Down on the Farm: John Manuel's Top 20 Prospect for 2010

by Ray Guilfoyle on Dec 24, 2009 9:00 AM EST in Baseball Comment 3 comments

Yesterday Baseball America's John Manuel posted his Top 20 prospects for 2010 over at SI.com. Here is his top 20 list with his write up on his number 4 prospect Desmond Jennings.

What he'll be: Jennings has many similarities to current Rays center fielder B.J. Upton, but his hitting track record is more consistent.

1. Stephen Strasburg, WAS

2. Jason Heyward, ATL

3. Michael Stanton, FLA

4. Desmond Jennings, TB

5. Jesus Montero, NYY

6. Brian Matusz, BAL

7. Pedro Alvarez, PIT

8. Neftali Feliz, TEX

9. Buster Posey, SFG

10. Madison Bumgarner, SFG

More after the jump:

11. Carlos Santana, CLE

12, Justin Smoak, TEX

13. Domonic Brown, PHI

14. Casey Kelly, BOS

15. Jeremy Hellickson, TB

16. Kyle Drabek, TOR

17. Alcides Escobar, MILW

18, Aaron Hicks, MIN

19. Dustin Ackley, SEA

20. Martin Perez, TEX

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The only Top 20 prospect available in our minor league draft is Strasburg

by faketeams on Dec 24, 2009 9:09 AM EST reply actions

and you have the first pick. Drabek would have been available had he not been traded.
I think we run into that in most years though, where the top 20 or so prospects have already been drafted in the UBA league. I like some of the Nats and Rockies prospects.

raygu

by Ray Guilfoyle on Dec 24, 2009 9:43 AM EST reply actions

+2

As it should be. Usually, it requires more than a partial year track record to make the Top 20 list. Everyone has BA’s Top 100 at the draft.

So the real skill is to identify the one’s at the bottom or off the radar that make next year’s (orthe following year’s) list.

by Rad on Dec 24, 2009 11:39 AM EST reply actions

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