He inexplicably slipped to the No. Ortiz has always been an above-average runner with an above-average arm and plus glove at shortstop while the real development has come offensively. The sales pitch today is the same as draft time in 2020: plus hit/approach/power and the feel to get to it in games. Arroyo got a promotion to High-A late in the year, hitting 14 homers and stealing 25 bases across both levels. Type: Refrigerator box filled with dynamite. Type: 6-3 shortstop with a chance to stick and have plus hit/power from the left side. His slider and changeup are both above-average-to-plus and his curveball plays around average but brings a nice additional look to the table. Scouts now think he's a fringy defensive shortstop, right on the border of having to move to second base, basically as a tradeoff from that added power. Susana didn't get much attention when he was included in the Juan Soto trade as he was the fourth-best prospect in the haul, behind James Wood, MacKenzie Gore and Robert Hassell. Garcia made his Double-A debut last season and ended the season in the big leagues but even after the Adalberto Mondesi trade, he's still behind Bobby Witt Jr., Hunter Dozier, Nicky Lopez and Michael Massey as homegrown second base/third base/shortstop options. WebHigh School Baseball Recruiting Database. As it stands, they traded one and kept one, and Merrill has the look of a future star. He is probably not a star, but he should be good for a long time. Rodriguez was part of Pittsburgh's return in the convoluted three-way deal that sent Joe Musgrove to San Diego, coming from the Mets for lefty Joey Lucchesi, who has thrown just 38 innings in the big leagues for New York. There's still some relief risk and he may fit best in a five-and-dive starter or other hybrid role, but Brown's stuff is lively enough that he doesn't need fine command to get outs. Stroud had a great pro day and it further solidified his case as one of the two best QBs in this draft class. Type: One of the best amateur hitters in recent memory, with Jose Ramirez or Rafael Devers vibes. Type: Plus athlete who is above average at everything. Owen Caissie, RF, Chicago Cubs He's behind Cartaya defensively and in arm strength (Alvarez, too). The questions back then were his hit tool and pitch selection, because there was literally no data to consider against top pitching. 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. There is a chance he's a 55-grade hitter with above-average pitch selection and 55 in-game power, average speed and average defense at second base, which is surprisingly similar to Gleyber Torres' 2022 season. Velo: 96-98, Fastball: 70/80, Slider: 60/70, Curveball: 55/60, Changeup: 45/55, Command: 45/50, Type: If the fire emoji turned into a pitching prospect. 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. After three solid years at Cal Poly, his back was never an issue and he raked in the spring -- and in the summers for Team USA -- en route to going eighth overall last summer. Stone signed for a well-below slot bonus after going with the second-to-last pick in the five-round 2020 draft. It was a first for Topps. Youth. It's never likely any player turns into the Hall of Famer they resemble most, but even if comparing a prospect to Scherzer -- the outlier of outliers -- is a fool's errand, it's just hard to ignore the profiles being similar. This year, Painter will need to upgrade the command a notch, though his stuff is good enough that average control (throwing it over the plate) and fringy command (hitting his spot) could be enough to make him one of the Phillies' top five rotation options pretty soon. 15 overall in the 2020 draft. Angel Martinez, SS, Cleveland Guardians There's all kinds of conditions and exceptions beyond how I simply describe it there, but Craig Kimbrel and A.J. After Jones' shoulder surgery and with some positive post-signing performances, Holliday has now opened up a bit of a lead over the other two. Like fellow two-way Mississippi prep player Austin Riley, position player was the right call and Keith hit the ground running at the plate with a solid year at High-A followed by an Arizona Fall League appearance at age 20. Prospect Rankings Depth Charts MLB Players 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 His plus power and plus arm give him some margin for error, but his hit tool and pitch selection have been better than expected. Alvarez's combination of game-changing power and premium position are the carrying tools. As a 16-year-old from Venezuela, Alvarez was in the top tier of his international signing class. 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. Julio Rodriguez improved a good bit on chase rate just last season after pitch selection was his biggest question mark as a top prospect. That's also gone something like scouts expected, as he's now facing competition closer to his talent level. He'll get a big league look at some point in 2023 and I'm rooting hard for him because baseball is more fun with more Kyle Schwarber types. 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. He's probably not a star but he's going to be a useful big leaguer for a while, and maybe a really good one. Zavala ended the season with a broken hamate bone and was hanging around the 125-150 area of this list until the very end, basically at the top of the "if you have a good 2023 season, you're on next year's list" range. 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. This offseason's four biggest free agents signed massive megadeals that are not only risky, but that started a historic hot stove trend. While he's learned to tap into his power effectively, Peraza profiles around average as both a contact, approach and in-game power threat. 