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Inbox: Which club has best top 10 list of prospects?
- Updated: December 16, 2016
We’ve been focused on the Draft this week at MLBPipeline.com. We released our initial Draft Top 50 list, broke down the Class of 2017 and took a stab at projecting the first 10 selections.
Next up will be an overhaul of our Top 100 Prospects list, scheduled for late January. After that, we’ll revamp all of our organization Top 30 Prospects rankings.
@jimcallisMLB @MLBPipeline What MLB team has the best top 10 list of prospects?
— Russell (@russell1256) December 12, 2016
@jimcallisMLB @MLBPipeline What MLB team has the best top 10 list of prospects?
I love this question, though I have to add a caveat before I answer it. We formulated the current team prospect rankings on Prospect Watch back before the trade deadline in July. Though we’ve updated them with trades and graduations, some of them will look much different when we redo the lists again in February. My clear top four is based on what the lists look like today, factoring in both star talent and depth on the Top 10s:
1. Yankees: 2016 acquisitions have bolstered baseball’s best farm system — shortstop Gleyber Torres (one of the game’s top five prospects), outfielders Clint Frazier and Blake Rutherford, left-hander Justus Sheffield and right-hander Albert Abreu.
2. White Sox: Winter Meetings trades skyrocket this system up the list, with second baseman Yoan Moncada (No. 1 on MLBPipeline’s Top 100); right-handers Lucas Giolito, Michael Kopech, Reynaldo Lopez and Dane Dunning; and outfielder Luis Alexander Basabe arriving from the Red Sox and Nationals.
3. Braves: Shortstop Dansby Swanson, second baseman Ozzie Albies and third baseman Kevin Maitan will team with Freddie Freeman to form what could be baseball’s best infield of the future. The success of Atlanta’s rebuilding project depends on how well pitching prospects such as Kolby Allard, Ian Anderson and Mike Soroka pan out.
4. Dodgers: The Dodgers are loaded with gifted hitters (first baseman Cody Bellinger, outfielders Alex Verdugo and Yusniel Diaz, second baseman Willie Calhoun) …
