2024 Prospect Power Rankings

[Tony-OH]

12 hours ago, Baseball fandom said:

With all the graduations the last couple of years this list is starting to look less and less impressive but  that's a good thing. Now it's time for these younger newer guys to make a name for themselves. 

Yes, the list is certainly drying up of potential impact prospects, but it does seem deeper is interesting International players with upside.

Hopefully someone from the 2024 draft class will do something to stand out as well. 

[sportsfan8703]

9 hours ago, Tony-OH said:

Yes, the list is certainly drying up of potential impact prospects, but it does seem deeper is interesting International players with upside.

Hopefully someone from the 2024 draft class will do something to stand out as well. 

Kjerstad is kind of a forgotten guy because of the head injury, and that he graduated from the list, but he’s an impact guy that is a direct replacement for Santander. 

Mullins is our next position player FA, so Elias went out and drafted three of the best defensive CF in the last two drafts.  Plus, we have Fabian as a potential Slater/Mckenna type. 

Overall, since the offseason, the org has graduated Holliday, Kjerstad, Povich, and Cowser. Plus traded Stowers, Norby, Baumeister, Cook, Horvath, Etzel, and Moises Chace. That’s 11 guys right there. 

Also, it doesn’t seem like a struggle to do a top 40, which is a good thing. Maybe 30-40 are all about the same, but then again the 11 guys from above aren’t here. 

I like where we’re at. We had to trade Baumeister, Horvath, Etzel, Stowers, and Norby, because of the all the SP injuries. I’m sure we’d all be happier with a healthy Bradish, Grayson, Means, and those 5 traded prospects still here. That’s just the nature of “competing”. 

There’s about 29 teams in MLB that would trade places with us for our top 2, versus what their top 2 is. Red Sox being the team that might choose to keep theirs. 

[Flash- bd]

On 9/3/2024 at 1:40 PM, Tony-OH said:

Yes, the list is certainly drying up of potential impact prospects, but it does seem deeper is interesting International players with upside.

Hopefully someone from the 2024 draft class will do something to stand out as well. 

Feels like there's a decent chance one of the young LATAM players will establish himself as a legitimate top 100 prospect, next season, no? Between Liranzo, Morfe, Almeyda, Sosa, Stiven Martínez, Estrada, De Leon etc., seems a decent bet to think we might get a legitimate big prospect out of one of them, no? (Don't know much about Elvin García, Emilio Sánchez, or Nestor Germán, or Cartaya...search of the forum didn't come up with much on them, so interested if you feel like telling us a bit about any of them!) 

[Tony-OH]

14 hours ago, Flash- bd said:

Feels like there's a decent chance one of the young LATAM players will establish himself as a legitimate top 100 prospect, next season, no? Between Liranzo, Morfe, Almeyda, Sosa, Stiven Martínez, Estrada, De Leon etc., seems a decent bet to think we might get a legitimate big prospect out of one of them, no? (Don't know much about Elvin García, Emilio Sánchez, or Nestor Germán, or Cartaya...search of the forum didn't come up with much on them, so interested if you feel like telling us a bit about any of them!) 

I'll have a lot more on the International players during the top 75 write ups.

There is definitely talent with upside in the group you mentioned and I'd add Cuevas and Arias to that list as well.

[sportsfan8703]

Mayo will retain his prospect eligibility over the winter because he won’t have the necessary 45 days on the active roster to make him lose that eligibility. 

1st stint: 8/2-8/15

2nd stint: 9/1- 9/29

Meaning he will be eligible for prospect lists this winter, and eligible for ROY next season. 

[Baseball fandom]

On 9/5/2024 at 9:34 AM, Tony-OH said:

I'll have a lot more on the International players during the top 75 write ups.

There is definitely talent with upside in the group you mentioned and I'd add Cuevas and Arias to that list as well.

It's definitely a list one has to get use to getting familiar with compare to the names we were used to over the past few years. Thanks for the hard work you put into this. 

[sportsfan8703]

McDermott coming back from the injury puts him into the conversation for the #3 spot behind Basallo and Mayo. 

He’s pretty much a fully baked arm versus two questionable hit tool CFs. It’s up in there air, and everyone has their preferences, but #3 isn’t a slam dunk, or even just who should be higher ranked from those 3. 

