Today seems like a good day to do a comparison of the top 20 Reds prospects from various places. Two places (myself and Baseball America) released their lists before the Reds trades this offseason, while two others released their lists after the trades. Fortunately, I was one of them and updated my list, while Baseball America went to 30 players so I was able to just move the players up to get Top 20’s for each publication. If you want to check out each list, the headers are links to each place. If you want to get scouting reports on each player, you can always buy the 2012 (Reds) Prospect Guide from me, which has over 100 scouting reports from players within the Reds system. Here are the lists:
| RedsMinorLeagues | Baseball America | Baseball Prospectus | John Sickels | |
| 1 | Devin Mesoraco | Devin Mesoraco | Billy Hamilton | Devin Mesoraco |
| 2 | Daniel Corcino | Billy Hamilton | Devin Mesoraco | Billy Hamilton |
| 3 | Yorman Rodriguez | Zack Cozart | Zack Cozart | Daniel Corcino |
| 4 | Robert Stephenson | Daniel Corcino | Robert Stephenson | Robert Stephenson |
| 5 | Billy Hamilton | Robert Stephenson | Daniel Corcino | Zack Cozart |
| 6 | Zack Cozart | Didi Gregorius | JC Sulbaran | Tony Cingrani |
| 7 | Neftali Soto | Todd Frazier | Didi Gregorius | Didi Gregorius |
| 8 | Didi Gregorius | Neftali Soto | Todd Frazier | Todd Frazier |
| 9 | Henry Rodriguez | JC Sulbaran | Neftali Soto | Yorman Rodriguez |
| 10 | Todd Frazier | Ryan LaMarre | Henry Rodriguez | Henry Rodriguez |
| 11 | Gabriel Rosa | Tony Cingrani | Yorman Rodriguez | Neftali Soto |
| 12 | Kyle Lotzkar | Henry Rodriguez | Kyle Lotzkar | JC Sulbaran |
| 13 | David Vidal | Amir Garrett | Kyle Waldrop | David Vidal |
| 14 | Tony Cingrani | Yorman Rodriguez | Donnie Joseph | Tim Crabbe |
| 15 | JC Sulbaran | Gabriel Rosa | Gabriel Rosa | Kyle Lotzkar |
| 16 | Ryan LaMarre | Chris Valaika | Tony Cingrani | Juan Duran |
| 17 | Donald Lutz | Kyle Waldrop | Ryan LaMarre | Gabriel Rosa |
| 18 | Tucker Barnhart | Ryan Wright | Tucker Barnhart | Tucker Barnhart |
| 19 | Sean Buckley | Sean Buckley | Juan Duran | Junior Arias |
| 20 | Amir Garrett | Tucker Barnhart | Ryan Wright | Denis Phipps |
Next, I broke down the 28 players and listed their High Ranking, Low Ranking and who ranked them at each spot (abbreviations):
| Player | High | Low |
| Amir Garrett | 13 – BA | Not Ranked – BP & JS |
| Billy Hamilton | 1 – BP | 5 – RML |
| Chris Valaika | 16 – BA | Not Ranked – RML, BP & JS |
| Daniel Corcino | 2 – RML | 5 – BP |
| David Vidal | 13 – RML & JS | Not Ranked – BP |
| Denis Phipps | 20 – JS | Not Ranked – RML, BP & JS |
| Devin Mesoraco | 1 – RML, BA & JS | 2 – BP |
| Didi Gregorius | 6 – BA | 8 – RML |
| Donald Lutz | 17 – RML | Not Ranked – RML, BP & JS |
| Donnie Joseph | 14 – BP | Not Ranked – RML, BA & JS |
| Gabriel Rosa | 11 – RML | 17 – JS |
| Henry Rodriguez | 9 – RML | 12 – BA |
| JC Sulbaran | 6 – BP | 15 – RML |
| Juan Duran | 16 – JS | Not Ranked – RML & BA |
| Junior Arias | 19 – JS | Not Ranked – RML, BA & BP |
| Kyle Lotzkar | 12 – RML & BP | Not Ranked – BA |
| Kyle Waldrop | 13 – BP | Not Ranked – RML & JS |
| Neftali Soto | 7 – RML | 11 – JS |
| Robert Stephenson | 4 – RML, BP & JS | 5 – BA |
| Ryan LaMarre | 10 – BA | Not Ranked – JS |
| Ryan Wright | 18 – BA | Not Ranked – RML & JS |
| Sean Buckley | 19 – RML & BP | Not Ranked – BP & JS |
| Tim Crabbe | 14 – JS | Not Ranked – RML, BA & BP |
| Todd Frazier | 7 – BA | 10 – RML |
| Tony Cingrani | 6 – JS | 16 – BP |
| Tucker Barnhart | 18 – RML, BP & JS | 20 – BA |
| Yorman Rodriguez | 3 – RML | 14 – BA |
| Zack Cozart | 3 – BA & BP | 6 – RML |
The largest gap of players who were ranked on all lists was Yorman Rodriguez, who I ranked 3rd and Baseball America ranked 14th. Fourteen players were ranked on all four lists, with Tucker Barnhart being ranked 18th or 20th on all four lists as the player pushing the limit on each. Devin Mesoraco was at the top of 3 lists and ranked second in the other.