Brewers Top 3 Prospects

[adamf214]

My staff and I have completed and posted our top 3 prospects for the NL Central at www.projectprospect.com. Let me know if you think we did justice to your division.

 

 

Adam

[patrickgpe]

can't argue with Yo, Braun, and Inmann as the top 3 prospects in the organization.

[Mass Haas]

Remember, the Brewers couldn't sign Astros slugging prospect Hunter Pence in 2002 after drafting him out of junior college (40th round). Two years later, he was a 2nd rounder for Houston.

[lithium75]

The "Fielder, Weeks, Braun, Oh my!' line needs to go away, though

[DHonks]

not a bad assessment. What'll be real interesting is seeing what BA has to say about the state of the organization. A bunch of guys got promoted off of prospect elligibility, and the entire A/A+ squads seemed to do well. Plus, R. Mercedes had a solid year in Helena. I don't know who they think has stepped forward, but it's possible they could claim we have 20 legit prospects, or just 4-5.

[adamf214]

Haha, I'm sorry lithium75.

 

I wrote that at 3:00 AM, and by then all our other writers were asleep. I'm playful, but I'll try not to be this corny too often.

[SenatorShriv]

The current minor league system is starting to remind me a lot of how it looked 5 years ago with one notable exception. We now have a couple of very legitimate prospects close to the big leagues.

 

The rest of the system is similar in the sense that we have a lot of low level promising hitters who just need to prove themselves at the higher levels.

 

All in all, we seem to have followed the formula that Jack Z. promised us; one solid wave of prospects that would be supplemented by a new wave 2 or 3 years later. All in all, I think it is a healthy system. After we see how the young A and A+ hitters develop, we can supplement them with impact college players through the draft to create a well rounded second wave of prospects.

 

 

edit: John Manuel's assesment it the BA thread kind of echoes a lot of my thoughts on the system as whole (I would love to hear his comments on our young outfielder situation.) I wish that I would have read that before making this post...

[adamf214]

Interesting point about the waves. That's so intuitive, yet I haven't really thought of player development stictly in that light before. Waves makes sense, and the Brewers are doing riding them the right way.

[saget]

I like your interview with Inman.

 

Nice job

[adamf214]

Thanks revengeofSAGET (hehe, nice name too).

 

Will was a joy to converse with. I'm going to try to shake my Halo II rust off this winter, so that I can see what kind of Halo player he is.