As OhioDodger indicated, Baseball America just published their top 100 prospects. Seattle led MLB with 7 prospects, no top 10, and only 1 top 50 prospect. The Dodgers and Tampa Bay each had 6 top 100 prospects. Like Seattle, Tampa Bay had no top 10, and 1 top 50 prospect.
Of the Dodgers’ six top 10, they had the #1 overall (Roki Sasaki – RHP) prospect. The Dodgers have four other top 51 prospects:
- Dalton Rushing – C/OF – #30
- Alex Freeland – SS – #46
- Josue De Paula – OF – #47
- Zyhir Hope – OF – #51
- Jackson Ferris – LHP – #82
The next group of teams with 5 top 100 prospects:
- Detroit
- Chicago White Sox
- Cleveland
- Chicago Cubs
The team with the most elite prospects is Boston with 3 of the top 15:
- Roman Anthony – OF – #2
- Kristian Campbell – 2B #4
- Marcelo Mayer – SS – #15
Detroit has had three highly regarded prospects in the top 25:
- Jackson Jobe – RHP – #3
- Max Clark – OF – #22
- Kevin McGonigle – #23
Detroit also had #69 top 100 prospect in former Dodger, Thayron Liranzo – C/1B/DH.
Detroit also had the #60 top 100 prospect. A local SS from Harvard Westlake who many were hoping would slide to LAD. But he shot up to the #11 overall pick in last year’s draft: Bryce Rainer. Rainer had a ton of helium over the last couple of months before the draft. He will be one that I follow in his career.
Every team had at least 1 top 100 prospect. In the NL West, Colorado has 3 top 100 prospects, San Diego and Arizona have 2, and San Francisco has 1 (Bryce Eldridge – 1B – #12.
Colorado is the only other NL West team with a top 10 prospect, Chase Dollander – RHP #8.
By Position:
- RHP – 23
- SS – 23
- OF – 20
- C – 11
- LHP – 6
- 2B – 6
- 1B – 6
- 3B – 5
Many of the SS prospects will eventually slide over to 2B and 3B. Some even to CF.
Geographically:
- USA – 76 prospects
- Dominican Republic – 12
- Venezuela – 4
- Japan – 1
- Panama – 1
- Colombia – 1
- Cuba – 1
- Canada – 1
- Italy – 1
- Australia – 1
- Bahamas – 1
MLB Pipeline has just completed their top 10 prospects by position. The Dodgers were represented by 5 players.
- Catcher – Dalton Rushing – #2
- OF – Josue De Paula – #9
- RHP – Roki Sasaki – #1
- LHP – Jackson Ferris – #5
- LHP – Justin Wrobleski – #7
On Friday, 4:00 PM PT, MLB Pipeline will be the next top 100 prospect list published.
I need to follow these kids more closely. Yahoo news reporting this morning that Yankee legend, Mariano Rivera and his wife have been named in a suit claiming sexual abuse of a 10-year-old girl who was a member of their church in New Rochelle New York. They are not the defendants but were named for their role in covering up the crime.
Tanner Scott officially signed.
Just a thought after another whirlwind week in Dodgerland.
In hindsight, given that AF appears to be carrying out his oft mentioned desire “to be pigs”, is it a bit of a surprise that he didn’t go the extra (albeit ridiculous) mile and lock up the generational talent that is Juan Soto? Not even in his prime, he would certainly have helped, along with the signings of Sasaki and Kim, the Dodgers to get younger.
Money and Luxury Taxes really don’t seem to be an issue so was wondering why he didn’t pull the trigger. On the other side of the coin, it’s seems incredible to me that Soto wouldn’t forgoe the extra dollars in exchange for potentially playing for a ring for the duration of his contract. He would never spend $600m (what AF allegedly offered) let alone the $700+M that he got from
the Mets, so why not get onboard if the offer was there?
Ive said all along that I feel a big trade or number of trades are coming – quite simply because we have too many players blocked, and no real pathway for them, particularly now on the SP
front.
A package or packages of this quality would bring back some very good MLB quality players.
I like the 3B at Colorado – McMahon, as well as Duran of Boston who Jeff mentioned.
Tanner Scott issued uni # 66.
Well, FWIW, I like neither the Scott nor the Yates signing.
but it’s worth bupkus
Prospect rankings are kind of like wealth distribution. You have the top 10%, the top 1% & then the top 1% of the 1%.
Having a top 50 prospect is pretty special. Rushing is #30 for example. It’s a guy who expect to do well in major leagues, maybe make an All-Star game someday, but be a core contributor which is what all of us want anyway.
Having a top 10 prospect means you have a player who might be the best player on your team soon. A lot of these young superstars were top 10 prospects. They have incredible tools and they maximize them in the majors.
Having a #1 prospect means you have someone who could be the best player in baseball some day. Sasaki could be winning a Cy Young within a few years. There’s almost no ceiling on these guys.
Passan on the Dodgers recent signings and the debate on how it affects MLB as a whole:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43520552/mlb-2025-los-angeles-dodgers-spending-payroll-baseball-future-roki-sasaki-shohei-ohtani
Some interesting tidbits:
“the Cubs were attempting to sign Scott, among the most coveted relievers this winter. The next day, with a final offer of four years and $66 million — $6 million shy of where the Dodgers landed — they lost. ”
“For all of the Dodgers’ advantages, it’s worth acknowledging the most overblown element of their approach. The deep misunderstanding of deferred money has painted it as a tool to avoid paying salaries for long periods of time and lessen a team’s luxury tax payroll. Neither of these is true.”
“Any team could have pursued Hernández, whose deal this winter was at market value. Every team passed on signing Snell to a long-term deal in the 2023-24 offseason. Edman was widely available at the trade deadline.”
Mariano Rivera and his wife named in a lawsuit against the church they founded for not reporting a case of sexual abuse of a child. They are not the defendants but were named for trying to cover it up.
Should be an interesting spring training for sure. Some of these kids will get playing time.