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Top Fantasy Baseball Prospects: Rankings, Comps & Predictions (101-125)

These prospect rankings are based on FANTASY value, not on real-life value. Considering such, hitters generally weigh a bit heavier for me due to the injury risk and higher volatility of prospect pitchers. Proximity to the majors is also prominent in the equation, though these rankings are taking a longer-term / dynasty look on these guys (think of it more as a 5 year plan).

Rather than getting into writing little bios on all of these hitters, I’ve decided to keep my rankings simple by providing the 2024 stats of each player across all levels, plus a player comp, a small blub on the player’s prime skills for fantasy and an explanation of my ranking. I’ve also included updated fScores for any players I expect to debut in 2025, which highlights what my fScore projections believe the player is capable of at the pro level for immediate impact.

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2025 Top 150 Fantasy Baseball Prospect Rankings: 101-125

I know most people don’t care to read 250 – 500 words on each player, so using both box score scouting and film review, I have provided my personal comps for each prospect (for fun – note: comps may be based on mechanics, body type, pitching arsenal or similar skills & box score style) and how I think each prospect will perform once in the majors over the next five or so seasons. All-in-all I think the rankings paired with statistical info and a player comp will hit the sweet spot for the broadest category of people who are reading this prospect rankings (or listening / watching on the Fantasy Aceball podcast).

NOTE: Rookie status is determined by 130 ABs, or 50 IPs at the Major League level.

NOTE: I did NOT include international professionals such as Roki Sasaki in this ranking, Sasaki would be the #1 prospect in the event he was included.

***Note, Prematurely removed due to them being so close to graduation, or due to age and injuries bumping them from prospect status by the next time we see them: SP Christian Scott (Mets), SP Drew Thorpe (White Sox), SP Max Meyer (Marlins), 2B Ronny Mauricio (Mets), SP Robert Gasser (Brewers)

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101. OF Braylon Payne (Brewers)

  • 2024 A: .438/.526/.625 | 15.8 BB%, 15.8 K% | 2 XBH, 0 HR, 4 SB (4 games)
  • Age: 18
  • ETA: 2028
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Lawrence Butler
  • Prime Skills: Payne is a big-bodied outfielder who is tooled up with a killer power and speed combo from the left side. He’s one of the faster guys picked in the 2024 draft and if he can develop the hit tools and classic Brewers plate skills, the tools can really play this kid up with some of the better Brewers prospects.
  • Ranking Explanation: Welsh turned me onto Payne after he saw him in the Bridge league and told me Payne was absolutely electric. He’s super young, getting some solid reps at A ball last year while the other high school guys didn’t debut.
  • Previous Rank: N/A (2024 Draftee)

102. 1B / 3B Zach Dezenzo (Astros)

  • 2024 CPX/AA/AAA: .299/.385/.492 | 11.5 BB%, 22.6 K% | 24 XBH, 7 HR, 5 SB (52 games)
  • 2024 MLB: .242/.277/.371 | 4.6 BB%, 33.8 K% | 4 XBH, 2 HR, 0 SB
  • Age: 25
  • ETA: Opening Day (debuted in 2024)
  • fScores: 96 fContact, 92 fDiscipline, 98 fPower, 103 fSpeed
  • Comp: A bigger, more athletic Chas McCormick – ceiling would be Adolis-light type stats.
  • Prime Skills: Power / speed guy who has to work on his hit tool (75% Z-Contact% in his debut), but can take a walk and will excel against fastballs with above average EVs. Needs to work on reducing the K rate.
  • Ranking Explanation: Dezenzo missed a good chunk of 2024 with a wrist injury, but he worked his was to the majors with a nice minor league season and should be completing with Shay Whitcomb for the starting 3B role in 2025.
  • Previous Rank: 106

103. OF Alejandro Osuna (Rangers)

  • 2024 A+/AA: .292/.362/.507 | 7.8 BB%, 23.6 K% | 47 XBH, 18 HR, 17 SB
  • Age: 22
  • ETA: Mid 2025
  • fScores: 99 fContact, 88 fDiscipline, 92 fPower, 123 fSpeed
  • Comp: Short Joc Pederson mechanics meets Andrew Benintendi with more speed
  • Prime Skills: Osuna is a high-floor guy who projects as a pretty solid big leaguer once he gets the call if he gets run. He has good bat control in the zone.
  • Ranking Explanation: Osuna was right on the periphery of my last top 150 rankings, but finished the season strong including having a nice Arizona Fall League showing, hitting .306/.438/.449 with a couple bombs and a couple steals.
  • Previous Rank: N/A

