Everyone Else’s Top
Prospects
February 29, 2016
This is the time of year when most of the
major baseball sites come out with their top prospect lists. As with any attempt to rank people,
there’s quite a bit of subjectivity and conjecture involved. With this endeavor in particular there
is a considerable amount of cross-purposes at work. For example, some lists rank players
according to their perceived immediate value to their parent club while others
grade how much of an impact they’ll have during the peak years of their
career. Within those
circles in the Venn diagram there is additional grading as to the likelihood
that each player will reach that projection. Some lists heavily consider a player’s
ability with the glove while others pay only a passing mention of it. So comparing these lists can create
quite a bit of confusion, especially when the purpose of doing so might be
something entirely different, like drafting for a fantasy team.
This is an aggregate list of all the major
prospect lists, weighting their selections based on the track record and
reputation of the list makers (for example, Baseball America’s list will carry
more weight than Prospect 361’s list). This combined the rankings from Baseball America, Baseball HQ, Baseball Prospectus, CBS Sportsline,
Fake Teams, Fangraphs, Keith Law, MLB.com, Prospect 361,
Scout.com, The Sporting
News and Top Prospect Alert.
I’ll follow it up sometime later this month with my own list of the top
prospects. I’ll go into the
methodology of my own list more when I post it.
So without further adieu, here are the top 100 prospects in baseball according to the top prospect evaluators in the media:
1)
Cory Seager, LAD
2)
Byron Buxton, MIN
3)
Lucas Giolito, WAS
4)
JP Crawford, PHI
5)
Julio Urias, LAD
6)
Yoan Moncada, BOS
7)
Alex Reyes, StL
8)
Tyler Glasnow, PIT
9)
Joey Gallo,
10)
Steven Matz, NYM
11)
12)
Blake Snell, TB
13)
Trea Turner, WAS
14)
15)
Dansby Swanson, ATL
16)
Rafael Devers, BOS
17)
Jose Berrios, MIN
18)
Brendan Rogers,
19)
Lewis Brinson,
20)
Bradley Zimmer, CLE
21)
22)
Andrew Benintendi, BOS
23)
AJ Reed, HOU
24)
Jose DeLeon, LAD
25)
Sean Newcomb, ATL
26)
Franklin Barreto, OAK
27)
Alex Bregman, HOU
28)
Robert Stephenson, CIN
29)
Gleyber Torres, CHC
30)
Tim Anderson, CHW
31)
Nick Williams, PHI
32)
David Dahl,
33)
Manuel Margot, SD
34)
Aaron Judge, NYY
35)
Clint Frazier, CLE
36)
Raul Mondesi, KC
37)
Jorge Mateo, NYY
38)
Josh Bell, PIT
39)
Max Kepler, MIN
40)
Anthony Alford, TOR
41)
Jesse Winker, CIN
42)
Ryan McMahon,
43)
Brett Phillips, MIL
44)
Victor Robles, WAS
45)
Ozzie Albies, ATL
46)
47)
Sean Maneea, OAK
48)
Cody Reed, CIN
49)
Dillon Tate,
50)
Aaron Blair, ATL
51)
Jake Thompson, PHI
52)
Jeff Hoffman,
53)
Willson Contreras, CHC
54)
55)
Grant Holmes, LAD
56)
Francis Martes, HOU
57)
Gary Sanchez, NYY
58)
Kyle Tucker, HOU
59)
Nick Gordon, MIN
60)
Brent Honeywell, TB
61)
Jon Gray,
62)
Dominic Smith, NYM
63)
Kyle Zimmer, KC
64)
Kolby Allard, ATL
65)
Michael Fulmer, DET
66)
Luis Ortiz,
67)
Jose Peraza, CIN
68)
Javier Guerra, SD
69)
Willy Adames, TB
70)
Jorge Lopez, MIL
71)
Ian Happ, CHC
72)
73)
Trent Clark, MIL
74)
Amir Garrett, CIN
75)
76)
Amed Rosario, NYM
77)
Hunter Renfroe, SD
78)
Mark Appel, PHI
79)
Jaimeson Taillon, PIT
80)
Christian Arroyo, SF
81)
Brady Aiken, CLE
82)
Jorge Alfaro, PHI
83)
Daz Cameron, HOU
84)
Tyler Jay, MIN
85)
Billy McKinney, CHC
86)
Hector Olivera, ATL
87)
Alex Jackson, SEA
88)
89)
Bobby Bradley, CLE
90)
Hunter Harvey, BAL
91)
Kenta Maeda, LAD
92)
Touki Toussaint, ATL
93)
Cody Bellinger, LAD
94)
Cornelius Randolph, PHI
95)
Dylan Bundy, BAL
96)
Brandon Drury, AZ
97)
Taylor Guerreri, TB
98)
Reynaldo Lopez, WAS
99)
Daniel Robertson, TB
100)
Jorge Polanco, MIN
