Brewers’ Chourio, Orioles’ Holliday, among the top prospects to watch in 2024

Times have never been better for baseball prospect watchers.

When Buster Posey first joined the Giants late in the 2009 season, he was one of 204 players to debut in the majors that season. Last season, 261 players appeared in their first MLB games – a year after there were a record-setting 303 debuts.

More top prospects than ever are being fast-tracked, in large part because of rules intended to discourage teams from manipulating service time to stall players’ arbitration and free agent clocks.