Long-time readers of Bless You Boys know we were big fans of the one-two punch from Eric Longenhagen and Kiley McDaniel as the lead prospect writers for FanGraphs. Between the comprehensive coverage, and their book Future Value, which is one of the best books written on the game since Moneyball, it was a bit of a golden era for prospect hounds.
McDaniel left FanGraphs in 2020, signing on with ESPN as their lead prospect analyst. So nowadays, instead of getting the best synthesis between the two of them, their takes can diverge a little more, perhaps. Longenhagen was fairly complimentary of the top of the Tigers farm system, but only placed four Tigers prospects in the top 100 nationally and seemed pretty conservative in the system’s overall outlook.