These prospect rankings are based on FANTASY value, not real-life value. Considering such, hitters generally weigh a bit heavier for me due to the injury risk and higher volatility of prospect pitchers. Proximity to the majors is also prominent in these rankings since we are looking at guys for only 2024.

Rather than getting into writing little bios on all of these hitters, I’ve decided to keep my rankings simple. I’ll provide the 2023 stats of each player across all levels, a player comp, a small blub on the player’s prime skills for fantasy, and an explanation of my ranking with expectations for 2024 with ATC projections and my thoughts on these projections. I’ve also included fScores for any players I expect to debut in 2024, which highlights what my fScore projections believe the player is capable of at the pro level for immediate impact.

If you are curious about the fScore ratings, you can check out my fScore rankings and information on the fScores by following THIS LINK.

NOTE: Rookie status is determined by 130 ABs or 50 IPs at the Major League level. I did opt to include the foreign imports in this equation but did not include Shane Baz (who would be ranked 5th behind Chourio) or Mason Miller (who would rank 14th).

• Top Fantasy Baseball Prospects to Target in Redraft Leagues
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Top Prospects to Target for Redraft Leagues

Wyatt Langford (OF – TEX)

2023 College: .373/.498/.784, 21 HR, 9 SB

2023 Rk/A+/AA/AAA: .360/.480/.677, 10 HR, 12 SB

Age: 22

ETA: Early 2024

fScores: 106 fContact, 160 fDiscipline, 126 fPower, 148 fSpeed, 62 fDurability

Comp: Brian Jordan meets Christian Walker

Prime Skills: Langford is known as the best power hitter from this recent draft class. He has 35 homer power in the bat and a very good hit tool to go along with it. He has above-average speed that kind of sneaks up on you because of his size, and he could put up a 20/20 season from the jump. They look a lot different physically, but statistically, his numbers could end up looking like Mookie Betts.

Projections (ATC): .266/.354/.465, 16 HR, 11 SB (99 games)

Ranking Explanation: There are some new concerns at the time of this writing that Langford may not break the Opening Day roster after they brought in Jankowski and noted there are doubts he could break camp unless he can show defensively he’s worthy of a starting OF spot, rather than just a DH. I think it would be silly of the Rangers not to let Langford break camp, as having him tag team with Carter increases their chances of getting the extra bonus pool and draft pick for next season, plus he’s better than guys like Taveras and Duran already. I expect closer to the Zips projections of 139 games played and think the slash projections aren’t far off (though I do project a better slug) and think he is likely in line for a 25/20 rookie season as long as he does break camp. I currently have Langford ranked as a top 20 OF ahead of guys like Jazz Chisholm Jr., Cody Bellinger, and Randy Arozarena.

Ricky Teidemann (SP – TOR)

2023 Rk/A/AA/AAA: 44 IP, 82 Ks, 23 BBs, 3.68 ERA, 1.23 WHIP

Age: 22

ETA: Opening Day 2024

fScores: 49 fPDurability, 121 fStuff, 96 fControl, 167 fERA

Comp: Good Andrew Heaney

Prime Skills: Tiedemann was a huge breakout last year and had a really nice fastball-slider combo. His changeup plays great off the slider, which is probably his best pitch. He’s a tunnel master who has a short arm/side arm funky delivery from the left side, which makes his slider even tougher to pick up. He does have bullpen risk.

Projections (ATC): 52 IP, 58 Ks, 23 BBs, 4.00 ERA, 1.31 WHIP

Ranking Explanation: Sometimes, pitcher rookie projections are all just shots in the dark to hit some safety net. Tiedemann is probably the 6/7 man for the Jays this year, and it only takes one injury for him to come up. He doesn’t have a track record of durability like Skenes, though, so I’d only project about 80-100 innings at a maximum and probably 120 max minors and majors combined. I’m going to predict he’s up in June, make about 16 starts this year with around 75 major league innings, a 15% K-BB rate, a mid-4s ERA, and the WHIP is likely high even with a high K rate with a lot of BBs.

Masyn Winn (SS – STL)

2023 AAA: .288/.359/.474, 18 HR, 17 SB

2023 MLB: .172/.230/.238, 2 HR, 2 SB

Age: 22

ETA: Debuted in 2023

fScores: 93 fContact, 100 fDiscipline, 76 fPower, 139 fSpeed, 78 fDurability

Comp: Young Francisco Lindor with less power

Prime Skills: Remember when Lindor came up as a defense-first SS? Winn obviously has a ridiculous arm, but on top of that is thrifty on the base paths with sneak 15-ish homer upside. He could land somewhere between Edman with better plate discipline to Lindor as a potential long-term range of outcomes. The swing decisions are excellent.

Projections (ATC): .246/.305/.377, 10 HR, 13 SB (124 games)

Ranking Explanation: Winn is slated to be the starting SS for the Cardinals from Opening Day and should hold the job even if there are struggles with the bat because the defense is superb. He had a rough small sample size in his debut in 2023, but he has had that issue at every level upon promotion being young at every level at an intensive position. I think we are looking at something like .265/.330/.415 with 13-16 homers and 25-ish steals in 145-150 games.

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