A Sneak Peek at the 2023 Top 100 Prospects

The FanGraphs Newsletter, February 24, 2022 [READ IN BROWSER]( February 24, 2022 Welcome to Prospects Week Hi there! It’s common for our readers to ask which of the players who aren’t on this year’s 100 Prospect list might grace next year’s. Who has a chance to really break out? This is the piece for those readers, our “Picks to Click,” the gut-feel guys we think can make the 2023 Top 100. This is the fifth year we’ve conducted this exercise at FanGraphs, and there are some rules. First, none of the players included in this exercise will have ever been a 50 FV or better in any of our write-ups or rankings. Second, we can’t pick players who we’ve picked in prior years, but the other writers can. For instance, Eric picked [Wilman Diaz]( last year, but he didn’t make the Top 100. Eric can’t select Diaz again, but Kevin and/or Tess could if they wanted, though they’ve opted not to. Last year, we decided to make this somewhat competitive to see which of us ends up being right about the most players. Below is a brief rundown of how the site’s writers have done since this piece became a part of Prospects Week; you can click the year in the “Year” column to access that year’s list. Our initials began appearing next to our picks in 2021, with an asterisk denoting the players we both selected. (In the table, the format for that year’s results is “Kevin’s guys (mutual selection) Eric’s guys.”) We don’t count “click echoes,” guys who enter the 50 FV tier multiple years after they were Picks to Click, toward our totals. For example, [MJ Melendez]( was a 2018 Pick to Click, but he didn’t enter the 50 FV tier until this offseason, so he doesn’t count. Here’s how we’ve fared in the past: We’ve separated the players into groups or “types” to make the list a little more digestible and to give you some idea of the demographics we think pop-up guys come from, which could help you identify some of your own using [The Board](. For players whose orgs we have already covered this offseason, there is a link to the applicable team list where you can find a full scouting report on that player. 👉 [2023 Picks to Click]( Find the players Eric Longenhagen, Kevin Goldstein and Tess Taruskin think can make the 2023 Top 100 Prospect list. [Tony Kemp Made an Adjustment. Can Pitchers Counter?]( Kemp put together his best year yet by leaving the bat on his shoulders more frequently. | by Ben Clemens [Even With Face-to-Face Meetings, a New CBA Isn't Getting Much Closer]( MLB's deadline to preserve Opening Day has increased the frequency of meetings, but there's been little progress on taxes and minimum salaries. | by Jay Jaffe [2022 LABR Mixed Draft Recap - BOOM or BUST]( Is this team good, fun, or scary? by Mike Podhorzer 📌 JOB POSTING: [KinaTrax Data Processing Engineer (Full Time / Part Time) and Stringer / Operator]( The Mug in white! [ORDER HERE]( [Ryan Zimmerman’s retirement ends connections to the Nats’ early-days]( by Steven Martano, Beyond the Box Score [2022 MLB draft rankings 1.0: Druw Jones (yes, Andruw's son) is No.1 on our list]( by Kiley McDaniel, ESPN [Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are living monuments to baseball’s past. How long can they be part of its future?]( by Chad Jennings, Jen McCaffrey and more, The Athletic ($) [Getting Hit by Pitches is a Skill]( by Rob Mains, Baseball Prospectus ($) [@fangraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [RSS]( [FORWARD]( [SUBSCRIBE]( Copyright © 2022 FanGraphs Inc, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the FanGraphs Newsletter. Our mailing address is: FanGraphs Inc 1200 N Hartford St. Apt 312Arlington, Va 22201 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](