The 2012 Cubs Composite Top 10 Prospect List (version 1.0)

Its time once again to unveil the Cubs Composite Top 10 Prospect List.

For those of you who were not around last year, this is where I search the internet to find as many Top 10 Prospect lists for the Cubs as I can.  Then, using a formula of 10 points for 1st, 9 points for 2nd, etc. I assign points for each of the lists, add them up and sort the total points from highest to lowest to give me a composite Top 10.

For this, the 2012 version 1.0, I found 8 websites with 9 different lists.  You can find links to each listing at the Cubs Composite Top Prospects page.  I will update this list in late January or early February, as I expect at least a couple more lists to be posted by then.

So, without further ado, here they are your 2012 Composite Top 10 Cubs Prospects:

2012 Composite Top Prospects
			Total	Hi	Low
	Rank	Name	Pts	Rank	Rank
	1	Brett Jackson	87	1	2
	2	Javier Baez	84	1	2
	3	Matthew Szczur	61	3	8
	4	Trey McNutt	48	4	NR
	4	Dillon Maples	48	4	NR
	6	Josh Vitters	26	6	NR
	6	Welington Castillo	26	3	NR
	8	Jeimer Candelario	23	5	NR
	9	Daniel Vogelbach	21	7	NR
	10	Benjamin Wells	14	7	NR
	Others earning points:
	Chris Carpenter (13), Junior Lake (12), Rafael Dolis (8), Reggie Golden (6), Zeke DeVoss (5), Jae-Hoon Ha (3), Pin-Chieh Chen (3), Austin Kirk (2), Anthony Zych (2), Marco Hernandez (2), Dae-Eun Rhee (1).

A few interesting tidbits from this exercise:

• Either Brett Jackson or Javier Baez was the top prospect on all 9 lists, with Jackson receiving 6 first place votes and Baez 3.  
• After the top 2, only Matt Szczur was named on all 9 lists, receiving six 3rds, a 5th, a 7th and an 8th.
• 8 players (from Reggie Golden to Dae-Eun Rhee on the others receiving points list) were named on only one list, showing just how diversified the opinions are regarding top prospects.

Thus, with 9 lists to go off so far, it appears that there is a very strong opinion on who the top 5 prospects are.  It will be interesting to see how the rest shake out.