{"id":2617,"date":"2011-01-17T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2011-01-17T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T19:50:47","slug":"the-golden-sombreros-top-50-prospects-recap-40-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2617","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Sombrero’s Top 50 Prospects Recap: #40 – #50"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shortly after the turn of the New Year, we began unveiling our Top 50 Prospects<\/a> for the 2011 season.\u00a0 The list is the product of hours of deliberation between Dee and myself, and is far from your average, cookie-cutter top prospect list.<\/p>\n

Our rankings are based on a number of criteria such as ceiling, refinement, age, level, performance, and health thus far.\u00a0 Positional scarcity and chances to stay at a premium position in the Major Leagues carries some weight too, but is a lesser component. No pitcher rankings are based off of potential as relievers because no top arm ends up in the bullpen unless the front office decides to lose its mind.<\/p>\n

In case you have missed any player on our list, here is a recap of 40-50:<\/p>\n

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50. Chris Dwyer<\/a>, LHP, Kansas City Royals<\/p>\n

49. J.P. Arencibia<\/a>, C\/DH, Toronto Blue Jays<\/p>\n

48. Aaron Hicks<\/a>, OF, Minnesota Twins<\/p>\n

47. Jose Iglesias<\/a>, SS, Boston Red Sox<\/p>\n

46. Nick Castellanos<\/a>, 3B, Detroit Tigers<\/p>\n

45. Hank Conger<\/a>, C, Los Angeles Angels<\/p>\n

44. Nolan Arenado<\/a>, 3B, Colorado Rockies<\/p>\n

43. Brett Jackson<\/a>, OF, Chicago Cubs<\/p>\n

42. Matt Dominguez<\/a>, 3B, Florida Marlins<\/p>\n

41. Zach Lee<\/a>, RHP, Los Angeles Dodgers<\/p>\n

40. Grant Green<\/a>, SS, Oakland Athletics
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Shortly after the turn of the New Year, we began unveiling our Top 50 Prospects for the 2011 season.\u00a0 The list is the product of hours of deliberation between Dee and myself, and is far from your average, cookie-cutter top prospect list. Our rankings are based on a number of criteria such as ceiling, refinement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,9,11,13,10,1616],"tags":[1621,1309,1594,1684,1646,1617,1632,1669,1641,1657,3463,1673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}