Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs features 46 Marlins prospects with brief notes on 18 others. “This is a very, very strong system,” he writes, “and perhaps the toolsiest in baseball.”
Longenhagen is known for putting more of an emphasis on players’ ceilings than other evaluators do, resulting in some unorthodox rankings. He’s especially high on Max Meyer (No. 1), José Salas (No. 7), Osiris Johnson (No. 15), Eury Pérez (No. 16) and Ian Lewis (No. 23) relative to the rest of industry, while coming in low on Lewin Díaz (No. 14), José Devers (No. 25), Braxton Garrett (No.