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Law: The most stacked minor league rosters of 2018

Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the No. 2-ranked prospect in baseball, will start the season with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP

Happy Opening Day -- minor league edition! A week after the major league season began, the stars of tomorrow get their turn. Which affiliates will boast the most talented rosters to start the new season?

San Antonio Missions, Double-A

Lake Elsinore Storm, high-A

Fort Wayne TinCaps, low-A, San Diego Padres

The Padres will have three affiliates that are loaded with prospects this year, led by Double-A San Antonio, which will feature all-world prospect Fernando Tatis Jr. (ranked No. 3 overall) on the left side of the infield and top-100 prospects Cal Quantrill (No. 81) and Logan Allen (No. 89) in its rotation along with Jacob Nix (No. 16 in the Padres' system). The roster also should include former first-rounder Josh Naylor (No. 22 in their system) and lefty reliever Brad Wieck (No. 29 in their system).

High-A Lake Elsinore will have Michel Baez (No. 51 overall), Adrian Morejon (No. 72 overall), Pedro Avila (No. 14 in their system), Chris Paddack (No. 15 in their system) and Reggie Lawson (No. 18 in their system) in their rotation, and hard-throwing sidearmer Gerardo Reyes in the bullpen. In the lineup, the Storm will feature Hudson Potts (No. 19) at third base, Jorge Ona (No. 9) and Edward Olivares (No. 20) in the outfield.

Low-A Fort Wayne has just one top-100 prospect, but he's a good one, lefty MacKenzie Gore, who was No. 14 preseason and is probably the best pitching prospect on any active roster in the minors right now. The lineup should be extremely young, with Tirso Ornelas (No. 12 in their system), Esteury Ruiz (No. 13), Luis Campusano (No. 17), Jeisson Rosario (No. 24) and shortstops Justin Lopez (No. 23) and Gabriel Arias (No. 21) on the roster, all of whom will play at 18 or 19 this entire season.

New Hampshire Fisher Cats, Double-A, Toronto Blue Jays

The Weasels will start the year with two of the top 20 prospects in baseball in Vlad Guerrero Jr. (No. 2) and Bo Bichette (No. 17), something no other minor league roster can boast for Opening Day. The roster also will include several former first-rounders trying to re-establish some value in catcher Max Pentecost and right-hander Jon Harris, plus former top-100 prospect Sean Reid-Foley and outfielder Harold Ramirez, the latter acquired from Pittsburgh in the Francisco Liriano trade.

Florida Fire Frogs, high-A, Atlanta Braves

The Hot Toadies should start the year with a loaded rotation that includes two former first-rounders in Kyle Wright (No. 26) and Ian Anderson (No. 48), plus lefty Joey Wentz (No. 96), who got first-round money as a supplemental pick, and right-hander Bryse Wilson (No. 68), the breakout player from the same draft class as Anderson and Wentz. Cristian Pache (No. 57), who introduced himself to Atlanta fans with two homers in the team's prospect game last week, will run everything down in center field. Catcher Brett Cumberland, who struggled with contact and power after a midseason promotion here last year, reportedly has made some small swing changes and will try to boost his stock. Atlanta's Double-A affiliate, Mississippi, won't start out quite so loaded, but it should add a few of these pitchers over the course of the year, and they'll start with Max Fried (who really should be in the majors), Touki Toussaint and Austin Riley.

Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Double-A, New York Mets

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Trenton Thunder, Double-A, New York Yankees

The Yankees have largely spread their prospects out through their four affiliates, and their Triple-A club at one point had two top-100 prospects in Gleyber Torres and the now-promoted Miguel Andujar. Trenton will start the year with Justus Sheffield (No. 16 overall) and former No. 4 overall pick Dillon Tate in its rotation, as well as Domingo Acevedo, who works in the upper 90s but projects as a reliever due to his delivery. They'll probably get outfielder Estevan Florial, who will start the year in High-A Tampa, at some point before midseason.

Clearwater Threshers, high-A, Philadelphia Phillies

The Phillies will be pretty loaded in high-A and Double-A, at least to start the year, with low-A Lakewood lagging a bit as they wait for the next wave of international signees to graduate from extended spring training.

Clearwater will feature the club's last two first-round picks, center fielders Mickey Moniak and Adam Haseley, which means the two will rotate through center and the corner spots. Their rotation will start out with Sixto Sanchez (No. 23 overall), Adonis Medina (No. 9 in the Phils' system), McKenzie Mills (acquired for Howie Kendrick) and Connor Seabold (third round, 2017), and they'll feature infielder Arquimedes Gamboa (signed for $900,000 in 2014) as well. Double-A Reading isn't too far behind -- they'll have JoJo Romero (No. 59 overall), Ranger Suarez and Franklyn Kilome in their rotation, Seranthony Dominguez in the bullpen and former first-rounder Cornelius Randolph in left.

Burlington (Iowa) Bees, low-A, Los Angeles Angels

The Bees will start the year with the Angels' first-round pick from last year, Jordon Adell (No. 55 overall), their second-rounder from the previous year, Brandon Marsh (No. 88), and two of their top pitching prospects, right-hander Chris Rodriguez (No. 82, still recovering from a stress reaction in his back) and lefty Jose Suarez (No. 10 in their system). Shortstop Leonardo Rivas (No. 15 in the system) should return here after spending a month in low-A last year, and it's possible they'll get former Atlanta prospects Kevin Maitan and Luis Rivas or a big arm like Jose Soriano before midyear.

Delmarva Shorebirds, low-A, Baltimore Orioles

The Sally League is going to be unusually light on top-100 prospects to start the year, leaving Delmarva -- a strong roster without any top-100 guys -- as the best roster in the league, mostly because its rotation will be so strong. The Shorebirds will start the year with Baltimore's No. 5, No. 6 and No. 7 prospects in their rotation in D.L. Hall, Brenan Hanifee and Cam Bishop, along with one of their second-rounders from last year, Zac Lowther, and third-round pick Michael Baumann. They went over slot in 2015 for right-hander Gray Fenter, only to have him blow out that summer and miss all of 2016, so this April will mark his full-season debut.