TDG’s Top-300 Fantasy Baseball Prospects
After this offseason’s consensus positional rankings and Bret Sayre’s top-500 dynasty players, you might have thought we were done with that whole rankings thing. Unfortunately, even after meticulously sorting nearly 1500 players in the winter months, we at The Dynasty Guru decided to come out with one last massive ranking to celebrate Opening Day. This list, 300 players deep, is a consensus ranking of our staff’s top-300 fantasy baseball prospects.
Most websites go 100 players deep, and, while that’s certainly helpful, it only covers the shallowest of dynasty leagues. We could have ranked 200 names, to cover deeper leagues and fill plenty of watch lists, but that’s not deep enough for the site that just held a 99 round draft. No, to cover the largest of dynasty leagues and satisfy our readers, some of the most hardcore fantasy owners in the business, we’d have to go above and beyond: 300 players.
Obviously, ranking prospects is a divisive process with often controversial results, given the volatility of minor leaguers and the largely differing opinions of individual evaluators. With that in mind, it’s impossible to perfectly rank each and every name on any prospect list, let alone one with 300 players. While the first 100 prospects can be more strictly compared, the next 100 are best viewed in tiers, and the final 100 names as more of an extensive watch list than a strict ranking.
We sincerely hope you’ll find value in what is one of the deepest prospect lists in the industry — trade advice, draft tips, waiver wire help, and even watch-list upkeep should be far easier when using TDG’s top-300. Before we get to the list, it would be greatly appreciated if you could continue to support The Dynasty Guru through this link or via the splendid ‘PayPal’ button located on the right side of the homepage. Donations of any size are greatly appreciated and they are the reason why we can do this and put it all out there for free.
| Rank | Player |
| 1 | Yoan Moncada |
| 2 | Andrew Benintendi |
| 3 | Austin Meadows |
| 4 | Brendan Rodgers |
| 5 | Victor Robles |
| 6 | Dansby Swanson |
| 7 | Eloy Jimenez |
| 8 | Cody Bellinger |
| 9 | Amed Rosario |
| 10 | Gleyber Torres |
| 11 | Rafael Devers |
| 12 | Clint Frazier |
| 13 | Lewis Brinson |
| 14 | Nick Senzel |
| 15 | Tyler Glasnow |
| 16 | Franklin Barreto |
| 17 | Josh Bell |
| 18 | Kyle Tucker |
| 19 | Francis Martes |
| 20 | Willy Adames |
| 21 | Alex Reyes |
| 22 | Manuel Margot |
| 23 | Anderson Espinoza |
| 24 | Lucas Giolito |
| 25 | Ronald Acuna |
| 26 | Yadier Alvarez |
| 27 | Corey Ray |
| 28 | Ian Happ |
| 29 | Bradley Zimmer |
| 30 | Ozzie Albies |
| 31 | J.P. Crawford |
| 32 | Francisco Mejia |
| 33 | Raimel Tapia |
| 34 | Michael Kopech |
| 35 | Blake Rutherford |
| 36 | Brent Honeywell |
| 37 | Jorge Mateo |
| 38 | Vladimir Guerrero Jr. |
| 39 | Kyle Lewis |
| 40 | Jason Groome |
| 41 | Josh Hader |
| 42 | Robert Gsellman |
| 43 | Mitch Keller |
| 44 | A.J. Reed |
| 45 | Mickey Moniak |
| 46 | Kevin Maitan |
| 47 | Aaron Judge |
