Baseball America ranks Mariners system best in baseball for the first time ever

the future, Conan?Today the venerable publication Baseball America released their organizational rankings for every team in baseball. Organizational rankings are different from individual prospect rankings—a team might have a couple Top-50 or even Top-25 prospects, but if the dropoff in the system is sharp after that, a team won’t rank as highly as another, more well-rounded organization. Likewise, a team might have several players who rank in the top-200 or even Top-100, but if none of those players are seen as “impact” players, potential future superstars, that can also ding a team’s ranking. For the first time since Baseball America began ranking farm systems back in 1984, the Seattle Mariners top the 2022 list.

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