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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2009 -> 12:12 AM)
I did that a while back with the top 10's, it was my impression that roughly 1/2 of the top 10 prospects wound up busting.

 

If we were to look back around the time of 1999/00/01, look at the Sox prospects who have made the biggest impact (not counting Garland, who wasn't incubated in our system).

 

Buehrle

Josh Fogg

 

Those were two of the lowest rated in our Top 10 list around that time...and then you have Rowand, who many thought might turn out to be more like Aaron Cunningham/Jeremy Reed in terms of a big league career as a 4th OF. You could even argue that Biddle and Majewski were fringe prospects who made a bigger impact than most our top-rated guys.

 

But look at all the busts.

 

Kip Wells, with the Sox...and for most of his MLB career

Danny Wright

Aaron Myette

Jon Rauch

Lorenzo Barcelo

Jason Stumm

Brian West

Corwin Malone

Joe Borchard

Matt Guerrier (well, it's a stretch to refer to him as a "top" prospect)

Matt Ginter

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 23, 2009 -> 09:09 AM)
If we were to look back around the time of 1999/00/01, look at the Sox prospects who have made the biggest impact (not counting Garland, who wasn't incubated in our system).

 

Buehrle

Josh Fogg

 

Those were two of the lowest rated in our Top 10 list around that time...and then you have Rowand, who many thought might turn out to be more like Aaron Cunningham/Jeremy Reed in terms of a big league career as a 4th OF. You could even argue that Biddle and Majewski were fringe prospects who made a bigger impact than most our top-rated guys.

 

But look at all the busts.

 

Kip Wells, with the Sox...and for most of his MLB career

Danny Wright

Aaron Myette

Jon Rauch

Lorenzo Barcelo

Jason Stumm

Brian West

Corwin Malone

Joe Borchard

Matt Guerrier (well, it's a stretch to refer to him as a "top" prospect)

Matt Ginter

Rauch is a pretty good reliever now, but yeah, that's a rough list..

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QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Jan 22, 2009 -> 10:17 PM)

 

Never knew Jon VanBenschoten and Jayson Nix were so highly regarded at one point.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 23, 2009 -> 02:09 AM)
If we were to look back around the time of 1999/00/01, look at the Sox prospects who have made the biggest impact (not counting Garland, who wasn't incubated in our system).

 

Buehrle

Josh Fogg

 

Those were two of the lowest rated in our Top 10 list around that time...and then you have Rowand, who many thought might turn out to be more like Aaron Cunningham/Jeremy Reed in terms of a big league career as a 4th OF. You could even argue that Biddle and Majewski were fringe prospects who made a bigger impact than most our top-rated guys.

 

But look at all the busts.

 

Kip Wells, with the Sox...and for most of his MLB career

Danny Wright

Aaron Myette

Jon Rauch

Lorenzo Barcelo

Jason Stumm

Brian West

Corwin Malone

Joe Borchard

Matt Guerrier (well, it's a stretch to refer to him as a "top" prospect)

Matt Ginter

 

I remember being so giddy about all the 'impact' prospects we seemed to have at the time. I was a HUGE fan of Danny Wright, Lorenzo Barcelo and Corwin Malone.

 

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QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 24, 2009 -> 10:22 AM)
I remember being so giddy about all the 'impact' prospects we seemed to have at the time. I was a HUGE fan of Danny Wright, Lorenzo Barcelo and Corwin Malone.

 

Wright and Barcelo were both victims of major shoulder surgeries that really killed what could have been good careers.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 23, 2009 -> 02:09 AM)
and then you have Rowand, who many thought might turn out to be more like Aaron Cunningham/Jeremy Reed in terms of a big league career as a 4th OF.

 

I wouldn't be so quick to label Cunningham as a 4th OF type.

 

He's only 22 and absolutely destroyed minor league pitching the last two years.

 

Given Oakland's glut in the outfield maybe KW can find a way to get him back.

 

I'd be pretty happy to stick him in left in 2010... after Dye leaves and Q moves to right.

 

 

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QUOTE (scenario @ Jan 24, 2009 -> 08:10 PM)
I wouldn't be so quick to label Cunningham as a 4th OF type.

 

He's only 22 and absolutely destroyed minor league pitching the last two years.

 

Given Oakland's glut in the outfield maybe KW can find a way to get him back.

 

I'd be pretty happy to stick him in left in 2010... after Dye leaves and Q moves to right.

 

He's their 3rd best prospect next to Trevor Cahill and Brett Anderson and their top hitting prospect. He likely wouldn't come very cheap.

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QUOTE (jenks45monster @ Jan 25, 2009 -> 04:03 PM)
He's their 3rd best prospect next to Trevor Cahill and Brett Anderson and their top hitting prospect. He likely wouldn't come very cheap.

 

Not sure what it would take, but I'd like to have him back.

 

 

I find it interesting that former WhiteSox draftees fill three of the top ten spots in the Oakland's farm system this year.

 

 

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QUOTE (scenario @ Jan 25, 2009 -> 04:33 PM)
Not sure what it would take, but I'd like to have him back.

 

 

I find it interesting that former WhiteSox draftees fill three of the top ten spots in the Oakland's farm system this year.

Sickel's rankings are a bit different, but he still has three of draftees in his top 10.

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