2014 Los Angeles Dodgers Consensus Top 65 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 (51 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.

Alex Guerrero was not eligible for every ranking. In order to combat this, I gave him a ranking of six for every list that missed him. This was his average ranking on the lists that had him.

You can also view the 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers top prospect list.

Sources

Regular Lists

Baseball America

Baseball Prospectus

Batting Leadoff

Bleacher Report

Dodger Diamond

Dodgers Digest

Dodgers Nation

Fangraphs

Grading on the Curve

Keith Law (ESPN)

Lasorda's Lair

MLB Draft Insider

MLB Prospect Portal

Prospect Digest

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 Los Angeles Dodgers 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	Corey Seager	869	217	2
2	2	Joc Pederson	868	214	3
3	2	Julio Urias	847	214	Mexican IFA
4	4	Zach Lee	838	207	-2
5	6	Chris Anderson	808	202	1st Round
6	5	Alex Guerrero	793	206	Cuban IFA
7	10	Ross Stripling	783	94	7
8	8	Chris Reed	725	95	-2
9	10	Onelki Garcia	609	94	-2
10	7	Tom Windle	604	145	2nd Round
11	8	Matt Magill	417	95	-3
12	10	Scott Schebler	268	94	Unranked last year
13	NA	Zach Bird	264		0
14	NA	Jake Scavuzzo	249		Unranked last year
15	NA	Jesmuel Valentin	235		-3
16	NA	Yimi Garcia	222		9
17	NA	Alex Santana	192		3
18	13	Jose Dominguez	178	49	Unranked last year
19	NA	Cody Bellinger	162		4th Round
20	NA	Victor Gonzalez	158		Unranked last year
21	NA	Joey Curletta	151		Unranked last year
22	NA	Kyle Farmer	142		8th Round
23	14	Victor Arano	126	48	Mexican IFA
24	NA	Darnell Sweeney	116		5
25	NA	Justin Chigbogu	107		Unranked last year
26	NA	Duke von Schamann	105		Unranked last year
27	NA	Noel Cuevas	101		Unranked last year
28	NA	Pedro Baez	91		Unranked last year
29	NA	Scott Griggs	79		Unranked last year
30	NA	Andres Santiago	78		Unranked last year
31	NA	O'Koyea Dickson	77		Unranked last year
32	NA	Seth Rosin	70		Traded from Mets for cash
33	NA	Scott Barlow	68		Unranked last year
34	NA	Jeremy Rathjen	67		-13
35	NA	Garrett Gould	64		-24
36	NA	Jonathan Garcia	63		Unranked last year
37	NA	Jonathan Martinez	62		-9
38	NA	Jharel Cotton	61		Unranked last year
39	NA	Carlos Frias	52		Unranked last year
39	NA	Lucas Tirado	52		Dominican IFA
39	NA	Theo Alexander	52		Unranked last year
42	NA	Ralston Cash	51		Unranked last year
43	NA	Lindsey Caughel	44		Unranked last year
44	NA	Brandon Dixon	42		3rd Round
45	15	Adam Law	41	46	12th Round
46	NA	Brandon Trinkwon	40		7th Round
47	NA	Tyler Ogle	38		Unranked last year
48	NA	Jacob Rhame	36		6th Round
49	NA	Michael Medina	34		Dominican IFA
50	NA	James Baldwin	29		-32
51	NA	Josh Henderson	21		Unranked last year
51	NA	Blake Smith	21		-21
53	NA	Cristian Gomez	20		Dominican IFA
53	NA	Faustino Oguisten	20		Unranked last year
53	NA	Jairo Pacheco	20		Unranked last year
56	NA	Aaron Miller	19		-33
57	NA	Chris Jacobs	18		Unranked last year
58	NA	Bryan Munoz	17		Unranked last year
58	NA	Josmar Cordero	17		Unranked last year
60	NA	Spencer Navin	14		11th Round
61	NA	Ariel Sandoval	12		Dominican IFA
62	NA	Jarret Martin	10		-37
63	NA	J.D. Underwood	8		5th Round
64	NA	Pratt Maynard	6		Unranked last year
65	NA	Daniel Padilla	3		Venezuelan IFA

2013 prospects not on 2014 list

Graduated:

Yasiel Puig, #1
Hyun-Jin Ryu, #4
Chris Withrow, #9
Paco Rodriguez, #10
Tim Federowicz, #15

Traded:

Alex Castellanos, #16 - To the Red Sox for Jeremy Hazelbaker
Angel Sanchez, #17 - To the Marlins in the Ricky Nolasco trade
Rob Rasmussen, #22 - To the Phillies in the Michael Young trade
Stephen Ames, #25 - To the Marlins in the Ricky Nolasco trade
Jake Lemmerman, #30 - To the Cardinals for Skip Schumaker

Rule 5:

Alfredo Silverio, #19 - To the Marlins

Claimed on waivers:

Shawn Tolleson, #23 - Claimed by the Rangers

Visual Representation

Here is a chart of the Dodgers' 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.