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Nico’s Gutsy Top 20 A’s Prospect List

By "gutsy" I mean here comes a prospect list driven by gut, one that in hindsight will either look incredibly smart or laughably dumb.

Consider 2009 and the kind of furrowed brows and sideways squinting you would have been met with had you put together a list that had single-A catcher Josh Donaldson #1 and 1st round pick Grant Green #20, or had obscure 24th round pick Dan Straily ahead of the electric Fautino de los Santos.

Hindsight is 20/20 and foresight is really really harrrrd, but with prospects sometimes between your eyes and your gut you get a feeling about who will make it big, who will make it small, and who will not make it, not make it at all.