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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
Fantasy Lists
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 |
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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.