2024 Prospect Power Rankings

[Say O!]

2 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Thanks for the info.  Holliday, Mayo, and Basallo are currently 1, 11, and 14, on mlbpipeline's top 100 right now.  Mayo and Basallo should go up.  You couldn't put up better numbers in AAA than what Mayo did.  Basallo is one of the best players in AA ball at 19.  

I am not expecting much movement in the top20 or so prospects since they re-ranked earlier this year (Basallo and Mayo got bumps then),none have exhausted rookie eligibility since, and the top 2024 draft guys are not of same caliber as last season (Skenes, Langford, Crews, etc)

[Rbiggs2525]

5 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

I hope they're lottery tickets, and not just a product of graduating bats and trading bats/arms.  The list is definitely very international with a lot of NCAA SP recent draftees.  The end of the year list might be Basallo, EBJ vs Honeycutt for #2, then throw a dart for the order of 7-30.

I would include Honeycutt but we have a ton of players with high upside. The low minors will be filled with them. Here are just a few names.

 

George

Layton

Martinez

Emilio Sanchez

Jordan Sanchez

Elvin Garcia

Almeida

 

[Tony-OH]

Last 10 days

[sportsfan8703]

Maybe I’m in the minority here, but it sort of seems that with all of the older/advanced prospects that either are on the MLB club/or got traded, that now we get to take a long look at some guys that were overlooked because of how spoiled we’ve been with top top prospects. 

Guys like Estrada, Josenberger, and/or Stiven Martinez. 

Take Martinez for example, recently when have we ever had our big 16 year old, ranked signing, actually come out the gates and perform?  Martinez has done that.

Then I see the new tiers of the system regarding hitters,

Tier One - Basallo

Tier Two - Honeycutt and EBJ

Tier Three - Estrada, Martinez, Beavers, and O’Ferrell

Tier Four - Fabian, Willems, Josenberger, Overn, Anderson, and then maybe the top 2-3 Delmarva/DSL bats. Like Sosa and Arias.

Tier Five - DJ Layton, the other Delmarva/DSL bats. 

Edited August 15 by sportsfan8703

[Say O!]

On 8/12/2024 at 10:14 AM, Say O! said:

FYI, MLB Pipeline (Callis & Mayo) intend to re-rank the top100, team top30, and overall farm systems this week. 

Here are the links to the MLB Pipeline re-rank

• Top 100 and corresponding write-up.  O’s have Holliday (#1), Mayo (#10), Basallo (#11)
• O’s top 30 and corresponding write-up.  O’s top10 goes Holliday, Mayo, Basallo, Honeycutt, Povich, EBJ, McDermott, Beavers, O’Ferrall, Nunez.

From the O’s write-up

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Jump: Stiven Martinez, OF (Preseason: NR | Midseason: 12)
A native of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Martinez signed with the O’sfor $950,000 in January. The 6-foot-4, 198-pound outfielder was the No. 28 international prospect at the time. Over his first 36 games in the Dominican Summer League this year, the 17-year-old Martinez slashed .284/.418/.466 with four doubles, four triples, three home runs and 27 RBIs.

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Fall: Luis Almeyda, SS (Preseason: 20 | Midseason: NR)
Almeyda signed with the Orioles for $2.3 million in January 2023, the most given to an international signee in franchise history. The 6-foot-2, 180-pound shortstop was born in Paterson, N.J., before his family moved back to the D.R. Almeyda struggled a bit after returning stateside, hitting .200 with a .653 OPS over 53 games in the Florida Complex League this year.

