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While a team’s success largely depends on its best players, the stars can’t do it all. Over the course of a 162-game season, even the most dominant clubs need contributions from the players on the margins of the roster.

Although the free-agent market is no longer brimming with studs, there are still a number of useful players available who can fill a specific role in 2023. We’ve pinpointed seven of them, along with some teams that could benefit from their services.

These players have a very particular set of skills.

For 2023, there are five farm systems with at least five prospects on the updated Top 100, plus another eight with at least four phenoms representing them.

Trea Turner, who signed an 11-year, $300 million deal with the Phillies this offseason, moves up a spot in MLB Network’s latest rankings of the top shortstops.

The high-kicking pitcher is adamant that music remains a hobby and not a second career, but it has helped him fill a void that baseball left after retirement from the game.

Strange as it may seem, they give ballplayers nowadays very peculiar names …

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