Top 87, technically.

It’s midseason prospect list time. With the release of Keith Law’s top 50 today, a majority of the mavens have now released their midseason updates. I took a look at as many of them as I could,* and combined them to produce a consensus list.

*I omitted Bleacher Report, but if someone would like to go through their slideshow and send me a readable list, I would be happy to include it if and when I update the list.

Since the majority of these lists are top 50’s, I assigned 50 points for a first place vote, 49 for a second, etc… and summed them all up. I am also showing a rating, which is simply the fraction of votes a prospect received as compared to a hypothetical unanimous #1 overall prospect. This should produce a better overall reflection of a prospect’s value than a simple ordinal ranking would.

Rk	Player	POS	Team	Rtg	High	Low
1	Byron Buxton	OF	MIN	98.9	1	3
2	Kris Bryant	3B	CHC	98.6	1	3
3	Carlos Correa	SS	HOU	95.7	2	5
4	Addison Russell	SS	CHC	92.6	4	6
5	Francisco Lindor	SS	CLE	90.3	3	9
6	Javier Baez	SS	CHC	85.4	5	15
7	Jon Gray	RHP	COL	80.6	7	23
8	Dylan Bundy	RHP	BAL	80.0	7	16
9	Lucas Giolito	RHP	WSN	79.7	7	17
10	Archie Bradley	RHP	ARI	78.9	6	18
11	Joey Gallo	3B	TEX	78.0	4	21
12	Miguel Sano	3B	MIN	76.3	9	20
13	Corey Seager	SS	LAD	75.7	5	19
14	Noah Syndergaard	RHP	NYM	72.0	9	19
15	Robert Stephenson	RHP	CIN	63.7	10	36
16	Joc Pederson	OF	LAD	62.9	14	29
17	Julio Urias	LHP	LAD	61.4	13	36
18	Blake Swihart	C	BOS	56.0	14	29
19	Henry Owens	LHP	BOS	54.3	15	40
20	J.P. Crawford	SS	PHI	53.1	15	36
21	Tyler Glasnow	RHP	PIT	52.6	16	34
22	Alex Meyer	RHP	MIN	52.0	12	42
23	Hunter Harvey	RHP	BAL	47.7	13	UR
24	Kohl Stewart	RHP	MIN	38.6	19	UR
25	David Dahl	OF	COL	37.7	17	UR
26	Daniel Norris	LHP	TOR	37.1	22	UR
27	Arismendy Alcantara	2B	CHC	36.6	18	50*
28	Taijuan Walker	RHP	SEA	35.7	7	UR
29	Raul A. Mondesi	SS	KC	32.9	22	UR
30	Austin Hedges	C	SDP	32.3	17	UR
31	Aaron Sanchez	RHP	TOR	32.0	13	UR
32	Jose Berrios	RHP	MIN	28.6	24	50
33	Braden Shipley	RHP	ARI	28.6	23	UR
34	Oscar Taveras	OF	STL	27.1	3	UR
35	Jameson Taillon	RHP	PIT	26.3	24	UR
36	Jorge Alfaro	C	TEX	23.4	25	UR
37	Kyle Zimmer	RHP	KC	22.6	21	UR
38	Mookie Betts	2B	BOS	22.0	9	UR
39	Jorge Soler	OF	CHC	20.3	24	UR
40	Carlos Rodon	LHP	CHW	20.0	10	UR
41	Josh Bell	OF	PIT	19.1	29	UR
42	Jesse Winker	OF	CIN	18.9	29	UR
43	Mark Appel	RHP	HOU	18.0	33	UR
44	Jimmy Nelson	RHP	MIL	16.0	24	UR
45	Andrew Heaney	LHP	MIA	12.9	11	UR
46	Luis Severino	RHP	NYY	12.0	34	UR
47	Brandon Nimmo	OF	NYM	11.7	34	UR
48	Raimel Tapia	OF	COL	10.3	31	UR
49	Clint Frazier	OF	CLE	10.0	38	UR
50	Albert Almora	OF	CHC	10.0	33	UR
51	Matt Wisler	RHP	SDP	10.0	28	UR
52	Nick Gordon	SS	MIN	10.0	25	UR
53	Brady Aiken	LHP	HOU	8.9	20	UR
54	Nick Kingham	RHP	PIT	8.6	37	UR
55	Stephen Piscotty	OF	STL	8.6	30	UR
56	Hunter Dozier	3B	KC	7.4	37	UR
57	Michael Conforto	OF	NYM	7.4	32	UR
58	A.J. Cole	RHP	WSN	7.1	32	UR
59	Alex Jackson	C	SEA	6.9	35	UR
60	Tyler Kolek	RHP	MIA	6.3	30	UR
61	James Paxton	LHP	SEA	6.0	30	UR
62	Kyle Crick	RHP	SFG	5.7	31	UR
63	Austin Meadows	OF	PIT	5.4	40	UR
64	D.J. Peterson	3B/1b	SEA	4.9	40	UR
65	Dalton Pompey	OF	TOR	4.3	40	UR
66	Tim Anderson	2B	BOS	3.7	38	UR
67	Hunter Renfroe	OF	PIT	3.7	44	UR
68	Jose Peraza	SS	ATL	3.4	39	UR
69	Kevin Plawecki	C	NYM	3.1	40	UR
70	Gary Sanchez	C	NYY	2.9	45	UR
71	Ryan McMahon	3B	COL	2.9	41	UR
72	Joe Ross	RHP	SDP	2.9	41	UR
73	Nick Williams	OF	TEX	2.6	46	UR
74	Maikel Franco	3B	PHI	2.6	43	UR
75	Michael Taylor	OF	WSN	2.6	42	UR
76	Aaron Blair	RHP	ARI	2.0	44	UR
77	Eddie Butler	RHP	COL	2.0	44	UR
78	Taylor Guerrieri	RHP	TB	2.0	44	UR
79	Aaron Judge	OF	NYY	1.7	45	UR
80	Rafael Montero	RHP	NYM	1.4	46	UR
81	Michael Lorenzen	RHP	CIN	1.1	47	UR
82	Rio Ruiz	3B	HOU	1.1	47	UR
83	Lance McCullers	RHP	HOU	0.9	48	UR
84	Lewis Brinson	OF	TEX	0.9	48	UR
85	Alex (Chi Chi) Gonzalez	RHP	TEX	0.6	49	UR
86	Dominic Smith	1B	NYM	0.6	49	UR
87	Miguel Almonte	RHP	KC	0.3	50	UR

