The top half of our prospect list rounds out with a close race between Cody Morris (20% of the vote), Gabriel Arias (21%), and eventually winner Chase DeLauter (24%).
DeLauter was the Guardians’ first pick in the 2022 MLB Draft (16th overall), so we haven’t gotten much of a look at him in professional baseball yet. Still, his excellent college career at James Madison University was enough to land him in the first round and in the top 10 of most Guardians prospect lists.
MLB Pipeline has him seventh in their latest rankings, and FanGraphs had him at ninth in their list released last week.