Adam Foster and his team of prospect experts/scouts published their Top 100 Prospects for 2012 on Friday, and here are their Top 10 prospect for 2012.

Before I publish their Top 10, here is the criteria for their Top 100 Prospect Rankings:

Criteria

We consider any player with fewer than 130 career at bats or 50.0 career innings pitched who has signed a contract with an MLB team to be a prospect.

1. Mike Trout, LAA

2. Bryce Harper, WAS

3. Matt Moore, TB

4. Jesus Montero, SEA

5. Shelby Miller, STL

6. Yu Darvish, TEX

7. Manny Machado, BAL

8. Jurickson Profar, TEX

9. Manny Banuelos, NYY

10. Anthony Rendon, WAS

And for those of you who don't think Darvish should be considered a prospect, and I don't think he should, here is their 11th ranked prospect:

11. Trevor Bauer, ARI

My thoughts on Project Prospects Top 100 Prospect rankings after the jump:

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Jonathan Mayo, MLB.com's draft and prospect expert, published his Top 100 prospects last night and here is the link. Over the next few weeks to month, we will be privy to Top 100 Prospect lists from Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, ESPN's Keith Law, Project Prospect and Minor League Ball's John Sickels. That's right, Sickels will be publishing a Top 100 list for the first time ever.

Here are Mayo's Top 10 prospects from his Top 100 list:

1. Matt Moore, TB

2. Bryce Harper, WAS

3. Mike Trout, LAA

4. Julio Teheran, ATL

5. Shelby Miller, STL

6. Manny Machado, BAL

7. Jurickson Profar, TEX

8. Jameson Taillon, PIT

9. Trevor Bauer, ARI

10. Dylan Bundy, BAL

I have a feeling Jurickson Profar will be ranked higher than Manny Machado in some of the other Top 100 prospect lists, and the same can be said for Shelby Miller over Julio Teheran.

What do Fake Team's readers think of this list? Should Profar be ranked ahead of Machado? or Miller ahead of Teheran?

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Continuing in the series of Top 100 Prospects articles, today I provide Kevin Goldstein's top rated hitting prospects for 2012. Kevin is the prospect expert over at Baseball Prospectus where he writes his annual Top 11 prospects for each team. Actually, he lists the team's top 20 prospects, in a tiered format, but writes a mini scouting report for each in his Top 11.

A look at Goldstein's 5-star and 4-star rated hitting prospects after the jump:

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Fantasy owners, especially those in keeper or dynasty leagues, are always looking for the next top prospect to draft who will carry them the their next (first?) fantasy baseball championship. The prospect experts are in full force right now with John Sickels covering his Top 20 Prospects for each major league team, Baseball America with their Top 10 Prospects and Baseball Prospectus's Kevin Goldstein publishing his Top 20 Prospects as well. ESPN's Keith Law will publish his Top 100 Prospects for 2012 at the end of January.

With that said, I will post some of the top rated prospects from each of the experts over the next 3 months leading up to draft day, so today I continue with more of John Sickel's Top rated prospects for 2012. I will limit the list to A, A- and B+ rated prospects.

John Sickels updated top rated prospect list after the jump:

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Fantasy owners, especially those in keeper or dynasty leagues, are always looking for the next top prospect to draft who will carry them the their next (first?) fantasy baseball championship. The prospect experts are in full force right now with John Sickels covering his Top 20 Prospects for each major league team, Baseball America with their Top 10 Prospects and Baseball Prospectus's Kevin Goldstein publishing his Top 20 Prospects as well. ESPN's Keith Law will publish his Top 100 Prospects for 2012 at the end of January.

With that said, I will post some of the top rated prospects from each of the experts over the next 3 months leading up to draft day, so today I continue with more of John Sickel's Top rated prospects for 2012. I will limit the list to A, A- and B+ rated prospects.

John Sickels updated top rated pitching prospect list after the jump:

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Fantasy owners, especially those in keeper or dynasty leagues, are always looking for the next top prospect to draft who will carry them the their next (first?) fantasy baseball championship. The prospect experts are in full force right now with John Sickels covering his Top 20 Prospects for each major league team, Baseball America with their Top 10 Prospects and Baseball Prospectus's Kevin Goldstein publishing his Top 20 Prospects as well. ESPN's Keith Law will publish his Top 100 Prospects for 2012 at the end of January.

With that said, I will post some of the top rated prospects from each of the experts over the next 3 months leading up to draft day, so today I continue with more of John Sickel's Top rated prospects for 2012. I will limit the list to A, A- and B+ rated prospects.

John Sickels updated top rated prospect list after the jump:

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This is a new feature where I will highlight some of the Top 100 Prospect lists across the internet, including lists from Minor League Ball's John Sickels, ESPN's Keith Law, Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein, and Project Prospect's Adam Foster.

John Sickels is in the middle of his Top 20 Prospects for each team, so like last year, I will post all of his A, A-, B+ and B rated prospects, as they are the prospects fantasy owners should focus on for their 2012 drafts, especially those in keeper leagues. This post will be updated throughout the offseason as John publishes his Top 20 lists. He is currently working on the Tampa Bay Rays.

Hitters

A Rating

Jurickson Profar, TEX

A- Rating

Bubba Starling, KC

Wil Myers, KC

Cheslor Cuthbert, KC

B+ Rating

Andrelton Simmons, ATL

Nick Castellanos, DET

Miguel Sano, MIN

Eddie Rosario, MIN

Kolten Wong, STL

Oscar Tavares, STL

More of Sickel's top rated prospects after the jump:

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