104. OF Kevin Alcantara (Cubs)

  • 2024 AA: .278/.353/.428 | 9.9 BB%, 25 K% | 35 XBH, 14 HR, 14 SB
  • Age: 22
  • ETA: Early 2025 (debuted in 2024)
  • fScores: 97 fContact, 89 fDiscipline, 88 fPower, 118 fSpeed
  • Comp: Righty Shawn Green with more swing and miss
  • Prime Skills: Wiry frame with projectable power once he starts filling out, but for now he’s filling out more in the Elly De La Cruz mold than in the Giancarlo Stanton mold. Right now he’s still pretty raw, the swing is a little too loopy and leads to a lot of swing-and-miss, but he can crush it when he connects.
  • Ranking Explanation: Alcantara has a high upside due to the frame and the above-average wheels, but if he strikes out too much he will just be the next Aristides Aquino. There’s a lot of upside here, but he hasn’t started performing near his max as of yet, while other recent draftees or pop-up guys are just simply passing him in development. He has tools, but where is the on-field production? Over 50% groundball rates y/o/y has been a killer for him in a Ke’Bryan Hayes-type way. Alcantara has a higher upside than Osuna, but I’ve been pretty doubtful he will reach his peak outcome.
  • Previous Rank: 110

105. 2B / SS Edwin Arroyo (Reds)

  • 2023 A+/AA: .252/.324/.433 | 8.8 BB%, 21.3 K% | 52 XBH, 13 HR, 29 SB
  • Age: 21
  • ETA: Early 2026
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Ozzie Albies with a worse hit tool
  • Prime Skills: Speed guy who projects out for above-average power as a switch-hitting middle infielder. He had a nice breakout and was traded from the Mariners to the Reds prior to a shoulder injury that knocked him out for all of 2024.
  • Ranking Explanation: Arroyo debuted in AA this season as a 19-year-old. The hit tool isn’t great and the plate skills are only okay, but hopefully, once he is healthy and catches up to a level for his age these will neutralize because the power/speed combo is legit. It’s been a lost year for him, but I still think he’s interesting and he was already ahead of the curve age-to-level prior to the injury. He has shown more than Alcantara even, but Alcantara is not coming off injury and has the better frame, so Alcantara gets the slight edge to Arroyo.
  • Previous Rank: 126

106. SP Jarlin Susana (Nationals)

  • 2024 A/A+: 103 2/3 IP | 24.5 K-BB%, 17.5 SwStr%, 33.4 CSW% | 4.34 ERA, 1.31 WHIP
  • Age: 21
  • ETA: Mid 2026
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Paul Skenes light
  • Prime Skills: Another 6′ 6″ righty for the Nationals, but Susana came to them in the Juan Soto trade from San Diego… the gift trade that keeps on giving. Susana has an insane 100-102 MPH fastball with a 94 MPH changeup and 87-91 mph power slider that continues to improve.
  • Ranking Explanation: The Nationals are flooded with ridiculous pitching prospects right now at the lower level. Susana and Sykora are going to cause problems for a long time. Harrington gets the edge in the pitcher rankings partially due to proximity and also partially because he’s a lock to be a starter whereas Susana has had some control issues (10.8% BB% and only 50.5 F-Str%) and could always fall into a bullpen role.
  • Previous Rank: 104

107. 2B Termarr Johnson (Pirates)

  • 2024 A+/AA: .237/.366/.386 | 15.6 BB%, 21.3 K% | 39 XBH, 15 HR, 22 SB
  • Age: 21
  • ETA: Early 2026
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Short Jason Kipnis, might have some Dozier-esk or Brandon Phillips-esk seasons
  • Prime Skills: Amazing plate skills for his age, but he’s super raw right now despite the plate discipline. Contact, power and speed have a lot of room to grow to figure out how good he can really end up.
  • Ranking Explanation: The power has been surprisingly above average, but that may be at the expense of the hit tool, which was supposed to be his top tool when he was drafted. Johnson needs to develop more of a doubles profile to really make it, he’s looking like a worse version of Edouard Julien, which isn’t bad and he’s still a young 20-year-old and will start the 2025 season as a 20-year-old. Ignore the prospect fatigue, Johnson just needs another year and a half to bake in the minors. Arroyo gets the edge in my rankings though as the hit tool is more important to the plate skills of Termarr.
  • Previous Rank: 103

