Without further ado, your Purple Row Top 30 Colorado Rockies Prospects:
- Troy Tulowitzki 477
- Chris Iannetta 445
- Franklin Morales 437
- Ian Stewart 420
- Jason Hirsh 402
- Dexter Fowler 397
- Ubaldo Jimenez 396
- Joe Koshansky 360
- Greg Reynolds 344
- Jeff Baker 317
- Juan Morillo 316
- Seth Smith 308
- Jonathan Herrera 267
- Samuel Deduno 221
- Eric Young Jr 220
- Chaz Roe 217
- Hector Gomez 203
- Shane Lindsay 194
- Oscar Rivera 179
- Chris Nelson 173
- Corey Wimberly 161
- Josh Sullivan 150
- Brandon Hynick 104
- Ching Lung Lo 67
- Joe Gaetti 67
- Jeff Salazar 62
- Andrew Johnston 62
- Matthew Miller 60
- Pedro Strop 55
- Aneury Rodriguez 53
31. Cole Garner 52
I'll give some general thoughts and impressions and then later in the comments I'll list the others that received votes.
I'm pretty satisfied with the results of this poll as far as the top 30 goes. It has some balance between projection and performance, with all of the inclusions at least having a decent shot of making the majors if they haven't already done so. I am curious why Daniel Mayora continues to be left off of so many people's lists. He finished as the #34 prospect here, but he's the only Rockies prospect that BA had in a league top 20 (NWL #15) to be excluded from our list. To compare, two prospects we did include, right handers Pedro Strop and Brandon Hynick, were rated the 17th and 19th best prospects respectively in the Pioneer League -a lower classification- and our #30, Aneury Rodriguez, missed the cut in the NWL top 20 while Mayora made it. Anyway, I've got some errands to run, but I'll be back later with the rest of the also-rans.