MLB Farm Systems Ranked by Surplus WAR

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MLB Farm Systems Ranked by Surplus WAR

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not sure if this is appealing to anyone but basically using the 80-45 grade scale and then applying WAR (just go with it for this). we're kinda, upper middle.
I provide a detailed explanation of my methodology in the Annual article. To summarize it briefly, however, what I’ve done is to identify WAR equivalencies for the scouting grades produced by Baseball America in their annual Prospect Handbook. The grade-to-WAR conversion appears as follows.

To create the overall totals for this post, I used each team’s top-30 rankings per the most recent edition of Baseball America’ Prospect Handbook. Also accounting for those trades which have occurred since the BA rankings were locked down, I counted the number of 50 or higher-graded prospects (i.e. the sort which provide surplus value) in each system. The results follows.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/mlb-farm ... rplus-war/

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