WHYGAVS Top Hitting Prospects, November 2009

After talking about it a whole lot, I've finally got the first part of my prospect rankings together. I've created a page for each player with a small writeup giving my impression of the player, plus links to key pages; their stats at Baseball-Reference, Wilbur Miller's writeup, and their Minor League Splits page, which gives splits and MLEs. I've really struggled with the best way to rank these guys for quite some time. I'm not a prospect guru, I don't see a ton of them in action (though I'm going to try and do better next year), and I'm not a scout. I certainly read a lot about them and try to assimilate all of that, but I still don't feel comfortable doing a straight top 30 with grades (I'm not criticizing those that do that by any means, I'm just laying out my methodology here). The first thing I decided to do was split up the hitters and pitchers. Pitching prospects are, at least to me, an entirely different animal than hitting prospects and it just makes sense to classify them...