They Predicted The Top 50 Players in MLB 5 Years Ago 

Appreciate the shoutout sir! Keep up the great content 👊

Crazy to think Freddie Freeman isn't on here. That's probably the biggest miss of the article.

“And that’s why Lucas Duda was predicted to be the best player in baseball.”

I think the Ohtani projection is actually fairly good. You have to remember that we had very little to go on in 2019. So i think 25 is the good “this guy could he good or a complete flame-out.” Which if we are being honest, is where we were with Ohtani in 2019.

I love how he says in the Syndergaard segment that he's "projecting good health for everyone" yet still puts Judge at 30 when at that point the only time he missed games was because a pitch broke his hand

Worst prediction on this list is that he thought John Fisher would pay Matt Chapman

holy shit did anybody think that 5 years ago was 2017 lol

I’m still surprised that the Padres couldn’t make at least a World Series appearance with Soto, Machado, Tatis Jr. and Snell

All in all, the writer did a pretty good job imo. He definitely took some risks with the prospects but go big or go home. I'm impressed

This writer was predicting the "Darkest Timeline"; where the Yankees were a super team. Fortunately, that future never came to pass.

As a long time fantasy player ive been waiting for Jo Adell to pop off for what feels like a decade 😂

Would love to see you do a video like this!

This was pre 2019. At this point Judge had injured his shoulder but played through it at the end of his rookie year,and gotten a broken bone in his wrist from a hit by pitch. Nobody was thinking he was a huge risk to lose time to injuries back then. Nobody should feel that way at all. What human being doesn't at least tear some ligaments in their toe when they run full out and smash it into a block of concrete? His injuries, outside the oblique like 4 or 5 years ago, was a fluke contact injury. Twice crashing into the wall, once on a diving catch and once sliding into third.

was surprised to not see him predict freeman or rendon in the top 50… Rendon is definitely a top 5 player now!

Off-season content I can get excited for - your yearly predictions and, eventually, reactions to previous predictions. Every year for as long as you do baseball stuff? Decade or two at least? Huh?

this is a cool idea to do and track for sure

Surprised Marc wasn’t upset about the Bret baty snub. Truly a big miss

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Pretty cool idea 💡

Another nice job, Marc. Thanks for posting: entertaining and informative. Next year Bellinger will be in your top 30!

Honestly this dude's predictions are really good. Only a few bad picks on a 5 year prediction, with ALOT of spot on picks as well

On the Ohtani prediction, he said that come 2023 he would not be being pitching and hitting at the same time but look where we are now.

For the last 4.5 seasons (Age 25-29, noting the short COVID season) Matt Olson’s been pretty decent…. 643 hits, 177 HRs, .886 OPS, 140 OPS+, 22.6 WAR

I was/am a big Urias fan but that is booooollllddd as he was still in SD and we hadn't seen anything

Sick idea for a video. Do it!

Devers so underrated

i dont even mind some of these predictions. Amed Rosario was a solid hits guy, and its not outrageous to assume he'd be a key shortstop to whatever mid team he is on, and Jo Adell mashes in AAA but just cant put it together in the majors (could get a full season with the state of the Angels now)

Aaaaaand totally missed Julio Rodriguez. But...so did a lot of people back in 2019. :)

thank you for not talking about him, a lot of rays fans get a ton of shit from fans that shit on us cuz of it

hype for you to make that 2028 video

Degrom missing this list is insane, maybe right today given injuries, but illogical to say in 2019

At the time of this article there was 0 health concerns surrounding Aaron Judge

Fast and good content

Why no Josh Hader video?

I think my Giants have a great example of how pitchers are nearly impossible to predict. Logan Webb. I don't think he ever made a Top 100 list. Now he's a top 20 pitcher in MLB. He will almost always give up 3 or fewer runs in 6 or more innings. Hes a "quality start" machine.

I'm impressed with this guy's list. Not bad at all.

If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through.

That is so cool!

most times saying “royce lewis” in 1 minute

As a Blue Jays fan that Vladdy ranking hurts me deeply.

Yo Marc

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

Blake snell to the giants is right on the money 💴

Im surprised he didnt have rendon in there. I guess he correctly predicted his crash and burn

The fact that Freddie isn’t on there is crazy

Love this

Where the hell was Rafael devers 😂

Do it

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No Freddie freeman on that list. That one is puzzling

Yeah but what if they tried to predict the top 5 MLB players 50 years ago?

No Acuna or Austin Riley lol wild

How did he not have Freeman or Yordan in his top 50 when both were top 50 players in 2019 and showed no signs of stopping?

Xander Bogearts is a fringe top 50 player? Hes ranked top 25 for several years now.

How does Logan Webb keep missing these lists. Giant or not, he's still a top pitcher at 26

Except he said Ozzie would be the every day shortstop, which would never work

Too bad the Yankees thought Stanton would be on the list.

Why has no one signed Bauer

Marc just hates Bichette he’s lived up to the hype totally

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we cannot keep pretending that bauer would be a good pitcher in MLB rn lmaooooo

Judge 5,6,7 ?? He’s top 3

Freddie freeman not being here is insane, Mr Consistent not being in a top 10 is criminal

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i am number one

Alright Marc, I forgive you for everything for properly predicting the NL MVP next season.

why do you have Bregman at 30 but J-Ram at top 10? i dont disagree but looking at their numbers, they are very similar still other than stolen base numbers

The Ohtani obsession has a little annoying. Obviously I know he is great and deserves to be near the top of any ranking but for people to keep saying he is clearly better than Acuna Jr. that no other player comes close and act like it's a foregone conclusion because he also sometimes pitches is dumb and hypocritical. So he is one of the best hitters and he sometimes pitches? Ok well Acuna put up better numbers in many categories and he plays the field, something Ohtani obviously doesn't do. Are we to act like when healthy Ohtani taking the mount every 10 days or so contributes more to the team than Acuna playing the field and all that entails every one of those nights? Maybe there are stats he does better in and that makes sense, he's one of the top 2 hitters but to try and say he's the best player overall certainly isn't a given. Of course no player is worth 70 mil a year and though with the deferred money it won't hurt the Dodgers now but when they are paying an older retired player 68 mil a year for 10 years it most certainly will hamper them if not downright cripple them. They paid him as the best hitter and also the best pitcher (which he is not, sorry) when he only makes slightly more than half the starts of other aces which is crazy. Especially considering it's very likely he pitching days likely aren't long for this world. I guess the Dodgers should start squirreling away all that extra money Ohtani likely brings in.

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The 2023 team predictions are so bad lol

rip freddie freeman

He said Judge is a 5,6,7 best player in the league more like top 3

Yelich not top 50 on your list is just wrong sorry

Wander Franco 😔😔 if he get back to the MLB he will be in the next list

No Freeman?

Aaron Judge is a top 2 player in the league. Not 5,6-7.