MLB All-Star Weekend: Players to watch in the Futures Game

The festivities of the MLB All-Star Week launch Saturday with the MLB Futures match in Atlanta. This window of young players from all over sport is an ideal place for more occasional fans to see the best hopes in baseball. The pure and hard – and those working in the industry – use it as a recording to see if they have missed elevators or fall into the first half of the minor leagues season.

If you are looking for these to pay particular attention to this year, these are the dozen prospects that I am most excited to see in this year’s game.

Arrow-Up 2024 Recruits

Konnor Griffin, SS, Pittsburgh Pirates
Jump with a gauge, LHP, athletics
Trey YesAvies, RHP, Toronto Blue Jays

These three are among the largest lifting elevators last year. Griffin has some of the best gross tools for minors. I compared it to Fernando Tatis Jr. before the draft last year, due to its explosive power / speed combo in a defensive stop / outdoor field adjustment. Velo de Jump is in place a few ticks, and he tickles the top of the striking area with a radiator which has a large shape to obtain puffs up there: it is now 93-96, reaching 98 MPH.

Yes it has height forms and a unique deception of its high arm location, which means that its rapid ball and its change cut more than the average, but it is so vertically oriented that it cannot obtain a lot of horizontal movement on anything, which means that all its grouped throws in the same area of a plot of movement. Strikers are thrown away by the unexpected movement from a single arm slit, so I expect strange fluctuations of strikers who will not be prepared with a screening ratio.

Get into the top 100

Jesus made, ss, milwaukee brewers
Zyhir Hope, from, los angeles dodgers
Jonah Tong, RHP, New York Mets

Made was 46th on my top 100 of pre-season, then fifth of the update two months ago. Arriving in the season, everything we had was his good performance historically in the Dominican summer league, but its average setting apparently crowned its advantage. He could be a more power with more power on both sides of the plate which can remain in the inner field, otherwise the stop stop, and it reveals low-a while being 18 years old. Hope went from 70th to 21st, and he also solved a big problem, as a striker with great power, but some questions based on contacts after 54 games at Bas-A. It is always a type of power instantly, but it has more raw power and gets there in High-A games.

Tong went from 147th to 50th pre-season of the May update and would be even higher now. Its bike is up 1.6 mph from last year, and its change added five inches more of sink and two additional inches of racing, so it launches it much more often and gets even more puffs. It continues to evolve and seems to be a freight train for the rotation of the big league.

Unique launchers

Noah Schultz, LHP, Chicago White Sox
Jurrangelo Cijntje, RHP / LHP, Seattle Mariners

Schultz’s walking rate is up this year in triple-a, but it still has 6 feet 10 inches with rude stuff in a low arm slot, so it will be a fun watch, especially in a shorter passage. Cijntje is fun, because it was good enough to go to the first round last year and be in the conversation for the top 100 now – and it could launch on both sides in a given game.

Applicants to be the MLB No. 1 perspect for 2026

Leo de Vries, SS, San Diego Padres
Sebastian Walcott, SS, Texas Rangers
Max Clark, see, Detroit Tigers
Kevin McGonigle, SS, Detroit Tigers

In addition all The best candidates once Bubba Chandler is promoted and graduated at some point this season. From Vries has the advantage at the moment as a striking stopping stop with Power which occurs in High-A at the age of 18. Walcott has a higher ceiling, with a shot to hit 40 circuits one day, but he was promoted so aggressively (he is 19 years old at the moment) that he has not been able to demonstrate offensive domination.

Clark is more essentially everything in the field, but simply on average with regard to raw power – his case would be that he could transform into a Corbin Carroll type star. McGonigle is the longest blow, because its raw physical tools are well behind this group, but it is easily the best striker and has the best approach, while being a left-handed striker who plays a solid defensive stop.