Type: Late-inning-caliber power stuff, but he can turn over a lineup at least once. Like Francisco Alvarez above, Cartaya is a Venezuelan catcher, right at the top of the 2018 international signing class in bonus ($2.5 million) and prospect status -- and a reputation that came years before he even signed. In 2022, he was sitting 94-97 with above-average breaking stuff, a plus changeup and above-average command. That hasn't happened, as he still has a lanky build and runs well, but is exclusively playing a corner outfield spot. That has basically been how it has played out, but the numbers have been eye-popping: .327/.426/.617 with 22 homers, 59 walks, and 65 strikeouts in 93 games at High-A and Double-A. That's plenty exciting, but the margin for error gets much smaller if he's first-base-only. Hit: 30/55, Game Power: 35/65, Raw Power: 65/70, Speed: 60/55, Fielding: 45/55, Throwing: 55/55, Type: A 6-7 plus runner with plus-plus power, Reminds me of: More toolsy version of Kyle Tucker. Before diving into pitchers that will almost certainly be available in your league, make sure you check if Jose Berrios (63% owned) has been dropped. LHP: Brandon Barriera (TOR), Matthew Liberatore (STL), Kyle Muller (OAK), Jared Shuster (ATL), Carson Whisenhunt (SF), Brandon Williamson (CIN) C: Bradley was a late prep pop-up prospect in the 2018 draft as a 17-year-old with above-average arm strength and some idea how to spin the ball. Prospect Rankings Depth Charts MLB Players Type: Maybe a shortstop with plus power and arm strength. Type: Advanced hitter growing into his power. The O's grabbed him with the 41st overall pick and, as with a number of recent college position players playing in Baltimore's system, 2022 was a breakout year. Ford is also progressing behind the plate to where I think he'll be an average defender with an average arm in time, but that's still a question, though I think he'd bring defensive value at third base or in the outfield. As a bad outcome, that's still a solid-average everyday player, so there's very little risk. Arizona has seven total prospects named at least once on the four lists and four consensus top-100 guys - Carroll, Jones, Jordan Lawlar, and Brandon Pfaadt. He's generally seen around the industry as the headliner in the Luis Castillo trade, but that isn't unanimous with Noelvi Marte ranked just five slots later. It wasn't shocking because of Painter's 2022 velo spike that helped his stuff play even a notch higher than it did when he went No. Our experts predict every series, Memphis wasn't 'fine in the West' -- getting there hinges on massive culture questions, Why the Lakers' real test begins now, after dispatching the No. This also helped him profile at his likely future position: third base. Type: Plus athlete who is above average at everything. Zavala ended the season with a broken hamate bone and was hanging around the 125-150 area of this list until the very end, basically at the top of the "if you have a good 2023 season, you're on next year's list" range. He has always shown above-average raw power and pitch selection, along with around average bat control, so he profiles as an everyday player at any position, with hope that the overall defensive package will be at least average. There's still some relief risk and he may fit best in a five-and-dive starter or other hybrid role, but Brown's stuff is lively enough that he doesn't need fine command to get outs. Type: Big power, fine contact, unclear position. The Padres took him 62nd overall, but gave him a $2.6 million bonus commensurate with the 26th overall pick. Montgomery opted to focus full-time on baseball, and over the next two years the only real critiques that materialized were that he's probably more of a third baseman than a shortstop long-term (still probably true), and he was 19 years old on draft day in 2021. Type: Plus fastball/breaking ball you see in late innings, but enough feel to be a starter. Hit: 40/50, Game Power: 50/65, Raw Power: 70/70, Speed: 45/40, Fielding: 45/50, Throwing: 60/60. Type: 6-3 athlete who has grown into above-average offensive force in the infield. Type: Gifted hitter, good-not-great tools. Late in the draft process last summer, ESPN college baseball analyst Chris Burke told me to run Rushing up my draft rankings and I didn't listen enough. Davis made the slow climb from midfirst-round prospect to a mild surprise as the No. 1 overall pick as early as his sophomore year of high school in Southern California. The idea that Perez could be big league ready with four plus pitches and plus command as he's turning 20 years old this season is completely absurd so I'm going to stop worrying and enjoy the ride. Joon Lee . It is