It’s prospect list week, as Baseball Prospectus has dropped their annual preseason ranking of the Top-101 prospects in baseball a day after Baseball America posted theirs. The Seattle Mariners have placed four prospects on BP’s list:
No. 3 OF Julio Rodríguez
No. 15 SS Noelvi Marte
No. 21 RHP George Kirby
No. 87 RHP Emerson Hancock
As BP notes, and most anyone who makes a prospect list of this or any size would echo, this is an exercise in tiers more than a literal numerical ranking with pinpoint precision, particularly once you leave the first quartile or quintile of the list.