After exploring both the team top 10 lists, overall top 150, and system rankings in our MLB Top Prospects series, we finish with a look at positional rankings. Today, we look at the top 10 outfield prospects for 2018.
Our MLB Top Prospect series at Call to the Pen is spearheaded by Benjamin Chase. Today, he gives us the top ten outfield prospects for 2018.
We will explore each position with a top 10 list, and then after we get to #1, don’t leave as we will also highlight one player who is “on the rise” and could factor into the positional rankings after the 2018 season if they hold their current trajectory.
Each of these MLB Top Prospect rankings have come through the hundreds of games each summer Ben watches as well as speaking with multiple people throughout the game and gauging their opinions as well on players he has not had a good look at. This is a personal opinion, and a ranking position higher or lower than industry standard does not indicate “liking” or “hating” a certain player more or less – by just showing up on this list, there is a degree of appreciation of the talent a player brings!
We will start each position list with an overall look at the position itself within the game and the strength of the position.
Position overview
Easily the deepest non-pitching position in talent simply because there are three positions feeding into this one look, I do take all outfielders in one swath, in spite of those three different positions coming into play primarily due to the fact that the outfield spot a player is playing currently in the minor leagues has about as much stock in his future position as which shoe he ties first.
The position is deep enough to have top 50 players not make the top 10 list, which says a ton about the current depth of outfielders among MLB top prospects. There are impressive players far off of the top 100 as well as far as raw talent goes, but rather than putting together a top 30 or top 50 list, which would certainly be still filled with viable, legit prospects, we’ll stick with 10. Your eyes will thank you, trust me.
Let’s take a look at the outfielders….
Next: #9 and #10