets rolling I really don't foresee regularly milking content-- or anything else, for that matter-- from Keith Law. Well... alright, that isn't exactly true. I mostly just mean I won't be passing off full posts of quotes from his ESPN web chats as something I actually put an effort into. Frankly, I hope to have better things to do. Which, of course, is not to say that there's anything wrong with Law-- quite the contrary, I could, uh... milk him all day long(?). Um.... and right now, he's one of the few people with anything remotely interesting to say. Some of the stuff ...

A Look At The Rooks
Published 2/1/2008 by Texas Gal at Center Field
ESPN/Scouts Inc.'s Keith Law has released his rankings of the Top 100 major league baseball prospects for the 2008 season. Not surprisingly, several Red Sox made the list. The Tampa Bay Rays lead all teams with nine players in the top 100. Texas is second with six, and the Red Sox and the Dodgers each placed five players on the list. No team was shut out and five teams appear just once: Mets, White Sox, Tigers, Royals, and Phillies. Sox Prospects in the Top 100 4. Clay Buchholz - RHP 19. Jacoby Ellsbury - OF 28. Lars Anderson - 1B 55. Jed Lowrie - 2B/SS 58. ...

Day 58 And Counting
Published 2/1/2008 by IMHO at Rotisserie Baseball Musings
On the same day Keith Law released his Top 100 prospects, Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein released his. The better news is BP and ESPN have made their Top 100's available to non-subscribers. Here is are some notable prospects from BP's list that could have some 2008 value. The ones at the top get most of the attention, but, as you move further down the list, there are some big time sleepers. 1. Jay Bruce, of, Reds 2. Clay Buchholz, rhp, Red Sox 3. Evan Longoria, 3b, Rays 4. Joba Chamberlain, rhp, Yankees 5. Clayton Kershaw, lhp, ...

Chicks Dig Run Protection
Published 2/1/2008 by mr. met at the metropolitans
For me, there is nothing better than a well pitched game. The casual fan might not enjoy a pitching duel, but many true fans of the game can appreciate the beauty of a well pitched game. To put the point differently, we can compare what the Mets would look like with and without Santana, using Dan Szymborski's excellent ZiPS projections, which are available at baseballthinkfactory.org. According to Szymborski's numbers, Pedro Martinez, John Maine, Oliver Perez, Hernandez, and Pelfrey project to pitch 796 innings this year, with a 4.10 earned run average. Swap Pelfrey out for Santana, and the rotation looks good for a 3.69 ERA in 880 innings. Just ...

Odds and Ends: Santana, Jones
Published 2/2/2008 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
Today's random links and such. Fun fact: the Marlins had Johan Santana in the organization for about five minutes. Ken Rosenthal says the Mets had to make the Johan deal and signing.  He notes that ace pitchers rarely hit the open market these days. Prospect Insider says on its righthand sidebar ...

The Value of Johan Santana?
Published 2/2/2008 by The Baseball Analysts Staff at Baseball Analysts
... to apples comparison. With that out of the way, let me now comment on something that I think is just astounding. The Twins may have yielded less for Santana than any of the other high profile deals involving youngsters/prospects this off-season. As far as I can tell, there have been five deals this off-season in which prospects (or at least good, very young MLB'ers). Below is a summary of the deals, with Top 100 rankings by Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus, Keith Law of ESPN and John Sickels. Johan Santana to the Mets. Mets ...