Felonius_Monk says:

How does Josh Vitters keep showing up in the top 50 of these lists (or even the top 100)? Seriously???

zuke354 says:

Agree on Wallace. Now that its obvious he is not a thirdbase man, his stick doesn’t carry as much. He is more shawn casey mold…which is still really good.

Gruntosaurus says:

In general I think highly of BP and Kevin Goldstein, but they do have their biases, notably that nothing good can come out of the NL Central. One would expect, all else equal, that there would be more guys from this division on this list than from any other, between the fact that it’s the largest division in baseball, and the comparatively high draft slots that the Central teams have had recently (let’s face it, the Central teams generally haven’t been very good). Instead, Central teams have the fewest representatives on this list, tied with the NL West, which has fewer teams. For that matter, the NL as a whole has fewer in the top 101 (44 vs. 57), despite the same things about number of teams, draft slots, etc., holding true for the league as a whole.

Kevin works hard at trying to understand what’s happening in ALL the farm systems — which I cannot say for every net.analyst, even some at BP — and calling ‘em as he sees ‘em. Nevertheless, I can’t help but wonder where Lynn and Garcia would be showing up if they were in, say, Seattle’s system, or Oakland’s or Boston’s.