North Side Baseball Articles
2011 NSBB Prospect Rankings
Continuing a yearly NSBB tradition, a number of regulars from the Minor League Forum came together to discuss prospects in the Cubs’ system and to put together a composite Top 10. During the Arizona Fall League, Tim, craig, CaliforniaRaisin, toonsterwu, Transmogrified Tiger, and Outshined_One put their heads together, compared rankings, and created the following list.
NSBB Prospect Rankings - The Rankings
Compiled by Outshined_One
Here are the raw rankings for the prospects:
By Outshined_One
Part two of this column will feature various prospects who, for various reasons, missed the cut in North Side Baseball’s compilation Top 10 list. This column will be divided into three parts. The first part will look at prospects who fell into the 11-20 range on the posters’ top 30 lists. The second part will look at the prospects who fell into the 20+ range. The third and final part will have links to each poster’s list.
Compiled and edited by Outshined One
With the end of the 2009 season and the Arizona Fall League wrapping up, a handful of the NSBB Minor League Forum regulars (Tim, Transmogrified_Tiger, CaliforniaRaisin, Outshined_One, UK, toonsterwu, and craig) got together to have a chat about their personal top 30 prospect lists for the Cubs’ system. In the process, those posters created a composite top 10 list based on a comparison of our lists.
This is part one of a two part article. The first part is the composite top ten prospects list. Each entry will provide an overview and various comments from the chat, which have been edited to fit this format. The second part will cover a number of the prospects who did not make this list, but merited discussion.
Statistical Truths
This article really doesn't have a lot to do with the Cubs, but a lot to do with the uncertainty of wins. No, this is not another article about how poor the wins statistic is for pitchers. This is an article about how we really shouldn't put a lot of stock in wins for a team - much less a pitcher. Even furthermore, this article is not about predicting future success for a team either. We're not looking at pythagorean wins or anything like that. This article is only going to point out something anyone who has taken basic statistics would know, but for whatever reason has not noticed the implications of it.
