Earlier today we looked at the new top 100 draft prospects list from Keith Law over at The Athletic. Baseball America expanded their top draft prospects list to 500 and posted it a short time later. We also have the top 300 draft prospects list from Kiley McDaniel at ESPN. Here’s a look at the two new lists and a ranking of the three new lists together.
In the Law article, I noted that the top five prospects in the draft class have been set for quite some time. Those are the same five players who will be mentioned here, which will make the comparison list easy to do.
Both of these new lists have ratings for the prospects on the 20-80 scale, which I’ve included below.
BA has LSU outfielder Dylan Crews ranked #1.
He is followed in order by LSU right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes, Florida outfielder Wyatt Langford, and high school outfielders Walker Jenkins and Max Clark.
BA has both Crews and Skenes graded at 65. The other three are all rated 60. Everyone else on their list is 55 or below.
Kiley McDaniel has the top five in this order:
- Wyatt Langford
- Dylan Crews
- Paul Skenes
- Walker Jenkins
- Max Clark
His grades for these players are 60 for the top three spots, 55 for Jenkins and Clark.
McDaniel’s is a 1/2 grade lower on the top two tiers, but he also drops down to a 45 Future Value grade for his seventh best prospect, showing an even bigger gap than BA.
Here’s the composite top five from the three new rankings.
- Crews
- Langford
- Skenes
- Jenkins
- Clark
I’m sure we will have plenty of mock drafts leading right up until the draft. We will have all of them here from the top sources, along with more on our draft roundtable series. We will have reports on all of the draft picks by the Pirates over the three days of the draft.
The draft coverage begins on MLB Network at 7PM on Sunday night. The first two rounds will be selected then. Not only will the Pirates pick first overall, they also have the 42nd overall pick and the 67th pick on day one.
