The Official 2009 Boston Red Sox Thread

BigDogsHunt · Jan 27, 2010

see....someone else is giving Law the love....there you go:

Keith Law ranks the farm systems

http://bases.nbcsports.com/2010/01/keith-law-ranks-the-farm-systems.html.php

Wed Jan 27,2010 3:23 PM ET By Craig Calcaterra

After Jane Austen and Alton Brown's birthdays, today and tomorrow are the two biggest days in all of Keith Lawdom. Tomorrow it's his top 100 prospects. Today: ranking the farm systems. The features are for ESPN Insider members only, but in all honesty, these are two of the features that make getting an Insider subscription worthwhile. If you care a lick about player development, you'll be going back to them over and over.

Anyway, the systems: Texas leads the pack for the second year in a row. Frankly, seeing them so high again makes me feel a bit better, as I harbored a secret fear that last year's top ranking was totally attributable to Frank Wren overpaying for Mark Teixeira a couple of years ago.

Other notables: Boston is second, my Braves are fifth, with Law giving me happy feelings about a potential shutdown rotation come, oh, 2013 or so. The Cubs are seventh. The Royals are ninth, which pleasantly surprised me because I still remember a time when the Royals were considered the class organization in the American League, and though I don't root for them, I liked the world back then.

The Mets are at 15, which may be as close to the middle of the pack they get in any category this year. The Dodgers are at 19. The Yankees are at 25, but it's not like they depend on the farm system all that much. And heck, if they're unhappy with their rating maybe they can just buy Law himself and find themselves much higher next year. The Cardinals and White Sox come in at 29th and 30th, respectively.

As is always the case with these sorts of lists, the comments are more useful than the rankings themselves, so if you are able, I recommend giving the piece a read.
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GreenMonster · Jan 27, 2010

Keith Law rocks..

Ray Finkle · Jan 28, 2010

Keith Law ranked his Top 100 prospects today, here are his Red Sox rankings:

Casey Kelly #18
Ryan Westmoreland #32
Anthony Rizzo #53
Lars Anderson #56
Ryan Kalish #86
Jose Iglesias #91
Junichi Tazawa #98

As for his Top 10 rankings for the Sox the last 3 were:

Derrik Gibson SS/2B
Stolmy Pimentei RHP
Reymond Fuentes OF

By the way Law says the reason why he didn't put Reddick in the Top 10 is because of his bad plate approach and doesn't think he'd fair well in the MLB with it.

BigDogsHunt · Jan 28, 2010

GreenMonster said:

Keith Law rocks..
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showing you all the love....

'Tis the season. Last night MLB.com's Jonathan Mayo released his Top 50 prospect list. Today Keith Law doubles down and gives you his top 100. They agree that Jason Heyward and Stephen Strasburg are numbers one and two respectively, and they both have Buster Posey at four, but as you might imagine, they diverge from there.

Both Law and Mayo show their work here, providing a summary of the plusses and minuses, but Law's summaries are a bit more thorough. Both have links to video so you can see a lot of the guys he talks about in action.

If you're like me, you'll take these lists, memorize them, and then wildly, wildly overdraft these dudes for your fantasy league, convincing yourself and your mocking competitors that you're building for the future. I guess what I'm saying is that you should just buy the Rotoworld Guide and call it a day.
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Stay thirsty, my friends.

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