Gaze Top 100 Possibilities countdown tonight on MLB Community

With the action of the 2023 season in the rearview mirror and nearly a month to run earlier than Spring Coaching games acquire underway, the expose of MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Possibilities listing for 2024 is impending.

Gaze MLB Community’s Greg Amsinger and Dan O’Dowd depend down the listing with Pipeline’s Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo at 7 p.m. ET on Friday. And cease tuned in an instant afterwards for bonus coverage as Sam Dykstra will be half of the crew for the Pipeline Possibilities Postgame expose on MLB.com and MLB.TV.

It be the 20th anniversary of MLB.com’s first high prospects listingand the 2024 edition of our Top 100 Possibilities guarantees to be as stacked with sport-altering talent as any.

Who will be No. 1 this year? Who will develop the best leap? Who’s taking a step relief? And which prospects like cracked the listing for the first time?

Solutions are coming Friday evening.

How the Top 100 is accelerate

The MLB Pipeline team compiles the rankings the divulge of input from industry sources, including scouts, scouting directors and varied evaluators. The rankings are an combination prognosis, taking the avid gamers’ talent location, upside, proximity to the Majors and doable immediate affect to their teams into fable.

The listing finest involves avid gamers with rookie build in 2024, that intention avid gamers who debuted in ’23 nonetheless didn’t rating the service time (45 days on the stuffed with life roster), at-bats (130) or innings pitched (50) to graduate are eligible again this year. First-year avid gamers who tumble out of doorways of the realm pool cash rules laid out in the Collective Bargaining Settlement — that is, who’re as a minimal 23 years extinct and performed in world leagues deemed skilled — need to now not eligible. That excludes some older rookies debuting after careers in locations like Japan, Korea and Cuba, like Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

Old fashioned MLB No. 1 prospects

Old fashioned No. 1 prospects embody the likes of Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Joe Mauer and a gargantuan series of varied avid gamers who depend MVP trophies, Cy Younger Awards or Rookie of the Yr honors among their respective accomplishments. Closing year’s AL Rookie of the Yr, Gunnar Hendersonwas as soon as No. 64 when the 2022 listing was as soon as unveiled and topped the listing at present last year.

MLB’s preseason No. 1 prospects by year

2023: Gunnar Henderson, 3B/SS, BAL
2022: Bobby Witt Jr., SS/3B, KC
2021: Bound Franco, SS, TB
2020: Bound Franco, SS, TB
2019: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 3B, TOR
2018: Shohei Ohtani, RHP/OF, LAA
2017: Andrew Benintendi, OF, BOS
2016: Corey Seager, SS, LAD
2015: Byron Buxton, OF, MIN
2014: Byron Buxton, OF, MIN
2013: Jurickson Profar, SS, TEX
2012: Matt Moore, LHP, TB
2011: Mike Trout, OF, LAA
2010: Jason Heyward, OF, ATL
2009: David Brand, LHP, TB
2008: Jay Bruce, OF, CIN
2007: Delmon Younger, OF, TB
2006: Delmon Younger, OF, TB
2005: Delmon Younger, OF, TB
2004: Joe Mauer, C, MIN