2007 Top Cards Prospects – The Final Tally

Pulling all the votes together on the St. Louis Cardinals’ top prospects in one place.

As our yearly Forty Days, Forty Nights, Forty Prospects series draws to a close, this article brings together the voting of all four participants from The Birdhouse: Jason Scott, Leonda Markee, Ray Mileur and myself, Brian Walton. The far left column of the table below is the aggregate ranking. To the right of the players’ names are our individual votes.

In addition, you will see a column labeled “Comm”. That is the results of a collaborative effort among a group of very knowledgeable Cardinals fans from our Message Board. While that group ranked 50 players, not 40, I limited this article to 40 for consistency. Click on the link to see the entire community list.

Finally, on the far right are the 2006 rankings of the 2007 Top 40. Seventeen players make their first appearance on the list in 2007, mostly as new draftees into the organization.

Not surprisingly, the split is in favor of pitching, with position players holding down just 17 of our 40 spots. Six our top eight are pitchers.

	Group Top 40		Scott	Markee	Mileur	Walton		Comm.	06 BH
1	Colby Rasmus		1	1	1	1		1	7
2	Blake Hawksworth		2	2	2	3		2	28
3	Jaime Garcia		4	3	5	2		4	36
4	Bryan Anderson		6	4	3	4		3	9
5	Adam Ottavino		8	6	4	5		5
6	Chris Narveson		5	5	6	16		6	25
7	Stuart Pomeranz		7	7	9	12		7	4
8	Chris Perez		9	9	15	6		16
9	Jon Jay		10	11	12	8		15
10	Nick Stavinoha		15	8	13	9		14	16
11	Mark McCormick		17	14	11	7		13	6
12	Cody Haerther		14	10	7	20		11	5
13	Josh Kinney		3	17	30	10		25
14	Chris Lambert		23	12	8	19		9	3
15	Jon Edwards.		27	13	10	13		8
16	Tyler Greene		16	23	14	11		12	8
17	Daryl Jones		13	18	16	22		22	15
18	Mark Hamilton		19	22	18	14		18
19	Brendan Ryan		25	16	22	15		19	13
20	Tyler Herron		20	20	19	24		17	18
21	Mitchell Boggs		22	21	17	28		10	34
22	Blake King		28	19	24	18		20
23	Amaury Marti		37	15	34	21		39
24	Mark Worrell		33	25	23	31		23	17
25	Mike Parisi		18		21	32		31	24
26	Nick Webber		21	38	20	39		34	12
27	Andy Cavazos		12	24				37
28	Mike Sillman		24	28	26			36
29	Eric Haberer		29	36	32	23		38	14
30	Jose Martinez		35	39	31	17		24	30
31	Tyler Norrick		32		25	25		28
32	Eddie Degerman		31		28	27		29
33	Dennis Dove		11		37				35
34	Randy Roth		26		29	35		21
35	Gary Daley		30		38	26		27
36	Donovan Solano			26	27				20
37	Isa Garcia		34		33	33		26
38	Skip Schumaker			30		29		30	22
39	Thomas Pham			27	39	37
40	Cory Meacham		38	34	40	36		32
	Others		Scott	Markee	Mileur	Walton		Comm.	06 BH
	Travis Hanson		39	40	35	30			9
	Juan Lucena			31		34			27
	Adam Daniels		36					33
	Trey Hearne			35				35
	Josh Wilson			33		38			23
	Reid Gorecki		40		36				31
	Brad Furnish			37				40
	Matt Lane			29