When I first pitched this series, I made it pretty clear that I wanted some collaboration between me (or another TDG writer) and our readers in terms of selecting players you want to read about. That’s why it was pretty encouraging yesterday when I took to Twitter to ask for

Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone! In last week’s Prospect Smackdown, we saw Francisco Lindor earn a narrow Christmas victory over Chris Owings in a battle of fantasy shortstop prospects. In our inaugural edition of this series, we saw Billy Hamilton crush Adam Eaton when it comes to 2014 steals. This

In our first installment of the series, I asked whether Billy Hamilton or Adam Eaton would steal more bases at the major league level in 2014. You The People leaned heavily in favor of Hamilton, with 83 percent of you voting for the fastest man in organized baseball, despite the

Welcome to Prospect Smackdown: a new series we’re starting here at TDG designed to both let you compare similar fantasy players and prospects, as well as challenge some conventional wisdom about players heading into 2014. The format is simple. We’ll give you two players (or sets of players), ask you

And so our tour of the Junior Circuit comes to an end with the AL West. In this edition, I don’t have to write about David Lough. Life is good. Houston Astros: Robbie Grossman, OF I think Jonathan Villar is the best post-prospect candidate on Houston’s roster, but I’ve written

Last week on TDG, I kicked off this series with a look at five post-prospects in the AL East. I’ll continue my tour of the junior circuit below with a look at the AL Central, which contains an interesting mix of rebuilding teams, teams with a legitimate shot in 2014

Over the next few months, both here and on various other Internet Web Sites around the Internet, you’re going to read a lot about prospects. Prospects are sexy. It’s easy to gloss over their flaws, because those flaws are just projections. Sure, Bubba Starling might strike out 30% of the

When the Twins announced that Joe Mauer would move to first base on a permanent basis a few weeks back, fantasy owners around the world cringed. Mauer will be an excellent hitter no matter where he plays, but the thought of losing yet another impact fantasy catcher is unpleasant: after

On June 4, I took stock of Byron Buxton’s phenomenal campaign in Single-A and asked our readers a simple question: was the Twins’ outfielder the best fantasy prospect in the game, and if not, who was? After examining the extraordinary numbers Buxton had posted to that point in the season,

As more and more outlets publish regular and fantasy prospect rankings, the timeline for said rankings keeps getting pushed up. Used to be, a feller couldn’t get a Top 100 list until the new calendar year. Used to be you’d have to get by on Baseball America’s Top 10 lists