We’ve had a Draft, a Commerce Deadline and greater than half a season of Main and Minor League Baseball video games. It’s time to replace the prospect rankings.
MLB Pipeline has launched a brand-new High 100 Prospects listing, recent with 2025 Draft picks and up to date spots for a few of baseball’s finest younger abilities. The staff High 30 rankings have additionally gotten a recent coat of paint for all 30 farm methods.
Right here’s a breakdown of the up to date High 100:
1. Konnor Griffin, SS/OF, Pirates2. Kevin McGonigle, SS, Tigers3. Leo De Vries, SS, Athletics4. Sebastian Walcott, SS/3B, Rangers5. Jesús Made, SS, Brewers6. JJ Wetherholt, SS/2B, Cardinals7. Bubba Chandler, RHP, Pirates8. Samuel Basallo, C/1B, Orioles9. Max Clark, OF, Tigers10. Andrew Painter, RHP, PhilliesComplete High 100 »
Griffin holds onto the highest spot after transferring up there in our lighter pre-Commerce Deadline replace. The 2024 ninth total choose entered professional ball with the potential for plus energy and plus-plus velocity and has proven a much-improved hit device from his newbie days, getting him nearer to the five-tool preferrred profile at a premium place at simply 19 years outdated. He’s one in all two Pirates within the High 10, becoming a member of 22-year-old fireballer Bubba Chandler, who has been knocking on Pittsburgh’s door all summer season.
McGonigle slides as much as No. 2 as he continues to indicate arguably the Minors’ high hit device as a profession .319 hitter within the Tigers system. De Vries — famously moved from the Padres for Mason Miller on the Deadline — offers the A’s their first High 10 prospect ever since MLB Pipeline started rating such gamers in 2004. Proprietor of depraved bat velocity as a switch-hitter, Made was not too long ago promoted to Excessive-A after having solely turned 18 in Might, making him youthful than many highschool picks on this 12 months’s Draft. Talking of age, Walcott — a 6-foot-4 shortstop with monster energy and a rocket arm — is one in all solely 11 gamers since 2006 to get greater than 400 plate appearances at Double-A at 19 or youthful, becoming a member of Mike Trout, Manny Machado and fellow High 10 prospect Basallo on that listing.
Discounting 2025 Draft picks, there have been 29 gamers who didn’t make our preseason High 100 however have joined the celebration within the months since that preliminary launch. The largest riser is Brewers infielder Luis Peña, who joined Made in skipping straight to Single-A at 18 years outdated this spring and has since risen to Excessive-A. Peña is hitting .301/.374/.471 with seven homers and only a 14.0 p.c strikeout price in 76 video games in his first season stateside.
Listed here are the ten highest-ranked newcomers on the midseason listing:
16. Luis Peña, INF, Brewers20. Carson Benge, OF, Mets25. George Lombard Jr., SS, Yankees28. Payton Tolle, LHP, Crimson Sox37. Nolan McLean, RHP, Mets42. Ryan Sloan, RHP, Mariners44. Jonah Tong, RHP, Mets55. Eduardo Quintero, OF, Dodgers58. Gage Bounce, LHP, Athletics59. C.J. Kayfus, 1B/OF, Guardians
The highest of this 12 months’s Draft hasn’t reached the heights of current courses; as an illustration, nobody’s coming near reaching Paul Skenes’ preliminary rating of No. 3 in 2023. However 12 whole picks from final month’s course of have cracked the listing, equal to the whole from final 12 months’s Draft:
17. Ethan Holliday, SS, Rockies (No. 4 total choose)18. Eli Willits, SS, Nationals (No. 1)22. Kade Anderson, LHP, Mariners (No. 3)27. Seth Hernandez, RHP, Pirates (No. 6)34. Liam Doyle, LHP, Cardinals (No. 5)36. Jamie Arnold, LHP, Athletics (No. 11)39. Aiva Arquette, SS, Marlins (No. 7)41. JoJo Parker, SS, Blue Jays (No. 8)79. Billy Carlson, SS, White Sox (No. 10)89. Steele Corridor, SS, Reds (No. 9)94. Kyson Witherspoon, RHP, Crimson Sox (No. 15)96. Tyler Bremner, RHP, Angels (No. 2)
There have been 59 holdovers from the preseason listing to the midseason replace. Twenty-nine of the remaining 41 have been Main League graduates, like high two abilities Roki Sasaki and Roman Anthony, whereas the opposite 12 fell off the listing.