| 48 | Leody Taveras |
| 49 | Hunter Renfroe |
| 50 | Zack Collins |
| 51 | Tyler O’Neill |
| 52 | Isan Diaz |
| 53 | Reynaldo Lopez |
| 54 | Juan Soto |
| 55 | Jorge Alfaro |
| 56 | Anthony Alford |
| 57 | Chance Sisco |
| 58 | Jose De Leon |
| 59 | Amir Garrett |
| 60 | A.J. Puk |
| 61 | Nick Williams |
| 62 | Willie Calhoun |
| 63 | Yohander Mendez |
| 64 | Dan Vogelbach |
| 65 | Alex Verdugo |
| 66 | Sandy Alcantara |
| 67 | Cal Quantrill |
| 68 | Sean Newcomb |
| 69 | Adrian Morejon |
| 70 | Cody Reed |
| 71 | Jharel Cotton |
| 72 | Tom Murphy |
| 73 | David Paulino |
| 74 | Jesse Winker |
| 75 | James Kaprielian |
| 76 | Kevin Newman |
| 77 | Kolby Allard |
| 78 | Matt Manning |
| 79 | Derek Fisher |
| 80 | Rowdy Tellez |
| 81 | Nick Gordon |
| 82 | Franklin Perez |
| 83 | Mitch Haniger |
| 84 | Jeff Hoffman |
| 85 | Triston McKenzie |
| 86 | Luis Alexander Basabe |
| 87 | Luis Ortiz |
| 88 | Jahmai Jones |
| 89 | Bobby Bradley |
| 90 | Lucas Erceg |
| 91 | Luke Weaver |
| 92 | Yusniel Diaz |
| 93 | Roman Quinn |
| 94 | Dominic Smith |
| 95 | Sean Reid-Foley |
| 96 | Justus Sheffield |
| 97 | Lourdes Gurriel |
| 98 | Jake Bauers |
| 99 | Justin Dunn |
| 100 | Mike Soroka |
| 101 | Delvin Perez |
| 102 | Aristides Aquino |
| 103 | Greg Allen |
| 104 | Thomas Szapucki |
| 105 | Forrest Whitley |
| 106 | Grant Holmes |
| 107 | Franklyn Kilome |
| 108 | Tyler Beede |
| 109 | Riley Pint |
| 110 | Max Fried |
| 111 | Matt Chapman |
| 112 | Walker Buehler |
| 113 | Rhys Hoskins |
| 114 | Jeimer Candelario |
| 115 | Brock Stewart |
| 116 | Carson Kelly |
| 117 | Erick Fedde |
| 118 | Trent Clark |
| 119 | Ramon Laureano |
| 120 | Luiz Gohara |
| 121 | Ian Anderson |
| 122 | Alex Kirilloff |
| 123 | Matt Thaiss |
| 124 | Trey Mancini |
| 125 | Harrison Bader |
| 126 | Brett Phillips |
| 127 | Fernando Tatis, Jr. |
| 128 | Dylan Cease |
| 129 | Albert Almora |
| 130 | Andrew Toles |
| 131 | Christian Arroyo |
| 132 | Alec Hansen |
| 133 | Fernando Romero |
| 134 | Joshua Lowe |
| 135 | Ryan McMahon |
| 136 | Anderson Tejeda |
| 137 | Brandon Woodruff |
| 138 | Andres Gimenez |
| 139 | Dylan Cozens |
| 140 | Robert Stephenson |
| 141 | German Marquez |
| 142 | Taylor Trammell |
| 143 | Carson Fulmer |
| 144 | Braxton Garrett |
| 145 | Oscar de la Cruz |
| 146 | Jesus Sanchez |
| 147 | Brady Aiken |
| 148 | Christin Stewart |
| 149 | Matt Strahm |
| 150 | Stephen Gonsalves |
| 151 | Jorge Ona |
| 152 | Hunter Dozier |
| 153 | Sixto Sanchez |
| 154 | Tyler Jay |
| 155 | Casey Gillaspie |
| 156 | Austin Riley |
| 157 | Travis Demeritte |
| 158 | Ke’Bryan Hayes |
| 159 | Shedric Long |
| 160 | Richard Urena |
| 161 | Jacob Nottingham |
| 162 | Domingo Acevedo |
| 163 | Phil Bickford |
| 164 | Jack Flaherty |
| 165 | Chance Adams |
| 166 | Dustin Fowler |
| 167 | Miguelangel Sierra |
| 168 | Sam Travis |
| 169 | Bobby Dalbec |
| 170 | Touki Toussaint |
| 171 | Frankie Montas |
| 172 | Albert Abreu |
| 173 | Ronald Guzman |
| 174 | Trevor Clifton |
| 175 | Josh Naylor |
| 176 | Yu-Cheng Chang |
| 177 | Cornelius Randolph |
| 178 | Luis Urias |
