NEW: Top 200 Draft Prospects list features new No. 1.
With just over six weeks before the Cleveland Guardians make the first selection of the 2024 Draft, MLB Pipeline has a newly expanded, and re-ranked Top 200 Draft prospects list to digest.
A lot can happen between now and then in terms of figuring out who goes where, and there will be plenty of movement when we do one more expansion of the list to 250 and also in our regular projections of the first round, but there does seem to be clarity around the names at the very top.
Top 10:
1. Travis Bazzana, 2B, Oregon State
2. Charlie Condon, OF/3B, Georgia
3. Jac Caglianone, 1B/LHP, Florida
4. Nick Kurtz, 1B, Wake Forest
5. Chase Burns, RHP, Wake Forest
6. Hagen Smith, LHP, Arkansas
7. JJ Wetherholt, SS/2B, West Virginia
8. Braden Montgomery, OF, Texas A&M
9. Konnor Griffin, SS/OF, Jackson Prep (MS)
10. Bryce Rainer, SS, Harvard-Westlake HS (CA)
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Top prospects:
Condon | Bazzana | Caglianone | Kurtz | Montgomery
Smith | Burns | Wetherholt | Griffin | Culpepper
While there’s no guarantee, it does appear the top 10 names that have all but cemented themselves (eight of the 10 are college players), though the order they should go in is still a bit more fungible. We wanted to get a sense of a consensus on this top group so we sent out a survey to team executives with all 30 organizations, asking them to rank this group.
A total of 26 higher-level members of the scouting industry, from cross-checkers to scouting directors and general managers, responded, and the results did cause us to change our list at the top, putting Oregon State’s Travis Bazzana in the No. 1 spot over Georgia’s Charlie Condon, who had been there when we put out our Top 150 list. Bazzana, the Beavers second baseman who carries a .418/.581/.939 line with 26 homers and 15 steals into Regional play this weekend, received 17 of the 26 first-place votes. Condon, his .443/.558/1.043 line and an NCAA-leading 35 homers, got seven votes for the top spot. Florida’s Jac Caglianone and Wake Forest’s Nick Kurtz each received one first-place nod.
Draft Prospect: Travis Bazzana
Aug 7, 2023 · 1:05
Draft Prospect: Travis Bazzana
