The 16th annual MLB Futures Game will take place Sunday at Target Field in Minneapolis, and yes, I'll be there, my ninth Futures Game. It's an event that brings some of the best prospects from around the minors together on one field for a nine-inning exhibition that is far more interesting than the actual All-Star Game on Tuesday. The first one I attended featured Joey Votto, Alex Gordon, Homer Bailey and Hunter Pence; the 2007 game included a 19-year-old lefty named Clayton Kershaw. Here's a quick guide to some of the 2014 players, focusing on which players grade out the best in the five hitting tools or in some of the major scouting categories for pitchers.

Best hit tool

Josh Bell, OF, Pittsburgh: Bell missed just about all of 2012 because of a bad knee injury and spent much of 2013 shaking off the rust from losing his entire first pro season. This year, however, Bell's promise in high school is showing up on the field, as he's making a ton of contact, much of it hard, with a .380 average since the start of June, and nearly equal triple-slash lines from the left and right sides. Sean Coyle, Corey Seager, D.J. Peterson and Francisco Lindor also have above-average to plus hit tools.

Best power

Joey Gallo, 3B, Texas: There's a ton of power in this year's Futures Game, with Gallo leading the way. He has enormous left-handed pull power, comparable to Giancarlo Stanton's, producing 93 homers already in 254 professional games, 31 this year. The U.S. team alone has at least four players with grade-70 power or more: Gallo, Kris Bryant, Peter O'Brien and Bell, with Peterson and Seager also more than capable of putting on a show in BP. The World team's best power bats include Jorge Alfaro, Stephen Moya, Maikel Franco and Gabriel Guerrero.

Best run

Jose Peraza, SS, Atlanta: Peraza has been hitting out of his mind this year, earning an unanticipated midyear promotion to Double-A at age 20, and, although his most impressive tool is his glove, he's also a 70 runner who still leads the Carolina League in steals even though he left the league a few weeks ago. Other above-average runners in the game include Micah Johnson, Michael Taylor, Lindor and J.P. Crawford.

Best glove

Francisco Lindor, SS, Cleveland: The World team, as usual, has several good defensive infielders on the roster, with Lindor, a polished Puerto Rican-born shortstop out of the Orlando area, the best of the group. He offers the best combination of footwork, hands and instincts. He could handle the position right now in the majors and is only an Asdrubal Cabrera injury or trade from playing it in Cleveland. Jose Rondon, Peraza, Dalton Pompey and Crawford are all superlative defensive players, too.

Best arm

Joey Gallo, 3B, Texas: Gallo pitched in high school and threw well enough that many teams wanted to draft him on the mound, perhaps in the first round, as he consistently hit the mid-90s and reportedly got up to 99 mph in a showcase event. Needless to say, he can get it across the diamond without too much trouble. Hunter Renfroe and Gabriel Guerrero (Vlad's nephew) can let it loose from right field, too.

Best fastball

Noah Syndergaard, RHP, New York Mets: Thor can run it up to 100 mph, although he's most comfortable in the mid-90s, reaching back for 98-plus when he needs to, and he does it really easily with good downhill plane from that 6-foot-6 frame. I've seen Minnesota's Alex Meyer hit 100, as well. Robert Stephenson and Lucas Giolito can get up to 98 for the U.S. team, and Jose Berrios and Luis Severino are the hardest throwers on the World side.

Best fastball movement

Alex Meyer, RHP, Minnesota: Meyer can hit 100, but he can do just fine at 95-97 thanks to plus-plus sink that should make it impossible for hitters to elevate the ball. Hunter Harvey showed plus "boring" life (running in hard to his arm side) the last time I saw him in Delmarva.

Best curveball

Lucas Giolito, RHP, Washington: Giolito already had a plus curveball in high school, and it has returned for him as he works his way back from Tommy John surgery, showing big break at 79-82 mph with a lot of depth from his 6-6 frame. Stephenson also can drop the hammer, as can Puerto Rican righty Jorge Lopez.

Best slider

Meyer: Meyer can get his slider up to 88 mph and comes from a low three-quarters slot -- which also generates the plus movement on the fastball -- that makes the pitch fatal to right-handed hitters. Jake Thompson's main out pitch is a plus slider, too.

Best changeup

Henry Owens, LHP, Boston: You expect left-handed starters to feature some kind of wipeout breaking ball, but Owens' best pitch has long been his changeup, and, given the deception in his delivery to begin with, it has huge swing-and-miss potential once he gets to the majors, no matter in which batter's box the hitter is standing. Braden Shipley also shows a plus change.

Best control

Christian Binford, RHP, Kansas City: Binford's stuff is just average, but he has some of the best control of any prospect, fringe or better, in the minors, with 12 walks in 89 2/3 innings this year after walking 25 in 135 last year. His command is also pretty good, but it'll have to improve further for him to be a major league starter, given the absence of any kind of plus pitch. One other command/control guy to watch in a game loaded with pitchers with big velocity is San Francisco's Edwin Escobar, who could appear in the majors later this year and is among the Giants' most valuable prospects in any potential trade.