Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Dynasty Diamond!

If you’re a prospect hound like myself who loves digging deep into the trenches of Single-A and international baseball in the hopes of finding the potential stars of the 2030s, then this article is made with you in mind. Though I in no way currently consider the current version of myself to be a legitimate scout or analyst, I do view myself as something of a “prospeculator” – a groanworthy portmanteau of prospect and speculator – due to the sheer amount of stat line and scouting report scouring I do in my free time. I used to use those skills to my own personal benefit en route to turning my bottom-feeder dynasty squad into a back-to-back champion (shoutout the PDL and Ethos’ own Anthony Kates!), but putting my insights in article form and getting to share the fun with Ethos readers is going to be even more rewarding!

This article will come out every two weeks, highlighting the ten most noteworthy performances for MiLB players during that window.  The players discussed will come from a mix of levels (Triple-A, Low-A, etc.) and because of that, I will attempt to contextualize their statistics for both the quality of competition, as well as the player’s own age, to the best of my abilities. In other words, a 25-year old slugger going on a home run binge isn’t going to get my attention if they’re facing off against a 20-year-old pitcher on a daily basis. On the other hand, an 18-year-old holding their own against more advanced pitching is going to skyrocket them towards the top of the rankings very quickly.

Since we could go as deep into the minors as the Complex and Dominican Summer Leagues at times, I want to make it clear from the hop that this is intended as more of a companion article for deep dynasty leagues, as opposed to those that shallow enough to essentially just focus on players listed on Top 100 lists – usually towards the upper third of those rankings as well. This is more for the sickos who want to be able to brag about having the next Jesus Made or Jung Hoo Lee on their roster more than five years before they make their MLB debut.

That said, there’s a chance some of our mining leads to some true diamonds in the rough emerging – just look to what Kristian Campbell did last year for example. So with that in mind, I will have a specific section each article that focuses on how the upper echelon of prospects is performing, in addition to geeking out over the future wave of breakout stars. And as we go through the season, I’ll denote each player written about as one of three categories;

Golden 🥇 (the best of the best)

Gems 💎 (exciting up-and-comers)

Unrefined ⚒ (has tools of interest)

As the weeks go by, I’ll track each player and how many times they appear in the article under each category in a chart at the bottom. Hopefully by year’s end we’ll then have rough ranking of the most interesting players from each tier as a guideline that you can then use for your own dynasty purposes!

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