Revisiting Our 2024 Breakout Prospect Predictions For Every Team

We’re beginning to close the door on the 2024 minor league season and embark on another offseason of reporting in advance of our annual Prospect Handbook. Each year, Baseball America staffers select 2-3 prospects for the book from each organization ranked outside the top 10 who are primed for a breakout year.

Subscribers often ask us to look back and revisit prospect rankings to see who hit—and sometimes who didn’t. So let’s revisit our preseason breakout prospect picks for each organization.

Below, Baseball America subscribers can find team-by-team analysis breaking down the top performers and the picks that fell short, plus a look at a dozen notable “hits” as the season winds to a close, including prominent breakouts in the Mets, Red Sox, A’s and Rangers organizations, among others.

12 DSL PROSPECTS TO KNOW

12 More Prospects Who Stood Out In The Dominican Summer League

Earlier this summer, Ben Badler highlighted 30 players in the Dominican Summer League who were generating buzz.

The top player on that list, Brewers shortstop, Jesus Made, is now a Top 100 prospect, while many of the other players listed have jumped into or climbed higher in their organization’s top 30 prospects list. 

Now that the DSL season is complete, here are 12 more players who made noise this year as prospects to follow. Some of these players are on the same level as the prospects mentioned in our first story, while others are deeper projections with more red flags they will have to address as they move up to higher levels. Within those reports, Ben also threw in some bonus names to know on players with intriguing traits to follow who could move up prospect lists next year.

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