Baseball America's Top 10 Rockies Prospects

Seth Smith makes it at #8, but didn't make our list since we include service time in determining prospect status. Esmil Rogers is a surprise.

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The projected 2012 lineup is interesting.

Especially with Hawpe at 1st.

by pedalpusher on Jan 26, 2009 10:23 AM MST reply actions

Ouch for Greg Reynolds,

but I easily forget about the projection in a day or two.

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by Russ Oates on Jan 26, 2009 10:30 AM MST up reply actions

BA's Top 10s compiled (Rockies)

Some of you may or may not have seen this posted on the Sickels blog.

I’ve put together a few pages reflecting BA Top 10’s. The pages show the past few seasons for side-by-side comparisons. The pages are formatted by division which allows you to read multiple teams on one page instead of going back and forth.

I’ll have a picture or two of Rockie prospects from the ’08 Futures game posted soon.

by Hardball Warriors on Jan 26, 2009 4:10 PM MST up reply actions

fowler

who actually thinks fowler is going to start in CF for the rocks this year, other than this article ? chris nelson… no BA love.

by giantdonkey on Jan 26, 2009 10:53 AM MST reply actions

Chris Nelson

I know his inconsistency has been maddening, but no way you can leave a potential impact bat, that plays up the middle, out of the top 10. I hope to get a clarification on leaving him off.

by cofan17 on Jan 26, 2009 11:23 AM MST up reply actions

well...

it isn’t just BA—just about everyone else has left him out of their top 10 as well. I’ve never seen the guy, but based on performance, I have to agree with them.

by DenverBears on Jan 26, 2009 5:09 PM MST up reply actions

The bat speed is very real

He can turn on anything. That said, he looks to me like he either has too much trust in his bat speed to catch up to pitches, or a faulty trigger that keeps him from perfecting his timing.

His second half in Tulsa was a waste. He threw away AB’s all game long if he didn’t start well.

I have hope that he can recover and play second in the pros, but I can’t imagine that his defensive faults won’t follow him. Nelson has poor footwork, good not great hands, and an inaccurate arm. He’s athletic but not overly fluid and smooth. Maybe he can be Rickie Weeks in the pros, which I’d be fine with, and Weeks finally used his athleticism to creat positive results in the field, but Nelson has to hit over some period of time past High A. I don’t think the Springs is the best medicine either. Nelson needs to prove he can hit at Double A.

His BA rating of 13 is appropriate.

by David OhNo on Jan 26, 2009 9:32 PM MST up reply actions

I don't think he starts this year

Nor do I really think he should. He looked sorta overmatched last September. If the Rox are out of it by the All Star break, I think he becomes the everyday CF by midseason. Or if Smith/CarGo falter in left, and the Rox are still in it, maybe they move Spilly over to left and give Fowler a shot. Otherwise, I don’t see him taking over until 2010.

Unless he has a badass spring against real ML pitching and not simply “B” games, then all bets are off. I’d love to see him break camp as a ML starter caliber, but I think that’s overly optimistic right now.

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by Mondogarage on Jan 27, 2009 11:24 AM MST up reply actions

If the Rox are out of it by the All Star break

there will be a different manager in the dugout.

by pedalpusher on Jan 27, 2009 3:02 PM MST up reply actions

and it had better be Jim Tracy

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 27, 2009 3:09 PM MST up reply actions

Agree

Do you think Clint will be looking over his shoulder early on?

by pedalpusher on Jan 27, 2009 3:29 PM MST up reply actions

I hope so

He could use some help from Tracy and perhaps even Baylor.

by Andrew T. Fisher on Jan 27, 2009 7:17 PM MST up reply actions

Baylor

I want Don Baylor to JUST be the hitting coach, and not have taking the reins again as a thought even for a second. I want him to just focus on getting young hitters to take a pitch or two more.

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 29, 2009 10:38 AM MST up reply actions

Mistake

Nix isn’t with the Rockies any more. They need to update the top draft picks to fix that.

by mkorpal on Jan 26, 2009 11:03 AM MST reply actions

Looks like they’ve fixed it.

by Tom (RFTN) on Jan 26, 2009 11:57 AM MST up reply actions

RF Tyler Massey

That’s quite a pick.

Charlie Blackmon?
CarGo?
Scott Robinson?
Delta Cleary?

by roxhead on Jan 26, 2009 11:27 AM MST reply actions

not sure cargo qualifies anymore

by giantdonkey on Jan 26, 2009 12:08 PM MST up reply actions

not to be rude

but they must have been slipped something to make that pick. 2012 means he will bypass like 2 levels. My bet is he is back at Casper this year, let alone that he had off-season surgery to recover from.

by Fungoz on Jan 26, 2009 2:24 PM MST up reply actions

Is Ringolsby the one who comes up

with the 2012 lineup, too?

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by Russ Oates on Jan 26, 2009 2:29 PM MST up reply actions

Chacin

What was their general take on Chacin?

Still can’t believe that Law ranked him 74th last week… should be 25-50.

by rdf8585 on Jan 26, 2009 11:30 AM MST reply actions

Most national writers

are undervaluing Chacin. MILB didn’t put him on their top 50 prospects either. I read that the writer that did MILB’s list snubbed him only because of a lack of experiance. If he puts up another year close to last year, he will be a top 10 baseball. So, give it a chance.

by mkorpal on Jan 26, 2009 1:32 PM MST up reply actions

All the better

If he’s not well known, maybe he won’t ever be mentioned in trades, etc.

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 26, 2009 2:30 PM MST up reply actions

And Aneury Rodriguez, for that matter

Even moreso than Chacin, who at least is on the radar of most national writers. The guy just had a solid year in the Cal League at age 20; not as good as Chacin, to be sure (who’s the same age), but roughly as good as Rogers, who’s two years older and is #7 on BA’s Top 10. Unless the scouts are seeing something that REALLY isn’t showing up in the stats, I don’t see why nobody is high on him.

by Tom (RFTN) on Jan 26, 2009 2:47 PM MST up reply actions

Might just be the fact that he was the hot thing in the Rockies system a couple of years ago

People thought he had a higher upside than both Baldo and Morales. We’ll have to see.

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by Andrew Martin on Jan 26, 2009 3:26 PM MST up reply actions

Flip flop Rogers with Graham

and I think you have a good list. I think Rogers’ arb clock is ticking too fast for him to be rated higher than Graham and Rodriguez, when you consider that his development will likely be compromised by it. Besides, Graham has much better arm strength and looked pretty in minor league translation systems.

by David OhNo on Jan 26, 2009 9:37 PM MST reply actions

Good to hear

that Graham looked pretty…

by Andrew T. Fisher on Jan 26, 2009 10:03 PM MST up reply actions

I agree...

I’ve been a huge Rogers fan since I first saw him, but I think he’s sort of like JDLR in that due to MLB’s contract rules he’ll become a waiver wire hot potato among non-contenders until he finally reaches his potential and it’s likely not to be with the Rockies. I’d rather that spot be used for a pitcher with a more certain chance of contributing to our major league club like Graham.

by Rox Girl on Jan 27, 2009 6:59 AM MST up reply actions