| 179 | Will Benson |
| 180 | Jomar Reyes |
| 181 | Bryan Reynolds |
| 182 | Ariel Jurado |
| 183 | Wander Javier |
| 184 | Bo Bichette |
| 185 | Magneuris Sierra |
| 186 | Harold Ramirez |
| 187 | Joey Wentz |
| 188 | Estevan Florial |
| 189 | Anthony Banda |
| 190 | Tyler Wade |
| 191 | Desmond Lindsay |
| 192 | Christian Pache |
| 193 | Mauricio Dubon |
| 194 | Conner Greene |
| 195 | Miguel Andujar |
| 196 | Adrian Rondon |
| 197 | Mitch Hansen |
| 198 | Chris Shaw |
| 199 | Patrick Weigel |
| 200 | Forrest Wall |
| 201 | Joe Jimenez |
| 202 | Dakota Hudson |
| 203 | Michael Gettys |
| 204 | Josh Staumont |
| 205 | Scott Kingery |
| 206 | Will Craig |
| 207 | Jose Albertos |
| 208 | Derian Cruz |
| 209 | Lucius Fox |
| 210 | Carter Kieboom |
| 211 | Pedro Gonzalez |
| 212 | Zack Burdi |
| 213 | Teoscar Hernandez |
| 214 | Mark Zagunis |
| 215 | Jacob Nix |
| 216 | Marcos Diplan |
| 217 | Luis Almanzar |
| 218 | Jorge Bonifacio |
| 219 | Meibrys Viloria |
| 220 | Wulimer Becerra |
| 221 | Chih-Wei Hu |
| 222 | Wilmer Difo |
| 223 | Edwin Rios |
| 224 | Jordan Patterson |
| 225 | Jhailyn Ortiz |
| 226 | Daniel Robertson |
| 227 | Max Schrock |
| 228 | Ryan Mountcastle |
| 229 | Jacob Faria |
| 230 | Ty Blach |
| 231 | Renato Nunez |
| 232 | Gavin Cecchini |
| 233 | Luis Arraez |
| 234 | Norge Ruiz |
| 235 | Kyle Zimmer |
| 236 | Duane Underwood |
| 237 | Keibert Ruiz |
| 238 | Luis Castillo |
| 239 | Cody Sedlock |
| 240 | Garrett Whitley |
| 241 | Hunter Harvey |
| 242 | Nolan Jones |
| 243 | Koda Glover |
| 244 | Charlie Tilson |
| 245 | Matt Olson |
| 246 | Daulton Jefferies |
| 247 | Heath Quinn |
| 248 | Kevin Padlo |
| 249 | Yandy Diaz |
| 250 | Edmundo Sosa |
| 251 | Ian Clarkin |
| 252 | Colton Welker |
| 253 | Alex Jackson |
| 254 | Daniel Brito |
| 255 | Starling Heredia |
| 256 | Adonis Medina |
| 257 | Daz Cameron |
| 258 | Khalil Lee |
| 259 | Gavin Lux |
| 260 | Luis Carpio |
| 261 | Kyle Freeland |
| 262 | Nick Burdi |
| 263 | Lewin Diaz |
| 264 | Max Pentecost |
| 265 | Dillon Tate |
| 266 | Kohl Stewart |
| 267 | Austin Barnes |
| 268 | D.J. Peters |
| 269 | Cole Ragans |
| 270 | Yairo Munoz |
| 271 | Gilbert Lara |
| 272 | Jairo Beras |
| 273 | Brandon Nimmo |
| 274 | Randy Arozarena |
| 275 | Bruce Maxwell |
| 276 | Paul Dejong |
| 277 | Tyler Stephenson |
| 278 | Eli Alvarez |
| 279 | Gabriel Arias |
| 280 | Ryan Cordell |
| 281 | Beau Burrows |
| 282 | Ryan Castellani |
| 283 | Nick Plummer |
| 284 | Jon Harris |
| 285 | Brian Anderson |
| 286 | Chase Vallot |
| 287 | Sandro Fabian |
| 288 | Kyle Funkhouser |
| 289 | Travis Blankenhorn |
| 290 | Luis Garcia |
| 291 | Austin Voth |
| 292 | Andy Ibanez |
| 293 | Socrates Brito |
| 294 | Daniel Montano |
| 295 | Jacoby Jones |
| 296 | Tyler Nevin |
| 297 | Kyle Muller |
| 298 | Dane Dunning |
| 299 | Oswaldo Cabrera |
| 300 | Yasel Antuna |
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Cristian Pache is listed twice (#192 & #222)
Fixed, thanks for letting us know!
Thanks for the list! Any intuition on where Luis Robert would fit in once he signs?
