Regular readers know that we don’t have much time for the bleating about how "small-market teams" can’t compete in today’s game. The argument might get a listen if MLB’s braintrust and owners would stop trying to call places like Houston and Detroit small markets, but since it’s more about public relations and political blackmail than…
Continuing–and finally finishing–our discussion of last year’s great prospects, we conclude with the rest of the players who made only one Top 40 list, either that of Baseball America or John Sickels. There were eight players on Baseball America‘s Top 40 list who missed our own and John Sickels’s. Of those, three (Corey Patterson, Mark…