Rankings galore

Both espn.com's Keith Law and Baseball Prospectus released their rankings today of the game's top 100 prospects, and the Rays are well represented.
Law has 3B Evan Longoria as the No. 1 overall prospect and - more surprisingly - has OF Desmond Jennings, who played last season at Class A Columbus, ranked 11th overall.
He had more Rays, nine, than players from any other team.
The other Rays on Law's list:
15. RHP Wade Davis
16. LHP David Price
26. LHP Jake McGee
49. SS Reid Brignac
72. Fernando Perez
75. RHP Jeremy Hellickson
78. C John Jaso

Law's criteria, as he explained it:
Players who have lost their rookie eligibility are not eligible for this list, nor are players coming over from either of the major Japanese leagues; while they're rookies for the purpose of the Rookie of the Year awards, they're not "prospects" in any sense of the term. I consider a number of factors when ranking prospects, including ceiling, probability, expected time to reach the majors and expected time to become contributors in the majors, but I do not consider factors like whether the player has a place to play in his current organization, or whether his big league club's home park is friendly or unfriendly for him, although I may mention such things in the comments. Unlike last year's list, I've expanded the scope to include players with little or no pro experience.

The Baseball Prospectus list, by Kevin Goldstein, includes six Rays, led by Longoria, who was third overall, behind Reds OF Jay Bruce and Red Sox RHP Clay Buchholz.
The other Rays on his list:
6. LHP David Price
15. RHP Wade Davis
18. OF Desmond Jennings
25. SS Reid Brignac
40. LHP Jake McGee

Comments

[ryan callahan]

yeah i was thinking about if upton could shift over as well. but, as a life-long infielder, that may mess him up. i think that if jennings could move over that would be the best way to go. but who knows, upton could be an even better right fielder.

[Ryan S]

Man, these are some great problems to have with all this talent and nowhere to put them! I like to see Jennings so high, maybe Upton can shift over to RF next year so Jennings can man CF.

[Julian]

Wouldn't mind Longoria starting the year in AAA and then coming up a month in. Look at the difference between the seasons that Alex Gordon and Ryan Braun had last year.

[ryan callahan]

hopefully our prospects finnaly pay off. we should have a great team by 2010, and hopefully we make the playoffs by then.

[steve]

gee all the Rays have to do is win... no biggy right?

[J]

The depth and breath of the developemental system is extrememly impressive. It is imperative the Rays do not clog up the route to the majors for these guys with overpaid old fart types. Keeping players in the minors too long is just as bad as bringing them up too soon. Longoria needs to be broken in asap. For him to begin this season in the minors whould be a major error in judgement. Watch out for Neimann...he just may explode on the scene this spring.

[patrick]

...the number and names have been fairly consistent -- until this listing. Evan #1 -- OK, bring on
MR. Bruce who has been the headine hog of the off season. We are leading the prospect lists, and will be slinging rocks toward the Goliaths here shortly. Pun intended...

[patrick]

...the number and names have been fairly consistent -- until this listing. Evan #1 -- OK, bring on
MR. Bruce who has been the headine hog of the off season. We are leading the prospect lists, and will be slinging rocks toward the Goliaths here shortly. Pun intended...