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The Dube Abides
- Mar 14, 2005
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I think there's a huge tendency by scouting publications to over-hype Yankee prospects (if scouting projections came to fruition, Phil Hughes should have about 5 CY awards by now, Joba Chamberlain should be a perennial all-star and Jesus Montero should have made Buster Posey look like Josh Thole), but I haven't personally observed the same pattern with Bosox prospects.
The yanks prospects definitely used to get overhyped, but that pendulum has swung almost in the complete opposite direction now.
It's the red sox turn now.
Recent top-100 prospects: Blake Swihart, Rusney Castillo, Henry Owens, Eduardo Rodriguez, Brian Johnson, Garin Cecchini, Allen Webster, Trey Ball, Matt Barnes, Will Middlebrooks, Jose Iglesias, Anthony Ranaudo, Drake Britton, Ryan Westmoreland, Casey Kelly, Lars Anderson, Michael Bowden.
And most of those guys were top-50. And that's just from the last 5-6 years or so.
And the annoying thing is that virtually none of these guys actually had the performance to back up these kind of rankings, and most of them didn't even have impressive raw tools to justify an upside projection.