22 overall in the 2020 draft. 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. The hesitation is that Jung showed an uncharacteristic aggression at the plate when he returned, walking under 4% in 49 Triple-A and MLB games last year after running close to 10% walk rates the rest of his career. In his full-season debut, Williams flipped his offensive scouting report on its head, striking out 32% of the time and hitting 19 homers, leaning into the power from his newly added bulk. 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. His bat-to-ball skills have become more relevant as he has added enough power that he can now punish mistakes, hitting 19 homers last year across Double-A and Triple-A. After publishing my final rankings, I heard lots of buzz that Rushing would go in the 20s and I would've slid him up into that range in the days before the draft, buying into his hit/power combo and trusting that he'd figure out a way to stick behind the plate. 3 overall in the 2020 draft and made his big league debut in 2022, but needed Tommy John surgery. He also would occasionally show a curve and changeup depending on if he needed them that day, and he hit his spots surprisingly well for a young power arm. in games more effectively right now and Lawlar has had two freak injuries (torn labrum in his shoulder just after he signed and a broken clavicle suffered in the Arizona Fall league). Type: 6-foot-5 likely third baseman with plus power and arm strength. Ji-Hwan Bae, 2B, Pittsburgh Pirates The big wave of Orioles prospects is almost here, with Rodriguez the potential ace of the group. He does a version of the trendy mound positioning I describe in Kyle Harrison's blurb, slinging from a low slot with good extension. We've sorted the teams with the most star power under control through 2024. 13 overall in the 2021 draft out of a Florida high school. 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. Type: Lanky right fielder who is above average at everything. Druw is the son of should-be Hall of Famer Andruw and was the top player on my draft board last summer when he went second overall behind Holliday. 1 overall pick in the 2021 draft, as an under slot choice that set up the rest of the Pirates' draft. His limitation is that he probably will hit just 10 to 15 homers annually, with more gap power than anything else. If you liked my joyful scouting report for 13th-ranked Oneil Cruz on last winter's list, you're going to love De La Cruz, because everyone I've talked to about Elly has mentioned Cruz as they are the only players anyone can think of who are even close to similar. As a 22-year-old in 2021 he was dealing, but made only 10 starts because of a bout with COVID-19. Hit: 40/45, Game Power: 55/65, Raw Power: 65/70, Speed: 40/35, Fielding: 45/50, Throwing: 55/55, Type: Powerlifter who catches and will hit 30 homers some day. Meyer was a personal favorite going back to his freshman year at Minnesota. His defense is fine, mostly fringy but can be average with some work, and his arm is plus. He has hit .271/.363/.491 with 40 homers and an 11% walk rate, 24% strikeout rate in 926 professional plate appearances, while being young for every level and playing in the infield. Veen was surprisingly not well-known as a tooled-up prep hitter in the Orlando, Florida, area until he announced himself on the national stage as a junior by taking Matt Allan deep on a 96 mph fastball while Allan was being heavily scouted as a first-round prospect. Even after recovering from COVID-19, his velo would tail off in some starts just before the draft, while his command would come and go. Get your favorite live sports, stories and originals with ESPN+, Disney+ and Hulu. Valera has plus raw power and a very good approach: That's the stuff that matters. Like Peraza, Casas is likely to break camp with the big league team after a successful 2022 audition: I'd expect 20 homers and a strong on-base percentage in 2023. 2023 ESPN 100 Watchlist His fastball command is the main area for improvement, and he'll spend 2023 in the upper minors, where hitters are good enough to force him to improve. 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. 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. 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. Type: Probably a catcher, with 25-homer upside. Marte currently looks like an above-average hitter with above-average in-game power, but his physical development, ultimate defensive home and offensive approach will evolve over the coming years. Due to that risk and the low success rate of prep righties in general, he lasted until the 24th overall pick in the 2019 draft. It isn't a long-term concern, but he had surgery on his non-throwing shoulder before getting in a pro game. As he dials in his launch angle and offensive approach, there's a shot he hits 30-plus homers. Do we just comp them to a different player who would post a similar statline? He was a 22-year-old fifth-round pick in 2021, a pitch-to-contact starter from Cal State Fullerton who was mostly hitting 88-92 mph with good feel and a good changeup. Ramos also has 55-or-60-grade power while Mayo's is a grade or two better. De La Cruz actually hit over .300 at both High-A and Double-A last year in big samples. MLB's 100 Names You Need To Know For 2023: Orioles' Gunnar Henderson tops the list Gabe Lacques Scott Boeck Chris Bumbaca Steve Gardner Stephen Borelli Type: Mid-90s fastball with