2014 Milwaukee Brewers Consensus Top 36 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 (31 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 Milwaukee Brewers top prospect list.

Sources

Regular Lists

Baseball America

Baseball Prospectus

Bleacher Report

Brewcrew Ball

Brewers Farm Report

Bullpen Banter

Fangraphs

Grading on the Curve

Keith Law (ESPN)

Miller Park Prospects

Minor League Ball (John Sickels)

MLB Prospect Portal

Prospect Digest

Rant

Reviewing the Brew

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 Milwaukee Brewers 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	FTot	Change
1	2	Tyrone Taylor	466	115	11
1	1	Jimmy Nelson	466	119	5
3	3	Victor Roache	416	105	6
4	3	Devin Williams	395	105	2nd Round
5	5	Orlando Arcia	376	102	10
6	6	Mitch Haniger	361	91	4
7	7	Johnny Hellweg	348	75	-3
8	9	Taylor Jungmann	327	66	-5
9	11	Nick Delmonico	287	47	Orioles, Francisco Rodriguez Trade
10	8	Hunter Morris	259	74	-4
11	10	Clint Coulter	219	48	-6
11	12	David Goforth	219	28	16
13	NA	Tucker Neuhaus	184		Comp B Draft
14	13	Ariel Pena	106	24	-1
15	NA	Michael Reed	82		Unranked last year
15	NA	Jason Rogers	82		Unranked last year
17	NA	Taylor Williams	63		4th Round
18	NA	Barrett Astin	56		3rd Round
19	NA	Jed Bradley	55		-8
20	NA	Damien Magnifico	54		2
21	NA	Yadiel Rivera	52		Unranked last year
22	NA	Tyler Wagner	42		Unranked last year
23	NA	David Denson	37		15th Round
24	NA	Michael Blazek	34		John Axford Trade, Cardinals
25	NA	Michael Ratterree	25		10th Round
26	NA	Jorge Lopez	23		-12
27	NA	Gian Rizzo	21		Unranked last year
28	NA	D'Vontrey Richardson	16		Unranked last year
28	NA	Brent Suter	16		Unranked last year
30	NA	Andy Hills	14		11th Round
31	NA	Clint Terry	12		18th Round
31	NA	Drew Gagnon	12		-14
33	NA	Garrett Cooper	10		6th Round
34	NA	Brooks Hall	9		Unranked last year
34	NA	Hiram Burgos	9		-13
36	NA	Tyler Cravy	7		Unranked last year
NA	14	Yirver Gilbert Lara		21	Dominican IFA

2013 prospects not on 2014 list

Graduated:

Wily Peralta, #1
Tyler Thornburg, #2
Scooter Gennett, #8
Logan Schafer, #18
Khris Davis, #19
Jim Henderson, #20
Caleb Gindl, #22

Outrighted:

Mark Rogers, #16

Dropped Off:

Kentrail Davis, #22
Cody Scarpetta, #25
Kyle Heckathorn, #26
Cameron Garfield, #28

Visual Representation

Here is a chart of the Brewers' top prospects. The error bars represent the minimum and maximum ranking 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.