Luis Garcia, SS
Sixto Sanchez, RHP
Adonis Medina, RHP
Adam Haseley, OF
Alec Bohm, 3B
Arizona Fall League Top 25 Prospects
Role 80 (5+WAR) – Risk – Moderate
1) Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (1B) Toronto Blue Jays – Heap of effusive praise commence. Eighty grades should not be thrown around lightly. I am not even sure that there should be an 80 given to a prospect every season. Only .3% or 3/1000 data points in a normal distribution fall beyond three standards deviations of the mean. An 80 on the scouting scale describes a position player who is a franchise cornerstone or potential hall of famer. This is perhaps a blasphemous expectation, but that is what I think Vlad will be. Please understand how absurd it is to give him moderate risk to reach this projection. Vlad was the best player in the fall league at age 19 and frankly looked uninterested at times. I don’t think we were watching vintage Guerrero. His bat speed and bat control were surpassed only by his advanced feel for the zone. While I view him as a 1B long-term, but that does not dampen my enthusiasm for him at all.
Colorado Rockies Top 30 Prospects
St. Louis Cardinals Top 30 Prospects
Houston Astros Top 30 Prospects
Kansas City Royals Top 30 Prospects
Minnesota Twins Top 30 Prospects
Tampa Bay Rays Top 30 Prospects
Washington Nationals Top 30 Prospects
2018 First-Year Player Draft Top 100 for Dynasty Leagues
Any good enthusiast no matter the hobby, genre, or game loves some fresh meat. Something new and exciting to sink your teeth into. For baseball nuts and prospect hounds like myself there’s nearly nothing better than the stretch of time between mid-June and July 2. This is of course the period between the MLB amateur draft and the July 2nd International signing period. All these new players to research, follow, and digest following short-season leagues and rookie ball wrapping up in early September. This is the time where the greatest amount of planning is put into researching and ranking the most recent wave of talent. If you play in deep dynasty leagues like the team here does, then you know typically the “First-Year Player Draft” is the beginning of your offseason, and in many strict dynasty setups, the only way you add players from season to season. So, we here at Prospects Live entrusted our two fantasy analysts to compile a top 100 list comprised of nothing but 2018 draftees, and International signings. Those fantasy analysts were of course myself, Ralph Lifshitz, and our resident manager, Matt Thompson.
