Baseball Mastermind 2008 Top-25 Prospects

I wanted to wait for Baseball America to come up with their annual top 100 before I published my list, but maybe getting my list out beforehand will be nice to see how they compare. In compiling this list, I've gone through my own notes on each of these players, consulted ESPN's Keith Law's Top-100 list, Kevin Goldstein's Top-100 list, Baseball America's organizational rankings as well as John Sickel's. I've also consulted scouting reports by the Baseball America staff, as well as Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein from his Future Shock column, I've consulted the statistics in depth and at this point, I am very happy with my list, which I feel is short enough where I can comfortably and accurately project the players. I thought about going for a top-50 list, but at some point the rankings would be more arbitrary than I'm comfortable with.

In evaluating these players, the rankings are based on a personal system (I'd say more qualitative than quantitative) where I consider a players overall talent and ceiling and measure that against their polish and the liklihood they'll reach their ceilings. I give credit for projectability, but I'm not going to go on any projection reaches by saying Fernando Martinez is a future 30+ home run guy because nothing about his performance indicates that yet. A player must have some power, or hitting that may translate to power, for them to be considered a power source. Finally, I consider defensive value fairly highly as well.

The List...