108. SS Colson Montgomery (White Sox)

  • 2024 AAA: .214/.339/.381 | 12 BB%, 28.6 K% | 42 XBH, 18 HR, 8 SB
  • Age: 23
  • ETA: Early 2025
  • fScores: 87 fContact, 111 fDiscipline, 86 fPower, 79 fSpeed
  • Comp: Lefty Carlos Correa
  • Prime Skills: Montgomery has fantastic plate discipline, which by now you know I love as a projecting skill toward future fantasy baseball stardom. He should grow into significantly more power as he builds muscle onto his 6-4 frame and even though he’s not slow, I doubt we see steals from him in the future. He has some big-time power potential, but he pulls the ball too much for a lefty who seems to see him hit into the shift too much to be a good batting-average guy.
  • Ranking Explanation: Montgomery has seen his K-rate tick up this season, despite having a good chase rate and swinging strike rate which means he may be fouling too many balls off and getting caught looking. This is an adjustment he will have to make to maximize his skillset as a power guy with a new 114 max EV this year already. The decrease in his potential batting average and lack of ability to maximize his power is concerning to me hence the drop in his ranking. He has not really developed into the high-power SS we expected with only an 80.6% Z-Contact rate, which isn’t terrible, but not great.
  • Previous Rank: 68

109. SP Emiliano Teodo (Rangers)

  • 2024 AA: 86 1/3 IP | 16.8 K-BB%, 16.3 SwStr%, 32.2 CSW% | 1.98 ERA, 1.19 WHIP
  • Age: 24
  • ETA: 2025
  • fScores: 108 fStuff, 87 fControl, 122 fERA
  • Comp: Jared Jones w/ worse control
  • Prime Skills: Slight frame, but big fastball in the high 90s (can hit 102) … could be an assassin in the pen and might run into a pen to rotation back and forth type trajectory due to the command ala DL Hall or Garret Crochett. He formerly ran with a fastball/curve, but now mixes in a low 90s changeup and a killer upper 80s slider. The development of the breaking balls is killer because guys are waiting to blast that fastball and seem to lock up and freeze on the breaking stuff.
  • Ranking Explanation: Ridiculous swinging strike rates at every level, Teodo’s issue is control and he could be a high variance starter with a good number of Ks or he could end up a stud high leverage pen guy. Susana gets the edge partially because he’s younger and larger, which gives him more time to develop the command as a starter.
  • Previous Rank: 100

110. SP Parker Messick (Guardians)

  • 2024 A+/AA: 133 2/3 IP | 22.1 K-BB%, 16 SwStr%, 30.6 CSW% | 2.83 ERA, 1.14 WHIP
  • Age: 23
  • ETA: Mid 2025
  • fScores: 93 Stuff, 99 fControl, 132 fERA
  • Comp: Framber Valdez / lefty Sonny Gray light
  • Prime Skills: Shorter, heavy-set lefty who is a classic Guardians command guy who is breaking ball heavy and a former second-rounder out of FSU. He’s very sweeper-heavy. It’s a killer pitch, but I’d like to see him generate more GBs so he gets more toward the Framber Valdez pendulum than Andrew Abbott.
  • Ranking Explanation: He’s a bit of a bulldog on the mound and as a command first guy there should be a pretty smooth transition up a level, but he doesn’t have the same #2/#3 starter ceiling as Susana or Teodo if he can harness the control.
  • Previous Rank: 116

111. OF Eduardo Quintero (Dodgers)

  • 2024 CPX/A: .285/.419/.394 | 17.1 BB%, 19.4 K% | 19 XBH, 3 HR, 32 SB (83 games)
  • Age: 19
  • ETA: Late 2026
  • fScore: N/A
  • Comp: Shades of Wander Franco as an OF with less power and more speed
  • Prime Skills: Fantastic plate skills and a heck of an athlete. Quintero has a killer hit tool with a knack for barreling the ball and brings a ton of athleticism to the plate.
  • Ranking Explanation: Quintero could develop more power. I don’t think he’s stuck in the rabbit mold, as his stat line might suggest, but I would like to see his power develop more before I choose him over some power/speed guys like Arroyo and Termarr.
  • Previous Rank: 94

