{"id":10324,"date":"2015-04-16T16:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T20:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10324"},"modified":"2015-04-16T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T20:37:54","slug":"completed-nats-prospect-rankings-and-org-rankings-for-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10324","title":{"rendered":"Completed Nats prospect rankings and Org Rankings for 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;re into the 2015 season, we are officially through the &#8220;prospect ranking&#8221; season.\u00a0 I have updated two important prospect tracking spreadsheets that I maintain with a host of links and updated information.<\/p>\n<p>First; the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1zRLiZVwleOveYbsp-mdVek00-1xn6fR9s5IZRllmhIc\/edit?usp=sharing\">Organizational Rankings Spreadsheet<\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got 59 different rankings now collected of the 30 teams&#8217; organizational rankings over the years.\u00a0 The big &#8220;holes&#8221; I have in this spreadsheet are the Baseball America handbooks sent out each January &#8230; though it seems to be safe to say that the official released Baseball America rankings in March or April of each year effectively mimics the rankings in the publication.\u00a0 The rankings go back to 2001, with a link to even earlier Baseball America rankings.\u00a0 Only BA goes back that far; other experts go back to 2007 (Baseball Prospectus), 2009 (Keith Law\/ESPN) and 2012 (MinorLeagueBall.com).<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, a republishing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ufpQabmX1XLTN9ShcgBDOLeOnfoIQLfXlk01qelJZbA\/edit?usp=sharing\">Nats Prospect Ranks<\/a> going back in time.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve greatly updated this spreadsheet from the earlier publishing of it this off-season, now having 79 separate rankings of Nats prospects going back all the way to January 2005.\u00a0\u00a0 178 different Nationals Prospects appear on the list, spanning from current #1 <strong>Lucas Giolito<\/strong> to the first #1 listed (believe it or not, <strong>Mike Hinckley<\/strong> in BA&#8217;s January 2005 list).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a separate tab in the XLS tracking the major pundits: Baseball America (<strong>J.J. Cooper, Aaron Fitt, John Manuel<\/strong> now, formerly <strong>Jim Callis<\/strong>), Baseball Prospectus (<strong>Chris Mellon, Jason Parks<\/strong> now and <strong>Kevin Goldstein<\/strong> for years), MLB (<strong>Jim Callis<\/strong> and <strong>Jonathan Mayo<\/strong>), MinorLeagueBall.com (primarily <strong>Jon Sickels<\/strong>), Fangraphs (<strong>Marc Hulet, Kiley McDaniel<\/strong>), ESPN (<strong>Keith Law<\/strong>) and Prospect Digest (<strong>Joseph Werner<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>As always, if you can think of pundits who i&#8217;m missing, i&#8217;m always up for more information.\u00a0 Or if i&#8217;m missing links, let me know.\u00a0 Both these links are also available directly from the &#8220;Links&#8221; section on the right hand side of this blog in the &#8220;Nats Arm Race Creations&#8221; section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;re into the 2015 season, we are officially through the &#8220;prospect ranking&#8221; season.\u00a0 I have updated two important prospect tracking spreadsheets that I maintain with a host of links and updated information. 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