2014 Colorado Rockies Consensus Top 38 Prospects

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

-Proverbs 11:14

Prospect lists are a tricky animal. Every prospect guru has his or her own biases, favorite prospects, sources, and philosophy, leading to quite a variety in the placement of specific players on his or her list. I like making lists and I like prospects, but I'm no scout and I have no inside connections, so my list wouldn't hold any particular weight. Instead of spending loads of time ranking the players with my own biases, I decided a few years ago to instead assemble a consensus list for each team. You can view all of the previous lists here. Hopefully this will bring safety from a multitude of counselors.

How do I do this? Each time a prospect appears on a list, he gets a number of points (36 minus his ranking). The prospect with the largest amount of points is ranked first.

This year, I made a few changes to the list. First off, I included as many lists as I could possibly find. This includes list from team-specific sites, not just from sites that post a list for every team. Second, I created a separate list for fantasy rankings. Fantasy baseball sites rank their prospects with a different flavor and so there are two rankings: one for real baseball and one for fantasy.

You can also view the 2013 Colorado Rockies top prospect list.

Sources

Regular Lists

Baseball America

Baseball Prospectus

Batting Leadoff

Bleacher Report

Fangraphs

Grading on the Curve

Keith Law (ESPN)

MLB Draft Insider

MLB Prospect Portal

Prospect Digest

Purple Row

Rant

Top Prospect Alert

Fantasy Lists

Dynasty Sports Empire

Fake Teams

Prospect 361

Razzball

The List

The "Change" column describes how the prospect’s status changed from 2013. A positive number means the prospect moved up in the list, while a negative number means he moved down.

Here is a spreadsheet that contains all of the 2014 Colorado Rockies top prospect rankings in one place. I have removed Keith Law's as his lists require a subscription, though his list is included in the final tally.

Rank	FRank	Player	Total	FTo	Change
1	1	Jonathan Gray	454	140	1st Round
2	2	Eddie Butler	442	135	6
3	3	David Dahl	422	130	-2
4	4	Rosell Herrera	412	125	13
5	11	Chad Bettis	373	31	0
6	4	Kyle Parker	371	125	-2
7	7	Tom Murphy	370	111	6
8	6	Trevor Story	364	114	-6
9	10	Ryan McMahon	340	84	2nd Round
10	8	Raimel Tapia	315	88	Unranked last year
11	9	Tyler Anderson	135	85	-5
12	NA	Tyler Matzek	111		-5
13	NA	Jayson Aquino	66		-3
14	NA	Alex Balog	59		Comp B
15	NA	Antonio Senzatela	57		Unranked last year
16	NA	Ryan Casteel	54		Unranked last year
17	NA	Ryan Warner	52		5
18	NA	Danny Winkler	47		6
19	NA	Cristhian Adames	45		5
20	12	Tim Wheeler	35	26	-9
21	NA	Wilfredo Rodriguez	34		0
22	NA	Terry McClure	33		8th Round
23	NA	Raul Fernandez	24		Unranked last year
24	NA	Jose Briceno	22		Unranked last year
25	NA	Julian Yan	21		2
26	NA	Sam Moll	19		3rd Round
26	NA	Emerson Jimenez	19		Unranked last year
28	NA	Dom Nunez	17		6th Round
29	NA	Pat Valaika	15		9th Round
30	NA	Taylor Featherston	14		Unranked last year
31	12	Jordan Patterson	13	26	4th Round
32	NA	Will Swanner	12		-23
33	NA	Max White	11		Unranked last year
34	NA	Christian Bergman	10		Unranked last year
35	NA	Carlos Herrera	4		Venezuelan IFA
36	NA	Scott Oberg	3		Unranked last year
37	NA	Joel Payamps	2		Unranked last year
38	NA	Erick Julio	1		Colombian IFA

2013 prospects not on 2014 list

Graduated:

Nolan Arenado, #3
Ryan Wheeler, #15
Corey Dickerson, #16
Charlie Culberson, #20
Rob Scahill, #23

Dropped off:

Peter Tago, #17
Joe Gardner, #19
Danny Rosenbaum, #24

Placed on waivers:

Edwar Cabrera, #12 - Claimed by the Rangers
Rafael Ortega, #14 - Claimed by the Rangers

Visual Representation

Here is a chart of the Rockies' prospect rankings. The error bars represent the minimum and maximum rankings for each prospect.

It appears that clicking the above graphic makes it slightly larger

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Chris St. John is a writer at Beyond The Box Score. You can follow him on Twitter at @stealofhome.