Miami Marlins preliminary prospect grade breakdown

I’m working on the Miami Marlins Top 20 prospects for 2018 list. My first run through the research group gave the following results:

Grade A: Zero
Grade A-: Zero
Grade B+: Zero
Grade B: Four
Grade B-: Six
Grade C+: 19
Grade C: 27

I have to say it is not quite as bad as I expected. There is an obvious lack of definite top-tier guys, however they have a large number of C+/B- types, particularly on the pitching side, and several of them have the potential to move up.

This isn’t final. There is a lot of mushiness around the C+/B- gradient and it is plausible that one of the Bs could wind up at B+.

Sandy Alcantara, RHP
Brian Anderson, INF
Jared Barnes, C
Andy Beltre, RHP
Dakota Bennett, LHP
Taylor Braley, RHP
Jeff Brigham, RHP
Edward Cabrera, RHP
Daniel Castano, LHP
Jorgan Cavanerio, RHP
Ricardo Cespedes, OF
Ethan Clark, RHP
Garrett Cooper, 1B
Austin Dean, OF
Miguel Del Pozo, LHP
Jose Devers, INF
Robert Dugger, RHP
Joe Dunand, 3B
Zac Gallen, RHP
Braxton Garrett, LHP
Matt Givin, RHP
Merandy Gonzalez, RHP
Brett Graves, RHP
Sean Guenther, LHP
Tayron Guerrero, RHP
Jorge Guzman, RHP
Brayan Hernandez, OF
Elieser Hernandez, RHP
Colton Hock, RHP
Thomas Jones, OF
Kyle Keller, RHP
Tyler Kolek, RHP
Braxton Lee, OF
Ryan Lillie, RHP
Pablo Lopez, RHP
Riley Mahan, OF
Ben Meyer, RHP
Brandon Miller, RHP
Brian Miller, OF
James Needy, RHP
Nick Neidert, RHP
James Nelson, 3B
Austin Nola, C
John Norwood, OF
Sam Perez, RHP
Dillon Peters, LHP
Cody Poteet, RHP
Jose Quijada, LHP
Trevor Richards, RHP
Trevor Rogers, LHP
Lukas Schiraldi, RHP
Magneuris Sierra, OF
Caleb Smith, LHP
Chad Smith, RHP
Isael Soto, OF
Christopher Torres, SS
Chad Wallach, C