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How did our Top Prospects do in 2007?

I thought I would go back and look at how our Top 35 prospects did in 2007.  First, I took my ranking system that was completed last fall and added the new players acquired in the Santana and Garza/Bartlett trades.  Some of you have criticized this system in the past, and each year I have made adjustments taking into consideration some of your comments.  It also must be noted that this system does give a player credit the higher they move in the system, thus, those players playing in the rookie leagues or Low A ball for example, will not score as well as someone in AA or AAA.  Also, please note that in my system pitchers and position players are ranked separately...thus there are two number 1's, two number 2's, etc.  I have also include each pitchers Dominance Ratio (DR=Strikeouts divided by Walks + Hits).  

The raw scores will be somewhat meaningless without having all the information from which they are compiled, they are included however to give an indication of how closely some players were to another while others were clearly significantly different.  My system is not intended to rank prospects, rather, it ranks individual performance during the season taking into consideration each players age/league comparison and level of play.  Kevin Slowey and Scott Baker were included in my rankings as the #1 and #3 pitchers in the system, respectively.  Garrett Guzman was ranked third following Pridie and Gomez.  Finally, do not compare pitcher scores to position player scores as they have no relationship whatsoever.


                              Raw Score  
      Player        Roger   Pitcher/Hitter   D.R.

 1 - Carlos Gomez    #2            113.217
 2 - Deolis Guerra   #25    100.480         0.629
 3 - Anthony Swarzak #14    112.922         0.783
 4 - Tyler Robertson #10    115.120         0.853
 5 - Kevin Mulvey    #5     127.864         0.595
 6 - Trevor Plouffe  #12            98.017  
 7 - Ben Revere      #29            77.610
 8 - Jeff Manship    #6     122.946         0.840
 9 - Bryan Duensing  #4     129.474         0.623
10 - Phil Humber     #22    104.627         0.694
11 - Chris Parmalee  #38            72.100
12 - Dan Valencia    #15            88.728
13 - Nick Blackburn  #2     151.948         0.497
14 - Oswaldo Sosa    #12    113.867         0.594
15 - Jason Pridie    #1            113.523
16 - Wilson Ramos    #27            78.986
17 - Joe Benson      #37            72.128
18 - Eric Lis        #10            92.946
19 - Jay Rainville   #23    104.475         0.625
20 - Alex Burnett    #21    104.659         0.657
21 - Jose Morales    #13            91.337
22 - Brock Peterson  #7             95.344
23 - David Bromberg  #31     90.295         1.052
24 - D. J. Romero    #17            85.819
25 - Yohan Pino      #10    115.479         0.800
26 - Matt Macri      #8             94.622
27 - Brian Buscher   #4            106.442
28 - Mike McCardell  #13    113.509         1.979
29 - Jose Mijares    #34     88.081         0.794
30 - David Winfree   #18            85.542
31 - Ryan Mullins    #24    102.752         0.659
32 - Kyle Waldrop    #33     88.138         0.648
33 - Denard Span     #16            88.453
34 - Brian Roberts   #19            85.249
35 - Ozzie Lewis     #21            84.745

Thought everyone might find these comparisons interesting.