MLB 2023 draft rankings 2.0 and top 11 mock draft - ESPN

High school baseball seasons are largely heading to the playoffs and college conference tournaments are less than a month away, so it's a great time to check back in on our 2023 MLB draft rankings. This time, we'll expand to the top 160-plus prospects from the top 100 in our initial edition, and while many of the same players that were atop my first draft rankings in February appear here, much has changed in two months.

You can check out more on the Future Value (FV) system, the scouting scale, and see where these players could slot into an MLB top 100 list or your team's prospect list. Here's the order for the 2023 MLB Draft, which will take place July 9-11 in Seattle.

Without further ado, let's jump into the rankings — and a surprise mini-mock draft featuring landing spots for the top 11 prospects.

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1. Dylan Crews (age on draft day: 21.4), RF, LSU

An American League executive who likes to contextualize draft prospects with comparisons had this summation of the LSU slugger: «Crews is Baby Trout.» By that, he means that Crews is both physically smaller than Trout and plays the same way, but with less overall ability.

I had Crews and Wyatt Langford from Florida in a toss-up for the top spot when the season started. While Langford missed time with injury, Crews has been blazing hot. Even more importantly, Crews adjusted his hitting mechanics and style, addressing the concerns in my previous ranking. He quieted his setup, flattened his swing plane and got a bit stronger. He's now making more contact in the zone and hitting the ball harder, while still well above average at avoiding chasing out of the zone. If that sounds terrifying, then you now know what