important to remember that he is facing pitchers who are generally five years older than him and these issues tend to be fixable for young, superlative talents. Possibly the highest compliment you can give this type of player: He's going to be annoying to fans of NL West rivals for a long time. As a 20-year-old, he went from Double-A to the big leagues, hitting 15 homers and stealing 17 bases. But with a strong 2023, he'll move up into that 60 FV tier with Harrison. For context, Carroll suffered a serious shoulder injury in the seventh game of the 2021 season (after missing the whole 2020 season because of the pandemic) at High-A when he swung so hard on a home run that his shoulder couldn't handle the impact. White was a favorite of mine in the 2018 draft. Those aren't major concerns right now, though, as he's got massive power in games, is young and talented enough to make adjustments, and is much younger than the pitchers he is facing. I'll lean to the higher offensive potential in Mayo, who also happens to be in a better farm system for hitter development, though the White Sox are trending up with Colson Montgomery, Ramos, Oscar Colas and Lenyn Sosa having strong 2022 seasons. Type: Late bloomer with three plus pitches, chance to start. That said, scouts I spoke with aren't getting the fuzzy feelings they got with Acuna and Tatis at the same stage and there's some worry that Chuorio could be more of a fringy on-base threat who needs to get to most of his power -- maybe more like Luis Robert? Type: Funky lefty with above average stuff and feel. For still unclear reasons, both players slid out of the top three (Henry Davis, Jack Leiter, Jackson Jobe went with those picks and are all much lower on this list or just off of it). Michael Busch, 1B, Los Angeles Dodgers When you throw in his speed, it adds up to a lot of long counts, infield singles and bloopers that turn into doubles. But it's TBD if this is indicative of what he'll be going forward, or if he should be given some grace from a rocky 2022 season, and we assume he'll revert back to the style of hitter he was the previous five seasons I've scouted him. Reminds me of: A Giants low-slot lefty starter with above average stuff and command. Type: Shortstop/third base tweener with plus power and patience. Grades for trades & signings It was, to say the least, as Williams threw 115 sterling innings across High-A and Double-A last season while throwing 64% fastballs. Type: Maybe a catcher, with 30-homer upside. It's pretty universal now to project Quero as an above-average offensive threat with power, patience and contact skills, but reviews on his defense differ. He's also gifted in the baseball-specific skills of reads in center field and ability to stay compact and turn on an inside fastball. It's never likely any player turns into the Hall of Famer they resemble most, but even if comparing a prospect to Scherzer -- the outlier of outliers -- is a fool's errand, it's just hard to ignore the profiles being similar. The raw tools are here, and Soderstrom's hit/approach/power combo is arguably the best of the three. Type: Simple, powerful righty swing but not sure about the rest. The biggest reason the Padres are as good as they are is they don't need a ton of sterling scouting looks to identify and gamble on a potential star. Here's a past one, for example. 9. Type: 6-foot-5 likely third baseman with plus power and arm strength. The question is how often he'll put that whole package together and whether he is capable of being frontline-starter-level good after dialing things down to a level where he can also put up 180-plus innings. Flores has a frankly bananas backstory. The reason he's still ranked this high is that he's big league ready and his floor seems like a .250 hitter with average on-base and power (15-20 homers) and solid second base defense. He also has a slider and changeup that both flash above average but are rarely used. He's a plus runner and big league caliber shortstop with an 80-grade arm, above average power potential and bat speed, along with plus foot speed. I think he'll be a superior backup option to Knizner by the end of 2023. Traditionally, it's been a pejorative when a scout says a pitcher has a "flat" fastball, but that's now ideal to some teams -- essentially delivering the ball from as low and forward as possible on the mound with little to no sink, to the top of the strike zone. You can see why he slid to the fourth round but also why some teams were excited to scoop up a power arm with a plus fastball, three other pitches that all flashed above-average potential, and success as an SEC starter. Type: Premium athlete with potential plus fastball/curveball/command