Rosters Announced for the 2024 All-Star Futures Game

Rosters for the 2024 All-Star Futures Game and selections to participate in the all-new MLB Futures Skills Showcase were announced today on MLB Network. The 25th edition of the Futures Game will be played at 4:00 p.m. (ET)/3:00 p.m. (CT) on Saturday, July 13th, at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, and will be immediately followed by the hitting challenge before the start of the All-Star Celebrity Softball Game presented by Corona, which caps off a full day of All-Star Saturday events at the ballpark.

The Futures Game will air exclusively live on MLB Network and simulcast on MLB.tv, MLB.com, and in the MLB App with Melanie Newman (play-by-play), Mark DeRosa (analyst), Jonathan Mayo (analyst), and Sande Charles (reporter) on the call.

In conjunction with MLB Pipeline, Baseball America, and the 30 Major League Clubs, Major League Baseball selected the 27 players named two each team (25 active players and two inactive players designated for injury/call-up replacements).

Each Major League organization is represented and players from all player development leagues were eligible to be selected. Complete Futures Game rosters, prospect analysis, and rankings are available at MLB.com/pipeline.

Each of the last two number two overall picks in the MLB Draft – Washington’s Dylan Crews (2023) and Arizona’s Druw Jones (2022) – are part of the NL Futures roster.

Crews, who is MLB Pipeline’s number four overall prospect, and Jones, who is ranked third by MLB Pipeline in the Diamondbacks’ organization, are joined by ten fellow first-round draft picks on the NL roster, including Pittsburgh’s Termarr Johnson (4th overall, 2022); Cincinnati’s Rhett Lowder (7th overall, 2023); Colorado’s Chase Dollander (9th overall, 2023); Miami’s Noble Meyer (10th overall, 2023); Washington’s Brady House (11th overall, 2021); Chicago’s Matt Shaw (13th overall, 2023); San Francisco’s Bryce Eldridge (16th overall, 2023); Philadelphia’s Justin Crawford (17th overall, 2022); Cincinnati’s Cam Collier (18th overall; 2022); and Philadelphia’s Aidan Miller (27th overall, 2023).

On the AL side, 2023 number three overall selection Max Clark, who is MLB Pipeline’s top-ranked Detroit Tigers hitting prospect and the number 10 overall prospect in the Majors, highlights the roster alongside 11 other first-round draft selections, including Boston’s Marcelo Mayer (4th overall, 2021); Minnesota’s Brooks Lee (8th overall, 2022); Kansas City’s Gavin Cross (9th overall, 2022); Seattle’s Harry Ford (12th overall, 2021); Boston’s Kyle Teel (14th overall, 2023); Seattle’s Cole Young (21st overall, 2022); Chicago’s Colson Montgomery (22nd overall, 2021); Cleveland’s Ralphy Velazquez (23rd overall, 2023); New York’s Spencer Jones (25th overall, 2022); Chicago’s Noah Schultz (26th overall, 2022); and Tampa Bay’s Xavier Isaac (29th overall, 2022).

Other highlights of the Futures Game rosters include:

• Among the 54 players named to the Futures Game, 48 participated in the inaugural Spring Breakout this past March.
• Ten of MLB Pipeline’s top 18 overall prospects were selected for Futures Game rosters.
• The teams feature a combined 24 former first-round picks (12 on each team), including ten players chosen in the opening round of the 2023 Draft, two Competitive Balance Round A selections, seven second-round picks, four third-round picks, one fourth-round selection, one sixth-round pick, one seventh-round pick, and one 11th-round selection.
• The two squads combine for 13 internationally-born players representing seven countries and territories outside the 50 United States. Six players are from the Dominican Republic, followed by two from Venezuela and one each from the Bahamas, Canada, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Taiwan.
• Eight players who have participated in Development Programs led by MLB and USA Baseball are featured on the Futures rosters, including Cam Collier (Breakthrough Series, DREAM Series, Hank Aaron Invitational); Justin Crawford (Breakthrough Series, DREAM Series, Hank Aaron Invitational); Harry Ford (DREAM Series); Tink Hence (Breakthrough Series, DREAM Series); Termarr Johnson (Breakthrough Series, DREAM Series, Hank Aaron Invitational); Druw Jones (DREAM Series); Tre’ Morgan (Breakthrough Series, DREAM Series, Hank Aaron Invitational); and Chandler Simpson (Breakthrough Series).

The brand-new MLB Futures Skills Showcase, inspired by fan-favorite baseball video games past and present, will follow the conclusion of the Futures Game.

The competition, which features three rounds of hitting challenges, joins Spring Breakout as the latest new initiative to highlight baseball’s future stars on a national platform on their road to the Major Leagues. The eight players selected to compete in the event include Pittsburgh’s Termarr Johnson; Cincinnati’s Cam Collier; Washington’s Brady House and Moises Ballesteros of the Chicago Cubs on the NL side, and Minnesota’s Brooks Lee; Boston’s Roman Anthony; Tampa Bay’s Tre’ Morgan; and Sebastian Walcott of the host Texas Rangers on the AL side.

Four competitors—Ballesteros, House, Anthony, and Morgan—have been designated inactive for the Futures Game but could become eligible to play if replacements are necessary due to injuries or Major League promotions.

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