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2012 Top 100 Prospect List

Welcome! This is the third year Bullpen Banter has released its annual Top Prospect List.  Collectively, we've traveled around the country, scoured the internet for video, dug through the MiLB.tv archives, and spoke to our sources to comprise the most insightful list possible. We've spent a great deal of time on this endeavor, and we know you'll find it informative and enjoyable.

As we did last year, we're presenting our list differently than you're typically accustom to seeing. Instead of presenting the entire bulk of our work at once, we'll be releasing our in-depth round table style write ups five prospects a day, Monday through Friday. We hope this method will help stimulate discussion and allow for our work to be more thoroughly digested by our readers.

 

Archived Articles

As some of you are probably aware by now, the SB Nation blog where I've been contributing over the past ~9 months, MLB Bonus Baby, will be shutting down shortly. Matt Garrioch will be joining John Sickels at Minor League Ball, and it's being described as a merger. I think that does it an injustice as while it may have been a sleepy blog, it was a hub for draft centric talk that won't likely be portable to the professional-centric Minor League Ball. I'm not surprised by the decision to axe the site, but that does not make me any less unhappy about it. Most of the stuff that I wrote there was not particularly conducive to Bullpen Banter for various reasons – some were more geared towards facilitating discussion and some were projects that were better diffused across three people than one (Draft Reviews) – but I've decided to port the best of what I had contributed over here so it does not get lost forever. Here is a list of what I've archived:

Anthony Rendon - Still the Most Talented Player in the 2011 Class

NCAA Regionals: A Preview

The Day After: Scattered Thoughts on Day 1 of the Draft

2011 MLB Draft: Pittsburgh Pirates Draft Report

The All-Reese Team

2011 MLB Draft: Toronto Blue Jays Draft Report

2011 MLB Draft: Houston Astros Draft Report

2011 MLB Draft: Baltimore Orioles Draft Report

Scattered Thoughts on the MLB Signing Deadline

2011 MLB Draft: Milwaukee Brewers Draft Report

2011 MLB Draft: Boston Red Sox Draft Report

MLB Draft and International Free Agency Reformation

2011 MLB Draft: Cincinnati Reds Draft Report

 

2012 Top 100: #76 Tyrell Jenkins

Wong Top 100 CardProspect Profile: Tyrell Jenkins

Position: RHP

Birthdate: July 20, 1992 (age 19)

Height: 6'4"

Weight: 180 lbs

B/T: R/R

Origin: 1st round pick (50th overall) by the Cardinals out of Henderson HS (Henderson, TX) in 2010

Links: St. Louis Cardinals 2012 Top 15 Prospects

 

2012 Top 100: #77 Javier Baez

Javier BaezProspect Profile: Javier Baez

Position: SS

Birthdate: December 1, 1992 (age 19)

Height: 6'0"

Weight: 180 lbs

B/T: R/R

Origin: 1st round pick (9th overall) by the Cubs out of Arlington Country Day School (Jacksonville, FL) in 2011

Links: Chicago Cubs 2012 Top 15 Prospects & Discussion

 

2012 Top 100: #78 Anthony Rizzo

Anthony RizzoProspect Profile: Anthony Rizzo

Position: 1B

Birthdate: August 8, 1989 (age 22)

Height: 6'3"

Weight: 220 lbs

B/T: L/L

Origin: 6th rounds pick (204th overall) by the Red Sox out of Douglas HS (Parkland, FL) in 2007

Links: San Diego Padres 2012 Top 15 Prospects & Discussion; Updated 2012 Team Top 15 Prospects

 

2012 Top 100: #79 Noah Syndergaard

Wong Top 100 CardProspect Profile: Noah Syndergaard

Position: RHP

Birthdate: August 29, 1992 (age 19)

Height: 6'5"

Weight: 200 lbs

B/T: L/R

Origin: 1st round pick (38th overall) by the Blue Jays out of Legacy HS (Mansfield, TX) in 2010

Links: Toronto Blue Jays 2012 Top 15 Prospects & Discussion

 

2012 Top 100: #80 Jed Bradley

Wong Top 100 CardProspect Profile: Jed Bradley

Position: LHP

Birthdate: June 12, 1990 (age 21)

Height: 6'4"

Weight: 224 lbs

B/T: L/L

Origin: 1st round pick (15th overall) by the Brewers out of Georgia Tech University in 2011

Links: Milwaukee Brewers 2012 Top 15 Prospects & Discussion; 2011 MLB Draft: Milwaukee Brewers Draft Report

 
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