The Los Angeles Dodgers placed three prospects in the Baseball Prospectus midseason top 50 prospects for the 2017 season, headlined by Walker Buehler at No. 19. Alex Verdugo was ranked 27th and Yadier Alvarez 28th. The publication did not consider Cody Bellinger a prospect for the purpose of their update.
Heading into the 2017 season, Baseball Prospectus ranked Alvarez No. 23 overall, and named Bellinger (26th), Verdugo (66), Yusniel Diaz (90) and Buehler (94) to their top 101.
Buehler is in his first full season since undergoing Tommy John surgery shortly after being selected by the Dodgers in the first round of the 2015 Draft.