112. OF Brailer Guerrero (Rays)

  • 2024 CPX: .330/.452/.466 | 17.5 BB%, 25.4 K% | 8 XBH, 2 HR, 13 SB
  • Age: 19
  • ETA: 2027
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Lefty Vlad Guerrero light
  • Prime Skills: Good-sized kid with killer plate skills and showed complete athletic dominance in the complex league. He has some solid power potential with a great hit tool, keeping in mind he was playing in Florida Complex (a tougher hitting league).
  • Ranking Explanation: I wanted to bump Guerrero higher, but I couldn’t due to the slower back end of the complex league and the fact that he hasn’t jumped up to A ball yet due to a shoulder injury. He’s definitely very interesting. I would like to see him lift the ball more, as the 50% groundball rate is concerning for a guy who should develop 20-30-homer power.
  • Previous Rank: 111

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113. SP Sean Sullivan (Rockies)

  • 2024 A+/AA: 115 1/3 IP | 24.8 K-BB%, 16.2 SwStr%, 30 CSW% | 2.11 ERA, 0.91 WHIP
  • Age: 22
  • ETA: Mid 2025
  • fScores: 96 fStuff, 112 fControl, 126 fERA
  • Comp: Skinny, lefty Tanner Houck
  • Prime Skills: Sullivan was a second round pick out of Wake Forest in 2023 and is showing why with authority this season. He’s a big dude with a funky arm action that is under a 3/4 arm slot. Fastball/slider with a funky arm slot and might play up better on the left side than the right. The fastball tops out in the low 90s, which is what caps him a bit, but it’s flat against the arm action and pitching in Coors it’s possible this type of fastball plays better than standard high heat.
  • Ranking Explanation: Just like Dollander, Sullivan would be ranked higher if he wasn’t stuck pitching in Colorado; however it is, what it is and that’s likely where he will pitch the first half of his career. His arm slot might actually play up better in Colorado than other pitchers, like Houck in Boston. Like some other pitchers, I dropped a few guys in my rankings more because I have been higher on hitters and I dinged him a bit for the Colorado connection.
  • Previous Rank: 73

114. Emil Morales (Dodgers)

  • 2024 DSL: .342/.478/.691 | 19.9 BB%, 22.4 K% | 25 XBH, 14 HR, 12 SB (46 games)
  • Age: 18
  • ETA: 2028
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Fernando Tatis Jr. light
  • Prime Skills: Big, athletic shortstop with a solid hit tool along with high-end power potential and decent speed. Another big SS with the mimic Fernando Tatis Jr. swing, he’s making it work and has a similar batted ball profile (though beware of the 27% swinging strike rate), the less than 30% GB rate is great for power potential.
  • Ranking Explanation: I’m hard-pressed to rank complex league guys this high, much less even Dominican summer league guys. Morales has been so impressive, I couldn’t wait to get him on the list – he gives Jesus Made a run for his money, but the Dodgers are loaded with these guys so let’s see how he plays out in 2025. Will he be in Complex ball or full season (A ball)?
  • Previous Rank: 123

115. 1B Deyvison De Los Santos (Marlins)

  • 2024 AA/AAA: .294/.343/.571 | 5.8 BB%, 24.7 K% | 67 XBH, 40 HR, 1 SB
  • Age: 22
  • ETA: Early 2025
  • fScores: 93 fContact, 45 fDiscipline, 108 fPower, 71 fSpeed
  • Comp: Cristian Encarnacion-Strand
  • Prime Skills: Big-time power potential with an improved contact rate and decrease in strikeouts in 2024. De Los Santos has rocked a 116 max EV (better than Mayo) and had about a 92 average EV in AAA in 2024.
  • Ranking Explanation: De Los Santos was traded to the Marlins where he has a nice shot to be up early in the season or break the roster this spring. The question is going to be if he can keep the K rate down enough to be an effective major-league hitter. The chase rate is still high at 45% at AAA and the Z-contact% is 76.7% – both are extremely poor.
  • Previous Rank: 58

