Reply to "Rivals Now Ranking 6th Graders"

roothog6610,000+ posts

Originally Posted by Stats4Gnats:

Originally Posted by roothog66:

Baseball America has been ranking 12yo 6th graders for years.

And the accuracy of those rankings is about as the same as their rankings for HS players, which is just about nil.

You might want to take another look at that. In fact, their ranking of 12yo's has been remarkably accurate in at least a few years. I actually charted this a few years ago and found, for example, that for one season (when Bryce Harper was 12) their top 10 consisted of 4 eventual first round draft choices. All the others but one attended D1 schools and the one landed at a prominent D3. However, when you're talking the absolute cream of the crop, picking 10 players, even at the age of 12, who will find success isn't all that hard.

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