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Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
Baseball America On Top 10 Dodger Prospects
Is the Dodgers' farm system jinxed? I begin to wonder. Take a look at Baseball Prospectus' top ten Dodger prospects list. What's wrong with this picture?
- Joel Guzman, ss
- Chad Billingsley, rhp
- Edwin Jackson, rhp
- James Loney, 1b
- Andy LaRoche, 3b
- Russell Martin, c
- Greg Miller, lhp
- Blake DeWitt, 3b
- Jonathan Broxton, rhp
- Chuck Tiffany, lhp
- Paul DePodesta has traded away a good deal of the upper-level talent (e.g., Franklin Gutierrez and former Braves farmhand Andrew Brown, in the trade that brought Milton Bradley to Los Angeles, and Koyie Hill in the trade bringing Dodger temp Steve Finley to town).
- Injuries (Edwin Jackson, to some degree, as well as James Loney, though not in this list so much) and weak performances at higher levels (Edwin Jackson again, and arguably Joel Hanrahan, among others) have tarnished the former high status of some players.
- Update: of course, as Jon observes, another mitigating factor is youth, alluded to above.
Comments:
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/features/04top10s/yankees.html
I wonder if Navarro was named top 5th with the Yankees...
I wonder if Navarro was named top 5th with the Yankees...
The Yanks' farm system is in pretty serious disrepair, though it is improving. In John Manuel's chat, he was actually talking up the Yanks' farm a bit, praising their 2004 draft and noting Robinson Cano could be a starting second baseman in the Bronx as early as next year. So they're not in the dire straights they were even as of 2003.
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