For the past week, MLB Pipeline has been dissecting our 2021 Top 100 Prospects list in various ways. In addition to looking at the players with the best tools and the best-represented teams on the list, we also offered a team-by-team preview of the prospects who fans might see join
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It’s been nearly a week since MLB Pipeline unveiled its Top 100 Prospects for 2021, and in that time our Pipeline team has already answered many of your questions about the players who made the list.
But the very act of having to rank a finite number of prospects means that we also were forced to make some difficult omissions. And for some fans, finding out which players came close to making the Top 100 can be as interesting as the list itself.
With that in mind, MLB Pipeline has compiled a list of each team’s top prospect who didn’t make the 2021 Top 100. It also serves as a preview for the team Top 30 lists that we’ll be rolling out in March, with each player representing the next-highest-ranked prospect in their respective organization.
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At the beginning of the week, we put out our annual All-Defense team, and it contained a lot of familiar faces with a lot of repeat members of the squad. Expanding to a second team allowed more plus defenders to get some due.
But we at MLB Pipeline wanted to go beyond that list of 16 names. Sure, you have to hit in order to stick in the big leagues, but it’s important to recognize players who are able to save runs, not just create them. We had that in mind when we named the best defensive prospect in each organization below.
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At the beginning of the week, we put out our annual All-Defense team, and it contained a lot of familiar faces with a lot of repeat members of the squad. Expanding to a second team allowed more plus defenders to get some due.
But we at MLB Pipeline wanted to go beyond that list of 16 names. Sure, you have to hit in order to stick in the big leagues, but it’s important to recognize players who are able to save runs, not just create them. We had that in mind when we named the best defensive prospect in each organization below.
At the beginning of the week, we put out our annual All-Defense team, and it contained a lot of familiar faces with a lot of repeat members of the squad. Expanding to a second team allowed more plus defenders to get some due. But we at MLB Pipeline wanted to