Hello and welcome to Bleacher Report’s Future 50.

This project aims to identify the 50 most promising prospects in Major League Baseball. Players must have rookie eligibility to qualify for consideration, so anyone with more than 130 at-bats or 50 innings pitched in the majors isn’t on the radar.

Aside from that, it’s up to how each prospect fares in a scoring system that assesses his upside.

For position players, this means looking at hitting, power, speed, arm and defense tools. The individual point allotments vary depending on position. But in keeping with the traditional 20-80 scouting scale, they all add up to 80 possible points.

The same goes for pitchers, who are graded based on their fastballs, breaking balls, changeups and command tools. In case anyone is expecting to see them, no relief prospects made the cut. This is a starters-only list.

When all the points are tallied, some players end up with the same score. That turns the rankings into a judgment call, in which case upside is the deciding factor.

Read on for more detailed breakdowns on how the scoring works, and then the list itself.

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