Baseball Prospectus unveils their top 100 prospects and shockingly the Dodgers have five players on the list. None are high, but what we lack in quality we make up for in quantity.

59 - Ethan Martin

64 - James McDonald

70 - Scott Elbert

77 - Andrew Lambo

95 - Ivan DeJesus Junior

I'll compare the list to BA and HQ when I get a moment.

Winter League Report.

Baseball America just came out with their top ten list. Two notable differences between them and the other pundits. They  pop Devaris Strange-Gordon into the seven spot which is quite remarkable for a 4th round pick. Maybe even more amazing was our number eleven pick Nathan Eovaldi taking the ten spot. You don't usually see players drafted the previous summer dominating the top 10 like this. A one/two pick is common but a 4th and 11th is very uncommon since neither were signability picks.  Either they are steals in the draft or the previous drafts have  so weakened our system that it was easy to sneak into the top ten. I prefer to think they were steals.

Quick breakdown by draft:

2008 - Ethan Martin, Josh Lindblom, Devaris Strange-Gordon, Nathan Eovaldi
2007 - Lambo, WIthrow
2006 - Nobody
2005 - DeJesus, Bell
2004 - Elbert
2002 - McDonald

For the complete table click on more. You will see the grading for all the major pundits, our true blue poll, my own top 20, and a bonus top 20 from the renowned  CanuckDodger.

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Winter workouts for the prospects have begun  again at Dodger Stadium. Dodger Assistant Vice President Number 6 DeJon Waston started these workouts at Dodger Stadium last year and Jon Weisman had the scoop on the what and why of these mini camps for the prospects.

To be invited means the Dodgers think you might be seeing the major leagues in the near future so let us take a look at the names.

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BHSPORTSGUY provided this great link to keep track of what is happening in the winter leagues.

Here was the vote for number one
Here was the vote for 2 - 4.
Here was the vote for number 5
Here was the vote for numbers 7 & 8
Here was thevote for Number 9
Here was the vote for number 10
Here was the vote for number 11
Here was the vote for number 12
Here was the vote for number 13 & 14

Baseball- Intellect put out their 6-15 list. 

True Blue Community Top Fourteen
1.James McDonald
2. Ivan DeJesus
3. Andrew Lambo
4. Scott Elbert
5. Ethan Martin
6. Josh Lindblom
7. Austin Gallagher
8. Josh Bell
9.Chris Withrow
10.Xavier Paul
11.Nathan Eovaldi
12. Jamie Pedroza
13. Tony Delmonico
14 Devaris Strange-Gordon

The final vote of the 15th prospect will be a write in. Below are some names you might want to consider. To many names for a poll.

Jesus Castillo (40 Man), Victor Garate (40 Man), Travis Schlichting(40 Man), Josh Wall, James Adkins, Jamie Hoffman (40 Man) , Steve Johnson , Geison Aguasviva , Pedro Baez , Kyle Russel , Chris Jacobs , Cole St. Clair , Jon-Michael Redding (D4P Fav)