A.J. Puk and Tyler Soderstrom make Top 100 prospect lists, but A’s mostly shut out

A.J. Puk only made one list so far Photo by Michael Zagaris/Oakland Athletics/Getty Images It’s a weird winter for the baseball prospect world.

There was no 2020 season in the minor leagues, so there’s no new data to work with other than which top names graduated to the majors off the prospect radar. The draft was limited from 40 rounds to five, so each team got a far smaller influx of new names over the summer. The whole system mostly pressed pause for a year, and now it’s time to start moving again.

Every winter, several major sources release their national Top 100 prospect lists, ranking the best youngsters from throughout the minors. So far four of the lists have been released, from MLB…