Fans today should have no trouble identifying the top prospects in their favorite baseball franchise's system. Dozens -- maybe hundreds -- of sites on the internet devote countless words to every prospect on the way up. And, if you still chart your prospects through cards, you'll have no trouble there either. Any prospect who is anybody has appeared in Bowman for years before they even make the majors and if that somehow isn't the case, Topps and Panini will be sure to shove that player into a regular set, even multiple times, to make sure you know. Ever since the late 1980s, and definitely since Bowman began devoting itself to prospects, figuring out which rookie is who and how good has been maybe the easiest thing to do in all of collecting. Just follow the noise and babble. When I first began collecting as a kid, it wasn't this easy. Unless you lived in a town with a minor league team, figuring out the top rookie prospects was a bit of a challenge, if anyo...
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