The Baseball America Top 100 Prospects rankings are our 36th edition of our flagship prospect rankings. We view this ranking as the culmination of all our work throughout the year, as we try to show how prospects are currently viewed by the industry, as well as project who will be producing in the future.
To release the list, we are having discussions with MLB scouts, coaches, analysts and front office officials. We also see players in person and use as much data as possible. It also draws on all of the reporting we’ve done to produce our online Top 10 Prospects rankings as well as Baseball America’s Prospects Handbook.
Players are eligible if they have not exceeded 130 MLB at-bats, 50 innings pitched or 30 pitching appearances. Service time plays no role in player eligibility for this ranking. Players who come to the United States as “foreign professionals” as defined by the MLB CBA are not eligible for ranking.
Players on the Top 100 prospects list are ranked based on their long-term impact on MLB, taking into account the risk that they fail to reach that ceiling. The tool grades listed for each player are all future grades of what we expect them to be in the best part of their big league careers.
