Midseason Indians Top 100 prospects list
With the draft and J2 in the books and the trade deadline looming, I thought it's time to update and take a look what the farm system looks like.
It's a huge list of 20 tiers, but it doesn't include DSL prospects, except the big money international signings.
Feel free to discuss, disagree, criticize and ask, here goes:
Tier 1 (The Best)
1. T.McKenzie
Tier 2 (Best Hitters)
2. G.Valera
3. T.Freeman
4. F.Mejia
Tier 3 (Best Upside)
5. E.Hankins
6. N.Naylor
7. N.Jones
8. L.Torres Jr.
Tier 4 (Good chance and MORe)
9. L.Oviedo
10. E.Morgan
11. S.Hentges
12. B.Bradley (OPS over .860 since May)
13. A.Civale
Tier 5 (Solid but overrated)
14. Y.Chang
15. W.Castro
16. C.Capel
Tier 6 (Good Upside with high floor)
17. G.Rodriguez
18. R.Delgado
19. R.Palacios
20. J.J. Rodriguez
21. A.Bracho
Tier 7 (Raw Upside with low floor)
22. J.Torres
23. C.Vargas
24. Sanquintin
Tier 8 (Hit'n'Run, high probability ML)
25. A.Calica
26. M.Longo
27. E.Clement
Tier 9 (High probability ML arms)
28. Sandlin
29. Karinchak
30. Merryweather
Tier 10 (Sinking Upside, longshots)
31. E.Haase
32. O.Gonzalez
33. W.Benson
34. Q.Holmes
Tier 11 (High probability role players)
35. M.Gonzalez
36. S.Kwan
37. J.Fermin
38. K.Tom
39. M.Mathias
40. S.Haggerty
Tier 12 (SP-RP tweeners)
41. Z.Plesac
42. JC Mejja
43. J.Hillman
44. C.Morris
Tier 13 (Role players with some sort of upside)
45. C.Marabell
46. M.Papi
47. A.Wade
48. M.Rivera
49. Loopstok
50. L.Ice
Tier 14 (Best of Bullpen only)
51. D.Siri
52. K.Nelson
52. H.Martinez
53. A.Scott
54. L.Eubank
55. Broom
56. C.Hill
Tier 15 (Util if everything works out)
57. T.Friis
58. T.Krieger
59. E.Stamets
60. J.Berardi
Tier 16 (Raw upside new to the system)
61. K.Holland
62. R.Burgos
63. Lavastida
64. Lopez-Alvarez
65. R.Cardenas
Tier 17 (BORdom, SP org depth)
66. Royalty
67. McCarty
68. S.Brady
69. J.Garza
70. Chiang
71. F.Perez
72. G.Vazquez
73. K.Marman
74. B.Eichhorn
75. Luis D. Garcia
76. M.Turner
77. Y.Yannuzzi
Tier 18 (New and old upside bullpen arms)
78. L.Jenkins
79. DeGroat
80. M.Brown
81. Lovegrove
82. A.Angulo
Tier 19 (Position player org depth with decent talent)
83. T.Brooks
84. J.Carter
85. J.Engelmann
86. H.de Oleo
87. P.Jimenez
88. H.Nelson
89. M.Reeves
90. G.Collins
Tier 20 (Ya never know, breakout bingo tier)
91. Y.Diaz
92. J.Lopez
93. I.Feliz
94. E.Rodriguez
95. Pujols
96. P.Alfonseca
97. S.Arias
98. D.Clemmer
99. J.Mota
100. D.Mendoza
Two injury extras: Esparza probably fits in Tier 12 or 17, Aiken in 14 or 17