2011 Type A and A- Compensation Rankings

A few people have asked me about this, so I figured I'd answer on the blog to give you all something concrete to reference. The question is: How do I find out if Typed Player X is better than Identically Typed Player Y? It's relevant in free agency, obviously, to determine which compensated team gets the better picks in the event that a compensating team signs more than one of the same type of players.  Well, you'd have to rank them in their given types using Baseball Monster, which is sort of a pain in the ass, so I've provided a ranked list of Type A and Type A- players below:

Type A+:
1.) SP Cliff Lee (From WAS) (To STL)

Type A:
1.) 3B/OF Jose Bautista (From COL) (To DET)
2.) 1B Paul Konerko (From KCR) (To DET)
3.) OF Carl Crawford (From FLA) (To CWS)
4.) 1B Aubrey Huff (From FLA) (To ???)
5.) DH Vlad Guerrero (From HOU) (To COL)
6.) RP Billy Wagner (From NYM) (To ???)
7.) OF Nick Swisher (From KCR) (To ???)
8.) DH David Ortiz (From BAL) (To BAL)
9.) 3B Alex Rodriguez (From ATL) (To LAD)
10.) RP Joaquin Benoit (From CWS) (To CWS)
11.) RP Heath Bell (From PHI) (To BAL)
12.) RP Matt Belisle (From SDP) (To ???)
13.) RP Mike Adams (From SDP) (To SDP)
14.) SP Ted Lilly (From SEA) (To CHC)
15.) 3B Scott Rolen (From CWS) (To STL)
16.) SP Tim Hudson (From STL) (To COL)
17.) RP Mariano Rivera (From DET) (To OAK)

Type A-:
1.) Alexis Rios (From PHI) (To TOR)
2.) Justin Morneau (From MIN) (To MIN)
3.) Torii Hunter (From KCR) (To LAD)
4.) Matt Thornton (From CWS) (To DET)
5.) Hideki Kuroda (From KCR) (To KCR)
6.) Dan Haren (From COL)  (To NYM)
7.) John Axford (From LAD) (To ???)
8.) Koji Uehara (From HOU) (To ???)
9.) Arthur Rhodes (From LAA) (To LAA)
10.) JJ Putz (From SEA) (To BAL)
11.) Derek Jeter (From LAD) (To SF)
12.) John Buck (From KCR) (To KCR)
13.) Wilson Betemit (From FLA) (To PHI)

There's a chance I screwed this up, because, well, I'm not a commissioner, but it should be right.  Hopefully this helps answer some of the questions that Raylaw is inadvertently raising ;-)