After consulting ten different highly respected sources on this topic, I have compiled their votes into a master top 10 list of Cub prospects. I used the voting system similar to what baseball uses for the awards. A first place vote received 10 points and went down the line with a 10th place vote receiving 1 point. With that being said, here are the participants:
- Top Prospect Alert - (View Site)
- John Sickels - (View Site)
- Baseball America - (View Site)
- Baseball Prospectus - (View Site)
- Baseball HQ - (View Site)
- Project Prospect - (View Site)
- Jonathan Mayo - (View Site)
- Bleed Cubbie Blue - (View Site)
- The Cub Reporter - (View Site)
- Road to Wrigley - (View Site)
A big thanks goes out to all of the participants for taking the time to either post their top 10 lists on their sites or e-mailing them to me directly. With that, here are your top 10 prospects in the system, with first place votes in parenthesis.
- Geovany Soto (4) - 86 points
- Josh Vitters (4) - 84 points
- Tyler Colvin (1) - 74 points
- Sean Gallagher - 70 points
- Josh Donaldson (1) - 46 points
- Donald Veal - 39 points
- Jose Ceda - 37 points
- Eric Patterson - 36 points
- Jeff Samardzija - 35 points
- Tony Thomas - 17 points
Others receiving votes
Sam Fuld - 9, Kevin Hart - 6, Mark Holliman - 4, Jake Fox - 2, Kyler Burke - 2, Wellington Castillo - 2, Jose Ascaino - 1.
February 1st, 2008 at 11:39 am
Great series Joe! Thanks for all your hard work.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Joe, just linked this at Road to Wrigley. I agree with Jacki, this has been fun to follow.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:41 pm
While I try to maintain an air of ungracious and non-grateful aloofness whenever possible, I too commend you on your hard work.
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:05 am
Excellent stuff Joe.
Thank you!!!