Prospect Rankings Depth Charts MLB Players That should tell you just how much upside the towering right fielder has, and just how disappointing his 2021 draft year performance was. Since he's a bottom-of-the-scale runner, Quero would become a first baseman if he can't catch, so his progress behind the plate (his arm is average, receiving is a bit behind that) will be important to monitor over the next couple seasons. 13 overall in last summer's draft. Harrison also does a very en vogue thing in pitching these days: He gets down the mound well, delivers from a low slot, and throws a fastball that isn't a heavy sinker like many low-slot fastballs are. Reminds me of: There isn't a perfect comp, but the best and most recent example is that huge 6.3 WAR season Brandon Crawford put up in 2021. Players. He's now a high-likelihood big league starter, with No. Meyer should return this season and I'm still expecting him to be an impact starter with the backup plan of a standout closer. Mayo got an overslot bonus of $1.75 million, equivalent to an early second-round pick, in the fourth round of the 2020 draft. Topps Prospects Signed En Masse; $250k Bowman Jones Type: On the right day, four plus pitches and starter command. His swing got too big in the spring because he wasn't facing much premium velo and he played in a small stadium where he could mishit balls out of the park. Hit: 45/60, Game Power: 50/60, Raw Power: 60/60, Speed: 50/50, Fielding: 45/50, Throwing: 55/55, Type: Above-average offense from a pretty good defensive shortstop, Reminds me of: Bo Bichette or Willy Adames. He and lefty Frank Mozzicato were prep prospects who came out of nowhere ahead of the 2021 draft -- to the point that myself and many national scouts didn't know their names until March or April, when the draft was just a few months away. Julio Rodriguez improved a good bit on chase rate just last season after pitch selection was his biggest question mark as a top prospect. Ji-Hwan Bae, 2B, Pittsburgh Pirates Top 100 Baseball Prospects | MLB.com His control of the strike zone has been better than expected, and he has developed enough physically to have plus raw power, plus pitch selection, and good feel to get to that power in games. Type: Power-and-patience outfielder with limited pro experience. The top of this year's list is ruled by two up-and-coming teams that boast the strongest farm systems in the sport -- the Baltimore Orioles and Arizona Diamondbacks -- with their brightest young stars now starting to hit the major leagues. 1, Panthers' Bryce Young is all 'business now', XFL semifinals: Defenders roll Sea Dragons, set up title showdown with Renegades. Type: Power-and-patience package at the plate, probably a catcher. Luckily, he's good enough that he'll be in the big leagues well before that -- he's 19 now and finished his season with a trip to Double-A. Neto has a busy, max-effort swing that most scouts think he'll have to dial down when facing 95-plus mph on a regular basis, which would cut into his deceptively good exit velos and overall power production given his size. During a disastrous, ill-fated deadline deal, the Mets shipped him to the Cubs straight up for Javier Baez on a rental while Crow-Armstrong was still recovering from shoulder surgery. The Giants surprised some by paying him $2.5 million (late first-round money) in the third round in the 2020 draft. Wicks went No. Our way-too-early lineup rankings look at the best -- and worst -- offenses ahead of the 2023 MLB season. He now sits 94-97 mph with plus ride up in the zone, and a plus, 87-89 mph slider that drew a 45% chase rate last season. He needed Tommy John surgery soon after turning pro, then had the lost 2020 minor league season, so he began his pro career in 2021 but only threw 35.1 innings because of a broken hand, with his breakout coming in the Arizona Fall League. Updated Top 100 MLB Prospects at the Start of 2023 If this all feels negative, he is ranked this high because he could break out and hit .270 with 25 homers at shortstop if things ever just click into place. Montgomery opted to focus full-time on baseball, and over the next two years the only real critiques that materialized were that he's probably more of a third baseman than a shortstop long-term (still probably true), and he was 19 years old on draft day in 2021. Still a teenager, he broke out in 2022, making it to Double-A sitting in the mid-90's with a 70-grade fastball, 60 slider and 55-or-60 changeup, along with comparable control/command from his time in junior college. Hit: 35/60, Game Power: 30/50, Raw Power: 55/60, Speed: 60/60, Fielding: 40/55, Throwing: 60/60, Type: Plus athlete with plus feel for the game. Now you understand how a softer tossing high school kid that now has grown into league average fastball velocity can strike that many guys out and is expected to do it against big league hitters, too. Type: Maybe a shortstop with plus power and arm strength. Then, days after publication, it was announced that he needed surgery on his non-throwing shoulder and would miss much of the year. That's only 76 pro games in total, but he was a notable amateur prospect, signing for $1.5 million in 2020, and the tools are obvious. Play Ball Youth Baseball & Softball. Lewis isn't a slam dunk at the plate, either, as he has long had issues tinkering with his swing and dialing in his approach, but he is so naturally talented -- plus raw power, plus speed, feel for the game -- that he'll likely figure it out once he gets back onto the field. He does a version of the trendy mound positioning I describe in Kyle Harrison's blurb, slinging from a