Happy prospect list season! On Wednesday afternoon, Fangraphs released their Top 40 Baltimore Orioles prospect list, which you can find here. Spoiler alert, catcher Adley Rutschman is ranked as the top prospect in the system. Surprising, right?
Prospect lists are always fun in that they are all different, value certain tools over others, and are always up for debate. Prospects rise and fall, someone in the organization not on the list always seems to pop up, and often times we see a name near the top of the list struggle to make a name for themselves at the big league level.