2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

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2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

November 06, 2019, 10:50:52 AM

I have finished this years team write ups and league rankings and will begin posting them next Monday. There will be polls like last year accompanying each list and I'm hoping to get as many of you as possible to complete the polls so we can again have a league consensus team rankings to go along with the Prospect Central rankings that go along with the articles.

I look forward to the discussions! Let's have some fun with this.

Re: 2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

Reply #1 – November 08, 2019, 08:56:45 PM

Looking forward to it. Great timing to do it now during this dead-time until we start up the auctions.

Re: 2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

Reply #2 – December 12, 2019, 11:01:13 AM

The votes have been tallied. Following is the Consensus Rankings (based on voting) and the Prospect Central Rankings (my personal list).

Thank you to all who participated.

League Consensus Rankings    Prospect Central Rankings
1. Bako Bums 1. Bako Bums
2. Ankeny ACL's 2. Ankeny ACL’s
3. River City Cutthroats    3. Arizona Koi
4. Arizona Koi 4. River City Cutthroats
5. Lakeview Rougarou    5. Windy City Rattlers
6. Motor City Madman    6. Data City Cache Hogs
7. Data City Cache Hogs    7. Motor City Madmen
8. Windy City Rattlers    8. Lakeview Rougarou
9. Phoenix Miners    9. Phoenix Miners
10. Ann Arbor Landlubbers 10. Chicago Rum Runners
11. Chicago Rum Runners 11. Ann Arbor Landlubbers
12. Grants Pass Brewers    12. Grants Pass Brewers
13. Mother Lode Argonauts    13. Mother Lode Argonauts
14. Walla Walla Sweets 14. Roxbury Robots
15. Roxbury Robots 15. Scurvy Dogs
16. Scurvy Dogs    16. Walla Walla Sweets
17. Brooklyn Kraken    17. Brooklyn Kraken
18. Seattle Rainiers    18. Moonstruck Blues
19. Moonstruck Blues 19. Seattle Rainiers
20. Orange County Devils 20. Orange County Devils

Re: 2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

Reply #3 – December 12, 2019, 11:01:56 AM

So, what do you think?

Re: 2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

Reply #4 – December 12, 2019, 01:26:44 PM

Well, I strongly disagree about that #1 ranking.

Actually, I think it matches pretty well, although it is funny in seeing that group from 5 to 8 being completely flipped between your rankings and the groups.

Re: 2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

Reply #5 – December 12, 2019, 03:15:27 PM

Our two systems are so closely matched. High end talent at the top and loads of depth following it up. Come five years it could literally go either way as to which of us has the better return on our present rankings. I have more positional talent, while you have more high end pitching talent. And SP being the Golden Ticket, if Soroka maintains his rookie production, Kopech/Honeywell can regain anything close to their pre-injury level, May becomes Gingergaard, and Garcia, Gray, Balazovic, Richardson take it another notch, your ACL's could be set for the next decade in the rotation. I do like my high ceiling positional depth though. I'm hopeful of fielding a full homegrown infield of Alonso at 1B, B. Lowe/Madrigal at 2B, Rodgers/Lewis/Witt/Mateo at SS/3B.

Overall though, I'm envious of your teams position. Winning now with a strong major league team (that looks to be one of the class teams next season too), and fielding a top level farm system. Best of both worlds. That's where I want my Bums to be.

Re: 2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

Reply #6 – December 12, 2019, 03:37:08 PM

Great job, Brendt! I don’t much like being nearly last, but I suppose I deserve being down there. A combination of trading away some very good pieces, and a lack of study time over the last couple years when the minor-league draft comes up on the calendar.

Re: 2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

Reply #7 – December 12, 2019, 03:50:07 PM

I used a mathematical formula based on the average of the prospect's rank on the spreadsheet we received. I came up with the following rankings along with each team's "score" per my formula. Please note that there may some differences in how I ranked teams originally as I tweaked the formula after the original posts.

League Consensus Rankings    Prospect Central Rankings Kraken Rankings
1. Bako Bums 1. Bako Bums    1. Bako Bums (148.72)
2. Ankeny ACL's 2. Ankeny ACL’s    2. Data City Cache Hogs (123.55)
3. River City Cutthroats    3. Arizona Koi 3. Arizona Koi (118.29)
4. Arizona Koi 4. River City Cutthroats    4. Ankeny ACL's (110.30)
5. Lakeview Rougarou    5. Windy City Rattlers    5. River City Cutthroats (95.29)
6. Motor City Madman    6. Data City Cache Hogs    6. Mother Lode Argonauts (91.45)
7. Data City Cache Hogs    7. Motor City Madmen    7. Lakeview Rougharou (89.29)
8. Windy City Rattlers    8. Lakeview Rougarou    8. Phoenix Miners (85.62)
9. Phoenix Miners    9. Phoenix Miners    9. Windy City Rattlers (82.49)
10. Ann Arbor Landlubbers 10. Chicago Rum Runners 10. Ann Arbor Landlubbers (80.96)
11. Chicago Rum Runners 11. Ann Arbor Landlubbers 11. Motor City Madmen (75.62)
12. Grants Pass Brewers    12. Grants Pass Brewers 12. Brooklyn Kraken (69.44)
13. Mother Lode Argonauts    13. Mother Lode Argonauts    13. Grants Pass Brewers (64.50)
14. Walla Walla Sweets 14. Roxbury Robots    14. Roxbury Robots (61.21)
15. Roxbury Robots 15. Scurvy Dogs 15. Walla Walla Sweets (60.94)
16. Scurvy Dogs    16. Walla Walla Sweets    16. Scurvy Dogs (59.87)
17. Brooklyn Kraken    17. Brooklyn Kraken    17. Chicago Rum Runners (49.98)
18. Seattle Rainiers    18. Moonstruck Blues 18. Moonstruck Blues (33.87)
19. Moonstruck Blues 19. Seattle Rainiers    19. Seattle Raniers (20.24)
20. Orange County Devils 20. Orange County Devils 20. Orange County Devils (11.38)

The biggest "winners" using my system were the Hogs and Argonauts with the higher quantity of mid-ranked prospects. The biggest dropper in my ranking was the Rum Runners with their hopes seeming to rest nearly entirely on a couple high ranked prospects being offset with a higher quantity of unranked prospects.

Re: 2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

Reply #8 – December 13, 2019, 10:41:59 AM

That is really cool Dan. Thanks. A more purely analytic look at the prospects. Very interesting. I liken it to the more analytic rankings FanGraphs does with The Board rankings they keep updated.

Your Kraken rose quite a bit as well.

Re: 2019 MSB Farm System Rankings

Reply #9 – December 13, 2019, 12:19:28 PM

Awesome job Brendt! And thanks for the bump Dan!