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DRaysBay Top Rays Prospects for 2020: Community Comparison

Here’s how the Community’s annual list differed from the Masthead for 2020.

By Daniel Russell
MLB: Spring Training-New York Yankees at Tampa Bay Rays
Josh Lowe
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This week DRaysBay concluded our Top-50 prospect coverage, which averaged the appraisal of five members of our masthead into a master list, with profiles provided by JT Morgan and myself. You can find those write-ups here:

Prior to that list’s debut, the Community here at DRaysBay voted throughout the offseason to determine our own Top-40, with individual player voting for the top thirty names, as managed annually by Scott Grauer. You can find the results of that list here:

One interesting exercise each offseason is to see where the Community and Masthead differed in our rankings for the Rays farm system. Below is a comparison of the two lists:

  • The Community and the Masthead were in alignment on which prospects encompassed the top 11 names, but there were significant placement differences for two top-names tied to injury concerns: CF Josh Lowe (No. 5 for Community vs. 11 for Masthead) and RHP Brent Honeywell Jr. (11 vs 7)
  • There was further consensus between the two lists for the top-16 names in the Rays farm system, and among the Top-25 the biggest variations are in the Top-40 Players more highly valued by the Masthead: RHP Peter Fairbanks (No. 22 vs 30) and RHP Seth Johnson (17 vs 24).
  • Top-40 Players more significantly valued by the Community are outside the Top-25: LHP Josh Fleming (No. 26 vs 37 ) and LHP Michael Plassmeyer (29 vs 36)
  • Players ranked in the Top-40 by the Community, but not by the Masthead: RHP Sandy Gaston (35), UTIL Brett Sullivan (37), RHP Joel Peguero (38), INF Ford Proctor (40)
  • Players ranked in the Top-40 by the Masthead, but not the Community: RHP/CF Tanner Dodson (No. 30 - Tommy John Surgery), INF Curtis Mead (33), RHP Caleb Sampen (39), INF Tyler Frank (40)
  • Outside the top three names, there was identical placement for the prospects ranked 10 (Hernandez), 12 (Jones), 13 (Ryan), 16 (Goss), 23 (Doxakis), and 32 (Strotman), in case you needed lotto numbers.

Here is the averaged results of the two top prospect lists:

  1. SS Wander Franco
  2. LHP/DH Brendan McKay
  3. IF Vidal Brujan
  4. RHP Shane Baz
  5. LHP Shane McClanahan
  6. IF Xavier Edwards
  7. IF/OF Yoshitomo Tsutsugo
  8. OF Josh Lowe
  9. OF Randy Arozarena
  10. RHP Brent Honeywell
  11. C Ronaldo Hernandez
  12. SS Greg Jones
  13. RHP Joe Ryan
  14. IF Taylor Walls
  15. 3B Kevin Padlo
  16. RHP JJ Goss
  17. OF Nick Schnell
  18. SS Lucius Fox
  19. LHP Anthony Banda
  20. RHP Seth Johnson
  21. OF Moises Gomez
  22. RHP Riley O’Brien
  23. LHP John Doxakis
  24. C Michael Perez
  25. RHP Taj Bradley
  26. RHP Peter Fairbanks
  27. OF Garrett Whitley
  28. SS Alejandro Pie
  29. OF Niko Hulsizer
  30. OF Jhon Diaz
  31. LHP Josh Fleming
  32. RHP Drew Strotman
  33. LHP Michael Plassmeyer
  34. LHP Resly Linares
  35. C Chris Betts
  36. RHP Tobias Myers
  37. RHP/CF Tanner Dodson
  38. RHP Joel Peguero
  39. IF Ford Proctor
  40. IF Curtis Mead
  41. RHP Sandy Gaston
  42. UTIL Brett Sullivan
  43. RHP Caleb Sampen
  44. IF Tyler Frank

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