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Learning a New Language: Making Sense of Prospect Lists, Rankings and Mock Drafts.

I sat down earlier today to put together a post on the upcoming draft and how to interpret some of the grades we see in various rankings or mock drafts. With most of the prognosticators darting Pete Crow-Armstrong to the Dbacks with the 18th pick I figured it would be a good idea to put some of their comments into context.

Then I remembered I had alrady done something similar, back in the old Minor League Ball days some of the users there had asked for something right before th 2014 draft.

The result was a five part series posted between May 31st and June 7th and surprisingly found today that Vox hasn't totally eviscerated their archives.

Have fun.


Part 1: Breaking Down the Scout Scale and Grades

Part 2: Pitching

Part 3: Defense

Part 4: Scout Scale and Grades: The Dreaded Hit Tool

Part 5 Power, Speed and the Intangibles.