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Here are the players added to the Top 30 from outside the organization:

No. 4: Vance Honeycutt, OF (Draft, first round)
No. 9: Griff O’Ferrall, SS (Draft, Prospect Promotion Incentive pick)
No. 15: Ethan Anderson, C/1B (Draft, second round)
No. 16: Patrick Reilly, RHP (Trade with Pirates on July 30)
No. 19: Austin Overn, OF (Draft, third round)

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Best Tools

Hit: 70 -- Holliday
Power: 65 -- Mayo
Run: 80 -- Enrique Bradfield Jr.
Arm: 70 -- Mayo
Defense: 70 -- Bradfield (Honeycutt)
Fastball: 70 -- Keeler Morfe
Curveball: 60 -- Trace Bright
Slider: 60 -- Chayce McDermott
Changeup: 55 -- Povich
Control: 50 -- Povich

 

[HowAboutThat]

After seeing Povich pitch, if he’s #5, the Os have fallen a long way.

[Frobby]

On 8/12/2024 at 1:36 PM, sportsfan8703 said:

Thanks for the info.  Holliday, Mayo, and Basallo are currently 1, 11, and 14, on mlbpipeline's top 100 right now.  Mayo and Basallo should go up.  You couldn't put up better numbers in AAA than what Mayo did.  Basallo is one of the best players in AA ball at 19.  

You could put up better numbers than a .935 fielding percentage at 3B and a .956 at 1B.   You could do better than having your pitching staff do 1.5 runs per game when you catch.  

It boggles my mind how people ignore bad defense when assessing prospects.  

I think Basallo has a good shot at top 5 when new rankings come out, but I don’t think Mayo will.   

 

[Rbiggs2525]

3 hours ago, Frobby said:

You could put up better numbers than a .935 fielding percentage at 3B and a .956 at 1B.   You could do better than having your pitching staff do 1.5 runs per game when you catch.  

It boggles my mind how people ignore bad defense when assessing prospects.  

I think Basallo has a good shot at top 5 when new rankings come out, but I don’t think Mayo will.   

 

I think they just did and take with grain of salt. Mayo 10 and Basallo 11. The reason I say take with grain of salt is no Aron Estrada in top 30.

[bpilktree67]

50 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

I think they just did and take with grain of salt. Mayo 10 and Basallo 11. The reason I say take with grain of salt is no Aron Estrada in top 30.

Yeah did they just forget Estrada.  There is no way he not at least a top 30 guy in the organization, and if he is then the organization is really stacked. lol.  

[sportsfan8703]

21 hours ago, Frobby said:

You could put up better numbers than a .935 fielding percentage at 3B and a .956 at 1B.   You could do better than having your pitching staff do 1.5 runs per game when you catch.  

It boggles my mind how people ignore bad defense when assessing prospects.  

I think Basallo has a good shot at top 5 when new rankings come out, but I don’t think Mayo will.   

 

Of course defense with Mayo. I thought that was obvious. We could mention that every time about him. With a healthy Westburg at 3B, Holliday at 2B, and Gunnar at SS, Mayo’s role with us is at 1B to replace Mounty/O’Hearn. 

A guy that we’ve been sleeping on, for obvious reasons, is Stiven Martinez. We almost never see one of our 16 year old signings have the season he is having in the DSL. 

Anyword on us being linked to any of the new J2 signings for the 2025 class?  I’d love to see us finally land a top 10 dude, but I’m thrilled with the work Perez is doing down there. 

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, sportsfan8703 said:

 

A guy that we’ve been sleeping on, for obvious reasons, is Stiven Martinez. We almost never see one of our 16 year old signings have the season he is having in the DSL. 

 

Personally, I haven’t been sleeping on Martinez.  I’ve mentioned him several times in the DSL thread.  But everyone’s under the radar down there.   I’m betting Tony’s list will have a heavy sprinkling of DSL/FCL guys, with the top levels of our system thinned out from graduations and trades.  

