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Baseball Prospect Rankings for 2012
Now updated for 2012's Top Prospects
Scouting Book's Top Prospects list is a Combined List, a calculated summary of the overall valuations of the entire prospect universe.
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2/8/2012: Cuban free agent prospect Yoenis Cespedes expressed his hope to become a Marlin today after meeting with management and touring the team's new home. While other organizations could offer more money and all of them already offer less-ridiculous uniforms, we're betting he will with Florida: no other team will be able to beat all the ropa vieja and moros y cristianos that's available right in the Marlin's back yard. More on Cespedes >
Seattle took a flier on the sometimes dominant lefty reliever Hong-Chih Kuo today, signing him to an incentive-laden 1-year deal. Kuo, one of baseball's best lefthanders the last decade or so, struggled with both physical and emotional turmoil in his last year as a Dodger.
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