Baseball America Top Ten

[greenback44]

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bird-l ... ls-top-10/

1. Shelby Miller, RHP
2. Jaime Garcia, LHP
3. Lance Lynn, RHP
4. Daryl Jones, OF
5. David Freese, 3B
6. Eduardo Sanchez, RHP
7. Allen Craig, OF/1B/3B
8. Blake Hawksworth, RHP
9. Daniel Descalso, 2B
10. Robert Stock, C

A couple of years ago Goold left Jones out of the Top Thirty, and I don't think he learned his lesson. That is to say, I'd trade Blake Hawksworth or Allen Craig for Bryan Anderson or Pete Kozma.

[JL21]

Isn't that BA's Top 10, and not Goold's?

[Swingingbunt]

IIRC, Goold submits the list to BA.

[phins]

IIRC, Goold submits the list to BA.

He collaborates with a couple others to compile the list I think.

[JL21]

With all due respect to Goold, if that's how they construct the list, they just lost a ton of merit in my eyes. I thought those things were constructed from feedback from scouts, front office execs, and player personnel industry insiders. Not guys like Derrick Goold.

[ghostrunner]

In the article, he phrases it as he "helped."

[phins]

In the article, he phrases it as he "helped."

BA has their people rate players etc. and then a beat writer from each team helps them compile the actual list. At least that is how I was led to believe the list was formed.

[Hungary Jack]

I read that Leroy had a role in compiling the top ten.

[Leroy]

Just seven Jack. I find that using nice round numbers is completely capricious and arbitary.