combination. Going back to high school, he would sit in the upper 90s and regularly hit 100 mph or higher. His control of the strike zone has been better than expected, and he has developed enough physically to have plus raw power, plus pitch selection, and good feel to get to that power in games. Ramos also has 55-or-60-grade power while Mayo's is a grade or two better. Reminds me of: Oneil Cruz on the whole, but with raw tools alone that are also similar to Bobby Witt Jr. How the Savannah Bananas are changing the rules of baseball. He has above-average command of a 94-96 mph fastball and mixes in a plus slider as his primary out pitch, but his solid-average curveball and changeup also have their moments. He is shorter than you'd prefer an elite pitching prospect at 6-feet tall, but was a plus athlete with a plus-plus-slider, mid-90s heat and plenty of changeup and command to make it all work. Quero was a nice sleeper pick at this time last year, then he had a huge 2022 season, particularly at the plate: He hit .312/.435/.530 with 17 homers, 12 stolen bases, 14% walks and 18% strikeouts as a teenage catcher at Low-A. 2 Grizzlies, LIVE Transfer Talk: Man United, PSG to battle for Abraham, Liverpool rescue three points, chase top-four finish after surviving epic Spurs comeback, Bayern back in charge, Yamal makes history, Napoli's party spoiled: Weekend Review, Who has the most talent in the minors? I'm using the same description as last year because Dominguez is still the same player. Graceffo wasn't a big name when he went in the fifth round of the 2021 draft with athleticism and command at Villanova his main selling points. In his draft year at IMG Academy, he was patient, bordering on passive while trying to hit everything to the opposite field and generally did not lean into his strengths. I'm gonna stop you right there. Type: Explosive bat speed and big power potential, but it's early. Neto popped up in the 2021 fall as a potential late first-round pick and followed up with an excellent spring at Campbell en route to going No. Holliday was a projected mid-first round pick after a strong summer, but after the first couple spring workouts, immediately jumped into the top 10 and kept climbing. Houston let Justin Verlander walk largely because of their rotation depth and Brown is probably their sixth best option now, so he will likely start the year in Triple-A then get another look later in 2023. I mention this because Vargas is big-league-ready with plus bat control, plus pitch selection and 41 homers over the past two seasons -- even though his power will probably play closer to average at the big league level. Ranking every MLB system from 1-30, Ranking the top MLB prospects for all 15 American League teams, How bright is your team's future? Liover Peguero, SS, Pittsburgh Pirates Type: Positionless Canadian-born hitting robot sent from the future. The Rays picked him 63rd overall and it has gone very well so far. 8 overall pick in the 2020 draft, going one pick before another prep outfielder from the southeast, Zac Veen (No. He has advanced feel in all aspects of the position, grading out above average as a defender, thrower, and athlete behind the plate with rare speed for the position. MLB's 100 Names You Need To Know For 2023: Orioles' Gunnar Henderson tops the list Gabe Lacques Scott Boeck Chris Bumbaca Steve Gardner Stephen Borelli He now sits 94-97 mph with plus ride up in the zone, and a plus, 87-89 mph slider that drew a 45% chase rate last season. He also has a rare, plus-plus ability to put the bat on the ball and a good enough approach (call it average pitch selection) that his contact skills show up in his raw stat line. Early in his pro career, his strikeout rates hovered near 30%, so there was some basis to those contact concerns, but Henderson also showed more patience and in-game power than most evaluators expected. He's just OK defensively and will probably be able to stick at third base, but will be on one of the corners regardless. St.)The Rays have a Logan Allen, too. Rodriguez signed out of the Dominican Republic for $2.5 million in 2019 and was in the midst of a breakout 2022 season before a June knee surgery ended it. Montgomery needs to have plus bat speed and plus pitch recognition to make longer levers work and to give his hands time to get in place. Type: Above-average-to-plus fastball, slider, curveball and command. He's the Venezuelan-born younger brother of the major league utility infielder of the same name and signed for $20,000 as an undrafted free agent in 2020 out of an Arizona junior college. He signed for a $2.7 million bonus that ranked third-highest in the 2018 class. Brown's changeup and command