Tuesday, February 24, 2009

5 Rays On Baseball America's Top 100 Prospects

Tampa Bay RaysBaseball America's 20th annual Top 100 Prospects list is out and 5 Rays are named. How they compile the list:
This year we had six people who contributed to the voting that determines the list: editors in chief Will Lingo and John Manuel and executive editor Jim Callis, who have helped shape these lists for years; as well as Ben Badler, Kary Booher and Matt Eddy, who contribute significantly to our prospect coverage both in print and on the Web. Each person voted on a personal top 150 list, and after those results were tabulated, the six voters got together to go over the raw numbers and make adjustments before settling on a final list.
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Voters put together their ballots after talking with general managers, scouting directors, farm directors, scouts, managers, coaches and other people in the game, as well as many discussions with each other. As always, our view is not to what a player may contribute this season, but what his ultimate major league ceiling might be, weighed against the probability that he will reach that ceiling.

Rays:
2. David Price
28. Tim Beckham
32. Wade Davis
78. Reid Brignac
80. Desmond Jennings

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