low slot with good extension. Instead of cruising to being a first-round pick in 2023, he left high school after two years to go get on a professional schedule to pursue baseball: this seems like pretty good outward evidence of plus makeup, as well. He'll be 22 years old when the minor league season starts with a chase rate that is a 30-grade ability. baseball Michael Hall*, DT, Ohio State. The issue now is that the track record of pitchers with that title isn't great. Type: Plus athlete into the triple digits with a sky-high ceiling. Luckily this has gotten a bit easier, as Logan S. Allen signed a minor league deal with the Rockies in August after starting the 2022 season with the Guardians. Making sense of Boston's investment . I'm gonna stop you right there. MLB composite top 100 prospect rankings, takeaways Early in his pro career, his strikeout rates hovered near 30%, so there was some basis to those contact concerns, but Henderson also showed more patience and in-game power than most evaluators expected. Kiley McDaniel ranks the best prospects and farm systems in baseball. Going back to high school, he would sit in the upper 90s and regularly hit 100 mph or higher. As a 19-year-old in Low-A, Amador hit .292/.415/.445 with 15 homers, 26 stolen bases and more walks than strikeouts. Baltimore could be a scary team at the major league level sooner than you might think. That said, there's also a compelling argument that Carroll offers value in more facets. In 2022, he was sitting 94-97 with above-average breaking stuff, a plus changeup and above-average command. Type: Advanced hit/power/approach at age 18. He is also a level (or two) below Peraza defensively, so whenever they do both grab everyday roles, Peraza should be the shortstop with Volpe more likely to move to second base. Today's list kicks off our 2023 top prospect coverage with our ranking of all 30 MLB farm systems coming Friday and our team-by-team prospect lists for both leagues scheduled to follow next week. Norby was a pop-up prospect at East Carolina in 2021, lacking big tools but proving he could hit with enough skill to project as a low-end regular. He went No. Type: Late-inning-caliber power stuff, but he can turn over a lineup at least once. In that case, Baltimore could slowly ramp him up to have the option to use him at full bore down the stretch and (whispers) in the playoffs. He also stole 28 bases and still looks like an above-average defender at shortstop, so all the elements are here. 42 overall pick, mainly because of questions about his ability to make contact and stick at shortstop long term. Since he was 15 years old, scouts have been worried that he could start regressing athletically in his 20's because he developed so early. I give Henderson the slight edge because of Carroll's general approach to the game and the slight concern that there could be some durability issues along the way. There's both a little prospect fatigue with Volpe and some revised defensive expectations as he's really improved the power part of his game. Peraza joins Volpe as Yankees shortstops who are ready to impact the big league team, though Volpe may play a bit more at Triple-A to start 2023. Now buzz is growing that Painter might break camp with the big league team this spring, as GM Dave Dombrowski remains one of few GMs in the league not trying to win a gold medal in the Service Time Olympics. Lesko may not throw in a competitive game until this fall, but he is still one of the best prep pitching prospects in the past decade, with a real chance to turn into an ace. Type: Corner-utility type who can really hit. Tovar has good feel for the bat head, is a plus defender at a key position, and had a breakout 2022 at the plate. The questions back then were his hit tool and pitch selection, because there was literally no data to consider against top pitching. In his draft year at IMG Academy, he was patient, bordering on passive while trying to hit everything to the opposite field and generally did not lean into his strengths. He signed for a $2.7 million bonus that ranked third-highest in the 2018 class. He has above-average command of a 94-96 mph fastball and mixes in a plus slider as his primary out pitch, but his solid-average curveball and changeup also have their moments. He's now a franchise cornerstone in Baltimore, along with last year's top overall prospect, Adley Rutschman. Per usual, though, there are still plenty of compelling prospects on the board. Manzardo was a late-rising draft prospect at Washington State leading up to the 2021 draft, getting sandwich-round buzz despite a number of teams seeing him more as a third- or fourth-rounder. The selling points here are three 70-grade tools: speed, defense in center field, and arm strength, along with a projectable frame that has plus power potential and a long track record of hitting strong pitching. I mention this because Vargas is big-league-ready with plus bat control, plus pitch selection and 41 homers over the past two seasons -- even though his power will probably play closer to average at the big league level. Type: Lanky right fielder who is above average at everything. He also has a rare, plus-plus ability to put the bat on the ball and a good enough approach (call it average pitch selection) that his contact skills show up in his raw stat line. As he dials in his launch angle and offensive approach, there's a shot he hits 30-plus homers. If he doesn't improve there, Tovar will be slightly below league average at the plate, but helped by Coors and his standout glove, so probably just a low-end regular. He was nearly the full