Here’s the freshly updated Top 100 Prospects list.
Break out the caps and gowns. It’s time for a whole bunch of graduations and an updated Top 100 Prospects list.
Young players who began the 2024 season on a Major League Opening Day roster with zero MLB service time exhausted their prospect status Sunday by way of the 45-day threshold. With that threshold passed, MLB Pipeline is taking this opportunity to spruce up the Top 100 prospect rankings.
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Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio, Tigers second baseman Colt Keith and Pirates right-hander Jared Jones are this weekend’s big graduates. Rangers outfielder Wyatt Langford remains on the list due to a right hamstring strain that has placed him on the IL and paused his prospect clock.
But we’ve done more than remove and replace those three. We’ve also revoted on the Top 15 spots, moved prospects in need of big jumps or falls (i.e. 10 or more spots), dropped some off the list completely and welcomed worthy performers amid their 2024 breakouts.
Top 15
1. Jackson Holliday, 2B/SS, Orioles
2. Paul Skenes, RHP, Pirates
3. Junior Caminero, 3B/SS, Rays
4. Wyatt Langford, OF, Rangers
5. James Wood, OF, Nationals
6. Ethan Salas, C, Padres
7. Dylan Crews, OF, Nationals
8. Walker Jenkins, OF, Twins
9. Jordan Lawlar, SS, D-backs
10. Jackson Jobe, RHP, Tigers
11. Colson Montgomery, SS, White Sox
12. Marcelo Mayer, SS, Red Sox
13. Max Clark, OF, Tigers
14. Samuel Basallo, C/1B, Oriole
15. Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF, Cubs
Complete Top 100 rankings »
There isn’t a huge change at the top. Despite his initial struggles in the Majors and subsequent option to Triple-A Norfolk, Holliday remains in the top spot because this is a long-term ranking. The Baltimore middle infielder is still only 20 years old — making him young for Triple-A, nevermind the Majors — and his history of performance at every other stop, plus the knowledge that the gap between Triple-A and the
Majors is as wide as ever, gives us belief he’ll still be a plus-plus hitter in The Show eventually. By way of Chourio’s graduation, Skenes climbs up one spot to No. 2 one day after his own MLB debut, and Caminero and Langford similarly stay in order as they round out the top four.
The big climbers here are Wood and Jobe.
