Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Will any Dodgers make MLB.com's Top 100 prospect list?

Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com is releasing his Top 100 prospects for 2012 tonight, first with a Top 50 show on MLB Network (7 p.m. Pacific) followed by the Top 100 on the website.

The question for Dodger fans is, how many Isotopes, Lookouts, Quakes, Loons or Raptors will make it?

Last year, Dee Gordon was the only Dodger to make MLB.com's Top 50 list, coming in at No. 44. Ethan Martin (somehow) came in at No. 55.

This season, it appears there are only three viable candidates for spots on the list: Nathan Eovaldi, Zach Lee and Allen Webster.

These three are generally regarded as the Dodgers' top prospects.

Both Lee and Webster made Baseball America's Top 50 midseason list from July and while Baseball America is not MLB.com, it's pretty likely we'll see one, if not both, of these guys on the list.

Eovaldi is a different cat. If people value him as a potential starter (as I do), he could crack the Top 100. If not, he probably won't make the list.

Here are my predictions for the trio and the MLB.com Top 100:

48. Lee
67. Wesbter
89. Eovaldi

We'll see what happens. Lee has the ability to be a Top 50 guy on all lists with his No. 2 starter potential (No. 1 if he really turns it up this season). Webster struggled late last season and that will probably hurt his ranking. Eovaldi's long-term concerns to remain a starter knock him down, but not out of the Top 100.

The Dodgers' farm system is in the bottom-third of all farm systems in the game. A lot of good players graduated from last year's list, hurting the system overall. To get three in the Top 100 would be impressive.

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1 comment:

  1. It's sad to see our minor league system so bad. It doesn't help that Ned spends money on crappy utility players.

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