Community Top 30 Prospects - Results

by Andrew on Dec 19, 2007 9:41 AM PST in News Comment 0 comments

After over a week with no new ballots, I'm declaring the community top 30 prospects voting closed. Thanks to the 15 people who voted, we got more than double the participation we got last year. Without further ado, the results:

Rank	Player	Points
1	Clayton Kershaw	447
2	Andy Laroche	435
3	James McDonald	403
4	Scott Elbert	396
5	Chin Lung Hu	394
6	Jonathan Meloan	389
7	Chris Withrow	330
8	Delwyn Young	311
9	Ivan DeJesus	299
10	Blake Dewitt	261
11	Josh Bell	245
12	Pedro Baez	240
13	Andrew Lambo	239
14	Bryan Morris	210
15	Justin Orenduff	140
16	Xavier Paul	135
17	James Adkins	132
18	Austin Gallagher	128
19	Kyle Smit	53
20	Ramon Troncoso	52
21	Michael Watt	50
22	Tim Sexton	49
23	Greg Miller	48
24	Steven Johnson	43
25	Preston Mattingly	37
26	Jamie Ortiz	37
27	Jamie Pedroza	34
28	Alfredo Silverio	31
29	Lucas May	24
30	Cory Wade	23

There were a few in the voting. Clayton Kershaw was almost the consensus number one, grabbing 447 of a possible 450 points. LaRoche followed him at number two on all but two ballots.

After Kershaw and LaRoche, spots 3-6 were filled almost unanimously by James McDonald, Chin-Lung Hu, Jonathan Meloan, and Scott Elbert in some order. Following that, things had very little order to them. Bryan Morris at 14 seems to represent the "guys with high ceilings" cutoff, after which it just goes into guys who didn't make it in to the top half of anyone's ballot.

These were the prospects who also received votes.

Josh Wall	19
Eric Hull	16
Pedro Guerrero	15
Luis Ferraras	13
Dan Danielson	10
Garrett White	9
Justin Miller	8
Jesus Rodriguez	7
Kyle Orr	4
Bridger Hunt	3
Wilfredo Diaz	3
Carlos Santana	3
Javy Guerra	2
Kenley Jansen	1
Robert Booth	1
Cody White	1