MLB Prospect Rankings for 2008: Matrix (Baseball Prospectus)

The table below shows the top 100 prospects as chosen by the very smart people over at Baseball Prospectus, with other rankings shown for comparison. Click headings to re-sort.

SB BA BP SN ML ES Team Pos'n Player

6 7 5 23 4 6 LAD LHP Clayton Kershaw  
1 10 6 24 11 16 TB LHP David Price  
7 11 7 37 15 7 TOR OF Travis Snider  
8 5 8 17 7 5 STL OF Colby Rasmus  
4 6 10 3 3 13 FLA OF Cameron Maybin  
22 21 11 - 14 22 DET RHP Rick Porcello  
2 12 12 46 21 14 BAL C Matt Wieters  
23 17 15 29 12 15 TB RHP Wade Davis  
42 25 17 - - 27 ATL OF Jordan Schafer  
109 59 18 - - 11 TB OF Desmond Jennings  
38 18 19 - 22 47 KC 3B Mike Moustakas  
12 46 20 - - 36 ARZ RHP Jarrod Parker  
49 32 23 28 29 43 SD 3B Chase Headley  
5 14 24 8 8 12 PIT OF Andrew McCutchen  
10 39 25 33 32 49 TB SS Reid Brignac  
15 24 27 38 18 23 LAA RHP Nick Adenhart  
93 27 28 - 31 64 WAS 1B Chris Marrero  
28 33 29 - - 20 SF 3B Angel Villalona  
48 93 30 - - - TEX RHP Neftali Feliz  
3 23 31 43 - 37 CLE OF Matt LaPorta  
29 45 34 13 26 45 NYY RHP Ian Kennedy  
55 51 35 41 37 51 WAS LHP Ross Detwiler  
13 28 36 - - 33 ATL OF Jason Heyward  
18 16 38 18 19 34 LAA SS Brandon Wood  
74 50 39 39 27 93 SD 2B Matt Antonelli  
166 15 40 30 20 26 TB LHP Jacob McGee  
32 89 43 - - - PIT 1B Steve Pearce  
20 67 44 - - - BAL RHP Chris Tillman  
11 43 45 - 30 17 CHC 3B Josh Vitters  
105 60 46 - - 57 OAK RHP Fautino De Los Santos  
40 41 47 44 49 24 NYY OF Austin Jackson  
84 37 48 - - 21 PIT OF Jose Tabata  
61 77 49 20 25 60 TEX RHP Eric Hurley  
21 36 50 - - - OAK LHP Brett Anderson  
16 20 51 - 17 10 NYM OF Fernando Martinez  
155 29 52 9 10 29 CLE RHP Adam Miller  
60 62 55 - 48 18 SEA SS Carlos Triunfel  
24 26 56 27 24 - OAK LHP Gio Gonzalez  
35 73 57 - - 55 BOS SS Jed Lowrie  
34 19 58 36 38 31 TEX SS Elvis Andrus  
187 81 59 - - 79 LAA RHP Jordan Walden  
191 96 60 - - - BOS OF Ryan Kalish  
158 - 61 - - - SD RHP Mat Latos  
147 - 62 - - 98 TEX OF Engel Beltre  
69 - 63 - - - ATL SS Brent Lillibridge  
103 72 64 - - 82 ARZ OF Gerardo Parra  
26 88 66 - 36 - LAD LHP Scott Elbert  
230 - 67 21 - - NYY RHP Alan Horne  
9 54 68 - 28 53 PHI RHP Carlos Carrasco  
224 97 69 - - - STL RHP Chris Perez  
51 70 70 - - - ATL OF Brandon Jones  
86 85 71 - - - STL C Bryan Anderson  
47 63 72 19 40 - KC RHP Luke Hochevar  
181 - 73 - - 46 TEX RHP Michael Main  
50 65 74 - - 69 TEX 3B Chris Davis  
197 - 75 - - 96 BAL RHP Chorye Spoone  
121 - 76 - 43 - MLW RHP Jeremy Jeffress  
67 80 77 - - 40 TEX C Taylor Teagarden  
134 - 78 - - - CLE 3B Wes Hodges  
122 35 79 - - 80 MIN RHP Deolis Guerra  
81 - 80 - - 77 COL SS Chris Nelson  
82 - 81 - - - WAS OF Michael Burgess  
98 92 83 - - 99 ATL OF Gorkys Hernandez  
135 - 84 - - 74 SF RHP Henry Sosa  
160 - 87 - - 67 CHW RHP Aaron Poreda  
52 - 88 42 39 88 FLA RHP Chris Volstad  
85 79 89 - - 87 LAA C Hank Conger  
14 66 90 40 35 81 ARZ RHP Max Scherzer  
92 - 91 - - - COL RHP Casey Weathers  
17 74 92 45 50 - COL OF Dexter Fowler  
43 - 93 22 - 95 SEA OF Wladimir Balentien  
80 61 94 - - 89 PIT 3B Neil Walker  
39 94 95 - - - BOS RHP Michael Bowden  
106 90 96 - - - PHI LHP Joe Savery  
78 - 97 - - - MIN OF Ben Revere  
79 - 99 49 - - OAK 1B Chris Carter  
27 40 100 - - 28 BOS 1B Lars Anderson  

 

 

 

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