Mariners Prospect Trade Value

A little different than the prospect rankings. Check it out.

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is more than just an old axiom. And in Major League Baseball, it means pretty much everything when the topic dujour is trades.

One team can believe a 20-year-old shortstop in High-A is a future All-Star on the fast track and another may see the same player as an average left fielder four years from the big leagues, or not a big-league regular at all.

I hear about these gaps every single summer about dozens of players as the trade deadline nears. As I attempt to gauge the value of the top prospects in the Seattle Mariners’ farm system, the best way I can do so is by ranging, if you will, rather than efforting to place numbers next a player as if stacking them eventually equals the value of the players on the other side of a transaction.