Ranking Minor League Systems Using Victors Wang's Prospect Valuations

Nice way to see how minor league systems are doing.

about 2 years ago Jeff Zimmerman 8 comments 0 recs |

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That's phenomenal.

When Erik aggregated all that info last off-season I was mesmerized.

It’s really interesting to see three of the four most famous saber-slanted teams at the top.

The pattern seems to be (and this comes through in Wang’s data, obviously) load up on C+ pitching prospects and find a few stud position player prospects.

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by Sky Kalkman on Jan 27, 2010 3:52 PM EST reply actions

Oh, man

I got beat to the punch. Was hoping to do a whole series on this again. At least I’m spared of the work.

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by erik on Jan 27, 2010 5:33 PM EST up reply actions

The nerd inside of me just had to get the math done when John was done. With that said, you can still do the series because all of my work was done using John’s grades, while Wang’s research is based on BA’s Top 100 and John’s grades.

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by dougdirt on Jan 29, 2010 1:54 AM EST up reply actions

I do like all the systems charted out

easy to pick up presentation. Cardinals bottoming out isn’t surprising, but still sort of sad.

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by erik on Jan 27, 2010 5:43 PM EST up reply actions

dammnit

by vivaelpujols on Jan 28, 2010 2:04 AM EST up reply actions

Not a surprised that saber slanted teams (like the indians and A’s) are near the top. I am glad my indians were ranked number 1. not surprised though how they rebuilt that farm system. not surprised the nats were bad. even though they are bad, they just have no talent…and the phillies traded away their whole farm system.

by bross09 on Jan 27, 2010 11:41 PM EST up reply actions

I’m assuming this is a change for the Indians if compared to a few years ago. Oakland was obviously doing it a year or so ago, and then it became apparent last season that Cleveland was targeting quantity in pitching prospects as return on the majority of their fire sale trades.

by hans on Feb 3, 2010 11:56 AM EST up reply actions

I'd like to see the same thing

done with other prognosticators’ rankings. Sickels has certain biases that I think undervalue high upside guys that don’t have much of a track record yet. It would be interesting to compare values using his letter grades with, say, BP’s star system.

I wish that Law and BA would use some sort of rating system instead of, or in addition to a ranking.

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by t ball on Jan 29, 2010 11:07 AM EST reply actions