Asked to select their own top 10 prospects, a chance to voice their own opinions on whom the top prospects in the game are and contrast it to MLB.com's Top 50 list, fans more or less felt MLB.com's list was on target... with a couple of exceptions.

The fans' top 10 had seven of the same 10 names as MLB.com's version. Here's how your top 10 turned out:

1. David Price
2. Matt Wieters
3. Jason Heyward
4. Cameron Maybin
5. Madison Bumgarner
6. Travis Snider
7. Matt LaPorta
8. Colby Rasmus
9. Tommy Hanson
10. Pedro Alvarez

For a quick reminder, here's how MLB.com's top 10 looked:

1. David Price
2. Matt Wieters
3. Jason Heyward
4. Rick Porcello
5. Cameron Maybin
6. Madison Bumgarner
7. Travis Snider
8. Alcides Escobar
9. Neftali Feliz
10. Colby Rasmus

In both cases, an AP poll format was used -- each player with a first-place vote got the top amount of points (30 for MLB.com's and 10 for the fans) -- as both lists used polling to determine the order. The top three ended up identical. Maybin, Bumgarner and Snider were all in the same neighborhood, while Rasmus was liked just a touch more by the fans than by the scouts polled.

In both lists, the battle for No. 1 was pretty close, with Price edging out Wieters. Price did get the majority of first-place votes among fans, polling No. 1 nearly 74 percent of the time. Wieters ran away with the second spot by collecting 21.7 percent of the first-place votes and just over 52 percent of the second-place votes.

A little further down, things start looking a bit different. The fans put Maybin No. 4, instead of No. 5, with Bumgarner and Snider also moving up one spot. That's because Porcello, MLB.com's No. 4, didn't crack the fans' top 10. He finished 13th on your list. MLB.com also rated Escobar and Feliz better than the fans. Escobar finished 15th and Feliz landed all the way down at No. 32.

Conversely, fans were more fond of LaPorta, No. 7 on your list compared with No. 14 on the MLB.com rankings. Rasmus, as mentioned above, finished two spots up, hitting No. 8 on the fans' list.

Clearly, fans felt Hanson's performance in the Arizona Fall League, when combined with his outstanding 2008 season, earned him a higher place (in our defense, the polling for the MLB.com list was largely conducted before a single AFL game had been played). Hanson finished ninth on the fans' list, but landed at No. 24 on the MLB.com list.

But the greatest disparity came with the player who has elicited the most emails regarding the Top 50 list: Pedro Alvarez. The No. 2 overall pick in the 2008 draft finished 10th on the fans' list, but, much to the dismay of many emailers, didn't crack the Top 50 on MLB.com.

It seems that fans are more forgiving of Alvarez and the signing deadline controversy than the scouting industry. In the past, scouts have been reluctant to rank guys who signed too late to play. But that wasn't the case with Brian Matusz, who came in at No. 20. So the only conclusion that could be drawn is that Alvarez's exclusion -- because most would probably agree he belongs talent-wise -- was a penalty for the controversy over his signing with the Pirates.