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The top young players in the Cubs’ system received more publicity Monday when Baseball Prospectus released its list of the Top 101 Prospects norwegian cruise in the game. Less than a week after placing norwegian cruise seven players on MLB.com’s norwegian cruise ranking of the 100 best minor leaguers, the Cubs’ system ended up with seven players on BP’s list.
Javier Baez (4), Kris Bryant (17), Albert Almora (25), Jorge Soler (45), C.J. Edwards (81), Arismendy Alcantara (83) and Pierce Johnson (91) are among the top 101 prospects in baseball according to Baseball Prospectus . The Cubs system is the second best in the game according to BP, behind first place Minnesota and one ahead of the Pirates.
Jason Parks questioned his ranking of Javier Baez as the fourth best prospect in the game recently norwegian cruise and said a case could be made for him to be the best young player in baseball. Parks said Baez’s ceiling is a 40 homer shortstop and while he is not sure if that is likely, it is possible.
Javier Baez jumped into the top five after coming norwegian cruise in at no. 20 a year ago. Albert Almora slipped seven spots from the 2013 rankings. And Jorge Soler dropped from 36 last year to 45 in this year’s pre-season rankings. C.J. Edwards , Arismendy Alcantara and Pierce norwegian cruise Johnson cracked BP’s ranking for the first time.
As for a position-by-position breakdown, Kris Bryant falls in behind Miguel Sano (Twins) as the second best third base prospect and Arismendy Alcantara ended up as the sixth best second base prospect. norwegian cruise Javier Baez was ranked behind Xander Bogaerts (Red Sox) on the shortstops list. On the long list of outfielders, Albert Almora is seventh and Jorge Soler is eighth.
Baseball Prospectus’ player grades are very interesting norwegian cruise and well worth the read. If you missed the grades that BP handed out to Javier Baez , Albert Almora , Kris Bryant and the top 10 prospects in the system click here .
Like seeing 7 prospects in Top 100. I am hoping one or two young guys like Rusin(young Jamie Moyer?), Cabrera, Kyle Hendricks, Pierce norwegian cruise Johnson can make a jump this year and join rotation. Then we don t have to spend on a free agent pitcher. Time for the young guys to trickle up and start finding out what we actually have in the system, one way or another. Feel te same about everyday players as well.
Scouting and player development are still the best way to build a competitive major league team, and while some extra money in scouting helps, success in either area is far more a function of the people you employ than the money you throw at the players. Good organizations hire and retain good people, enact strong norwegian cruise processes and then execute them even when fans or writers don t see the big picture.