The major league season is over, free agency is about to begin, and prospect rankings have already arrived at both Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus. I have started my own writing, but I am not as proactive as either of those sites (nor do I have a book that I have to make a deadline on). That said, I thought it might be interesting to try a new experiment or exercise while we work our way through the offseason.
Assuming Jim Peyton does it again this year, Phuture Phillies will do their annual ranking poll that starts at prospect #1 and then a community vote until things get to silly or the year begins. When I started ranking prospects, this approach was often how it started, who is #1 then who is #2 and so on, followed then by a bunch of tuning. As I have drifted away from the true order of rankings mattering too much I have sort of taken a different approach that involves starting with more of a rough bucketing that helps me compare like to like and start to actually deal with things I value more than others. In this case I want to start with having others walk through the first three steps of the rankings; ranking by position, ranking within a team, and then reconciling those two lists before then smoothing things out.
So we will see if this works, with the following being some ranked choice for different positions and then we will do some by level later in the week and then go from there. You can vote below or at this link – https://forms.gle/iJrS5Mr7DApbMGzL7