Listed here are the ten highest risers from the preseason listing, headlined by Tigers first baseman/catcher Josue Briceño — final 12 months’s Arizona Fall League Triple Crown winner who continues to hit for common and energy in his wholesome age-20 marketing campaign:
+63: Josue Briceño, 1B/C, Tigers (No. 95 to 32)+62: Trey Yesavage, RHP, Blue Jays (No. 88 to 26)+56: Zyhir Hope, OF, Dodgers (No. 75 to 19)+53: Sal Stewart, 3B/2B, Reds (No. 84 to 31)+52: Franklin Arias, SS, Crimson Sox (No. 76 to 24)+51: Jesús Made, SS, Brewers (No. 56 to five)+42: Konnor Griffin, SS/OF, Pirates (No. 43 to 1)+39: Eduardo Tait, C, Twins (No. 93 to 54)+37: Michael Arroyo, 2B, Mariners (No. 98 to 61)+36: Arjun Nimmala, SS, Blue Jays (No. 87 to 51)
Shortstops, get your shortstops right here.
A report 30 shortstops seem on this 12 months’s listing, and no earlier rating comes particularly shut. The earlier excessive on a preseason or midseason listing was 24, final reached on the 2022 midseason High 100 when Gunnar Henderson was nonetheless the most effective prospect on the six. Every of our high six prospects on this replace man that particular premium place.
Clearly, not all 30 will play brief within the Majors, with many sliding across the dust and even doubtlessly transferring to the outfield. However the place is taken into account the captain of the infield for a motive, and it shouldn’t come as a shock that so many gamers with the athleticism to deal with shortstop can be succesful, if not nice, prospects in different areas.
On the different finish of the spectrum, there is just one true third baseman on this High 100: Reds prospect Sal Stewart. That’s a primary within the historical past of MLB Pipeline High 100 rankings. Sometimes, groups need to give gamers as many appears to be like at shortstop as they will earlier than sliding them down the defensive spectrum; for instance, High 20 prospects Leo De Vries, Sebastian Walcott and Ethan Holliday have all been talked about as potential future third basemen. However till that transfer happens on the sector, we depend them the place they’ve probably the most expertise/the place they have been introduced on Draft Day.
Talking of the Draft, 75 members of the High 100 entered professional ball via that course of whereas 25 got here as worldwide signees. Ten totally different nations are represented on the listing, led by the US (73) and adopted by the Dominican Republic (11), Venezuela (seven), Canada (two), Panama (two), Australia (one), the Bahamas (one), Colombia (one), Cuba (one) and the Netherlands (one).
Our precise Farm System Rankings will come out later this week, however one observe may stand out when particular person organizations: the Mariners paved the way with 9 High 100 prospects. That’s probably the most by any membership on a preseason or midseason listing for the reason that Padres boasted 10 initially of the 2019 season.
The Reds and White Sox fall in line subsequent with six apiece, adopted by the Brewers, Dodgers and Twins with 5 every. Each farm system has no less than one participant on the High 100 following this current replace, and 27 of the 30 have no less than one participant within the High 50.
One other means of breaking down the listing is to have a look at Prospect Factors (100 for the No. 1 prospect, 99 for No. 2, and so forth.). Listed here are the highest 10 groups via that measure, together with their finest prospects in parentheses:
1. Mariners, 429 (Colt Emerson, SS/3B, No. 11)2. Tigers, 326 (Kevin McGonigle, SS, No. 2)3. Dodgers, 310 (Josue De Paula, OF, No. 12)4. Pirates, 282 (Konnor Griffin, SS/OF, No. 1)5. Brewers, 276 (Jesús Made, SS, No. 5)6. Mets, 273 (Carson Benge, OF, No. 20)7. Twins, 224 (Walker Jenkins, OF, No. 14)8. Guardians, 217 (Travis Bazzana, 2B, No. 15)9. Athletics, 206 (Leo De Vries, SS, No. 3)10. White Sox, 204 (Braden Montgomery, OF, No. 33)
