Baggerly mentioned Wilmin Rodriguez a couple of times.  I think he might be a sleeper too.

Possible High A assignment for Tim Alderson.  That would be great.  I could see him when the Little Giants swing through SoCal.

Brett Pill was put on a strength program this fall in hopes he can convert some of those doubles to HR's.

Alex Hinshaw was healthy enough to pitch in instructionals.

For a guy with great speed Burriss is not a very successful base stealer.  

I don't see how Sandoval who is younger than Williams and was the third best catcher in baseball at gunning down base stealers is not the top defensive catcher.  

I don't really see how Burriss is a top prospect at all.  He doesn't have any real stand out abilities and he hits for negative power.  

I also don't get the Bowker hysteria.  He has had one decent year hitting for power in AA.  He also struck out oodles while not walking much which is a warning sign for young power hitters.  His swing isn't particularly great and he has no more than average raw bat speed.  

Good to see the 'Toan finally getting some recognition, though.  

-I thought the chat participation was a bit light this year. 2 and a half hours looks quite long, but a full 14 out of about 45 questions were mine using various nom de plumes, screne names and nom de guerres.  I think in previous years the chat was open to all comers and not just subscribers.

• Coverage of issues was pretty good.  Pretty much the only standard question I didn't see answered was the 'where's the farm rank' question, but as he's indicated elsewhere that the team falls in the middle tier I guess it was superfluous.  The only substantive prospect based question I had that wasn't answered was if Threets change was so good why did he look like a gas can in his cup of coffee, but hey, he can't answer everything.
  
• On one level I'm disapointed that it was Andy and not John Manuel who did the evaluation this year.  As a beat writer I think Andy is more familiar with the kids themselves, but the national staff have a better feel for the relative strenghth of a farm system and have a little better experience on projection. Andy has a tendency to collect and collate opinions of others a bit too much.  On the plus side, having one of the beat writers this familiar with the farm is really quite a boon- if you mention the Bucardo brothers to Shulmann he'd probably ask if you mix it with coke and a twist of lime. And When Andy does give an opinion, it's usually a pretty fair one, and he actually is very good about responding to polite emails.  But on some levels, it makes me wonder why I'm paying $102 a year for something I can get most of for free.
  
• BA top prospect lists are all about potential and age to level. Yes, at upper levels performance enters the mix, but BA will always rank a potential #2 SP in rookie ball above a probable #3 in AAA with a cup of coffee. I tend to a more balanced approach myself maybe even skewed the opposite direction- I give serious due to anyone who has made the AA transition, but I recognize that this is provocative.
  
•  The question that alarmed me the most was the report that Merkin is pitching at only 90-91 in the DWL. Reports I had from Arizona placed him at 94-95. The report was just one un-named scout, maybe he just caught Merkin when he was deadarming, but still, I'll watch him closely in sping.
  
• the answer I liked most was Andy's take on the 'pitching factory' character of our farm. I myself had counted them up, but it's good to have someone else go through the exercise and come to the same conclusion that theres 15 ML pitchable arms in the system that won't fit on the top 30 list. Other plus answers were his report that Joaquin really is all the way back, English really is back from the dead and Threets isn't a lost cause.
  

I found the Misch omission to be glaring too- I think he's assuming that he's already part of the ML team in a comment relating to depth.