It's my opinion that top prospect lists are like that. Ultimately, these people are okay if you're wildly wrong with how you rank prospects, so long as you do it in numerical order.
Last year, after the Mets picked up a bunch of prospects around the trade deadline, I did a ranked list and it was one of the most-read pieces of the year. Were people more interested in opinions on the new guys to the organization or was it just people getting a woody over a numerical list?
The hardest part is how to rank the injured guys versus the ones playing - even more so than figuring out how to value the recent draft picks or how much value to put on guys in DSL or FCL short-season leagues.
Here they are: 20. Joander Suarez - Maybe at age 24, he's too old to be ranked this high. But a 3.62 K/BB ratio, combined with a 1.204 WHIP and a 0.7 HR/9 suggest there's too much here to ignore.
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