Kiley McDaniel's 2022 MLB draft rankings 2.0 -- Which former MLB star's son soars up our top 150?

Two months after releasing my first 2022 MLB draft rankings, it's time for an update. Now that both college and high school teams are well into their season, scouts and analysts have more to go off of, so I have expanded from my initial top 50 to a ranking of the top 150 prospects.

Here are a few big-picture takeaways about the 2022 MLB draft class before we get to the rankings:

Druw Jones still stands at the top of the class, where I had him two months ago. The three best players (and four of the top five) in the class are prep position players. With the hard-capping of the draft, increased leverage of high school players vs. college players and model-driven decisions by clubs, that doesn't mean the top three picks will necessarily be the top three players on my board.

Baltimore is picking first and GM Mike Elias has taken non-consensus players with an eye toward savings for future picks (Carlos Correa in 2012 when running the draft for Houston) and particularly college hitters (Heston Kjerstad in 2020 and Colton Cowser in 2021) while with the Orioles. In 2019, he did take the consensus best player when Adley Rutschman was a clear No. 1 draft prospect. Given that history, rumors persist that one of the three best college bats (Brooks Lee mostly, but Jacob Berry gets mentioned and Kevin Parada could elbow his way into that group) could be Baltimore's pick, along with the other elite family history prep-position player, Jackson Holliday (son of Matt).

Overall, this draft class isn't as good as last year's. I have nine players at 45+ FV or better grades, and last year I had 16. I could see this class expanding that number a bit, but it won't get to 16. The unique aspect this year is the plethora of bats: 25 of my top 32