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Thank you everyone for putting the time and effort in making/compiling this list. This is incredibly well done (as are the prior list). On the hole, I'd be interested in your takes on how this top 30 compares the prior years. The Angels are still listed in the mid to low 20's, but I see some solid prospects here (much more than in the past). And, although some of our top pitching prospects (Bachman cough cough, and Rodriguez) are let down in terms of starting, both could become elite relievers which is nothing to shake a stick at. I am very curious to what a post-Art minor league system will look like.

Great job and great summary. I noticed we put a premium on power with the position players we drafted.

I know there is a lot of negativity (and rightfully so) around our organization, but the one good thing we did last year was add a lot of quality arms to our farm system in last year's draft. If we do that again, we'll be following the trajectory of the Braves' farm system back in 2017-18. I actually am cautiously optimistic on Perry's ability to rebuild the farm. Eppler took a lot of gambles and then rushed his gambles, which I think left us with poor results. Now, whether Perry is good enough in managing our roster remains to be scene, and I am not sure I like how he pushed Silseth way too fast, but that aside, we picked up a lot of quality arms in 2021. If we do that again, our farm system will be much more stable than it is now.

I am hoping for Barriera and hope someone like Reggie Crawford falls to us in round 3. I could also see us taking someone like Dylan Lesko (despite his TJ) or Gabriel Hughes, and sign them to under slot value, and then pick best available in third and/or fourth round and sign them to over slot value.

Honest question about Erstad and just college coaches in general. How many college coaches at a single school for 5+ years without making it to the college world series have ever produced at the Major League level? The two sports (college and pro's) are completely different and he's only shown moderate success in the former and has no experience in the ladder. His biggest selling point is he made the Dodgers top three, but since then he's been out of baseball for the most part. Doesn't hiring someone with that pedigree (please imagine his name wasn't Darrin Eristad) really leave you scratching your head?

Some revised prospect rankings are starting to trickle out. There seems to be more buzz about Werner Blakely and Edgar Quero. I would also include guys like Guzman and Placencia but both were highly rated international signees if I am not mistaken. But Blakely and Quero are really putting together nice seasons. I wouldn't at all be surprised if one or both of them start next year as a top 5 or 10 prospect in the organization.

Rengifo is s catching on. As long as he continues to be serviceable at 2nd, he could stick that spot while we let Vasquez and Fletcher duke it out for short.

I agree dude, wholeheartedly. I almost wished there was a separate message board just for minor leagues with different threads focusing on different players. There are quite a bit of posters who provide good insight. The minor league discussion thread is my favorite part of Angelswin.

Thor looked dreadful. I was talking him up earlier, but without his dominant velocity, when his secondary stuff is completely off and he doesn't have the monster fastball to make-up for it, the wheels will come off fast. Thus far, he looks like a # 3-4 at best. He's not going to command a top dollar contract.

Remember, we have a double-header on Saturday. I am sure that has something to do with the day off and extra rest.

I am curious, at one time do we start looking at signing an extension with him, and if we do, what do you think it will look like? Also, does anyone have any concern about his drop in velocity? It's fine where it is now, but do you also have concerns that it will continue to drop precipitously over the next couple of years like it did for Bundy, and others like him?

Trout needs to wear a padded glove to protect the back of his left hand. Lord knows he wears that mitten when he slides. I certainly hope it's not broke. I do expect him to miss the next series though to give it time to heal. At the minimum it is badly bruised. In the mean time, quit this platooning shit, play Marsh and Walsh every day.

I also think Albright has some upside. But we really won't know for a while.

Brett Kerry's stats this year (I know it's early) are silly. He didn't make any top 30 lists, but was a 5th round pick last year. His draft bios seemed promising (projecting more as a reliver than anything). What's the story on him?

This is awesome! Thanks guys

It looks like he could have sprained his left ankle planting to make that throw. But even that would be pretty week. Hopefully he just got the stomach bug and that's it.

I hope that's eastern standard time, because we all have waited long enough

Honestly, I am undecided if we should offer Raisel Iglesias a qualify offer. But, I admit, your reasoning is pretty damn strong. On the one hand everything you say is true, but on the other that would eat into what will be likely half our free agent payroll and we still have to sign at least two pitchers and a short stop if we want to compete next year in my opinion, especially with all the injuries we've had this year. But your right. I bet he rejects the QO because he'll be looking for a long term deal. Someone is sure to sign him (if not us), and at the minimum we'll get another 2nd round pick. It would be nice to really start improving our minor league selections in rounds 3-10.

I think Cobb will resign for something like 2 year $20 million, and I would be OK with that. No matter the price tag, I hope he have a club option for anything beyond 1 year. If we do bring in Cobb, I think we need to bring in or trade for someone else.

Not quite. I tend not to blame him for our lack of pitching depth and what not. Due to his massive success elsewhere, I wanna see how it plays out.

Very well done, although I do believe we will have a bit more to work with than 45-50 million. I do not see any major arbitration hit with what we currently have on the roster aside from Stassi (that will not be the case, however, in 2023). I think we'll have 55-60 million to spend if we want to stay in the 180-190 million payroll range.

I graded the trade a C. I thought we got decent returns for both Heaney and Watson, but like another poster said in this thread it doesn't move the needle at all. And as much as I wanted us to be sellers and was hoping to get a Jonathan Gray type prospect for Iglesias and or Cobb, I was probably not being realistic. I do believe that both Iglesias and Cobb are now likely to extend with the Angels, and considering the holes we have to fill I am OK with that. Now, if we do not re-sign Iglesias then I will be very critical of not moving him. But, on a side note, we have added 24 pitchers to our minor league clubs in the past month. This convinces me how bad our pitching situation in the minors actually is/was. Despite the emergence of Sandoval, Suarez, and Barria (not to mention Shohei), I still think we need one more #2-3 type of starter to truly be competitive in our division next year.

I like Cobb a lot, and there is the option of trading him and then trying to resign him anyways (which wasn't listed or I would have traded him). But, what another poster paraphrased above, Cobb will not get us to the promised land. He is a solid #4 who is having a good year, but considering his injury history and up and down past, this success could literally turn on a dime. If he has value and if we can pull a solid pitching prospect who projects as a #3 upside (floating around AA someplace), then I say we pull the trigger. For me, we need as many pitching prospects as we can get. I am fully on board trading away every asset we can this year for more talented close to MLB ready arms as we can get. Because, as much as I am excited about Detmer, CRodriguez, and our new draft choices, we all know that every single one of them panning out is highly unlikely. Just look how badly Canning has flamed out despite all this talent. The reality is we need a lot more than what we currently have if we really want to compete. And for me, this year is a loss. I have to believe we can somehow muster 3 real quality starting pitching prospects (55 grades overall) by offering Adell, Iglesias (both of them), Cobb, Heaney, Bundy, and Adams to any combination of teams. For me the biggest take away from this past draft was just how in shambles our minor league pitching situation is. We can speculate all we want about taking 20 pitchers in 20 rounds (19 being from college). But the biggest take away for me, was our minor league pitching situation is scary bad, so much so, our draft was historic just to try to rectify it.

I like this list a lot. I'd flip Bachman and Rodriguez, because I still have durability questions about Rodriguez. He needs to finish with at least 80 innings this year for me to considering him anything beyond a future closer. His stuff is absolutely electric, and he should spend the rest of the year stretching out. We already know he can get it done against big league hitters (granted a small sample size, but for a kid his age is impressive), but can his body hold up? I'd also replace Adams with Vera. I know Adams is young, but I haven't seen much production this year. Although, he did look impressive Spring.