Minor league ratings

[Keano's Magic Hat]

Thank watershark1967, it's his list.

Excellent resource and throws up some different names, which is half the battle.

[Pigiron]

:-)

A forum user linked their composite ramkings spreadsheet here as well, that will give you top 100 lists from other places as well (and an average of all of them).

http://forums.baseballhq.com/showthr...-Prospect-List

Nice work! Thanks.

[Keano's Magic Hat]

:-)

Good luck pigiron!

A forum user linked their composite ramkings spreadsheet here as well, that will give you top 100 lists from other places as well (and an average of all of them).

http://forums.baseballhq.com/showthread.php?84592-Composite-Top-Prospect-List

[Pigiron]

The HQ100 list is linked right with the 2014 Org Reports.

You gotta be kidding. I probably scrolled right past it 10 times. I don't know how I missed that.

Thanks, Ray, et al.

[RAY@HQ]

The HQ100 list is linked right with the 2014 Org Reports.

[Pigiron]

Thank you Penfold. Both links very helpful. Where was that buried? Is it discoverable by subscribers?

[Penfold]

This will be what you want, then: http://www.baseballhq.com/content/mi...-top-prospects : the Top 100 in ranking order.

It doesn't have the ratings on it but you won't need those as you just want the next best available player.

And you'll want to read this: http://www.baseballhq.com/content/mi...100-roundtable to understand why the top 100 isn't actually the top 100!

[Pigiron]

Just so you know where I'm coming from, I'm in a league that has a straight draft of farm players. You keep the farm guys until they get called up, even if it's for years. It's a 12 team, NL only keeper. The farm roster is 5 players at any given time. You have to go pretty deep into the pool to find talent when 60 guys are rostered. The most helpful thing from other sites is a straight 1-100 ranking of prospects. So when you get to your 4th or 5th guy, you just look for the next best available player. I figured that since HQ has the most comprehensive research out there, they would certainly compile a list like that, and the player would have his number/letter grade already assigned. It would be a great feature.

[Astros34]

I dont read the minor league forecaster, but couldnt you just reorder the list by ranking in the spreadsheet?

You can but that won't duplicate the Top 100.

[Keano's Magic Hat]

I dont read the minor league forecaster, but couldnt you just reorder the list by ranking in the spreadsheet?

[RAY@HQ]

Ah, gotcha.

[Astros34]

You missed something. There were spreadsheets there with all of the bio information and ratings from the player boxes.

I used that extensively. It was hard to miss. But there wasn't a ranking of prospects in order that included the ratings. I thought that's what was asked for above.

[RAY@HQ]

No there wasn't unless I missed something. It was just an Excel version of the book. There is a set of rankings on the site but not with the ratings. I've asked for that in the past myself.

Anyway, no one's holding that back.

You missed something. There were spreadsheets there with all of the bio information and ratings from the player boxes.

[Astros34]

Not on the site. I believe there was one we provided to purchasers of the Minor League Baseball Analyst.

No there wasn't unless I missed something. It was just an Excel version of the book. There is a set of rankings on the site but not with the ratings. I've asked for that in the past myself.

Anyway, no one's holding that back.

[JonE]

I think there is so much content on the minors, cut so many different ways, that I don't miss a straight ranking. Everyone is going to have their own ranking criteria anyway, as some people rank by how high is the player's ceiling, some rank by the player's ETA, some rank by where the player is in the MLB team's depth chart, some rank by what the player will produce in 2014, etc.