116. OF Henry Bolte (Athletics)

  • 2024 A+/AA: .267/.368/.466 | 11.2 BB% / 34.7 K% | 55 XBH, 15 HR, 46 SB
  • Age: 21
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Righty Nolan Jones
  • Prime Skills: Bolte put up a decent steals total and some solid power numbers last year, but a high BABIP and high K rate made him look like a small ball version of Nolan Jones in a bad organization, but this year even though the concerns are the same (.406 BABIP in high A), the power is way up and he looks like he could kind of be an actual copycat Nolan Jones where he’s just going to project as a 25/35 type guy with a volatile batting average. Super toolsy though, which is fun.
  • Ranking Explanation: This dude has a terrible hit tool, but the power and speed especially at age-to-level are so enticing it makes him a fun upside gamble this late in the rankings. I’m not buying the hit tool coming fully around or he would be much higher in my rankings, but if he can develop even an average hit tool, he’s going to be a fantasy stud.
  • Previous Rank: 144

117. SP Carson Whisenhunt (Giants)

  • 2024 AAA: 109 2/3 IP | 17.1 K-BB%, 15.3 SwStr%, 29.5 CSW% | 5.17 ERA, 1.58 WHIP
  • Age: 23
  • ETA: Early 2025
  • fScores: 103 fStuff, 90 fControl, 108 fERA
  • Comp: A plus version of Braxton Garrett or lefty Brandon Pfaadt
  • Prime Skills: He has a super slurvy-like curve and possibly the best change-up in the minors, but he’s playing these against a below-average fastball. Whisenhunt missed basically all of the second half in 2023 and was thrown to the wolves in the PCL in 2024, so his damage stats shouldn’t be held too much against him.
  • Ranking Explanation: The stuff is ridiculous despite the lack of killer fastball velocity and I think he has what it takes to be a #3 in the rotation, however the control this season with a tough full-time assignment in the PCL has been an issue. It’s hard for me to move Whisenhunt down this much, but the Giants promoting Birdsong ahead of him despite his own command issues is a big tell to me that Whisenhunt might have real command issues rather than ABS or PCL forced issues.
  • Previous Rank: 102

118. SS Arjun Nimmala (Blue Jays)

  • 2024 CPX/A: .232/.325/.482 | 10 BB%, 30.7 K% | 44 XBH, 17 HR, 9 SB
  • Age: 19
  • ETA: 2027
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Righty J.P. Crawford
  • Prime Skills: He should stick at SS long-term as a solid defensive player with a good all-field hit tool that currently projects as better gap power than homerun power. He’s young with a solid frame and brings a lot more power than you might expect for his age.
  • Ranking Explanation: Nimmala had a really tough start to the 2024 season but went down to Complex to fix some issues and came back up to A ball on 6/26 with a .265/.331/.564 slash upon his return with 13 homers. Basically, he’s a brand new guy and that’s the line we should be ranking him on.
  • Previous Rank: N/A

119. OF Ryan Waldschmidt (Diamondbacks)

  • 2024 College: .333/.469/.610 | 31 XBH, 14 HR, 25 SB
  • 2024 A: .273/.485/.318 | 22.7 BB%, 13.6 K% | 2 XBH, 0 HR, 4 SB
  • Age: 22
  • ETA: Mid 2026
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Righty Lars Nootbaar
  • Prime Skills: Big OF who can play in CF and has great plate skills with an above-average hit tool to pair with a solid power and speed combo. He hits the crap out of the ball and had some of the highest exit velocities in the 2024 draft.
  • Ranking Explanation: I always love when guys walk more than they strike out and Waldschmidt is a guy who can possibly do this through the minors. If he can show power with the big-time EVs he’s known for, he could climb the levels pretty quickly based on his advanced skillset. Nimmala has flashed the power at a young age and based on his second half deserves the higher ranking for now between these two.
  • Previous Rank: N/A (2024 draftee)

120. 3B Brady House (Nationals)

