With the motion of the 2023 season within the rearview mirror and virtually 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 rely 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 shall 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 crew 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’ talent set, upside, proximity to the Majors and potential quick affect to their groups under consideration.
The listing solely consists of gamers with rookie standing in 2024, which 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 exterior 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 — will not be 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 embrace the likes of Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Joe Mauer and quite a few different gamers who rely 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, BAL
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 Worth, LHP, TB
2008: Jay Bruce, OF, CIN
2007: Delmon Younger, OF, TB
2006: Delmon Younger, OF, TB
2005: Delmon Younger, OF, TB
2004: Joe Mauer, C, MIN