While waiting for this year's edition of Baseball America's Prospect Handbook to arrive, I realized I still had the last few editions also, back to 2017. Each year one thing they do is a projected lineup 3 years ahead, so I thought those might be fun to look at in juxtaposition. So the 2020 one is from the 2017 edition going into the 2017 season, etc...
projected 2020/2021/2022/2023 lineups:
C: Gary Sanchez/Sanchez/Sanchez/Sanchez
1B: Greg Bird/Bird/Luke Voit/Voit
2B: Jorge Mateo/Torres/Torres/Oswald Peraza
SS: Gleyber Torres/Gregorius/Gregorius/Torres
3B: Didi Gregorius/Miguel Andujar/Andujar/Gio Urshela
LF: Clint Frazier/Frazier/Frazier/Stanton
CF: Blake Rutherford/Estevan Florial/Aaron Hicks/Jasson Dominguez
RF: Aaron Judge/Judge/Judge/Judge
DH: Jacoby Ellsbury/Giancarlo Stanton/Stanton/Andujar
#1 SP: Masahiro Tanaka/Luis Severino/Severino/Gerrit Cole
#2 SP: James Kaprielian/Sheffield/Tanaka/Severino
#3 SP: Justus Sheffield/Sonny Gray/James Paxton/Paxton
#4 SP: Chance Adams/Adams/Jonathan Loaisiga/Domingo German
#5 SP: Michael Pineda/Albert Abreu/Jordan Montgomery/Clarke Schmidt
closer: Dellin Betances/Aroldis Chapman/Chapman/Luis Medina
So the 2020 one has almost nothing right (just Sanchez/Gleyber/Judge/Tanaka) but still those are some interesting names in the 2023 predictions, Jasson of course but also Clarke Schmidt (who looked good today) and my guy Luis Medina at closer (!), plus Oswald Peraza who was not really on my radar much but everyone seems to be in love with now.
projected 2020/2021/2022/2023 lineups:
C: Gary Sanchez/Sanchez/Sanchez/Sanchez
1B: Greg Bird/Bird/Luke Voit/Voit
2B: Jorge Mateo/Torres/Torres/Oswald Peraza
SS: Gleyber Torres/Gregorius/Gregorius/Torres
3B: Didi Gregorius/Miguel Andujar/Andujar/Gio Urshela
LF: Clint Frazier/Frazier/Frazier/Stanton
CF: Blake Rutherford/Estevan Florial/Aaron Hicks/Jasson Dominguez
RF: Aaron Judge/Judge/Judge/Judge
DH: Jacoby Ellsbury/Giancarlo Stanton/Stanton/Andujar
#1 SP: Masahiro Tanaka/Luis Severino/Severino/Gerrit Cole
#2 SP: James Kaprielian/Sheffield/Tanaka/Severino
#3 SP: Justus Sheffield/Sonny Gray/James Paxton/Paxton
#4 SP: Chance Adams/Adams/Jonathan Loaisiga/Domingo German
#5 SP: Michael Pineda/Albert Abreu/Jordan Montgomery/Clarke Schmidt
closer: Dellin Betances/Aroldis Chapman/Chapman/Luis Medina
So the 2020 one has almost nothing right (just Sanchez/Gleyber/Judge/Tanaka) but still those are some interesting names in the 2023 predictions, Jasson of course but also Clarke Schmidt (who looked good today) and my guy Luis Medina at closer (!), plus Oswald Peraza who was not really on my radar much but everyone seems to be in love with now.