2021 national rankings (in season)

I kind of like it. The top 10 is pretty close to my personal top 10 at the moment.

Mayer top 10 in baseball feels aggressive right now (they actually seem relatively really high on all the new draftees), but I will take it. Nice to have a guy in that conversation at least.

I do as well. I think Bello should be up a notch, Downs down some notches, Seabold up a few notches.

It seems wild for the Marlins to put Kahlil Watson above any of their pitching prospects at this stage, let alone all of them, - Sixto Sanchez, Max Meyer, and Edward Cabrera are MLB, AA, and AAA experienced respectively as well.

No Potts or Rosario in the top 30 on another list makes me think they'll be the counter move for Brasier and Bazardo. Also, can't wait for the eventual rise of Bleis (national writers) once he gets to the states.

The MLB pipeline rankings look like they weigh recent performance more heavily (relative to, say, BA or Fangraphs), which is probably why they resonate more with folks on this forum who check MiLB box scores every morning.

Pretty substantial movement here. I love the jump on Yorke. the bat is showing as special. If he can be across the board average at the other things, defense, speed, baserunning, range, arm, then this kid is going to be electric. Kid is showing some power, and has insane bat to ball skills. I just argued in another thread that 30 is closer to where Song belongs. Also, I need to follow Chris Murphy a little closer it seems.

The Brandon Walter write up and claim by a club official as the best mound prospect in the system was eye opening (although I presume hyperbole) . The huge k numbers jumped out all season but figured it was guile and level of competition thing

MLB Pipeline ranks the Red Sox system 12th in their system rankings:
www.mlb.com/news/pipeline-farm-system-rankings?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

The one report I got was something of an outlier that very much surprised me.

That said, these manager survey lists must always be taken with a grain of salt (am I right for vaguely recalling Ryan Lavarnway getting best defensive catcher once? or am I thinking of him getting Red Sox minor league DPOTY?), but especially this year given that teams are only playing intradivision games. For example, in the Double-A Northeast, only 5 of the 11 other teams' managers have seen Portland this year. And one team - Reading - had only seen Casas for 3 games prior to last week, so in Casas' case now you're talking 4. They really ought to have done it by divisions within leagues for that reason.

On the other hand, the six-game series schedule, plus seeing fewer teams, probably does give managers a better idea than they otherwise would about the players they did play against, so that's a mark in favor of this feature.

Back to the Casas thing specifically, evaluating 1B defense is always kind of hard unless there's a JT Snow, Doug Mienkiewicz type who's excellent defensively and an obvious pick. Here, all this means that the 5 opposing managers in his division probably had more of a consensus about him than the managers in the other division did about anyone in theirs. 3 votes was probably enough for any of these things.

But I'll repeat - the fact that the national outlets have not really been talking about how the schedule changed player development this year (that I've seen at least!) is kind of driving me nuts.

Mayer and Yorke do it the opposite ways: Mayer on reputation before the draft, Yorke —ignored at the draft — rakes his way in. Interesting.