Reds top 40 prospects according to On Deck Baseball Prospects

[OnBaseMachine]

I came across this website about a week or so ago. There's not any in-depth analysis of the prospects but you don't find many 40-deep prospect lists plus a depth chart.

Cincinnati Reds All-Prospect Teams

   1st Team           2nd Team           3rd Team
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1B Joey Votto         Logan Parker       Tonys Gutierrez
2B Justin Turner      Drew Anderson      Michael Griffin
3B Juan Francisco     Luis Bolivar       Jason Louwsma
SS Milton Loo         Chris Valaika      Paul Janish
OF Jay Bruce          Drew Stubbs        Chris Dickerson
OF Josh Hamilton      Jerry Gil          B.J. Szymanski
OF Danny Dorn         Cody Strait        Chris Heisey
 C Craig Tatum        Miguel Perez       Eddy Rodriguez
SP Homer Bailey       Camilo Vazquez     Rafael Gonzalez
SP Travis Wood        Tyler Pelland      Bobby Livingston
SP Johnny Cueto       Sam Lecure         Carlos Fisher
SP Jordan Smith       James Avery        Phil Dumatrait
SP Josh Ravin         Daryl Thompson     Daniel Guerrero
RP Sean Watson        Carlos Guevara     Jamie Arneson
RP Calvin Medlock     Jose Rojas         Terrell Young

4th Team           5th Team
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1B Rafael Sanchez     Bobby Mosby 
2B Michael DeJesus    Kevyn Feiner
3B Jeremy Piepkorn    Aaron Herr
SS Angel Cabrera      Adam Rosales    
OF Justin Reed        Michael McKennon
OF Denis Phipps       Michael Jones
OF Keltavious Jones   Efrain Contreras
 C Anthony Esquer     Jacob Long
SP Brandon Rice       Anthony Gressick
SP Richie Gardner     Lee Tabor
SP Ramon Ramirez      Luis Montano
SP Francisco Mateo    Phil Valiquette
SP Jim Paduch         Thomas Pauly
RP Brad Salmon        Jeremy Burchett
RP Logan Ondrusek     Derrik Lutz

Cincinnati Reds Top 40 Prospects

1. Homer Bailey, RHP
2. Jay Bruce, OF
3. Joey Votto, 1B
4. Travis Wood, LHP
5. Johnny Cueto, RHP
6. Josh Hamilton, OF
7. Milton Loo, SS
8. Danny Dorn, OF
9. Drew Stubbs, OF
10. Jordan Smith, RHP
11. Josh Ravin, RHP
12. Sean Watson, RHP
13. Chris Valaika, SS
14. Camilo Vazquez, LHP
15. Paul Janish, SS
16. Tyler Pelland, LHP
17. Sam Lecure, RHP
18. James Avery, RHP
19. Daryl Thompson, RHP
20. Rafael Gonzalez, RHP
21. Jerry Gil, OF
22. Bobby Livingston, LHP
23. Calvin Medlock, RHP
24. Carlos Fisher, RHP
25. Cody Strait, OF
26. Justin Turner, 2B
27. Juan Francisco, 3B
28. Phil Dumatrait, LHP
29. Chris Dickerson, OF
30. B.J. Szymanski, OF
31. Logan Parker, 1B
32. Daniel Guerrero, RHP
33. Brandon Rice, RHP
34. Richie Gardner, RHP
35. Carlos Guevara, RHP
36. Jose Rojas, RHP
37. Drew Anderson, 2B
38. Angel Cabrera, SS
39. Craig Tatum, C
40. Adam Rosales, SS

http://www.ondeckbaseball.com/reds.html

[dougdirt]

His entire system is based off of a formula he has based on stats/age/level/league and all that good stuff. Scott runs a good website, but he disappears for weeks or months at a time sometimes.

[icehole3]

I like Danny Dorn a whole bunch, but him ahead of Stubbs, Valaika, Fisher, Janish and even Turner is funny.

[cinredsfan2000]

B.J. Szymanski has certainly dropped out of sight in the last year or 2 .What happened? He have some sort of injury or something ? I thought he was among the top prospects we had?

[dougdirt]

He cant hit a baseball. Simple as that.

[edabbs44]

Sean Watson = 1st team?

[Redmachine2003]

He cant hit a baseball. Simple as that.

And can't stay healthy

[Superdude]

Jordan Smith over Lecure and Fisher?

[dougdirt]

Jordan Smith over Lecure and Fisher?

Well like I said earlier, Scott Rex (who runs the site) has a formula taking into account stats/level/age/position/other stuff and that gives a player a number (lowest I have seen was like -40, highest was ike 273), and then using those numbers he ranks the players.

[camisadelgolf]

I don't mean to criticize, but I would've found a spot for Rick Asadoorian over a bunch of those guys.

[OesterPoster]

Man, what a pathetic list of catching "prospects".

To even list Tatum in the top 40 is a bit of a stretch, IMHO.