For the past two years the Tampa Bay Rays have had a dominant hold on the number one spot in terms of prospect rankings. Wander Franco was the guy, the one player every prospect writer unanimously agreed would be baseball’s next wunderkind, and live up to minor league expectation.
So far, they’ve been right. With the Rays putting so much trust in the early legend of Franco that they traded away fan-favorite shortstop Willy Adames mid-season, it seems that their hopes were well-pinned. Franco continued to be a dominant force even at the major league level, and tallied up a 43-game on base streak to tie for history while he was at it.