To continue celebrating the team’s history this offseason, we came up with a list of the top prospects in team history — 20 prospects for 20 seasons of Rays baseball.
It was not an easy list to create. There are a lot of factors to consider, and it’s difficult to look at players how they were as prospects and not through the lens of how their major league career panned out.
To make the list, I started with players that appeared on Baseball America’s Top-100 prospects list, sorted by their highest appearance. I then went to work arranging them based on reading scouting reports and considering pedigrees, like draft status or signing bonuses.