The last major Prospect Ranking system was released on Saturday when MLB Pipeline laid out their final 2019 preseason top 100 list.

MLB Pipeline typically is the most-used and most well respected ranking throughout all of the baseball community when it comes to their ability to put fairly accurate grades out for players all across the league.

Going into the day of release, the expectations were that the Cubs were going to get anywhere from zero to two prospects into the Top 100, with two being the absolute cap. The only two names that have popped up on any other lists to this point have been Nico Hoerner and Miguel Amaya, and that wasn’t going to change going into the MLB Pipeline list.

While I expected only Hoerner to make the list, especially after he cracked such a high ranking on the Prospects Live list released earlier last week, all of Cubs Nation got a pleasant surprise when both Hoerner and Amaya cracked the top 100 this go-around.

Miguel Amaya was actually the more highly ranked prospect according to the MLB publication, slotting down at number 94 in their rankings, while Nico Hoerner snuck on to the list by the hair of his chin at the final slot of number 100.

While just two players in the top 100 is nothing to write home about, it is two more than this organization could say they had to their name just a year ago. Plus, for an organization that boasts incredible depth and very little high-end prospect talent, to get those two names on the list is a big deal.

Looking in other areas outside of the Cubs, there was very little diversity when it came to where the top prospects across the league call home. A record TEN of the top 100 prospects hail from the San Diego Padres farm system which breaks the all-time record of nine from the Cubs and the Kansas City Royals. Both of those teams won the World Series shortly after holding that record.

Other top teams included the Braves who had eight players crack the list while the Rays and White Sox both had six, with two of the White Sox players being former Cubs farmhands (Eloy Jimenez and Dylan Cease).

I will be finalizing my list of the top 20 bats and arms of the Cubs system in the next few days, with pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training in just a couple weeks.