Zero Top 100 MLB Prospects Dealt At 2024 Trade Deadline

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For all the talk of the high price of prospects for trades at the 2024 deadline, it’s most notable how few premium prospects actually changed hands.

There were zero Top 100 Prospects dealt at the 2024 MLB Trade Deadline. Baseball America has been updating its Top 100 at the midseason for a decade. Over those previous 10 years, there had never been a trade deadline where no Top 100 Prospects changed hands.

Besides the COVID-shortened 2020 season where only one Top 100 Prospect was traded, at least two Top 100 Prospects have been traded at every deadline since 2015. We’ve seen as many as 11 Top 100 prospects dealt (2016).

But teams have become more reticent to include their best prospects in recent years. In 2023, only three Top 100 Prospects were traded, and none from the Top 70. In 2022, the Juan Soto and Luis Castillo trades meant that eight Top 100 Prospects were swapped, but only three changed hands in 2021.

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There were a few former Top 100 Prospects who did get new teams. Padres pitchers Robby Snelling (preseason No. 27), Dylan Lesko (preseason No. 38) and Adam Mazur as well as Dodgers catcher Thayron Liranzo had dropped out of the 100 after struggling this year. Former Orioles second base prospect Connor Norby, now with the Marlins, ranked No. 93 on the 2023 preseason Top 100.

There were also plenty of prospects traded. We’re still sifting through the deals that rolled in around 6 p.m. ET, but we expect north of 70 prospects to change organizations this year.

But the lack of impact big leaguers being traded at this year’s deadline meant the impact prospects also stayed put. With Garrett Crochet and Tarik Skubal remaining with the White Sox and Tigers, the best prospects in the game are all playing for their original teams tonight.