Baseball America Unveils Guardians’ Top 10 2024 Preseason Prospects

Outfield prospect Chase DeLauter headlines Baseball America's top 10 prospects for Cleveland ahead of the 2024 season.

Logan Potosky | Dec 8, 2023

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In MLB Pipeline’s latest farm system rankings, which were published on August 15, the Cleveland Guardians’ farm system was ranked 15th in Major League Baseball.

This season, Cleveland’s system developed six players who made their MLB debut with the Guardians.

With the 2023 MLB season having concluded on November 1, the baseball world is now looking ahead to the 2024 campaign.

On Friday, Baseball America unveiled their list of Cleveland’s preseason top 10 prospects ahead of the 2024 season. They are:

Chase DeLauter, OF
Brayan Rocchio, SS
Daniel Espino, RHP
Kyle Manzardo, 1B
Juan Brito, 2B
Angel Martínez, 2B
George Valera, OF
Jaison Chourio, OF
Ralphy Velazquez, C
Alex Clemmey, LHP

Cleveland Guardians outfield prospect Chase DeLauter. — Cleveland Guardians outfield prospect Chase DeLauter :: Photo Credit: Lake County Captains (@lccaptains) / Instagram

For comparison, these are also MLB Pipeline’s current top 10 Guardians prospects, but not in the same order.

There are some notable changes from Baseball America’s 2023 midseason top 10 Cleveland prospects.

With the graduations of Gavin Williams and Bo Naylor, three prospects now enter the Guardians’ top 10. Valera jumps from 11th to seventh, Martínez jumps from 12th to sixth, and Chourio jumps from 13th to eighth.

Of the 10 Cleveland prospects in Baseball America’s latest rankings, only Rocchio has made his MLB debut. Four of the other nine (Manzardo, Brito, Martínez, and Valera) ended this season in Triple-A, while DeLauter and Espino were in Double-A, Chourio was in Single-A, and both Velazquez and Clemmey were in the Arizona Complex League.

Earlier this week, Guardians President of Baseball Operations Chris Antonetti expressed how important the organization’s young talent is for the Major League team to succeed.

With Cleveland set to have one of baseball’s youngest rosters once again next season, time will tell whether any of these prospects make it up to the Big League club in 2024.

Published Dec 8, 2023

LOGAN POTOSKY

Logan Potosky is an aspiring play-by-play sports broadcaster who, to date, has called approximately 350+ hours of professional, college, and high school sporting events. He is currently the Play-by-Play Broadcaster for the Lake County Captains, the High-A Affiliate of the Cleveland Guardians. He graduated from John Carroll University in May of 2023 with a degree in Communication, with a concentration in Digital Media, and a minor in Entrepreneurship.