Both Baseball Prospectus and Baseball America dropped their Top 100 lists today (well, BP does 101, because whatever), and a year after having no prospects on either list, the Mariners have four on BA’s and two on BP’s. One key difference to keep in mind: Baseball America does not cap players who have professional experience in other countries, meaning that as Shohei Ohtani made the list last year, so too did Yusei Kikuchi this year. Baseball Prospectus curtails any players past a certain age/experience level. To go much further down this road requires a teleological discussion on the nature of prospects, however, and we have other fish to fry.
Mariners place four prospects on Baseball America’s Top 100 list, two on Baseball Prospectus’s
