FanGraphs on Thursday unveiled its prime 100 prospects coming into 2024, a listing that features six Dodgers gamers, its most on any top-100 listing this 12 months.
The headliner amongst Dodgers prospects on FanGraphs' listing is pitcher River Ryan, who checked in nineteenth general, the best rating of any Dodgers prospect on lists from Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, ESPN, FanGraphs, MLB Pipeline and The Athletic.
Dodgers prospects in FanGraphs prime 100
Participant | Pos | 2024 | 2023 |
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Participant | Pos | 2024 | 2023 |
River Ryan | RHP | 19 | No |
Diego Cartaya | C | 60 | 28 |
Dalton Speeding | C | 68 | No |
Thayron Liranzo | C | 72 | No |
Kyle Damage | RHP | 86 | No |
Joendry Vargas | St | 92 | No |
Supply: FanGraphs
Acquired by the Padres for Matt Beaty on the finish of spring coaching in 2022, former two-way participant Ryan has centered solely on pitching since becoming a member of the Dodgers. He had a 3.80 ERA with 110 strikeouts and 46 walks in 104⅓ innings final 12 months largely at Double-A Tulsa (plus two begins in September for Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis).
Ryan isn’t on the Dodgers' 40-man roster, however shall be by November except he accelerates the schedule together with his main league debut this season.
Eric Longenhagen and Tess Taruskin wrote the prospect profiles at FanGraphs, and right here's what they needed to say about Ryan:
This is likely one of the finest all-around pitching prospects in baseball, a reasonably possible mid-rotation starter who may have vital talent improvement in his later 20s. It's believable that Ryan might be a top-five starter within the org in some unspecified time in the future in 2024 and work his approach into the rotation, however at the moment there are such a lot of good choices already on the 40-man roster forward of him that it’s extra possible that he. set his sights on the large leagues in 2025.
Following Ryan among the many Dodgers' prospects on FanGraphs' listing are three catchers. Diego Cartaya makes his second top-100 listing this season, checking in at No. 60, the one listing this 12 months by which he’s forward of Dalton Speeding (68th). Cartaya is the one top-100 Dodgers prospect this 12 months on FanGraphs who was additionally on final 12 months's listing.
Kyle Damage made his first top-100 listing, ranked by FanGraphs at 86th general. They gave his change a grade of 80, the best doable on the 20-80 scouting scale.
Shortstop Joendry Vargas, who was signed out of the Dominican Republic by the Dodgers in January 2023, is ranked the 92nd finest prospect by FanGraphs. He simply turned 18 in November.
With FanGraphs' listing now out, we’ve a greater image of how the Dodgers' prospects are regarded amongst nationwide shops. To this point, six main websites have revealed a top-100 (or 101) listing, and Speeding is the one Dodger to be ranked within the prime 100 on all six websites.
In all, 10 totally different Dodgers prospects had been named to at the very least one top-100 listing, and eight had been named to a number of lists.
A pair of Dodgers prospects who didn't make any of the top-100 lists had been named to a shortlist. Outfielder Eduardo Quintero, who signed out of Venezuela in January 2023, was ranked a hundred and fifteenth general by ESPN's Kiley McDaniel. Pitcher Jackson Ferris, acquired by the Cubs on Jan. 11 within the four-player Michael Busch/Yency Almonte commerce, was ranked within the 101-110 vary by MLB Pipeline.
Dodgers on 2024 top-100 prospect listing
Participant | Pos | 2024 age | 2023 excessive degree | B.A | BP | ESPN | FanGraphs | MLB | Athletic |
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Participant | Pos | 2024 age | 2023 excessive degree | B.A | BP | ESPN | FanGraphs | MLB | Athletic |
Dalton Speeding | C | 23 | Excessive-A | 50 | 36 | 75 | 68 | 75 | 86 |
Jose De Paula | OF | 19 | Low-A | 101-115 | 48 | 68 | 25 | ||
River Ryan | RHP | 25 | Triple-A | 101-115 | 102-111 | 102 | 19 | 33 | |
Nick Frasso | RHP | 25 | Triple-A | 97 | 67 | 86 | 80 | ||
Thayron Liranzo | C | 20 | Low-A | 70 | 72 | 99 | |||
Diego Cartaya | C | 22 | Double-A | 85 | 60 | 101-110 | 101-110 | ||
Gavin Stone | RHP | 25 | MLB | 82 | 101-110 | 95 | |||
Andy Pages | OF | 23 | Triple-A | 96 | 87 | ||||
Kyle Damage | RHP | 26 | MLB | 86 | |||||
Joendry Vargas | St | 18 | Dominican | 106 | 92 |