FanGraphs dropped their Top 100 prospects list today, leaving just MLB Pipeline standing as the last of the major outlets to publish their pre-season prospect rankings list (one assumes creating that list is complicated by the owners’ lockout and the prospects on the list who are also on the 40-man, such as Julio Rodríguez, Royce Lewis, and MacKenzie Gore).
For FanGraphs, the process of creating a “Top-100” list is a demonstration of their Future Value metric, which attempts to project productivity mostly akin to the traditional scouting scale, with a bit of an eye towards how teams might value types of players more than others.