Who loves Top 100 prospect lists?! There are a lot of prospect lists out there these days, but readers still eat them up as they want to see their favorite prospects recognized. These lists also give us a sense of how good farm systems are across the league and to help us see who the names to watch are as we watch this game that we all love (although based on the team and/or the person, the level to which that love is healthy is certainly in question).
The concept behind this is very simple: I took 5 current Top 100 lists that are generally considered to be well-regarded (Baseball Prospectus, Baseball America, Keith Law, MLB Pipeline, Minor League Ball/John Sickels) and then made a composite list by assigning each player they ranked points and then adding them all together to get a player's raw score. Then, they were ranked to create a top 100 composite list.
The previous installment of this list did not include the rankings from Minor League Ball/John Sickels but now that his list is out (he created a top 175 prospect list with a bunch of realistic honorable mentions....seriously, Sickels is a mad man) I wanted to go ahead and put an update out there. Fangraphs still has yet to release its top 100 prospect list and frankly I have no idea when that will happen based on how their top 20 prospect lists by team have been coming out. Scout.com also released a top 100 list some time ago, but my spreadsheet was already made and macroed and whatnot so I haven't put it in there, although if I can find an easy fix to that without breaking the whole sheet I will add that one in as well.
My goal is to get a spreadsheet version with all of the rankings that people can fiddle with and make that available, but I have yet to find an easy way to do that. For those that are interested, Braves players are in bold italics.
- Corey Seager 500
- Byron Buxton 490
- Lucas Giolito 488
- Julio Urias 482
- Yoan Moncada 465
- JP Crawford 465
- Tyler Glasnow 462
- Alex Reyes 459
- Orlando Arcia 458
- Joey Gallo 454
- Dansby Swanson 435
- Blake Snell 431
- Nomar Mazara 430
- Trea Turner 424
- Steven Matz 421
- Rafael Devers 412
- Jose Berrios 406
- Austin Meadows 395
- Lewis Brinson 395
- Brendan Rodgers 384
- Andrew Benintendi 383
- Bradley Zimmer 378
- Franklin Barreto 376
- Alex Bregman 366
- Sean Newcomb 357
- Jose De Leon 356
- Robert Stephenson 352
- AJ Reed 336
- Gleyber Torres 335
- Tim Anderson 309
- Francis Martes 308
- Ozhaino Albies 306
- Anderson Espinoza 302
- Max Kepler 299
- Manuel Margot 287
- Nick Williams 283
- Raul Mondesi 283
- Clint Frazier 280
- Jesse Winkler 280
- Jon Gray 277
- Sean Manaea 270
- Aaron Blair 264
- Anthony Alford 263
- Cody Reed 262
- David Dahl 262
- Aaron Judge 262
- Brett Phillips 261
- Jorge Mateo 261
- Ryan McMahon 260
- Victor Robles 248
- Dillon Tate 247
- Josh Bell 243
- Brent Honeywell 227
- Javier Guerra 225
- Jorge Lopez 208
- Jeff Hoffman 207
- Willson Contreras 203
- Braden Shipley 200
- Gary Sanchez 196
- Michael Fulmer 186
- Jake Thompson 177
- Carson Fulmer 168
- Grant Holmes 163
- Dominic Smith 159
- Willy Adames 149
- Amir Garrett 148
- Kolby Allard 148
- Taylor Guerrieri 147
- Christian Arroyo 140
- Nick Gordon 140
- Luis Ortiz 136
- Amed Rosario 129
- Ian Happ 127
- Jose Peraza 124
- Jameson Taillon 111
- Kyle Tucker 109
- Kenta Maeda 105
- Archie Bradley 105
- Trent Clark 103
- Tyler Jay 102
- Hector Olivera 101
- Mark Appel 101
- Joe Musgrove 83
- Raimel Tapia 82
- Alex Verdugo 80
- Kevin Newman 78
- Mike Clevinger 73
- Jacob Nottingham 73
- Billy McKinney 72
- Kyle Zimmer 71
- Josh Hader 70
- Daz Cameron 69
- Bobby Bradley 68
- Hunter Harvey 60
- Cody Bellinger 56
- Jorge Alfaro 55
- Michael Feliz 50
- James Kaprelian 49
- Phil Bickford 48
- Kohl Stewart 48
The updates to this are very interesting given the effects that Sickels' list had on the rankings. Corey Seager is still unanimously the number one prospect in all of baseball, but Sickels was the first evaluator in the composite to not have Buxton at number 2 (he had Glasnow in that spot and had Buxton in 7th). He also had Dansby Swanson as the number 5 prospect in all of baseball, the highest Dansby has been ranked by any publication. Jose Berrios and Sean Manaea got healthy bumps from Sickels' ranking as well as well as several off-the-radar picks such as Michael Feliz and Mike Clevinger.
Okay, for you non-Braves fans out there, you are welcome to stop reading here.
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Now that those losers (kidding!...kinda) are gone, here are the interesting Braves-related bits about the current version of the composite list. The Braves currently have 6 players in the composite top 100 including the very soon to graduate Hector Olivera despite the fact that he did only appeared on two lists total. Prospects that could easily gain top 100 consideration other than the above names includes Lucas Sims, Mike Soroka, and Ronald Acuna as well.
Other Braves that have been ranked by at least one of the lists but are not in the top 100 include Touki Toussaint, Austin Riley, and Max Fried. Within the next few weeks, prospects will be graduating at a high rate of speed from prospect lists and by midseason we will have a whole new set of prospect lists to consider. For now though, its nice to be able to look at an aggregate form of the lists out there to get a general idea of what the industry consensus is about the prospects throughout the league.