Watch Top 100 Prospects countdown Thursday on MLB Network
With the motion of the 2022 season a number of months within the rearview mirror and never fairly a month to go earlier than Spring Training video games get underway, the reveal of MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects record for 2023 is imminent.
Watch MLB Network’s Greg Amsinger and Steve Phillips rely down the record with perception from Pipeline’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo at 7 p.m. ET/4 PT on Thursday.
This will mark the twentieth 12 months MLB.com has put out a high prospects record, and the 2023 version of our Top 100 Prospects guarantees to be as stacked with game-changing expertise as any.
At the shut of the 2022 calendar 12 months, the highest spots have been crammed with a slew of potential MLB All-Stars who bought a style of the large leagues final 12 months (the Mets’ Francisco Álvarez, the Orioles’ Gunnar Henderson, the D-backs’ Corbin Carroll, the Cardinals’ Jordan Walker) and elite expertise from throughout the Minor Leagues (the Yankees’ Anthony Volpe, Red Sox counterpart Marcelo Mayer, the Marlins’ Eury Pérez, the Brewers’ Jackson Chourio).
Who might be No. 1? Who will make the most important leap? Who’s going through a step again? And which prospects have cracked the record for the primary time?
Answers are coming Thursday night.
How the Top 100 is decided
The MLB Pipeline crew compiles the rankings utilizing enter from trade sources, together with scouts, scouting administrators and different evaluators. The rankings are an mixture evaluation, taking the gamers’ ability set, upside, proximity to the Majors and potential speedy influence to their groups under consideration.
The record solely contains gamers with rookie standing in 2023, which means gamers who debuted in ’22 however didn’t accumulate the service time (45 days on the energetic roster), at-bats (130) or innings pitched (50) to graduate are eligible once more this 12 months. First-year gamers who fall exterior of the worldwide pool cash guidelines specified by the Collective Bargaining settlement — that’s, who’re at the least 23 years outdated and performed in worldwide leagues deemed skilled — aren’t eligible. That excludes some older rookies debuting after careers in locations like Japan, Korea and Cuba.
Former MLB No. 1 prospects
Former No. 1 prospects embrace the likes of Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Joe Mauer and quite a few different gamers who rely MVP trophies, Cy Young Awards or Rookie of the Year honors amongst their respective accomplishments. Last 12 months’s AL Rookie of the Year, Julio Rodríguez, was No. 18 when the 2020 record was unveiled, No. 5 initially of 2021 and No. 3 this time final 12 months.
MLB’s preseason No. 1 prospects by 12 months
2022: Bobby Witt Jr., SS/3B, KC
2021: Wander Franco, SS, TB
2020: Wander Franco, SS, TB
2019: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 3B, TOR
2018: Shohei Ohtani, RHP/OF, LAA
2017: Andrew Benintendi, OF, BOS
2016: Corey Seager, SS, LAD
2015: Byron Buxton, OF, MIN
2014: Byron Buxton, OF, MIN
2013: Jurickson Profar, SS, TEX
2012: Matt Moore, LHP, TB
2011: Mike Trout, OF, LAA
2010: Jason Heyward, OF, ATL
2009: David Price, LHP, TB
2008: Jay Bruce, OF, CIN
2007: Delmon Young, OF, TB
2006: Delmon Young, OF, TB
2005: Delmon Young, OF, TB
2004: Joe Mauer, C, MIN
