Monday, February 23, 2009

Goldstein's Top 11 Yankees Prospects

How about another prospect rankings list?

This one comes to us from Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus (hat tip to Was Watching):

Five-Star Prospects
1. Jesus Montero, C
2. Austin Jackson, CF
Three-Star Prospects
3. Dellin Betances, RHP
4. Austin Romine, C
5. Arodys Vizcaino, RHP
6. Andrew Brackman, RHP
7. Jeremy Bleich, LHP
8. Alfredo Aceves, RHP
9. Zach McAllister, RHP
10. Phil Coke, LHP
11. Mark Melancon, RHP

Just Missed: Brad Suttle, 3B; Kelvin De Leon, RF; Wilkins De La Rosa, LHP

Ranking Challenges: It's a very tough system to rank from top to bottom. Montero comes with positional questions, Brackman has a high ceiling combined with a plethora of negatives, and there are a lot of young, high-ceiling prospects and older, low-ceiling types.

For the rest of this season's prospect lists, check out this post from earlier in the month.

4 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Cool.

Anonymous said...

why is melancon last?

Anonymous said...

Funny how coke is nuber 10 on the 3 star and has the best chance of makeing the 25 man roster of any of them.

Anonymous said...

didnt you just discuss how good melancon's stuff was