[Tony-OH]

On 3/29/2024 at 8:43 PM, Tony-OH said:

These "power rankings" are a fun way to track prospects throughout the year. They are not "official" prospect rankings that are completed at the end of the year after a full evaluations. To be eligible for the list, a player must play at least one game on an active roster. (Updated as of Aug 12th) 

RK	Name	POS	Prev		Team	INJ
1	Jackson Holliday	SS	1		Baltimore
2	Coby Mayo	3B/1B	2		Baltimore
3	Samuel Basallo	C	3		BOW (AA)
4	Enrique Bradfield Jr.	CF	4		ABN (A+)
5	Chayce McDermott	RHP	5		Nor (AAA)	7-Day IL
6	Michael Forret	RHP	6		ABN (A+)
7	Aron Estrada	INF/OF	7		ABN (A+)
8	Cade Povich	LHP	9		Nor (AAA)
9	Dylan Beavers	OF	8		BOW (AA)
10	Keeler Morfe	RHP	28		DEL (A)
11	Patrick Reilly	RHP	10		BOW (AA)
12	Cameron Weston	RHP	11		BOW (AA)
13	Luis DeLeon	LHP	12		ABN (A+)
14	Brandon Young	RHP	16		Nor (AAA)
15	Trace Bright	RHP	14		BOW (AA)
16	Stiven Martinez	OF	27		DSL Orange
17	Thomas Sosa	OF	13		DEL (A)
18	Leandro Arias	SS	15		DEL (A)
19	Edgar Portes	RHP	17		ABN (A+)
20	Emilio Sanchez	SS	18		DSL Orange
21	Elvin Garcia	SS	22		DSL Black
22	Luis Almeyda	SS	19		FCL O's
23	Joshua Liranzo	3B	20		FCL O's
24	Miguel Rodriguez	C	21		FCL O's
25	Jordan Sanchez	CF	23		DSL Orange
26	Trey Gibson	RHP	24		ABN (A+)
27	Nestor German	RHP	25		DEL (A)
28	Jud Fabian	OF	26		BOW (AA)
29	Creed Willems	C	29		ABN (A+)
30	Tavian Josenberger	2B	32		ABN (A+)
31	Yeiber Cartaya	RHP	39		DEL (A)
32	Elis Cuevas	IF/OF	30		FCL O's
33	Adriander Mejia	C	31		DSL Orange
34	Reed Trimble	OF	33		ABN (A+)
35	Kevin Velasco	RHP	38		DSL Orange
36	Yaqui Rivera	RHP	34		ABN (A+)
37	Silas Ardoin	C	35		BOW (AA)
38	Andy Fabian	LHP	36		DSL Black
39	Frederick Bencosme	2B	40		BOW (AA)
40	Alex Pham	RHP	UR		BOW (AA)
	Bubble Players
	Justin Armbruester	RHP	37		Nor (AAA)
	Kade Strowd	RHP			Nor (AAA)
	Max Wagner	3B			BOW (AA)	7-Day IL
	Levi Stoudt	RHP			BOW (AA)
	Zach Fruit	RHP			ABN (A+)
	Braxton Bragg	RHP			DEL (A)
	Braylin Tavera	CF			DEL (A)
	Jacob Cravey	RHP			DEL (A)
	Edwin Amparo	2B			DEL (A)
	Elis Cuevas	OF			FCL O's
	Jesus Palacios	RHP			FCL O's
	Francisco Morao	RHP			FCL O's
	Esteban Luna	RHP			DSL Black
	Esteban Mejia	RHP			DSL Black
	José Mejia	2B			DSL Black
	Félix Amparo	INF			DSL Black
	Jemone Nuel	INF			DSL Black
	Saul Gomez	3B/1B			DSL Orange
	Luis Guevara	INF			DSL Orange
	Adriander Mejia	C			DSL Orange
	Adrian Heredia	RHP			DSL Orange

 

Tracking purposes before Draftees.

[Tony-OH]

New draftees placements are very preliminary.

[sportsfan8703]

Holliday is around 20 ABs short of losing his prospect eligibility. Povich is 6.1 IP shy. Honeycutt should debut. 

We could get our first glimpse of something similar to our offseason top 10 next update. 

Will Basallo be promoted to AAA?  

[Aristotelian]

On 8/20/2024 at 8:50 AM, Tony-OH said:

New draftees placements are very preliminary.

Good to see the aggressive placements for Griff and Ethan Anderson. I assume Honeycutt will be top 10-ish once we see him play? So far so good with Griff and EA at Delmarva.