package as a shortstop, with only power missing, and also a second-or-third round talent as a pitcher, with easy mid-90s heat, but he simply wasn't interested in pursuing pitching as a pro. Type: Late bloomer with above-average tools. The Texans would jump at the chance to take Bryce Young Top 100 Baseball Prospects | MLB.com He did amazingly well in pre-draft athletic testing, helping underpin the Yankees' belief that the 6-foot-4 Sweeney could stick at shortstop long-term. Hence has thrown only 60 pro innings, but there are some who think he could become the top pitching prospect in the game when St. Louis lets him loose. He flashes four plus pitches, plus athleticism, and starter command pretty regularly now, but the quality of the total package and his feel for execution still come and go. 2023 Top 100 Prospects | FanGraphs Baseball Four players cracked the top 10 on all six lists, listed here with As it stands, they traded one and kept one, and Merrill has the look of a future star. His splitter and curveball are both at least average and Bradley's command projects to be above average. Lewis has been on the verge of sticking in the big leagues for years now -- but the 2017 No. Mead has some similarities to Jung as a bigger-bodied third baseman with above average-to-plus hit and power potential and Triple-A success. Brown's changeup and command are both fringy but fine, while his 95 to 98 mph heater, slider and curveball are all plus and his control is about average. Essentially, putting the bat on the ball consistently shows you have the eyesight to see the ball, thus the ability to be patient, it's just a matter of training the discipline of laying off the pitch. Sweeney was a late pop-up name in the spring leading up to the 2021 draft with a lack of previous buzz due to playing at Eastern Illinois, not being in the elite summer wood bat leagues and having a big leg kick in his swing that turned off some scouts. The Cards now have a glut of young position players at-or-near the big leagues that need to sort themselves out, but Winn figures to get a crack at the shortstop job, probably in 2024. Wood likely loses a step or two and slides over to right field as he ages, but he's a decent center fielder with an outside shot to remain there. So there's an argument that Carter is the best on-base-percentage threat among the top prospects in baseball, and he's a good defensive center fielder on top of that. How bright is your team's future? Hit: 30/60, Game Power: 30/55, Raw Power: 55/60, Speed: 55/50, Fielding: 45/50, Throwing: 55/55. Scouts are now projecting above-average command of a 70-grade fastball that is 95-98 mph with plus life and a plus curveball. Moreno falls short of the 65 FV tier because his raw power is merely average -- and given his style of hitting, it may play a notch below that in games: somewhere in the 8-15 homer area annually. He's a plus hitter with a good approach and 55-grade raw power that he'll probably get to in games. The main reason there's a tier break here is that Moreno offers premium ability, but in a more subtle package that a fan might not notice right away. First the good: He is 6-7 with deceptively plus speed and loose, easy actions in all phases, especially a low-effort lefty swing that creates massive raw power. His overall command, changeup and curveball are all around average. Like Division-II product Pfaadt earlier on this list, Brown had a good arm with mid-90s velocity and some relief risk but Brown's separator then (and now) was a plus hammer curveball that is now a plus-plus pitch. 3 or 4 in a rotation looking most likely. There's a little bit of Spencer Strider here as Miller could just throw tons of fastballs and be effective for a few innings, but his execution of his offspeed stuff will dictate his ultimate upside. 30 overall in the 2020 draft. He gives occasional plus run times, shows plus raw power, and is pretty passable defensively at shortstop -- though he fits better at second or third base. Type: Shortstop who is above average at everything, but still a teenager. The raw tools are here, and Soderstrom's hit/approach/power combo is arguably the best of the three. I usually try not to put too much weight on makeup reports because teams won't tell you bad stuff, but the raving out of San Diego on Merrill's is overwhelming. I think he'll be a solid everyday player and as soon as midseason, with some chance I'm underestimating his ultimate upside. Type: Switch-hitting shortstop with massive upside, bad pitch selection. The Guardians took him 23rd overall, which was seen as a gamble at the time for the aforementioned reasons, but Williams was up to 101 mph with two plus breaking balls and showing starter command and a playable changeup, so the Cleveland pitching development machine seemed like a great landing spot. Jake Eder, LHP, Miami Marlins In the end, they became the first two picks for the Padres, with Merrill signing for an underslot $1.8 million as the 27th overall pick; in the next round, Wood got $2.6 million, almost exactly the slot of Merrill's pick. Type: Late bloomer with three plus pitches, chance to start. Some advanced bat-to-ball prospects fall into bad habits against weak pitching in the minors -- swinging at anything close because they can hit it -- that creates issues against big league pitching; that isn't the case here. To give further context, I've also included some categories along with tool grades. He's also a switch-hitter and, unlike Oneil Cruz, De La Cruz has a skinnier build that allows him to actually play a big-league-caliber shortstop. Tiedemann has east/west-oriented stuff with a tailing fastball, sweepy slider and diving changeup. The report On Mauricio has been about the same for four years: He has plus power potential, plus arm strength, slick actions at shortstop, and above average feel for the bat head, but swings far too often. Luciano signed for $2.6 million as one of many standout seven-figure signees in the 2018 international class that also included Francisco Alvarez, Diego Cartaya, Noelvi Marte (all ranked above Luciano on this list), Orelvis Martinez and Kevin Alcantara. As a bad outcome, that's still a solid-average everyday player, so there's very little risk. These tools also scale to commonly used numbers. 