This is a pretty good list. The Sox (Chris Sale #25) and Cubs (Brett Jackson #46) each have one player in the top 50. The Royals have the most players in the top 50 with 6. TB is next with 4.

http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/news/artic ... b&c_id=mlb

Watch out for #27 on that list, the Rays' Matt Moore. While I'm not exactly soaking in minor/fall-league baseball like a scout, I can tell you that a perfunctory glance at his stats makes you pull a Keanu Reeves and go "whoa" >>> http://www.baseball-reference.com/minor ... ore-001mat

btw, even though Kansas City tops the list with 6 prospects in that top 50, watch Dayton Moore find a way to screw it up. I'm also amazed that Brian Anderson didn't make the list =D

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I would like to see this Jackson kid make the Cubs and PLAY HIM.

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I'm surprised Dustin Ackley (#5) is so high on the list. The Mariners drafted him 2nd overall in '09 (behind Strasburg) and was considered one of the best hitters to ever come out of college. He was an outstanding centerfielder then had rotator cuff surgery and moved to 1st base. He doesn't fit the mold of a 1st baseman so the Mariners moved him to 2B where he has struggled mightily. He had a very unspectacular year in AA (.267/.368/.407) but absolutely destoyed the Arizona Fall League (.424/.581/.758) which is a notorious hitters league. He should be a very good pro but I'm not sure this adds up to a better prospect than Mike Moustakas, Julio Teheren or Kyle Drabek.

I'm interested to see if Bryce Harper can live up to the hype. If I remember correctly he had a pretty good idea of who he was back in highschool and junior/community/whatever college and he ended up getting his big ole signing bonus at the 11th hour... another highly touted Natinals (SIC) prospect who will be expected to produce produce produce alongside the big huge giant throbbing pulsating bat of Jayson Werth.

Hellickson is gonna be a thing. He came up during a pennant stretch-run and gave you ~3.40/1.10 with a 33/8 K/BB ratio in ~36 innings... he'll still be eligible for ROY this year, unlike Mat Latos, who would have ran away with the damn thing if he pitched one inning less in 2009. C'est la vie!

Also, I can't wait to see Domonic Brown out in Philly. Sure, the kid will have some holes in his swing... and sure the kid didn't exactly rewrite the minor league record books, but I remember some of his impressive displays in spring training 2010, and I think if he can settle into that lineup and hit .250 with power in that ballpark it could be a thing.... granted he technically is one of those guys with more projected power than actual power at this point.

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Trout is supposed to be phenomenal in every aspect of the game and he has improved each year. Jackson is still a year away for the Cubs it appears. I'm not sure he got any time at AAA last year at all. Reed Mantle will make the team over him and hold down his roster spot until he is ready for it. Prospects don't need to come up and platoon, they need AB's.

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The thing about Trout is like... what the fuck are the Angels doing? I mean, seriously, is Arte Moreno subsisting on a lead chip and paint thinner diet? They took on some sort of horrible money with Scott Kazmir, I fear they may be on the wrong side of Dan Haren's career trajectory (he's one of my guys but like, last year was ) and now they've gone and given Vernon Wells a new home.... for 4 years at 84 million.

Even though he's still consistent, Torii Hunter is getting $18mil/year for the next two years, there's the aforementioned Vernon Wells deal, and then you've got another ~24 year old OF named Peter Bourjos who is ideally a CF, as he was stealing ~50 bases in the minors a couple'a years ago and has been working on his power stroke over the last year or two (...and they're paying 10.9 million of Gary Matthews Jr's 12.4 million salary to be on the Mets next year.

and THEN you come to baseball's consensus #1 prospect Mike Trout. Are they trying to bury him with the Vernon Wells move? Your future looked like OK we'll ride Torii for all he's worth over the next two seasons and than transition to an OF featuring Bourjos and Trout... but now you've got Vernon Wells out there for $21mil/year and like, shit. Rios was 5/59 for the sox and didn't cost him anything... and don't the Angels need a closer? I mean HELLO MCFLY, THE JAYS TURNED AROUND AND TRADED NAPOLI STRAIGHT UP FOR FRANK FRANCISCO!!!! frankie was money as a closer before an injury in early 2009, and even though he got hit some and hurt again last year, he wasn't exactly bad in the role... not as bad as the end of the big money Brian Fuentes experience!

As an Expos fan who owns a bunch of Angels hats from the Vlad years (btw, I think i saw him standing at the Kimball exit of I-90/94 with a cardboard sign reading "Will hit for $2mil") and saying I liked their organization... I liked Scioscia ball and still having a warm place in my heart for the halos.... WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING?!! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU REAGINS?!

VLADIMIR ALVINO GUERRERO

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The Angels may be missing Bill Stoneman right about now. Wasn't he an old Expos guy before become the Angels GM?

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Trout is only 19 and hasn't played above A ball. By the time he's ready Hunter will be gone and Bourjous will have shown he can't hit. Trout will slide into center with Wells in left. The new GM will have to figure out the rest.

Isn't Bourjous a product of the chicagoland area?

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Stoneman was some sort of front office job, who if i'm not mistaken was GM for a little bit during the firesale years... Somewhere in the late 90s... 97? 98? 99? Yeah, he oversaw the Expos' late tradition of shipping out their ready-for-contract farmhands-made-good and bringing in the next row of shark teeth, a la VLADIMIR ALVINO GUERRERO circa late 97/early 98. Then like Keyser Soze... poof, he vanished into thin air.

I think Stoneman was in the front office for the Angels when they hired Scioscia... lemme check Wikipedia.... yeah it says he was the Angels GM and is now a consultant. Reagins took over in the 08 offseason and his first move was sending Orlando Cabrera to the White Sox. He then signed Torii Hunter! WOO! Excitement ensues!

Yeah, basically Tony Reagins has presided over what-looks-like the demise of the Angels here... I think Stoneman did the honorable japanese tradition of falling on the sword after he signed Gary Matthews Jr. in 2007, eh? =D

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