Here’s how 2018 wrangled out — all 42 picks. Also, here’s an archive of every article in the 2018 series. Here’s how 2019 came together, all 50 picks, and the archive as well. Here’s 2020, with the archive. Here’s the 2021 wrap-up of just 35 picks due to flagging participation, along with the full archive. And here’s the 2022 link to the 27-pick wrap, along with the full archive. And Round 24 of voting was 2023’s last (we didn’t do an actual wrap for last year’s voting, but Jordan Sprinkle ended up being our final pick!), with the full archive.
Our Top 100 is now underway, as well. We’ll try for a daily Top 100 entry on site, and the Prospect Vote will turn over as soon as the top vote-getter seems to have an insurmountable lead — but we’ll take no longer than a week to vote each round.
We have six of 10 players from last year’s initial prospect vote poll on our first ballot this year, with two players matriculating out of rookie status (Oscar Colás and Lenyn Sosa) and two pitchers falling out of Top 10 consideration (Norge Vera and Sean Burke). And though “we’re not rebuilding,” four of the Top 10 on the ballot to begin were acquired were not even in the system in 2023; put another way, not a single player from our farm system has moved up onto the first ballot in 2024. Oof. place were occupied by players who made huge leaps up in polling as well. So this was a pretty topsy-turvy round
Last year, Sosa was spending his sixth year among our Top 100 Prospects, and this year we have three players in their fifth years on the list: Bryan Ramos, Cristian Mena and José Rodríguez.
All right, let’s have some fun. And get voting!
[Point of order, the White Sox on February 3 acquired three players who would have participated in this polling (Dom Fletcher, Prelander Berroa, Zach DeLoach). They will all be in our Top 100 Prospect countdown (we’re currently at No. 54, Shane Murphy), but due to the timing of their acquisition, won’t be in our Prospect Poll.]
It usually happens faster, but we have our first truly weird result of our polling this year, as Ronny Hernandez stormed to a substantial win in Round 27 on his very first ballot. In addition, as late as Round 27 we have accumulated the most votes yet (in a very short period of time). So, welcome everyone who’s stayed away for the first 26!
On top of that, second and third place were occupied by players who made huge leaps up in polling as well. So this was a pretty topsy-turvy round.
Which is not to take anything away from Hernandez, who is a true offensive force at a premium position on the field. The young backstop ended up getting 53 of 295 (21.8%) votes in his debut on the ballot.
