Top Prospect Comparison

Saturday, December 06 2014 @ 08:35 PM EST

Contributed by: John Northey

Here is a comparison of top 10 Jay prospects from various sources.  If a player is gone and the list includes past the top 10 I'll add a note at the bottom to help understand.  The list will be updated as other top 10 lists appear. Feel free to link other top 10's and I'll try to add them.
Batter's Box Baseball America MLB.com Scouting Book Baseball Prospectus
1   Daniel Norris, lhp Daniel Norris, lhp Daniel Norris, lhp
#25 overall
 Aaron Sanchez, rhp
#19 overall
 Aaron Sanchez, rhp
2   Dalton Pompey, of Aaron Sanchez, rhp Aaron Sanchez, rhp
#35 overall
 Daniel Norris, lhp
#32 overall
 Daniel Norris, lhp
3   Aaron Sanchez, rhp Jeff Hoffman, rhp Dalton Pompey, of
#88 overall
 Dalton Pompey, of
#70 overall
 Dalton Pompey, cf
4   Jeff Hoffman, rhp Dalton Pompey, of Jeff Hoffman, rhp
#90 overall
 Devon Travis, 2b
#103 overall
 Jeff Hoffman, rhp
5   Roberto Osuna, rhp Max Pentecost, c Roberto Osuna, rhp Jeff Hoffman, rhp
#118 overall
 Max Pentecost, c
6   Max Pentecost, c Roberto Osuna, rhp Max Pentecost, c D.J. Davis, of
#164 overall
 Jairo Labourt, lhp
7   Miguel Castro, rhp Richard Urena, ss Mitch Nay, 3b Mitch Nay, 3b
#209 overall
 Miguel Castro, rhp
8   Mitch Nay, 3b Miguel Castro, rhp Devon Travis, 2b Max Pentecost, c
#229 overall
 Roberto Osuna, rhp
9   Matt Smoral, lhp Sean Reid-Foley, rhp D.J. Davis, of Roberto Osuna, rhp
#231 overall
 Sean Reid-Foley, rhp
10   Dwight Smith Jr, of -- Sean Reid-Foley, rhp Alberto Tirado, rhp
#240 overall
 Alberto Tirado, rhp


Others to come... John Sickels, many others.

I did this in 2012 and then Travis d'Arnaud was #1 across the board.  Marcus Stroman (probably the best of the batch) was between 5th and 9th on the lists.  Noah Syndergaard was either #2 or #3 in all cases as was Aaron Sanchez.

So far this year Daniel Norris is #1 or #2 on all lists, Aaron Sanchez #1 in all other cases but #3 here at Batter's Box. Dalton Pompey #2-4.  Others on all lists are Jeff Hoffman, Roberto Osuna, and Max Pentecost.  So 6 of 10 are on all (so far).  No one was on 4 of 5, but on 3 lists we see Sean Reid-Foley, Mitch Nay, and Miguel Castro.  Devon Travis is only on 2 but probably belongs on more.  DJ Davis also is on 2 as is Alberto Tirado.  Single guys are Dwight Smith Jr, Jairo Labourt, Matt Smoral, and Richard Urena.

Invalid choices due to players being traded: Batter's Box had Barreto at #4 and Graveman at #8 (thus promoting Smoral and Smith Jr to top 10 although I suspect Travis would be higher than those 2 on a current list).  Baseball America had Barreto at #5 - we'll be able to add Travis to the list later once they have their top 100 list out (hopefully - this assumes he makes the top 100 thus making it easy to guess where he belongs in the BA Jays top 10). 

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