With the motion of the 2023 season within the rearview mirror and nearly a month to go earlier than Spring Coaching video games get underway, the reveal of MLB Pipeline’s High 100 Prospects listing for 2024 is imminent.
Watch MLB Community’s Greg Amsinger and Steve Phillips depend down the listing with Pipeline’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo at 7 p.m. ET on Friday.
It is the twentieth anniversary of MLB.com’s first high prospects listing, and the 2024 version of our High 100 Prospects guarantees to be as stacked with game-changing expertise as any.
Who will probably be No. 1 this 12 months? Who will make the most important leap? Who’s taking a step again? And which prospects have cracked the listing for the primary time?
Solutions are coming Friday night.
How the High 100 is decided
The MLB Pipeline workforce compiles the rankings utilizing enter from business sources, together with scouts, scouting administrators and different evaluators. The rankings are an combination evaluation, taking the gamers’ ability set, upside, proximity to the Majors and potential fast influence to their groups under consideration.
The listing solely consists of gamers with rookie standing in 2024, that means gamers who debuted in ’23 however didn’t accumulate the service time (45 days on the lively roster), at-bats (130) or innings pitched (50) to graduate are eligible once more this 12 months. First-year gamers who fall outdoors of the worldwide pool cash guidelines specified by the Collective Bargaining Settlement — that’s, who’re no less than 23 years previous and performed in worldwide leagues deemed skilled — usually are not eligible. That excludes some older rookies debuting after careers in locations like Japan, Korea and Cuba, like Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
Former MLB No. 1 prospects
Former No. 1 prospects embody the likes of Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Joe Mauer and quite a few different gamers who depend MVP trophies, Cy Younger Awards or Rookie of the 12 months honors amongst their respective accomplishments. Final 12 months’s AL Rookie of the 12 months, Gunnar Henderson, was No. 64 when the 2022 listing was unveiled and topped the listing at the moment final 12 months.
MLB’s preseason No. 1 prospects by 12 months
2023: Gunnar Henderson, 3B/SS, BAL2022: Bobby Witt Jr., SS/3B, KC2021: Wander Franco, SS, TB2020: Wander Franco, SS, TB2019: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 3B, TOR2018: Shohei Ohtani, RHP/OF, LAA2017: Andrew Benintendi, OF, BOS2016: Corey Seager, SS, LAD2015: Byron Buxton, OF, MIN2014: Byron Buxton, OF, MIN2013: Jurickson Profar, SS, TEX2012: Matt Moore, LHP, TB2011: Mike Trout, OF, LAA2010: Jason Heyward, OF, ATL2009: David Worth, LHP, TB2008: Jay Bruce, OF, CIN2007: Delmon Younger, OF, TB2006: Delmon Younger, OF, TB2005: Delmon Younger, OF, TB2004: Joe Mauer, C, MIN
