Below, you’ll find my pre-season top 100 Yankees prospect list. This order of this list was determined through a combination of scouting reports and KATOH — my methodology for projecting prospect performance using minor league stats. Full disclosure: Aside from a few guys who played for the Staten Island Yankees in the past couple of years, I’ve seen almost none of these players in person. And even if I had seen them, I would have very little to add considering I have zero background in scouting. So for scouting and tools-based analysis, I turned to the experts. I relied heavily on Kiley McDaniel’s incredibly in-depth post on FanGraphs, but took into account scouting reports from Keith Law, Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, and anything else I could find to compliment my stats-based analyses.

This list goes very deep, and the majority of the players outside of the top 30 or 40 probably won’t play a single inning in the majors. You could probably ignore the entire bottom half of this list without missing out on any impact major leaguers, but there are guys on the bottom half who could end up having a minor impact in the big leagues as soon as this year, like Jonathan Galvez, Jose De Paula.

In the weeks leading up to opening day, I’ll be putting out in-depth profiles of individual Yankees prospects starting with #1: Luis Severino. I’ll analyze each player’s statistical performance to date through the lens of KATOH, and synthesize it with scouting reports and interviews from various sources found on the Internet. I won’t do all 100, of course, but hope to make it through at least the top 40 or so. I’ll be adding the links to these profiles in the right-hand column as I go along.