Ranking the Prospects Traded During the 2020 Deadline

September 1, 2020

The closing bell rang on the trade deadline yesterday and, as always, many prospects were moved. I have the young players traded since early this month ranked below. Most of the deals these prospects were a part of were analyzed at length on this site. Those pieces can be found here, or by clicking the hyperlink in the “From” column below. I’ve moved all of the players below to their new orgs over on The Board, so you can click through and see where they rank among their new teammates; our farm rankings, which now update live, also reflect these changes, so you can see where teams’ systems stack up post-deadline.

A couple quick notes before I get to the order. The evaluations of players at the very bottom of the list (35 FV prospects) who weren’t on offseason prospect lists at all are subject to change as I continue to learn more about them. Follow the FanGraphs Prospects Twitter account or go to fangraphs.com/prospects for updates. Also, I’ve included a couple of post-prospect players in the order so you can get an idea of where I value them now as opposed to at their prospect peak. Both players, former top 100 guys, are highlighted in orange below.

Traded Prospects

FV	Rank	Name	Position	Age	Team	From	For
50	1	Taylor Trammell	LF	23.0	SEA	SDP	Nola, etc.
45	2	Terrin Vavra	2B	23.3	BAL	COL	M. Givens
45	3	Hudson Potts	3B	21.8	BOS	SDP	M. Moreland
45	4	Joey Cantillo	LHP	20.7	CLE	SDP	M. Clevinger
40+	5	Gabriel Arias	SS	20.5	CLE	SDP	M. Clevinger
40+	6	Franklin Barreto	SS	24.5	LAA	OAK	T. La Stella
40+	7	Stuart Fairchild	CF	24.5	ARI	CIN	A. Bradley
40+	8	Andres Munoz	RHP	21.6	SEA	SDP	Nola, etc.
40+	9	Jeisson Rosario	CF	20.9	BOS	SDP	M. Moreland
40	10	Tyler Nevin	1B	23.3	BAL	COL	M. Givens
40	11	Owen Miller	SS	23.8	CLE	SDP	M. Clevinger
40	12	Connor Seabold	RHP	24.4	BOS	PHI	B. Workman
40	13	Lucius Fox	SS	23.2	KCR	TBR	B. Phillips
40	14	Edward Olivares	CF	23.1	KCR	SDP	T. Rosenthal
40	15	Packy Naughton	LHP	24.6	LAA	CIN	B. Goodwin
40	16	Kevin Smith	LHP	23.3	BAL	NYM	M. Castro
40	17	Zack Short	SS	25.3	DET	CHC	C. Maybin
40	18	Marcus Smith	CF	20.0	TEX	OAK	M. Minor
40	19	Riley O’Brien	RHP	24.5	CIN	TBR	C. Reed
40	20	Griffin Conine	RF	26.9	MIA	TOR	J. Villar
40	21	Luis Basabe	OF	24.0	SFG	CHW	Cash
35+	22	Travis Bergen	LHP	23.5	ARI	TOR	R. Ray
35+	23	Humberto Mejia	RHP	27.3	ARI	MIA	S. Marte
35+	24	Anthony Banda	LHP	27.1	TBR	SFG	Cash
35+	25	Gerardo Reyes	RHP	27.3	LAA	SDP	J. Castro
35	26	Addison Russ	RHP	25.8	NYY	PHI	D. Hale
35	27	Matt Brash	RHP	22.3	SEA	SDP	T. Williams
35	28	Julio Frias	LHP	22.3	ARI	MIA	S. Marte
35	29	Israel Puello	RHP	19.9	MIL	PHI	D. Phelps
35	30	Dustin Harris	1B/LF	21.1	TEX	OAK	M. Minor
35	33	Mark Payton	CF	28.7	CIN	OAK	Cash
35	31	Juan Geraldo	RHP	19.1	MIL	PHI	D. Phelps
35	32	Brandon Ramey	RHP	20.0	MIL	PHI	D. Phelps

Ramey’s a lanky righty with low slot, upper-80s velocity.

The number of players above constitutes roughly 60% of the prospects who were named and traded at last year’s deadline. The gap was made up by Players to Be Named Later, a count of which I have provided below. This does not include deals for which the players involved have been reported (technically, Julio Frias is a PTBNL but we know he’s headed to Arizona, so he’s in the above table), and instead includes only the PTBNL we don’t know the identities of, dating back to the start of the season when the Padres traded a PTBNL to Oakland for Jorge Mateo. In instances where we’re unsure whether the deal will involve a player or cash, a dollar sign ($) denotes that it might be the latter.

Deadline Players To Be Named Later

Team	No. of PTBNL	Deal
Baltimore Orioles	6	x2 ATL-Milone, HOU-Velazquez, MIA-Bleier, COL-Givens, NYM-Castro ($)
Texas Rangers	5	x3 NYM-Jurado, Frazier, Chirinos, x2 OAK-Minor
Tampa Bay Rays	3	x2 CHC-J. Martinez, PHI-Garcia
Oakland Athletics	2	SDP-Mateo, CIN-Payton
Philadelphia Phillies	2	TBR-Garcia, PIT-Davis
Arizona D-backs	2	CHC-Chafin ($), MIA-Marte
Los Angeles Dodgers	2	TOR-Stripling
Boston Red Sox	2	CHC-Osich ($), COL-Pillar
Cincinnati Reds	1	HOU-Raley
Kansas City Royals	1	SDP-Rosenthal
Seattle Mariners	1	TOR-Walker
San Diego Padres	1	CLE-Clevinger
Los Angeles Angels	1	CIN-Goodwin

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Eric Longenhagen is from Catasauqua, PA and currently lives in Tempe, AZ. He spent four years working for the Phillies Triple-A affiliate, two with Baseball Info Solutions and two contributing to prospect coverage at ESPN.com. Previous work can also be found at Sports On Earth, CrashburnAlley and Prospect Insider.