Now that the Mariners have graduated their wave of top prospects over the past couple years and built an exciting young core, there’s been an understandable drop in where they rank among baseball’s farm systems. But that’s okay, because that indicates the process is operating as intended, with players moving through the system and graduating to the bigs; stadiums don’t display banners for “best farm system”, after all.
And it’s not as if the Mariners system is completely empty; just recently, Baseball America named three current Mariners farmhands to their Top 100 list. They are:
- C Harry Ford at #64
- SS Cole Young at #99
- RHP Bryce Miller at #100
(Amusingly, Ford is squashed between his two former organization-mates, with Noelvi Marte at #63 and Edwin Arroyo at #65.