2023 NFL Draft: Top 20 players remaining after Round 1 The issue is he's likely always going to run higher strikeout rates because of below-average bat control tied to what he does to get to that power. He has become more aggressive as his velocity has crept up to 90-93 mph with his plus command and plus ride that help it play up. Francisco lvarez, C, Mets. Montgomery needs to have plus bat speed and plus pitch recognition to make longer levers work and to give his hands time to get in place. There's all kinds of conditions and exceptions beyond how I simply describe it there, but Craig Kimbrel and A.J. Povich was an intriguing 6-3 college projection out of Nebraska in the 2021 draft when went to the Twins late in the third round. Velo: 94-98, Fastball: 60/65, Slider: 55/60, Curveball: 50/55, Changeup: 60/70, Command: 50/55, Type: Potential frontline righty with a devastating changeup. Type: 6-foot-5 likely third baseman with plus power and arm strength. That has basically been how it has played out, but the numbers have been eye-popping: .327/.426/.617 with 22 homers, 59 walks, and 65 strikeouts in 93 games at High-A and Double-A. Upgrade to a Disney Bundle plan and start streaming something for everyone today! He leaned on his split-grip changeup more at Florida International, and the Guardians made him a second-round pick in 2020 due largely to his feel as a pitchability left-hander. Normally, if this type of prospect has two good pitches as a teenager that would be enough to rank among the best prospects in the game, with the main question if they can come up with a third, or have enough command to be a starter. He's deceptively big -- 6-3 and roughly 200 lbs -- and there's some risk: He's only played 86 regular season games since being drafted due to a wrist injury last spring. James Triantos, 3B, Chicago Cubs There probably isn't a plus tool here, but an average defensive catcher with solid-average offensive numbers is in the top 10-15 of the position and O'Hoppe might be that by the end of 2023. Stroud had a great pro day and it further solidified his case as one of the two best QBs in this draft class. Type: Rare hit/power upside from a teenager. Keith was an intriguing switch-hitting two-way prospect from a Mississippi high school in the 2020 draft, but you had to project to see a plus tool. Matthew Liberatore, LHP, St. Louis Cardinals. While his numbers weren't eye-popping, you have to remember he was among the youngest players in the league, hadn't played much during the year, and against the lowest competition of anyone in the AFL, but the tools and quality of his at-bats stood out. All this to say, the pick seemed like a great one for the White Sox at the time and has worked out even better than expected so far. He also has a slider and changeup that both flash above average but are rarely used. Jackson Jobe, RHP, Detroit Tigers I've decided to put him at the back of that slam-dunk group yet ahead of the riskier, health-challenged, less-proven or less-talented prospects who follow on this list. Since the draft, Cleveland's pitching machine has optimized him ever more, and when he's on, he looks a lot like AL Cy Young runner-up Dylan Cease. He's been a bit better than I expected out there and looks like he can be a solid-average defender in an outfield corner. De La Cruz is listed at 6-5 but I think he's a bit taller, and simply by having 70-grade raw power, speed and arm strength, we're already into all-time territory of the best tools anyone has ever seen. He might not look like he can when walking around, but we've also seen enough Correa and Seager types over the years who are immediately counted out of playing the position when turning pro, before their plus athleticism and feel for the game win out. Arroyo and Williams are back-to-back here because they're pretty similar prospects. Bleis is still 18 years old for another month and has been drawing buzz for his past two summers, in the Dominican Summer League in 2021 and the domestic complex league in 2022. Last year, Cowser finished the season strong: He hit four homers in 62 games in High-A to start the year, then hit 15 more in the other 76 games, split across Double-A and Triple-A. On top of that, Alvarez has a real chance to be an everyday-quality defender behind the plate. LIke the Braves just did on the NL side, the O's have a shot to sweep the AL ROY voting with Henderson and Rodriguez finishing 1-2. WebHigh School Baseball Recruiting Database. But you have to nitpick at this point of the list. Hit: 35/55, Game Power: 35/55, Raw Power: 55/60, Speed: 45/45, Fielding: 45/50, Throwing: 60/60, Reminds me of: Christian Yelich, but at shortstop. Turang has been famous to scouts for years, looking like a real candidate to be the No. There's an inherent injury risk from simply throwing that hard, no matter how careful, strong and flexible you are, and Espino is all three of those.

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