Regarding Sickels and BA, it is hard for Sickels to compete with them since he’s just one person but the reason I listen to John is that he uses his own opinions and not those of the teams scouts. BA gets a lot of input from baseball scouts and who knows what their agenda’s are when they tell BA their opinions. Sickels was one of the first prospect analyst to look at the numbers and not just the tools. I’d much rather hear from someone who is not associated with the Dodgers, but is a real scout who understand sabremetrics and has seen all of players on multiple days. That person does not exist so we work with what we have.