Drafted by the Mets in the first round back in 2013, Dominic Smith made his professional baseball debut later that year as an 18-year-old. As he climbed the Mets’ minor league ladder, he wasn’t often considered a top prospect, ranking in the top 100 on all three of the big top prospect lists—Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, and MLB.com—just once, ahead of the 2016 season.
Baseball America and MLB.com kept Smith in their top 100 going into the 2017 season, and Smith officially graduated from being considered a prospect with 183 plate appearances at the major league level that year.