It’s hard to say right now, given the lack of information about him, but Ben Badler of Baseball America called him a first round talent, so I’d conservatively call him top-150 with room to be much higher
Frankie at 171 and Francelis at 234 is the same guy
Same thing Eliezar at 251 and Eli Salazar at 281
overall good list although Tyler Collins hasn’t been a prospect for some time now
Any idea where you might put Otani on this list?
Probably top-10
I would have ranked him second.
Shohei Ohtani isn’t considered a prospect because he’s playing under contract for a professional team in Japan.
Like Eric Thames, Darvish Yu, Masahiro Tanaka, etc. These players aren’t minor league prospects, they are professional players who MLB teams decided to negotiate contracts with to start in the MLB 25-man roster.
If Shohei Ohtani was considered a “prospect” and eligble for this list, he should be ranked #2 overall behind #1 Yoan Moncada.
First off, congratulations on the list. I know it can’t be easy rankings this many prospects.
I will say, with 300 guys, I assumed Mitch White (LAD) would have made the cut. He’s widely expected to be at worst a top-150 prospect solely by showing he can log innings in 2017 with potential to be a top 100 guy a year from now. Why the omission?
I haven’t seen anyone besides Keith Law really hold him in such high regard. Also, with such a small sample to measure off of, its tough to call the 65th pick in last years draft the 150th or better prospect in all of minor league baseball. Perhaps he was more valuable than his draft stock, but its not likely. For example if you were to go to a few different sites rankings you’d see on MLB.com Alex Kirilloff is ranked #94 after being the 15th overall pick on mlb.com. On baseball america Justin Dunn, the 20th pick is their #100 prospect. So while he may be that good, we don’t have much to go off of, and it would be borderline irresponsible to put him that high. As far as ranking him at all, he may have just slipped through the cracks due to him being so new to the minor leagues.
Awesome list, really good to see some of these extended lists popping up this cycle.
There are a few guys whose ranking I’d be curious about, or how far away they were from making the cut. Was Brayan Hernandez, Gilberto Celestino, or Senzatela in consideration for this list?
Hernandez was ranked by one of our writers, so he was brought up but not really in consideration for the top-300. Same with Celestino and Senzatela. If we went 350 deep, those three may have squeezed into the very end of the list.
Good list, appreciate your hard work.
My 300-list is very different and ranks players in a different order plus it includes several players you didn’t mention like OAK OF Lazaro Armenteros aka “Lazarito”, OAK SP Logan Shore, LAD 1B O’koyea Dickson, NYM OF Travis Taijeron.
My list has a fantasy impact from only the best players in waiting who will make the 40-man roster in the next 4-years. It is based on career projections and highest average seasonal fantasy output. These are players you must consider drafting and stashing between 2017-2020.
Best Players in waiting:
1. Yoan Moncada
2. Victor Robles
3. Gleyber Torres
4. Tyler Glasnow
5. Amed Rosario
6. Cody Bellinger
7. Alex Reyes
8. Brent Honeywell
9.Michael Kopech
10. Lewis Brinson
* Major Differences
#15 Kevin Maitan (17 years old)
#17 Austin Meadows
#18 Eloy Jimenez
#28 Yadier Alvarez
#29 Lazaro Armenteros (17 years old)
#30 Reynaldo Lopez
#32 Lucas Giolito
#33 Jason Groome
#39 Nick Senzel
#40 Jesse Winker
#43 Rafael Devers
#55 Franklin Barreto
#64 Frankie Montas
#69 Lucas Erceg
#79 Braxton Garret
#90 Daulton Jefferies
#91 Cal Quantrill
#92 Logan Shore
#94 Rhys Hoskins
#95 Tyler Beede
#96 Matt Chapman
#99 Zack Burdi
#100 Joe Jimenez
Some players in my top 100-125 you missed out on include # 123 JT Chargois, #125 James Hoyt, #111 Antonio Senzatela.
Some players you chose not to put in top 125: #103 Riley Pint, #104 Christian Arroyo, #122 Dylan Cozens
Carlos Rincon? Marcus Wilson? Both are breaking out in a BIG BIG BIG way.
Neither of them were ranked by any of our writers. Wilson hadn’t done anything worthy of being ranked until 12 games this season, so it’ll be interesting to keep tabs on him, though he’s nothing more than someone to watch for now. The same can be said about Rincon. Their starts are interesting, but it’s only been a handful of games so I’d caution against calling them breakouts right now.