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Updated 2023 MLB Draft Rankings from Baseball America

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Baseball America updated their list of the top 300 draft prospect rankings on Tuesday. This is their first in-season update and there are some changes at the top, though the names remain the same.

LSU outfielder Dylan Crews remains in the top spot. That’s not surprising, as he has been on fire since Opening Day. 

Wyatt Langford, an outfielder from Florida, is ranked second. He might have trouble holding this spot over the next month because he is out of action after getting hit with a foul ball off of his own bat.

Paul Skenes from LSU is ranked third now. He has been the best pitcher in college, after coming into the season ranked as a top ten prospect. Even with high hopes for him, he has been better than expected.

Tennessee pitcher Chase Dollander is ranked fourth now. He’s been as high as one or two, depending on who you asked early in the year. He hasn’t dominated early on, and his last start was the worst of his college career.

The next two spots belong to a pair of high school outfielders, Max Clark and Walker Jenkins. Our weekly Monday recap of the top draft prospects added Jenkins this week. Clark hasn’t played yet, but he’s our only planned addition at this point. After seeing these rankings from BA, no one new will be added yet.

The next two spots are our other two players we’ve been following, Jacob Wilson and Jacob Gonzalez, both college shortstops.Wilson has been off to a strong start with the bat. Gonzalez has been good, but not to the point where he looks like he could possibly end up as the top pick. It’s still early though, so we will continue to follow along.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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