Every year I do a "Breakout Prospects to Watch" article at the start of the regular season, and every year I struggle with the definition of the term "Breakout".
A breakout prospect can mean many things. We can be talking about a national breakout guy who could make the jump to being one of the top 100 prospects in the game. Think Mitch Keller going from one of the top prospects in the system to one of the top prospects in the game.
We could be talking about a breakout in the system, with a player who makes the jump into becoming one of the top ten prospects in the organization, and perhaps at the top half of that list.