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I don't know how much I can buy into a report that has Manny Ramirez and Vladimir Guerrero listed as the tops at the respective positions. Neither one is much of a fielder at this point (was Manny ever much of one to begin with?) and injuries and age are really showing up here. How is Ichiro not a better RF than Vlad according to scouts? There's really no better LF to pick besides Manny?

Are these selections career-record based or exclusively on 2007? There's no way this list would hold true on a prospective basis, right?

Steve, Phil had a really rough outing today. Just curious: will you dismiss it like you dismissed his previous good spring start, or will we be seeing a post about busted pitching prospects?

As for this post itself: MJ said exactly what I would have. Well, I was going to say: "I guess scouts don't always know what they're talking about." Some of these selections don't work for me, and clearly they do not value defensive skills (Holliday, Vladdy, Manny, Howard). I thought the oddest selection was best splitter going to Papelbon. That's absolutely ridiculous.

These kinds of "polls" become "news" then become "conventional wisdom," etc. As such, in all future cases, MLB.com should name the reporters and scouts whose judgments have been used. There is no excuse for these unsourced anonymous polls which are sent around the world millions of times. It's bad enough that an MLB.com article already has a disclaimer at the bottom saying in effect it's "subject to no one's approval." If that's the case, stop putting out these secret "polls."