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I'm assuming that they would be towards the bottom half of each list.
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Correct. But there are still quite a few outliers...
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Who is the most highly regarded player on one system who doesn't make the cut on the other?
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None other than Kevin Mulvey, #14 on the ProspectBot list (I said 15 in the other thread, but I discovered this morning that Justin Upton isn't prospect-eligible anymore, so that bumps him up a spot). Jair Jurrjens is the runner-up here, at #15 on the ProspectBot list. Going in the other direction, Angel Villalona is #17 on the Goldstein/Law list and absent from the ProspectBot list.
Actually, there's a real pattern here. The four most extreme ProspectBot favorites are Mulvey, Jurrjens, Aaron Laffey, and Will Inman, all of whom are pitchers with mediocre stuff and excellent MLEs at very young ages.
The four most extreme Goldstein/Law favorites (small-sample guys excluded) are Villalona, Manny Parra, Eric Hurley, and Carlos Carrasco. Villalona is an easy one to explain, a really young kid with great tools who is so far away that the ProspectBot just refuses to get very excited about him. Parra has everything going for him except for age; if he were two years younger, he'd be in the PB top 15. Hurley and Carrasco are typical good-stuff, poor-results pitching prospects.