If there’s one other thing baseball loves to do besides quantify everything, it’s create rankings. That’s probably equally true for nearly every sport, but it’s especially true for a sport that is as hyper focused on statistics as baseball. In both of those veins, MLB Pipeline released its rankings of the top 100 prospects grouped by the aptly named “Future Value” or FV. Despite the name, it’s a nonsensical scouting system that grades prospects from 20-80 on five categories (hit, power, run, arm, and field) along with an overall grade that theoretically maps onto the player’s projected fWAR in their first six years of service.
Thursday Tidbits: Unheralded Prospect Watchlist
