I recently decided to rent a newly-built home and moved out of the city and into the suburbs. As a result, we now have a fenced-in backyard that overlooks a massive and overgrown wooded area. It’s a terrific upgrade for the dogs, but it also means I have the opportunity to observe local wildlife for the first time in eons. Just this past week, I had the great pleasure of taking in the process of allofeeding in person for the first time in my life. Allofeeding, for those of you who didn’t grow up in the age of Zoboomafoo, is basically a food-sharing behavior in which an adult bird regurgitates its food and feeds a hatchling mouth-to-mouth/beak-to-beak/insert proper terminology here. I’m by no means an expert, but a truly fascinating process nonetheless — and it’s a good thing baby birds have a much broader palette than I did when I was their age. If it wasn’t a burger, mac n cheese or ketchup, I wasn’t eating it. And I certainly wasn’t game for any regurgitated green beans. 

Let’s take this concept of allofeeding one step further. I’ve been researching the 2021 MLB Draft, which begins in just under one week and runs from July 11-13, for well over a full calendar year now. What I observe far too often during my research are countless self-proclaimed prospect/draft ‘perts’ who simply research players using existing rankings and regurgitate the same rankings, add a tweak here or there while writing their own brief blurb, and poof! Draft rankings. Amazing. Incredible. Well done. Allofeeding in the prospect world. Now, allofeeding is an amazing phenomena, but it shouldn’t be applied to the realm of fantasy baseball or to the draft. It destroys diversity of thought. Not only does it fail to properly educate fantasy owners, but it’s disgusting when applied to humans. No one wants to see allofeeding when they roll up to an Arby’s. That said, I can’t promise you my 2021 Complete College Top 100 for the MLB Draft is going to be dead-on, but I can promise that it is not simply industry regurgitation, and rather a product of original thought and well over one year worth of research. That is why you may question why I have certain players significantly higher or lower than where you’ve seen them, or perhaps a name you’re completely unfamiliar with ranked inside the top 50. And if you do have such questions, please hit me up in the comments. We won’t have time for a full breakdown on all 100 players, but if you use the links below, you’ll be able to find an excess of prospect analysis on just about every top player that should be on your radar heading into your upcoming first-year player drafts. Onward into the abyss!