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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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Pitchers
A Rating
Trevor Bauer, ARI
Julio Teheran, ATL
Shelby Miller, STL
Gerrit Cole, PIT
Matt Moore, TB
A- Rating
Jarrod Parker, ARI
Tyler Skaggs, ARI
Archie Bradley, ARI
Jacob Turner, DET
Dylan Bundy, BAL
Jameson Taillon, PIT
Taijuan Walker, SEA
Danny Hultzen, SEA
B+ Rating
Arodys Vizcaino, ATL
Randall Delgado, ATL
Jake Odorizzi, KC
Carlos Martinez, STL
Tyrell Jenkins, STL
Martin Perez, TEX
Matt Barnes, BOS
Trevor May, PHI
Jesse Biddle, PHI
Robbie Erlin, SD
Joe Wieland, SD
Keyvius Sampson, SD
James Paxton, SEA
Nestor Molina, OAK
A.J. Cole, OAK
Noah Syndergaard, TOR
Deck McGuire, TOR
Justin Nicolino, TOR
Daniel Norris, TOR
Drew Hutchison, TOR
Garret Richard, LAA
Matt Harvey, NYM
Zach Wheeler, NYM
I like the pitchers the Padres received in the Mike Adams deal in 2011: Robbie Erlin and Joe Wieland, and they will benefit from pitching in Petco Park once, if, they make the big leagues.
Another team with plenty of pitching prospects are the Toronto Blue Jays and you have to think they will be dealing some should the Matt Garza rumors be true.
I am a bit surprised John rated Pirates pitcher Gerrit Cole with an A rating this soon, even though he hasn't thrown a pitch in the minors. It appears Sickels is a little more aggressive in his ratings this season, and I kinda like that. Out with the old and in with the new.
If I had to rank John's A rated pitchers thus far, it would look like this:
Moore
Miller
Teheran
Cole
Bauer