Angels Prospects: Baseball Prospectus Top 11

makes losing Type-A’s sting less, that’s for sure.

Are you guys seriously bummed to see Mrs. Figginsworth leave…?

Basically, the M’skis need not sign Costco’s own Jason Bay. Just wish Garth Anderson could switch hit and bat righty — classic to see him sign with the Ichiro’s of Marinara.

Any HH meet & greats this off-season? Blog-love.

5 stars?

To pick up other parts. As I see it, Conger, Reckling, Walden, Bourjos, and Trumbo will all make the bigs, but a few of those will likely be with other clubs.

Everything I’ve read about Trout leads me to think that he’ll hit much like a Johnny Damon, only without the girl scout arm, and I’m sorry for offending any strong armed girl scouts that might be reading this post.

not suprising…..

Top 10 Talents 25 And Under (Born 4/1/84 or later)
1. Brandon Wood, 3B
2. Mike Trout, LF
3. Kevin Jepsen, RHP
4. Hank Conger, C
5. Jordan Walden, RHP
6. Trevor Reckling, LHP
7. Fabio Martinez, RHP
8. Garrett Richards, RHP
9. Peter Bourjos, CF
10. Randall Grichuk , LF

I might be the only Brandon Wood believer still out there, and at this point I’m almost rooting for a trade or Chone Figgins signing elsewhere to finally give him an unfettered opportunity to produce. He still has star potential. Kevin Jepsen has tons of velocity and enough other stuff to be a very good set-up man for a long time.

Summary: The Angels’ system is down significantly from past years, but it’s also one of the youngest Top 11s you’ll see, with seven of the players seeing primarily short-season action in 2009. There’s a high risk of collapse here, but also a chance that the system could return to former glory as well if the top prospects live up to expectations.

We’re bottom heavy right now. But that’s a good thing. We’re so strong and deep in the majors, that a lot of the talent we need, won’t be needed for 3 or 4 years. Santana’s contract is up in 3 years, Weaver’s a FA in 3 years, Kazmir in two years and Saunders in 4. We’re going to need Will Smith, Garret Richards, Fabio Martinez, Tyler Chatwood, Tyler Skaggs etc..

Within the next 3 years we won’t have Hunter, GMJ, Rivera or Abreu anymore, we’re going to need Bourjos, Trumbo, Trout, Grichuk….

Soon enough, we’re going to be overloaded with catchers. Napoli and Mathis are fine splitting time now, but Bobby Wilson’s going to need a spot, Hank Conger’s too good to keep down and Carlos Ramirez may have been the steal of the draft.

We’re strong everywhere we need it.