are both fringy but fine, while his 95 to 98 mph heater, slider and curveball are all plus and his control is about average. There's all kinds of conditions and exceptions beyond how I simply describe it there, but Craig Kimbrel and A.J. This makes the plane as close to flat as possible. Montgomery is a shortstop for now and will probably be fine for a while, but any team with an above-average defender at short will slide Montgomery over to third whether he's a 45 or 50 defensively at shortstop. Henderson hit his 90th-percentile projection, crushing Double-A then crushing Triple-A then crushing the big leagues -- all at age 21. Tyler Freeman, 2B, Cleveland Guardians Baltimore could be a scary team at the major league level sooner than you might think. The Dodgers are hoping Vargas can be an average defender at third base, but he's a bit below that there and at second base. He's been a bit better than I expected out there and looks like he can be a solid-average defender in an outfield corner. Hit: 40/55, Game Power: 40/60, Raw Power: 55/60, Speed: 50/45, Fielding: 40/50, Throwing: 55/55. Manzardo was a late-rising draft prospect at Washington State leading up to the 2021 draft, getting sandwich-round buzz despite a number of teams seeing him more as a third- or fourth-rounder. How he hits at higher levels this year will give us an idea of what sort of hitter he'll be against regularly 95 mph-plus velocity, but he has the tools to be an above-average hitter with above-average pitch selection and 30-plus homers. Now Manzardo may be knocking on the door of the big leagues late in 2023, just two years after being a divisive draft prospect. He makes up for it with his arm and he has made progress in all the soft skills like game-calling while physically staying loose and flexible. This 20-80 scale also applies to the FV (future value) used to sum up a player's overall value. Valera will likely be behind schedule this spring after recent news that he underwent surgery on the hamate bone in his right hand. Velo: 96-98, Fastball: 70/80, Slider: 60/70, Curveball: 55/60, Changeup: 45/55, Command: 45/50, Type: If the fire emoji turned into a pitching prospect. To me, it's more likely that his peak physical years might be more like 23 to 25 than the typical 26 to 28. There's also a lot of uncertainty with prospects, so it's by default looking at the rosier potential outcomes compared to some current MLB players. St. Louis took him a bit earlier than some thought he would go at 21st overall, and he immediately made the Cardinals look smart by putting up startling exit velocities while bullying pitchers years older than him and reaching Double-A in 2022 as a teenager. Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout of the Los Angeles That's a big enough sample that it wasn't a fluke, and it would put him toward the risky end of the aggression/power-oriented spectrum, as opposed to Cowser and Carter above. I ultimately ranked him third, but it was essentially a three-way coin flip with Druw Jones and Termarr Johnson, who are all still tightly packed. The other question at draft time was if his pitch selection and approach would be good enough to get to all of his power in games? Frelick has plus-plus contact skills and above-average pitch selection along with plus speed and an intense mentality. I think the four names in the Reminds Me Of section give you an idea of the different paths his career could take, with Gary Sanchez's a familiar roller-coaster ride that Mets fans are hoping to improve upon. The flat fastball and uphill swing don't intersect for long, which means less contact. Jake Eder, LHP, Miami Marlins Turang's star dimmed a bit in the year before the draft, slipping to the 21st overall pick in 2018, but the basic scouting report has been the same for a long time. Type: Power-over-hit with unclear positional future. He's big league ready, and those defensive issues are the only thing making anyone hesitate. Winn also has a history and even some pro experience on the mound, where he sits in the mid-90's and will show a 70-grade breaking ball. His in-zone miss rate (i.e. Because he could be a Cy Young-level force of nature, I elected to rank him up this high, but Espino has the highest gap in projected 2023 ceiling and floor of players near the top of this list. The sales pitch was a real hit tool with a pretty lefty swing and good approach, but average raw power and a first-base-only fit. His fastball command is the main area for improvement, and he'll spend 2023 in the upper minors, where hitters are good enough to force him to improve. He eventually needed pre-draft Tommy John surgery and slid from a lock to go in the top five to 