2017 Top 100 Prospects

[TylerSchmidt28]

As many as you know, today MLB Pipeline reveals their Top 100 Prospects on MLB Network at 8 PM ET. As a huge MiLB fan I always get extremely overhyped for this, and once again I am this year. I'm no scout or analyst at all but I love debating the rankings and watching these guys play and advance. So as a college student with a lot of downtime I made my own list. Feel free to give it a read if you're into prospecting, and by all means criticize me. Thanks for looking!

MLB Banter: 2017 Top 100 Prospects and Justifications (http://majorleaguebaseballbanter.blogspot.com/2017/01/2017-top-100-prospects-and.html)

[daeve]

Nice list! I'm nearly finished with my top 150. It's been years since I released a list, though I've been doing rough drafts for the last several years, I haven't put as much work/research into one since 2011. I'll be posting mine on Sickels' blog sometime in the next few days.

Very few quibbles with yours, I like Morejon a lot better, but can understand you being cautious with a teenage arm.

[steelers]

Very impressive list. This list is a million times better than Keith Law's. Benintendi is # 1 and should be. Bellinger and Torres are very high and that's where BA will have them. Jimenez #16 and Senzel at #17 are solid. Vlad Jr at #18 is strong, but shows he has done his homework as he is rising very quickly on most lists out there. Maitan at #30 seems about right with his huge upside

[Bretsky]

Nice work and I echo the others that this list makes more sense than the Espn list.

[jbuck]

Very nice list! As someone who lives in TN, its very cool to see Senzel doing so well. As a Braves fan, I wish Ozzie and Dansby were a tad bit higher :( but I think you had good reasoning as to why they were where they were. Awesome list man!

[Keyser Soze]

It's a safer list. To say it's better just can't be proven. It's all speculation. To insinuate that you know more than Keith Law is silly and a bit arrogant.

[TylerSchmidt28]

Nice list! I'm nearly finished with my top 150. It's been years since I released a list, though I've been doing rough drafts for the last several years, I haven't put as much work/research into one since 2011. I'll be posting mine on Sickels' blog sometime in the next few days.

Very few quibbles with yours, I like Morejon a lot better, but can understand you being cautious with a teenage arm.

Awesome! This is the first time I've made such a list in complete. Being from the northeast I didn't actually know much at all about Morejon but it'll be good to see him progress. Obviously it's tough to make a list when I've only seen so many of the players in person as I just have the NYPL and Eastern League around me and only saw a few teams in Spring Training last year. So for pitchers like Morejon relying just on video and what other scouts say.

Very impressive list. This list is a million times better than Keith Law's. Benintendi is # 1 and should be. Bellinger and Torres are very high and that's where BA will have them. Jimenez #16 and Senzel at #17 are solid. Vlad Jr at #18 is strong, but shows he has done his homework as he is rising very quickly on most lists out there. Maitan at #30 seems about right with his huge upside

Thank you! I know I'm high on Vlad Jr and Maitan, very excited to see them play out. Headed to Braves Spring Training in March and can't wait to see Maitan on the back fields hopefully.

Nice work and I echo the others that this list makes more sense than the Espn list.

Thank you!

Very nice list! As someone who lives in TN, its very cool to see Senzel doing so well. As a Braves fan, I wish Ozzie and Dansby were a tad bit higher :( but I think you had good reasoning as to why they were where they were. Awesome list man!

There's just a lot of good talent! Dansby is my preseason prediction for ROY and I'm excited to see what Ozzie can do too starting his season in AAA. Can definitely make arguments for them to be higher though. Thanks for the kind words!

[centereacan06]

I personally think Swanson is top 3. He looked like a star when I watched him play against the Mets. Great in the field, makes solid contact almost every at bat, runs well... he's going to be a stud.

[TylerSchmidt28]

It's a safer list. To say it's better just can't be proven. It's all speculation. To insinuate that you know more than Keith Law is silly and a bit arrogant.

I didn't and never would say I know more than Keith Law, I stated it's all in good fun of my opinion just in my downtime

[TylerSchmidt28]

I personally think Swanson is top 3. He looked like a star when I watched him play against the Mets. Great in the field, makes solid contact almost every at bat, runs well... he's going to be a stud.

I think he's got star written all over him too, I haven't seen him in person since Spring of last year but even at that time you could tell. As for him being 5th as I stated I believe he can be argued for as high as two. I've seen Benintendi a few times in Boston and Portland and I think he's very special and a consensus number one. As for Moncada being from Red Sox territory I've seen him too and he's crushed it, I think Dansby is a safer choice than him but Moncada has really elite talent. Choosing Reyes over him is just if you prefer a power pitcher or shortstop, impossible to compare, but Reyes really impressed for his major league performances. When it comes to Gleyber over him its very narrow and it all comes down to the dominance in the AFL and perhaps a little bit of Gleyber being everyone's flavor of the month. I'm excited to watch him with Trenton this year.

[preakness]

Moncada might end up in CF according to Rotoworld