I see players all year long, as amateurs, in pro ball, at the Futures Game, and in the Arizona Fall League. If I've seen a player, my scouting report becomes the foundation of his capsule and his ranking here. I can't see every player, and sometimes I only see a player once on a day that isn't representative of his abilities, so I supplement all of my content with conversations with various scouts and with at least one executive with every MLB team who has seen his team's prospects enough to discuss them and suggest how I might rank them.