Comparing The BCB Community Prospect Rankings To Other Lists: The Brewers' Composite Top 50 Prospects

by Kyle Lobner on Feb 10, 2012 2:09 PM CST in Minor League Coverage

The 2012 BCB Community Prospect Rankings wrapped up yesterday with D' Vontrey Richardson edging out the field for the #17 spot. Here's the final list:

I wanted to take a moment today to look at how our rankings compare to a dozen others we've seen around the internet this winter, so I've compiled a composite ranking using their results. I'll post a table with the full outcome after the jump, but here are the salient points:

Wily Peralta is about as close to a consensus #1 as you'll see. Of the 12 rankings surveyed he was #1 nine times, #2 once and #3 two times. Adding in our first place vote, he scored 645 out of 650 possible points.
The other rankings would seem to imply that we missed the boat on Jimmy Nelson (the average of the other rankings has him #10 overall), David Goforth (#11 overall) and Hunter Morris (#16 overall).
We're higher than the average on Zelous Wheeler (we have him 15th, the others have him 26th), Nick Bucci (16th v 20th) and Michael Fiers (8th v 12th).

Follow the jump for the full results and a composite list of the Brewers' top 50 prospects.

First, a quick note on my methods. To compile these rankings I gathered Brewer top prospect lists from the following twelve sources:

In each ranking a #1 vote is worth 50 points, a #2 worth 49, and so on. Any honorable mentions are grouped together and assigned points which reflect the midpoint of the players mentioned. For example, John Sickels ranks 20 players and included 20 honorable mentions. Those mentions are treated as #21-40 and all given points as if they were ranked #31.

When you add in our rankings, a total of 650 points were possible. This year exactly 50 players received points:

Composite Rank	Player	Points	Highest Rank	Source	Our Rank
1	Wily Peralta, RHP	645	1	10 times	1
2	Taylor Jungmann, RHP	633	1	2 times	2
3	Jed Bradley, RHP	622	1	Bullpen Banter	5
4	Tyler Thornburg, RHP	617	2	3 times	3
5	Taylor Green, 3B	583	3	The Outside Corner	4
6	Scooter Gennett, 2B	582	4	Minor League Baseball Prospects	6
7	Cody Scarpetta, RHP	537	6	Minor League Baseball Prospects	11
8	Logan Schafer, OF	533	6	3 times	7
9	Jorge Lopez, RHP	522	5	4 times	9
10	Michael Fiers, RHP	363	8	2 times	8
11	Caleb Gindl, OF	356	9	FanGraphs	10
12	Jimmy Nelson, RHP	355	7	FanGraphs	NR
13	Orlando Arcia, SS	344	8	Minor League Rundown	14
14	Santo Manzanillo, RHP	332	10	Baseball Prospect Nation	13
15	David Goforth, RHP	329	11	2 times	NR
16	Kentrail Davis, OF	264	7	Minor League Baseball Prospects	12
17	Hunter Morris, 1B	249	8	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
18	D' Vontrey Richardson, OF	234	15	2 times	17
19	Nick Bucci, RHP	220	13	3 times	16
20	Michael Reed, OF	193	14	3 times	NR
21	Khris Davis, OF	183	13	MLB.com	NR
22	Yadiel Rivera, SS	123	12	MLB.com	NR
23	Drew Gagnon, RHP	122	9	Bullpen Banter	NR
24	Zelous Wheeler, 3B	114	15	Brew Crew Ball	15
25	Eric Arnett, RHP	87	10	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
26	Kyle Heckathorn, RHP	82	14	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
27	Chris McFarland, SS	76	19	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
28	Brock Kjeldgaard, 1B/OF	60	14	MLB.com	NR
29	Nick Ramirez, 1B	59	20	John Sickels	NR
30	Eric Farris, 2B	54	17	MLB.com	NR
31	Max Walla, OF	45	28	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
32	Martin Maldonado, C	39	HM	John Sickels	NR
33	Gian Rizzo, P	38	13	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
34	Sean Albury, P	37	HM	John Sickels	NR
35	Dan Meadows, P	36	HM	John Sickels	NR
36	Joel Pierce, P	35	16	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
37	Amaury Rivas, P	32	19	Disciples of Uecker	NR
38	Dustin Houle, C	31	20	Minor League Rundown	NR
39	Lee Haydel, OF	30	21	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
40	Brooks Hall, P	29	22	Disciples of Uecker	NR
41	Renaldo Jenkins, SS/2B	27	24	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
42	Del Howell, P	22	29	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
43	Evan Anundsen, P	21	30	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR
t44	Mark Rogers, P	20	HM	John Sickels	NR
t44	Matt Miller, P	20	HM	John Sickels	NR
t44	Jacob Barnes, P	20	HM	John Sickels	NR
t44	Frankie De La Cruz, P	20	HM	John Sickels	NR
t44	Dan Merklinger, P	20	HM	John Sickels	NR
t44	Mike McClendon, P	20	HM	John Sickels	NR
50	Maverick Lasker, P	18	33	Minor League Baseball Prospects	NR

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Very nice compilation

It seems by our high valuation of Zelous, Bucci, and Fiers and our low valuation of Nelson, Goforth, and Morris that BCB has a clear preference for guys with an established track record and lower ceiling over raw players with a higher ceiling.

by Cheeseandcorn on Feb 10, 2012 3:43 PM CST reply actions

And names.

We love names. David Goforth will make the all-name squad in 2013.

by mpbMKE on Feb 10, 2012 4:07 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs

I'll be totally honest.

I voted Zelous for the name.

fka "warwick5s"

by DEUCE SLUICE on Feb 10, 2012 4:42 PM CST up reply actions

I don't know how someone could put both Jungmann and Bradley ahead of Peralta

But whatever.

by cwolf20 on Feb 10, 2012 4:32 PM CST reply actions

I don't know

How he who shall not be named wasn’t mentioned at all. Did all 12 get spammed last year?

When there is a scuffle in Ireland, there’s no need to specifically mention in the news story that alcohol was involved

by Getting Yosted on Feb 10, 2012 8:43 PM CST via mobile up reply actions

Shrug

Peralta isn’t a consensus top 100 guy around baseball. The people that like him seem to love him, but he also seems to get consistently overlooked. Whether that’s oversight or simply a variation of opinion, I don’t know.

Either way, the hype of being a first round pick was probably enough to overshadow a lot of the names in a relatively weak system.

Now that's great tasting chicken!

by Kyle Lobner on Feb 11, 2012 12:36 PM CST up reply actions

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