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Re: Follow the Prospects Master Thread
« Reply #600 on: December 16, 2025, 11:27:09 am »
top 30 updated. 

Additions:
- Harry Ford #2
- Luis Perales #5
- Orvelis Martinez #20
- Griff McGarry #30

Subtractions:
- Jake Bennett (was 10)
- Josh Randall (was 27)
- Tyler Stuart (was 28)
- Sir Jamison Jones (29)

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Re: Follow the Prospects Master Thread
« Reply #601 on: December 16, 2025, 02:01:26 pm »
top 30 updated. 

Additions:
- Harry Ford #2
- Luis Perales #5
- Orvelis Martinez #20
- Griff McGarry #30

Subtractions:
- Jake Bennett (was 10)
- Josh Randall (was 27)
- Tyler Stuart (was 28)
- Sir Jamison Jones (29)

Bad year for royalty.

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Re: Follow the Prospects Master Thread
« Reply #602 on: December 16, 2025, 02:29:46 pm »
Bad year for royalty.
Stuart dynasty was short-lived.

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Re: Follow the Prospects Master Thread
« Reply #603 on: December 16, 2025, 02:31:01 pm »
top 30 updated. 

Additions:
- Harry Ford #2
- Luis Perales #5
- Orvelis Martinez #20
- Griff McGarry #30

Subtractions:
- Jake Bennett (was 10)
- Josh Randall (was 27)
- Tyler Stuart (was 28)
- Sir Jamison Jones (29)
who was the old #30?  Looks like he jumped 27-29.

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Re: Follow the Prospects Master Thread
« Reply #604 on: December 16, 2025, 02:39:59 pm »
I think it was Pickney.

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Re: Follow the Prospects Master Thread
« Reply #605 on: December 26, 2025, 02:47:12 pm »
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/how-do-prospect-grades-translate-to-future-outcomes/

Idk the best place to putting article - maybe useful minor league links, maybe org ranks, dunno - but Ben Clemens really advances the ball in his look at how future value rankings translate into mlb projections 3 years down the line. His focus on projections is explained and seems reasonable. Bottom line to me seems to be that I would not go overboard on any prospects acquired that rank below a 50, and its really only the 55s on up that have a good likelihood of being average or better as hitters. As for pitchers, there's just fewer high ranked, and fewer that take prominent roles. The comments note that Gore just being a regular and not above average or a star is in a category by himself over the 70s from 2018-22 or so.

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Re: Follow the Prospects Master Thread
« Reply #606 on: January 07, 2026, 06:35:58 pm »
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/how-do-prospect-grades-translate-to-future-outcomes/

Idk the best place to putting article - maybe useful minor league links, maybe org ranks, dunno - but Ben Clemens really advances the ball in his look at how future value rankings translate into mlb projections 3 years down the line. His focus on projections is explained and seems reasonable. Bottom line to me seems to be that I would not go overboard on any prospects acquired that rank below a 50, and its really only the 55s on up that have a good likelihood of being average or better as hitters. As for pitchers, there's just fewer high ranked, and fewer that take prominent roles. The comments note that Gore just being a regular and not above average or a star is in a category by himself over the 70s from 2018-22 or so.

It's a good article.  While I could quibble with some of their methodology (for example, this is a time series data set and they do often change their FV s on prospects, and using your own projections as the measuring stick rather than actual results is self-inflicted intercorrelation), it's good to see that this seems to match real-world expectations fairly well.

It's also good to see the failure points are often guys who seemed really, really overhyped - such as Gore, when people were pretending that every Padres prospect was going to the Hall of Fame, and Jeter Downs, who would have been permanently obscure if his name had been Jose Downs.

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Re: Follow the Prospects Master Thread
« Reply #607 on: January 22, 2026, 10:12:40 pm »
milb.com has already seeded the new arrivals into our top-30:
- Fien #5
- Rosario #11
- Fitz-Gerald #12
- Cabrera #17
- Ortiz #24