Baseball America has released their annual ranking of the Top 100 Prospects in major league baseball organizations. The Indians had five players listed in the group, with RHP Adam Miller at #16, 1B Michael Aubrey at #41, OF Franklin Gutierrez at #54, OF Brad Snyder at #84, and LHP Jeremy Sowers at #90.
This is obviously a guessing game, as evidenced by a look at the near-misses and never-were's in the"All-Time" Top 100 rankings going back to 1990. That said, nobody has more credibility with baseball fans and writers for this kind of analysis than the people at BA.
Posted by dan at March 4, 2005 05:39 PMThat was a fun waste of 15 minutes. I noticed the 1990 list had an inordinate number of future Indians. 16 by my count, featuring such luminaries as Ben McDonald at #2, Juan Gone #4, Sandy at #5. A few lesser prospects such as Jose Vizcaino at #99, David Segui #93 and Paulie Sorrento at 91.
Probably the most interesting one was number 63 - a young Red Sox catcher by the name of Eric Wedge.
P.S. I noticed when putting in my email address that the auto-fill one that I usually just click is wrong. That's probably why you can't respond to me. I put the right one in.
Posted by: Al at March 7, 2005 08:15 AM