2013 Chicago Cubs Consensus Top 31 Prospects
Posted: February 7, 2013 Filed under: Prospects, Rankings Leave a comment »Introduction
I have created a cumulative prospect list for each team based on other (more knowledgeable) peoples’ lists. Each time a prospect appears on a list, he gets a number of points (21 minus his ranking). The prospect with the largest amount of points is ranked first. I will be posting each team once they have been completed by all of my sources. You can find a link to all of the other teams top prospects on the Team Prospects page. Clicking on the links below will take you to the team’s list on each respective site.
You can also view the 2012 Chicago Cubs prospect list.
Lists
Minor League Ball (John Sickels)
Major League Baseball (Jonathan Mayo)
The List
The “Change” column describes how the prospect’s status changed from 2012. a positive number means the prospect moved up in the list, while a negative number means he moved down. A prospect’s name is green if he is new to the organization this year.
| Rank | Player | Total | Change |
| 1 | Javier Baez | 238 | 1 |
| 2 | Albert Almora | 228 | 1st Rd Draft |
| 3 | Jorge Soler | 216 | Cuban IFA |
| 4 | Arodys Vizcaino | 192 | Geovany Soto Trade |
| 5 | Dan Vogelbach | 150 | 3 |
| 6 | Brett Jackson | 146 | -5 |
| 7 | Pierce Johnson | 121 | Comp A Draft |
| 8 | Christian Villanueva | 116 | Ryand Dempster Trade |
| 9 | Matt Szczur | 103 | -5 |
| 10 | Dillon Maples | 99 | -4 |
| 11 | Jeimer Candelario | 84 | 1 |
| 11 | Duane Underwood | 84 | 2nd Rd Draft |
| 13 | Junior Lake | 74 | -3 |
| 14 | Arismendy Alcantara | 55 | |
| 15 | Josh Vitters | 52 | -8 |
| 16 | Gioskar Amaya | 39 | 10 |
| 17 | Paul Blackburn | 30 | Comp A Draft |
| 18 | Kyuji Fujikawa | 23 | Japanese IFA |
| 18 | Marco Hernandez | 23 | -2 |
| 20 | Juan Carlos Paniagua | 22 | Dominican IFA |
| 21 | Barret Loux | 11 | Jake Brigham Trade |
| 22 | Jae-Hoon Ha | 9 | 0 |
| 23 | Robert Whitenack | 8 | 1 |
| 24 | Trey McNutt | 7 | -19 |
| 24 | Luis Acosta | 7 | Dominican IFA |
| 24 | Trey Martin | 7 | |
| 27 | Ben Wells | 3 | -12 |
| 28 | Alberto Cabrera | 2 | |
| 29 | Jeffrey Baez | 1 | |
| 30 | Tim Saunders | 0 | 32nd Rd Draft |
Here is a spreadsheet that contains all of the 2013 Chicago Cubs prospect rankings in one place.
2012 Prospects Not on 2013 List
Graduated:
Anthony Rizzo, #3
Welington Castillo, #9
Rafael Dolis, #14
Dave Sappelt, #27
Traded:
Chris Carpenter, #12 – To the Boston Red Sox for Jair Bogaerts
Aaron Kurcz, #28 – To the Boston Red Sox as part of the Theo Epstein compensation
Dropped Off:
Ronald Torreyes, #11
Reggie Golden, #17
Tony Zych, #18
Zeke DeVoss, #18
Dae-Eun Rhee, #20
Zack Cates, #21
Pin-Chieh Chen, #23
Austin Kirk, #25
Shawon Dunston, #28