a plus-plus slider, recovering from Tommy John. Meyer should return this season and I'm still expecting him to be an impact starter with the backup plan of a standout closer. I tend to be more positive, especially with younger players, on issues like this because if a few teams really believe a prospect can stick at a position, there is a good chance he will. It's pretty universal now to project Quero as an above-average offensive threat with power, patience and contact skills, but reviews on his defense differ. He held serve all the way to draft day in 2021 as a toss-up with Jordan Lawlar for best prospect in the draft. St.)The Rays have a Logan Allen, too. He's a plus runner and big league caliber shortstop with an 80-grade arm, above average power potential and bat speed, along with plus foot speed. Type: Power fastball/slider with above-average command. Other tools like throwing for position players or off-speed pitches are more based on visual evaluations, but there are some objective figures to round observations up or down. I'm gonna stop you right there. 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. The flat fastball and uphill swing don't intersect for long, which means less contact. 15 overall. Its intent is to explain a player's ranking in a handful of simple words by saying they remind me of a current All-Star and have that as their high-risk upside, but you can also see why a lower-risk player might rank higher. Turang has been famous to scouts for years, looking like a real candidate to be the No. Casas has held serve due to a sweet swing and an elite hit/approach/power combination that has continued to make him look like an above-average everyday player even while he has long shown little to no speed or defensive value. Carroll has plus feel for getting the bat head on the ball but even better pitch selection. while run grades equate to specific times on a stopwatch, a 50 hit tool is about a .260 batting average, average fastball velocity is 92-93 depending on your role and handedness, and so on. As you'd probably guess, he's ranked up here now because his velocity is up from 90-92 mph in college to 93-96 mph, which plays as an above-average pitch. That vaulted him into 2022, when he excelled at High-A and Double-A, putting him on track to reach the majors in late 2023 or early 2024. He's a jacked, squatty prospect who will play a corner-outfield spot and while we need to see more than the 84 professional games he has played, all the information we have is pretty exciting. Hayden Wesneski, RHP, Chicago Cubs He also has a slider and changeup that both flash above average but are rarely used. They come and go a bit, but there's plenty to like here for a pitcher who could get an extended look in the big league rotation for the exciting D-backs. Now let's move on to ranking baseball's top 100 prospects entering the 2023 MLB season. He has always shown above-average raw power and pitch selection, along with around average bat control, so he profiles as an everyday player at any position, with hope that the overall defensive package will be at least average. Jameson was a risky No. To wit, two clubs that evaluate players in similar ways gave me wildly different feedback: One said he's probably not a catcher and to move him off the top 100, while another said he belonged in the top 30 spots. Grayson Rodriguez, RHP, Orioles. For two offseasons now, a group of star shortstops has dominated free agency. The 2023 fantasy baseball season is here! He will likely find a happy medium on the contact vs. power spectrum in the coming years, but even when striking out a lot, Williams had above-average pitch selection. Collier went to junior college and reclassified into the 2022 draft class, but Johnson won the draft head-to-head. Where all squads stand now that the biggest free agents are off the board following this year's free agency frenzy. Wood still swung and missed too often the summer after signing, but his approach clicked in 2022 to the point that he was done a disservice not being promoted to High-A by Washington after being the headliner in the Juan Soto trade (ahead of Robert Hassell and Jarlin Susana, both later on this list, and MacKenzie Gore, who has graduated but was on last year's list). to Washington. 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. The concern from scouts, some of whom thought Collier was a late-first-round talent because of this, is that he isn't that explosive, with below-average speed, just OK lateral mobility at third base, and solid-average raw power. Mayer has the choice to lean more into power or contact, but either way he will come with defensive value, like Yelich did in the outfield. Pro scouts have been doing backflips since his 28-game stint in Low-A, praising Rushing to the point where I just threw out my pre-draft eval and accepted I was too light, just like a number of teams were. Cavalli showed athleticism, arm speed and aptitude to dream on in high school and early in his career at Oklahoma, then broke out leading up to No. First base isn't the only option -- some scouts thought Soderstrom could play third at draft time, so don't rule out other corner spots. Alex Ramirez, CF, New York Mets Type: If it all clicks, it looks like Max Scherzer. As a prep draft prospect in 2019, Volpe was seen as a skills-over-tools type with good makeup that was a likely big leaguer, but without big upside in large part because of the power ceiling due to his size (listed at 5-foot-11, 180 pounds.). He also hit nine homers and had a .492 on-base percentage, showing easy plus raw power and huge exit velos -- so some truly wacky stuff. 