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Farm May 8, 2021 Jefferson Leach

Jefferson’s 2021 Farm Rankings

Here are the definitive 2021 CPL farm system rankings, courtesy of yours truly and with the help of my computer. For more insight, go listen to the podcast I recently did with Tommy and Ben. Prospect valuation My infamous, data driven prospect evaluation scheme. It controls everything I do for my team. Of course, I…

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Farm January 21, 2021 John Kelly

Farm Rankings

Here are my thoughts about the CPL farm systems, click the icon below to listen.

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Farm January 18, 2021 Ben Remington

CPL BA Top 100

Thanks to heavenly saint Tom for posting the Baseball America Top 100 on our fair website. But if you’re like me, you want to see the top 100 in a way that really matters. So I plugged this year’s rank into my scoring system that I used to rank farm systems last season, and this…

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Farm June 11, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

AL East Farm System Review

Final installment of my farm system review. And the longest one yet. Makes sense when you’re writing up 3 of the top 5 farms in one post. Due to popular demand, a quick recap: HM = honorable mentions, or “farm fodder” depending on my moodLT = Lottery tickets (long shots to be more than an…

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Farm June 5, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

AL West farm system Org Rankings

Like before, any questions on the process, please read my post reviewing the NL West before asking them. The “100 Characters” concept was fun, but I’m going to try a different angle this time around and give reviews that are a bit more robust in the “Break down” section. And of course, questions, comments, concerns…

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Farm May 26, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

NL East Farm System Review

I’m going to save any explanations of how I made these lists this time around. If you’re interested take a look at my NL West review. I’ll try to provide a little flavor text instead to make up for it as I continue to work on improving the format of this series. I’ll call it,…

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Farm May 19, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

Farm System Breakdown Pt 1 – NL West

Starting a farm system deep dive in reverse order to give the NL a little love. I’ll start off with the division summary, followed by each team’s individual farm system. Each farm is organized using the BA ranking system, complete with Grades and Risk Assessments. When prospects tied at a certain org ranking, I used…

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Farm May 13, 2020 Jefferson Leach

Jefferson’s Farm Rankings

In an effort to not get shown up by Rem and Tom, here is my farm ranking and some logic behind it.  I start by taking the entirety of the CPL rosters and grab any prospect with an FV ranking in any of my major resources. I then adjust this rank up/down a little bit…

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Farm May 12, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

Farm System Rankings

I’m resurrecting a personal favorite of mine, and ranking everyone’s farm systems in accordance with each prospects BA grades and risk assessments. I converted the risk assessment’s into values I approximated based on relative BA org rankings, which let me evaluate each prospect using a single value. For overall farm system quality, I simply add…

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