Technical Notes

Most of the lists omit players currently in the majors. That has changed for some prospects based on differences in publication date. Most also choose not to rank recent draftees. I have dealt with these on a case-by-case basis.

Oscar Taveras, Mookie Betts, and Andrew Heaney were left off of the majority of the lists. Their position on the consensus list shouldn’t be taken as indicative of anything.
Likewise, only two lists included draftees (Keith Law and Prospect 361). Don’t read much into the positioning of Carlos Rodon, Alex Jackson, Tyler Kolek, and Brady Aiken.
For Arismendy Alcantara and Jimmy Nelson, on the other hand, I have made adjustments. Both were considered by most lists. Keith Law omitted them, but indicated that both would have made it. I gave both a #50 overall ranking for Law. Likewise, Marc Hulet indicated that Alcantara would have made his list, so I have ranked him #25 overall for Fangraphs. Both probably would move a few spots had all the lists considered them.

Sources

To get a better understanding of each prospects strengths and weaknesses, please check out comments from the authors of these lists. Consensus ranks were based on seven sources.

Baseball America

Baseball Prospectus

Minor League Ball (John Sickels)

ESPN (Keith Law)

Fangraphs (Marc Hulet)

The Baseball Haven (Evan Vogel)

Prospect 361 (Rich Wilson)