Diving In Headfirst
This year’s list of MLB prospects is mind-blowing. Big-time names like Franco, Rodriguez, Rutschman and Torkelson have eye-popping talent. But there is just as much ability at the top of the list as there is 100-plus names deep.
“They seem to get stronger and stronger,” said prospect guru and Onyx Authenticated, Inc. President Lance Fischer. “The classes or the prospects in the lower levels – this year being no different, although COVID kind of threw everything for a curve with last year being basically absent from really the development stage for the guys themselves and to the teams, being able to track and seeing how these guys would do or what their future holds. This year’s going to be very unique in that sense of we’re all kind of basing talent from 2019 and really not 2020. So, we’re hedging our bets a little bit that in the past year these guys have stayed in shape, they’ve stayed active, they’ve stayed engaged and so forth.”
Yes, the pandemic left a lot of top prospects essentially without a place to compete on an everyday basis during the 2020 season.
“I do think teams are, especially with their better prospects, treating 2020 like it was a continuing year of development,” MLB Pipeline/ senior writer Jim Callis said. “Even though it wasn’t