[btdart20]

7 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

McDermott coming back from the injury puts him into the conversation for the #3 spot behind Basallo and Mayo. 

He’s pretty much a fully baked arm versus two questionable hit tool CFs. It’s up in there air, and everyone has their preferences, but #3 isn’t a slam dunk, or even just who should be higher ranked from those 3. 

EBJ is an easy #3 for me.  He started checking boxes more frequently as the season wore on.  

But agree that the fully baked factor is a booster for org value.

[Baseball fandom]

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 Sep 2nd) 

RK	Name	POS	Prev		Team	INJ
1	Coby Mayo	3B/1B	2		Baltimore
2	Samuel Basallo	C	3		Nor (AAA)
3	Enrique Bradfield Jr.	CF	5		BOW (AA)
4	Vance Honeycutt	OF	4		ABN (A+)
5	Griff O'Ferrall	SS	6		ABN (A+)
6	Ethan Anderson	C	8		ABN (A+)
7	Brandon Young	RHP	10		Nor (AAA)
8	Chayce McDermott	RHP	9		Nor (AAA)	7-Day IL
9	Dylan Beavers	OF	11		BOW (AA)
10	Michael Forret	RHP	12		ABN (A+)
11	Keeler Morfe	RHP	13		DEL (A)
12	Patrick Reilly	RHP	14		BOW (AA)
13	Stiven Martinez	OF	15		DSL Orange
14	Aron Estrada	INF/OF	16		ABN (A+)
15	Austin Overn	OF	17		ABN (A+)
16	Elvin Garcia	SS	23		DSL Black
17	Leandro Arias	SS	21		ABN (A+)
18	Emilio Sanchez	SS	22		DSL Orange
19	Luis Almeyda	SS	24		FCL O's
20	Joshua Liranzo	3B	25		FCL O's
21	Nestor German	RHP	26		ABN (A+)
22	Cameron Weston	RHP	18		BOW (AA)
23	Luis DeLeon	LHP	19		ABN (A+)
24	Trace Bright	RHP	20		BOW (AA)
25	Creed Willems	C	37		BOW (AA)
26	Jud Fabian	OF	27		Nor (AAA)
27	Jordan Sanchez	CF	28		DSL Orange
28	Juan Nunez	RHP	29		ABN (A+)	60-day IL
29	Reed Trimble	OF	30		BOW (AA)	7-Day IL
30	Yeiber Cartaya	RHP	31		DEL (A)
31	Edgar Portes	RHP	33		ABN (A+)
32	Miguel Rodriguez	C	34		DEL (A)
33	Trey Gibson	RHP	35		ABN (A+)
34	Adriander Mejia	C	36		DSL Orange
35	Thomas Sosa	OF	32		ABN (A+)
36	Kevin Velasco	RHP	38		DSL Orange
37	Alex Pham	RHP	39		BOW (AA)
38	Ryan Stafford	C/INF	40		DEL (A)
39	Braxton Bragg	RHP	UR		DEL (A)
40	Elis Cuevas	IF/OF	UR		DEL (A)
	Bubble Players
	Justin Armbruester	RHP			Nor (AAA)
	Kade Strowd	RHP			Nor (AAA)
	Tavian Josenberger	2B			BOW (AA)	60-day IL
	Max Wagner	3B			BOW (AA)	7-Day IL
	Levi Stoudt	RHP			BOW (AA)
	Silas Ardoin	C			BOW (AA)
	Frederick Bencosme	2B			BOW (AA)
	Yaqui Rivera	RHP			ABN (A+)
	Zach Fruit	RHP			ABN (A+)
	Randy Berigüete	RHP			DEL (A)
	Braylin Tavera	CF			DEL (A)
	Jacob Cravey	RHP			DEL (A)
	Edwin Amparo	2B			DEL (A)
	Jesus Palacios	RHP			FCL O's
	Francisco Morao	RHP			FCL O's
	Andy Fabian	LHP			DSL Black
	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
	Adrian Heredia	RHP			DSL Orange

Tony your last update was Sept 2 is this your final report for the year? Thank you for your tireless work all summer keeping us updated.