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, contemporary with 2025 Draft picks and up to date spots for a few of baseball’s greatest younger skills. The workforce High 30 rankings have additionally gotten a contemporary coat of paint for all 30 farm techniques.
Right here’s a breakdown of the up to date High 100:
1. Konnor Griffin, SS/OF, Pirates
2. Kevin McGonigle, SS, Tigers
3. Leo De Vries, SS, Athletics
4. Sebastian Walcott, SS/3B, Rangers
5. Jesús Made, SS, Brewers
6. JJ Wetherholt, SS/2B, Cardinals
7. Bubba Chandler, RHP, Pirates
8. Samuel Basallo, C/1B, Orioles
9. Max Clark, OF, Tigers
10. Andrew Painter, RHP, Phillies
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Griffin holds onto the highest spot after transferring up there in our lighter pre-Commerce Deadline replace. The 2024 ninth general choose entered professional ball with the potential for plus energy and plus-plus pace and has proven a much-improved hit software from his novice days, getting him nearer to the five-tool supreme profile at a premium place at simply 19 years outdated. He’s considered one of 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 time.
McGonigle slides as much as No. 2 as he continues to indicate arguably the Minors’ high hit software 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 pace as a switch-hitter, Made was lately promoted to Excessive-A after having solely turned 18 in Could, making him youthful than many highschool picks on this yr’s Draft. Talking of age, Walcott — a 6-foot-4 shortstop with monster energy and a rocket arm — is considered one of 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 social gathering 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 % strikeout charge 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, Brewers
20. Carson Benge, OF, Mets
25. George Lombard Jr., SS, Yankees
28. Payton Tolle, LHP, Crimson Sox
37. Nolan McLean, RHP, Mets
42. Ryan Sloan, RHP, Mariners
44. Jonah Tong, RHP, Mets
55. Eduardo Quintero, OF, Dodgers
58. Gage Soar, LHP, Athletics
59. C.J. Kayfus, 1B/OF, Guardians
The highest of this yr’s Draft hasn’t reached the heights of current lessons; as an example, nobody’s coming near reaching Paul Skenes’ preliminary rating of No. 3 in 2023. However 12 complete picks from final month’s course of have cracked the listing, equal to the full from final yr’s Draft:
17. Ethan Holliday, SS, Rockies (No. 4 general 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 skills 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 yr’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 document 30 shortstops seem on this yr’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 filth and even probably transferring to the outfield. However the place is taken into account the captain of the infield for a cause, and it shouldn’t come as a shock that so many gamers with the athleticism to deal with shortstop could 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. Usually, groups wish to give gamers as many appears at shortstop as they’ll 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 rely them the place they’ve essentially 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 by way of that course of whereas 25 got here as worldwide signees. Ten completely different international locations 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 notice may stand out when taking a look at particular person organizations: the Mariners paved the way with 9 High 100 prospects. That’s essentially the most by any membership on a preseason or midseason listing because the 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 a minimum of one participant on the High 100 following this current replace, and 27 of the 30 have a minimum of one participant within the High 50.
One other means of breaking down the listing is to take 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 by way of that measure, together with their greatest 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)
