Where Are They Now: Top Prospects of ‘98, #71-80
February 21, 2008 by Geoff Young
Filed under History
Previously…
#91-100
#81-90
Welcome back to 1998. Dante Bichette led MLB with 219 hits, Jose Offerman led with 13 triples, and Mike Piazza signed a record-setting 7-year/$91 million deal with the Mets. Our latest re-examination of Baseball America’s top 100 prospects from that year shows yet again how few of the best minor leaguers convert their potential into great big-league careers.
There’s a reason for that, of course: baseball is a lot harder than it looks. So is predicting which guys will make it and which ones won’t. To the list:
Mike Lowell, 3B, New York Yankees. Selected in the 20th round of the 1995 …read more
