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I sort by my head scout's potential rating expectations, and go through them one by one. I draft the highest rated potential unless one of the disqualifying factors apply:
a) Contact lower than 9/20 for batters.
b) For pitchers, Stamina <6/20 or no third pitch. (If the third pitch is a changeup rated at the minimum amount, I don't trust it either, regardless of listed potential.)
c) Poor work ethic.
d) Come to think of it, for pitchers I also treat Movement potential of 7 or lower as a disqualification factor.
That being said, I'll still draft a good relief pitcher prospect over a fringe batting or starting one, so b) isn't a hard disqualification factor, just a penalty.
Once I get to the draft rounds in which all players are either rated 20 or disqualified for the aforementioned reasons, I set the view to batting/pitching potential and look for players who might conceivably work out *somehow*. Work Ethic is a bigger bonus the deeper you dive into the dross. And I tend to look for pitchers more than batters at this stage, since scouting pitchers is more difficult - stands to reason that if it's more likely for scouts to be wrong about pitchers, the potential upside of fringe pitching prospects should be higher than for batters.
For batters, I just sort by contact potential and look for somebody not awful; for pitchers, I sort by movement potential and try to pick out some that also have good potential stuff, and were disregarded by scouts for their poor control, or maybe some 18-year-olds with undervalued stuff, but decent movement and control who could still pick up velocity.
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