… or quite possibly the greatest waste of time ever. With all the top Twins prospect lists out there from various bloggers and websites, I thought it would be interesting to use some of those to compile an average list. I used lists from Aaron Gleeman, Baseball Prospectus, John Sickels, Seth Stohs, Josh Johnson, Baseball America and the community list here at Twinkie Town. The rankings from each of those respective lists are listed in that same order below alongside each player. The average list is somewhat flawed because we don’t know where the prospects outside of the top 10 or 11 would have ranked on the BA and BP lists because they only go to 10 and 11. I gave guys who missed lists an NR for that list and threw that ranking out of their average, which clearly helped a few guys. Swarzak, who ended up at #7 for example, didn’t make the top 11 in BP’s list so I gave him an NR instead of what would have been a 12 or above had the BP list been longer, which would have dropped him down the average list. I stopped at 25 (27 w/ two ties), because the rankings really started to vary from list to list around that area… and because I felt I had wasted enough time at that point. I’d probably swap a few players around here and there, but a pretty solid list overall. Interesting to see the tiers formed by the avg ranking # for each prospect.

1. Hicks - 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 3 – 1.57

2. Revere - 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2 – 1.71

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3. Valencia - 6, 3, 5, 4, 3, 5, 1 – 3.85

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4. Ramos - 3, 5, 3, 7, 4, 3, 5 – 4.28

5. Morales - 4, 4, 11, 3, 6, 10, 4 – 6.00

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6. Hunt - 5, 6, 4, 16, 8, 7, 11 – 8.14

7. Swarzak - 7, NR, 16, 5, 9, 6, 7 – 8.33
8. Mulvey - 12, 7, 7, 8, 7, 8, 12 – 8.71
9. Mijares - 10, NR, 6, 22, 5, 4, 6 – 8.83
10. Robertson - 8, NR, 13, 6, 10, NR, 8 – 9.00
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11. Guerra - 15, 10, NR , 12, 12, NR, 9 – 11.60
12. Gutierrez - 13, 9, 8, 10, 9, 18, 16 – 11.85
13. (tie) Parmelee - 11, NR, 10, 13, 13, NR, 15 – 12.40
13. (tie) Hughes - 17, NR, 15, 9, 11, NR, 10 – 12.40
14.  Manship - 9, 11, 18, 14, 14, NR, 14 – 13.33
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15. Plouffe - 23, NR, NR, 11, 15, NR, 13 – 15.50
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16. Bromberg - 14, 8, 12, 25, 26, NR, 24 – 18. 16
17. Delaney - 18, NR, 9, 24, 16, NR, 25 – 18.40
18. McCardell - 16, NR, NR, 18, 19, NR, 22 – 18.75
19. Slama - 19, NR, 14, 27, 17, NR, 17 – 18.8
20. Tolleson - 20, NR, 17, 19, 21, NR, 20 – 19.40
21. Tosoni - 26, NR, NR, 15, 20, NR, 21 – 20.50
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22. Duensing - 25, NR, NR, 20, 25, NR, 19 – 22.25
23. Benson - 21, NR, NR, 17, 27, NR, 26 – 22.75
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24. Pridie - 29, 19, NR, 31, 22, NR, 27 – 25.60
25. (tie) Burnett - 22, NR, NR, 30, 23, NR, 29 – 26.00
25. (tie) Martin - 27, NR, NR, 21, 28, NR, 28 – 26.00