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. Type: Another out-of-nowhere college pitcher for Cleveland. His 2022 season at Triple-A was a step forward, with those tools all becoming more evident in his surface stats and the underlying numbers. The real reason for excitement here, like during that initial pitch by an agent, is that after a strong first full pro season, Montgomery may now have plus bat control, pitch selection, bat speed, and raw power -- so it's just a matter of how he wants to use those abilities at the plate, to be more contact- or power-oriented. He also stole 28 bases and still looks like an above-average defender at shortstop, so all the elements are here. ESPN releases top 100 prospects for 2023 here's where the Hit: 30/40, Game Power: 40/65, Raw Power: 65/70, Speed: 70/70, Fielding: 45/55, Throwing: 45/45, Reminds me of: A sealed mystery bag of fireworks with a wick sticking out, I wasn't sure where to put Chourio so I sent this list around for thoughts with him here, and nobody told me to move him. 13 overall in last summer's draft. Expectations have come down a bit as Veen looks more like he might give you 55-grade tools across the board as a right fielder, which is a good-not-great player -- though there's still some chance he could still develop into a middle-of-the-order terror. The company says itll pay $250,000 for the card if its Flores is on a path to go from a completely anonymous junior college pitcher to a top-100 prospect making his big league debut in a three-year span. Naylor was a first-round pick out of a Canadian high school (in 2018), like his older brother and Guardians teammate Josh (in 2015). That said, there's also a compelling argument that Carroll offers value in more facets. Grades for trades & signings For the top tier of prospects, I present their tools as 45/60 meaning presently it's a 45 and projects to a 60 at maturity. He followed that with an excellent summer and went ninth overall in the 2020 draft. Dave & Adams Card World has announced a bounty on the autographed 1/1 SuperFractor in 2023 Bowman. Cue the "how do they keep getting away with this" memes. He doesn't really use a changeup but more starters are now going multiple innings with two distinct breaking pitches, like Flores has. Matthew Liberatore, LHP, St. Louis Cardinals. 42 overall pick, mainly because of questions about his ability to make contact and stick at shortstop long term. Esteury Ruiz, CF, Oakland Athletics Ranking the top MLB prospects for all 15 NL teams, roughly the 200th-ranked prospect in basebal. I find it difficult to come up with comparisons for the players at the top of these lists as they are outliers in many ways, which you then have to compare among the other outliers in the big leagues, and they rarely match up perfectly to another player. Baltimore could be a scary team at the major league level sooner than you might think. At Louisville, Miller had some relief risk due to his delivery, but he had power stuff and went 29th overall in 2020. Winn also has a history and even some pro experience on the mound, where he sits in the mid-90's and will show a 70-grade breaking ball. Type: Flashes three plus pitches, athleticism and starter command. Reminds me of: If you put at shrink ray on Bryce Harper, trading some power for a lot more speed. Which teams came out on top and who lost big? That's largely the way things have gone from a performance standpoint, but with Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt getting MVP votes on long-term deals ahead of him, the Cards moved him to the outfield part time in the 2022 regular season and then exclusively in the outfield in the Arizona Fall League. Unlike Cartaya, Soderstrom is seen by many as a likely first baseman. Throw a dart.". 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. Type: Power-over-hit third baseman with a solid glove. 3 or 4 in a rotation looking most likely. Lesko was on the national scouting scene as early as his freshman year in high school, when he was sitting in the low-90s, mixing in a plus changeup and understandably putting up goofy numbers. In the 2020 draft, Tiedemann was an intriguing 17-year-old prep lefty whose price wasn't met. Wicks went No. Prospect Rankings Depth Charts MLB Players Our experts predict every series, Memphis wasn't 'fine in the West' -- getting there hinges on massive culture questions, Why the Lakers' real test begins now, after dispatching the No. Rocchio doesn't come with sexy upside as he's 5-10 and his best selling points are plus contact skills, a solid approach and a steady glove at shortstop. Garcia is a plus hitter with an excellent approach and a steady glove at shortstop, but below-average in-game power. When you throw in his speed, it adds up to a lot of long counts, infield singles and bloopers that turn into doubles. In his first full minor league season, Sweeney hit better than league average at High-A and got a late promotion to Double-A. The issue now is that the track record of pitchers with that title isn't great. St. Louis took him a bit earlier than some thought he would go at 21st overall, and he immediately made the Cardinals look smart by putting up startling exit velocities while bullying pitchers years older than him and reaching Double-A in 2022 as a teenager. 1, Panthers' Bryce Young is all 'business now', XFL semifinals: Defenders roll Sea Dragons, set up title showdown with Renegades. 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.
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