10 picks to being taken No. With the top free agents signed, here's where our experts think each team stands midway through the offseason. The Orioles' wave of position players is closing in on the big leagues and Mayo looks like a 2024 arrival. Unlike Cartaya, Soderstrom is seen by many as a likely first baseman. Both his contact ability and ability to stick at third base were open questions at draft time due to his 6-foot-5 frame. His plus power and plus arm give him some margin for error, but his hit tool and pitch selection have been better than expected. Hassell should stick in center field -- though some scouts still question that -- and he hasn't tapped into his average raw power much yet, with most projections that he settles in at a 12- 15-homer range. The Royals have had trouble getting to the next stage of their rebuild, but they haven't had trouble producing solid infielders. The added arm speed also improved both breaking balls, and the changeup is a plus to plus-plus weapon. These tools also scale to commonly used numbers. The D-backs have young starting pitching on the 40-man that may get shots first (Drey Jameson, Ryne Nelson, Tommy Henry) but Pfaadt is the best of the bunch, with a mid-90's heater, slider, changeup and command that all grade out as 55- or 60-grade. Minter are two guys who do this with their fastballs very well, and it's a huge reason why they succeed. He lasted until the 22nd pick in the 2021 draft and was 13th on my board. Right after C.J. contact skills) is also the best among that group, and he has plus speed to help leg out some infield hits. Julio Rodriguez improved a good bit on chase rate just last season after pitch selection was his biggest question mark as a top prospect. Everson Pereira, CF, New York Yankees Westburg was a late bloomer who didn't do the full showcase/tournament circuit in high school and was just starting to grow into his tools in his draft year at Mississippi State before he went No. Amador gives plenty of margin for error in his projection as the base of his skills -- plus hitter, plus pitch selection, switch-hitter, plus runner, plus arm, solid-average defender at shortstop -- check a ton of boxes while his performance in 2022 was better than anyone could've expected. The big wave of Orioles prospects is almost here, with Rodriguez the potential ace of the group. Abel was a standout pitching prospect early in high school, standing 6-foot-5 and getting into the mid-90s with feel for a breaking ball and throwing strikes. The hesitation is that Jung showed an uncharacteristic aggression at the plate when he returned, walking under 4% in 49 Triple-A and MLB games last year after running close to 10% walk rates the rest of his career. 13 on my midseason top 50 -- while playing just 64 games (none above Low-A ball) in that span. The issue now is that the track record of pitchers with that title isn't great. If he doesn't, he's a high variance corner wrong-side-of-the-platoon guy who is just an OK defender. Type: Power-and-patience package at the plate, probably a catcher. He also stole 28 bases and still looks like an above-average defender at shortstop, so all the elements are here. He's on the 40-man and will likely make his big league debut at some point in 2023 with an advanced feel for the game that suggests he'll do well in any role. In his first full minor league season, Sweeney hit better than league average at High-A and got a late promotion to Double-A. Lawlar has excellent feel for the game and has always hit well in games, along with being a plus-plus baserunner, while the defensive questions are mostly a matter of focus, so I have no doubt he'll round into a solid average defender. That's an above-average everyday player, but probably not enough thump at the plate to be a star. Type: Easy plus power, some questions on contact and position. Lesko was on the national scouting scene as early as his freshman year in high school, when he was sitting in the low-90s, mixing in a plus changeup and understandably putting up goofy numbers. Elijah Green, CF, Washington Nationals The Orioles took him about a half-dozen picks before most teams would, getting him over $1 million under slot as the fifth overall pick in 2021. Susana didn't get much attention when he was included in the Juan Soto trade as he was the fourth-best prospect in the haul, behind James Wood, MacKenzie Gore and Robert Hassell. He made it all the way to the Orioles at the No. In his full-season debut, Williams flipped his offensive scouting report on its head, striking out 32% of the time and hitting 19 homers, leaning into the power from his newly added bulk.

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