I follow a lot of prospect lists and there is one thing I should say about this site: It’s sounds like it’s just one guy. That doesn’t mean his methods are wrong or that there is an obvious flaw in his evaluations, but most popular prospect lists are an combination of different opinions that are taken into account before listing the prospects. I usually prefer that player evaluations have some sort of double checking involved, because each person evaluates players from a different perspective. I would say this idea holds true anytime you are trying to do subjective analysis on something where who would prefer objectiveness but can’t get it due to complexity issues.

Anyway, it looks like his top 5 has the guys I would expect, but I don’t think the order will agree with the popular prospect lists.

It’s also interesting that he doesn’t seem to mind Latos’ injury concerns, but writes off Garrison, Geer, Schmidt, Carrillo and Bush because of them.

And, while I’m not familiar with his grading preferences, I have seen other lists use the A-C letter grade system and most teams have somewhere from 6-8 prospects at B- or higher, whereas he has the Padres at 12. So either he’s a loose grader, or we have a deep system. Judging by his Rockies and DBacks lists, I’m leaning towards the “deep system” theory, which has the added benefit of giving me some warm, fuzzy feelings.

Man, I think I just wrote a long post that WG is going to ignore again. Oh, well.