Dodger Prospect Rankings

Phil Gurnee ♦ January 13, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

With Baseball America putting out their top ten Dodger prospect list for 2017 we now have enough lists to put out a prospect table. I would have liked to include TrueBlueLA prospect writer David Hood but he is spreading his list out and is only down to 13. I’ll add his ranking when he’s finished.

For now,  I have four lists.

• MLB.com by Jim Callis goes 30 deep – MLB
• Baseball America goes 10 deep – BA
• Fangraphs goes 21 deep – FG
• Rotowire goes 10 deep – RW

Cody Bellinger is ranked number one by MLB.COM, Baseball America,  and Rotowire. Fangraphs went with Yadier Alvarez as their number one.

Dodger number one prospects have made quite a splash over the past four years.

• 2013  – Ryu
• 2014 – Joc Pederson
• 2015 – Corey Seager
• 2016 – Julio Urias

Bellinger doesn’t have a clear path to playing time so it hard to see him having an impact in 2017 but stranger things have happened.  I’d expect that Andrew Toles/Jose DeLeon/Brock Stewart have the clearest path to having an impact on the 2017 season.

Andrew Toles is a special case all over this table. MLB barely ranked him in their top 30,  but the other three lists all have him in the top ten where he belongs.

Walker Buehler made every top ten except Baseball America.

DJ Peters got a shoutout from Rotowire for their top ten, as did teenager Starling Heredia.

Newly signed Jose Miguel Fernandez would qualify for these lists but was just signed last week. In the Baseball America prospect chat, they said he would rank in the top ten. This chat is great, I’d suggest anyone interested in the prospects to give it a read.

Prospect	BirthDate	AGE	MLB	BA	RW	FG	Draft
Cody Bellinger	7/13/1995	21	1	1	1 (15)	2	4/2013
Jose De Leon	8/7/1992	24	2	3	6 (79)	4	24/2013
Alex Verdugo*	5/15/1996	20	3	4	3 (42)	3	2/2014
Willie Calhoun*	11/4/1994	22	4	5	4 (74)	6	4/2015
Yadier Alvarez	3/7/1996	20	5	2	2 (25)	1	Cuba
Yusniel Diaz	10/7/1996	20	6	7	5 (81)	9	Cuba
Walker Buehler	7/28/1994	22	7		7 (126)	5	1/2015
Jordan Sheffield	6/1/1995	21	8			10	1/2016
Gavin Lux	11/23/1997	19	9	9		12	1/2016
Austin Barnes	12/28/1989	27	10	10		11	Trade
Will Smith	3/28/1995	21	11			14	1/2016
Omar Estevez	2/25/1998	18	12			20	Cuba
Starling Heredia	2/6/1999	17	13		8 (135)	16	Dominican
Brock Stewart	10/3/1991	25	14	8		7	6/2014
Josh Sborz	12/17/1993	23	15				2/2015
Imani Abdullah	4/20/1997	19	16			17	11/2015
Chase De Jong	12/29/1993	23	17				Trade
Brendon Davis	7/27/1997	19	18				5/2015
Jacob Rhame	3/16/1993	23	19				6/2013
Jacob Scavuzzo	1/15/1994	22	20				21/2012
Ronny Brito	3/22/1999	17	21				Dominican
Johan Mieses	7/13/1995	21	22				Dominican
Kyle Farmer	8/17/1990	26	23				8/2013
Keibert Ruiz	7/20/1998	18	24			13	Venezuela
Edwin Rios*	4/21/1994	22	25				6/2015
Mitch Hansen*	5/1/1996	20	27				2/2015
Andrew Toles*	5/24/1992	24	27	6	9 (137)	8	Trade
Mitchell White	12/28/1994	22	28			15	2/2016
Trevor Oaks	3/26/1993	23	29				7/2014
Dustin May	9/6/1997	19	30			21	3/2016
D.J. Peters	12/12/1995	21			10 (143)	18	4/2016
Yaisel Sierra	6/5/1991	25				19	CubanFA
Jose Miguel Fernandez	4/27/1988	28					CubanFA