Rerank time! NEW Top 100 and Top 30 Prospects lists
There isn’t a new prospect ranked as the top overall, but MLB Pipeline has updated their list of the Top 100 Prospects. Jackson Holliday of the Orioles is still tops our biannual rankings. Not only is he the number one player for the third time in a row, but Baltimore has taken the top spot for five of the previous seven Top 100s. Holliday’s Orioles predecessors at No. 1 are Adley Rutschman (midseason 2021) and Gunnar Henderson (preseason 2023) who are sandwiched between Bobby Witt Jr. (pre-2022) and Francisco Alvarez (mid-2022). lists of the team’s top 30 prospects: NLE: ATL | MIA | NYM | PHI | WSH NLC: CHC | CIN | MIL | PIT | STL NLW: AZ | COL | LAD | SD | SF ALE: BAL | BOS | NYY | TB | TOR ALE: CLE | CWS | DET | KC | MIN ALEW: HOU | LAA | OAK | SEA | TEX Let’s examine.
at the updated roster: The Top ten The Orioles, Rays, and Tigers are the first three teams to hold two spots among the Top 10 prospects at the same time since mid-2012. Only four other teams have accomplished this in our previous 15 rankings, most recently when the Rangers had Evan Carter and Wyatt Langford ranked Nos. 5 and 6 on this year’s preseason Top 100. Tampa Bay, on the other hand, has two of the six top prospects. 1. Jackson Holliday, Orioles 2B/SS 2. Junior Caminero, Rays 3B/2B 3. Nationals OF Dylan Crews 4. Twins OF Walker Jenkins 5. The Red Sox’s Marcelo Mayer, SS 6. Rays’ Carson Williams, SS Max Clark, OF for the Tigers 8. Tigers’ Jackson Jobe, RHP 9.
Draft releases In terms of talent,
the 2024 Draft was more top-heavy than deep; twelve first-round selections, up from eleven each in 2021, 2022, and 2023, entered the Top 100 right away. The two most anticipated prospects in the Class of ’24, Travis Bazzana of the Guardians and outfielder/third baseman Travis Becker of the Rockies, lead that contingent: 12. Charlie Condon, Rockies OF/3B (third overall choice) 13. Guardians (No. 1) 2B Travis Bazzana 18. The Royals’ Jac Caglianone, 1B/LHP (No. 6) 19. Cardinals SS/2B JJ Wetherholt (No. 7) 24. Reds (No. 2)’s Chase Burns, RHP 32. White Sox LHP Hagen Smith (No. 5) 45. Athletics’ Nick Kurtz, first base (No. 4) 55. Konnor Griffin, Pirates (No. 9) SS/OF 59. Red Sox OF Braden Montgomery (No. 12) 61. SS Bryce Rainer