Staff Blog
Meet the Phillies’ New #1 Prospect
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| Dominic Brown is the new Harvard |
| via the flikr account of NJ Baseball |
Baseball America’s yearly prospect rankings are kind of a big deal. Every team has have individual preferences, but in the same way that US News and World Report is the standard for college rankings, so too has BA become the shorthand way to label a teams prospects. Maybe you personally prefer Stanford to Yale, but you have to make that switch because US&WR set the template.
Well, the Phils new template is set. The 2009 rankings are out today and Dominic Brown, a 21 year old former Miami football recruit, tops the list.
This is a surprise.
Brown, up until this point has been seen as a toolsy project (he was a football player and a pitcher in high school, he’s a corner outfielder now) but apparently he has really been putting it all together. BA also rated him the Phillies “best prospect for average” and I suppose deadly athleticism and contact hitting is a pretty dangerous combination.
Bigger names Carlos Carrasco, Lou Marson, Jason Donald, and Kyle Drabek round out the top 5. Take a look at the site, it also included the Phillies’ prospects with the best specific tools and a projected 2012 lineup. It’s not a bad resource to have.