  • 2024 AA/AAA: .241/.297/.402 | 5.7 BB%, 26.4 K% | 41 XBH, 19 HR, 6 SB
  • Age: 22
  • ETA: Mid 2025
  • fScores: 92 fContact, 48 fDiscipline, 79 fPower, 82 fSpeed
  • Comp: Alec Bohm with worse plate skills
  • Prime Skills: Big frame with room to grow at 6′ 4″ and has completely moved off SS to 3B this season. He has shown a ton of improvement in the plate skills in 2023 and has a ton of power potential that has yet to play out. He is pretty good at going the other way. He reminds me a ton of Austin Riley coming up where everyone liked him, then nobody liked him, then everyone liked him again.
  • Ranking Explanation: House was one of the bigger fallers in my updated rankings for the second time in a row as the power has not progressed the way I had thought it would and he really struggled at AAA, where I thought he would benefit from a better stadium than in AA. House does have a decent hit tool, but the power has not developed past an above average tool (87.4 average EV and 109.1 max EV) with a very bad 38.2% chase rate. There’s still a chance he can make corrections, but things are beginning to look a little bleak.
  • Previous Rank: 51

121. SP George Klassen (Angels)

  • 2024 A/A+/AA: 93 IP | 23.2 K-BB%, 15.3 SwStr%, 33.8 CSW% | 3.10 ERA, 1.18 WHIP
  • Age: 23
  • ETA: Late 2025 (cup of coffee)
  • fScores: 102 fStuff, 87 fControl, 107 fERA
  • Comp: Luis Gil
  • Prime Skills: Klassen is a major pop-up prospect as a 2023 6th rounder who has increased velo with a 98-99 MPH rising fastball, 91 MPH sweeper and 87 MPH vertical hard slider.
  • Ranking Explanation: Klassen had some erratic command when I had my live look on him, especially on the high fastball and had some wild pitches, also allowing some hard hits in the first inning, but it was his first game back after an injury. I can’t believe he was traded already with the upticks we have seen, especially for a reliever (Carlos Estevez). I think the stuff is ridiculously good, but the control can be way off and he has to figure that out if he’s going to make it as a starter.
  • Previous Rank: 79

122. 1B Ralphy Velazquez (Guardians)

  • 2024 A/A+: .231/.347/.385 | 14.6 BB%, 21 K% | 35 XBH, 11 HR, 8 SB
  • Age: 20
  • ETA: Late 2026
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: More athletic Anthony Rizzo
  • Prime Skills: Great hit tool with power, plate skills and some speed – he had some bad luck in 2024 and performed extremely poorly in high A, but he was young for that level and has time to rebound.
  • Ranking Explanation: Velazquez was the Guardians’ first-round pick, so this isn’t coming out of nowhere, but he has been especially impressive in CPX and A ball. Despite being a corner guy, he is a big name to watch moving forward for a nice rebound once he adjusts to the new level. House and Ralphy kind of make up a “young for the level, power guy that needs to make adjustments” tier.
  • Previous Rank: 77

123. C Ethan Salas (Padres)

  • 2024 A+: .206/.288/.311 | 10 BB%, 20.9 K% | 33 XBH, 4 HR, 10 SB
  • Age: 19
  • ETA: Late 2026
    fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Mini Jonah Heim with top-of-the-line defense
  • Prime Skills: Salas displayed 25 homer power at the A ball level as a 17-year-old, but since has struggled to hit at the higher levels, which are not aided by bad BABIP luck and despite having a great eye. Salas has great discipline for his age, potential 20-homer power plus above average speed as a catcher. He has a quick lefty swing and has shown some very strong EVs.
  • Ranking Explanation: Salas might end up as a better real-life player than a fantasy player, especially as a catcher so keep that in mind when you’re riding the hype. However, he is playing at a difficult age-to-level considering other players his age are still in complex leagues or in the DSL. He has not been impressive with the bat and it’s possible Preller made a mistake by promoting him so quickly, but he did play well in the Fall League.
  • Previous Rank: 108

124. OF Caron Benge (Mets)

  • 2024 College: .335/.444/.665 | 44 XBH, 18 HR, 10 SB
  • 2024 A: .273/.420/.436 | 15.9 BB%, 20.3 K% | 5 XBH, 2 HR, 3 SB
  • Age: 22
  • ETA: Late 2026
  • fScores: N/A
  • Comp: Colton Cowser, but a bit more open of a stance
  • Prime Skills: Benge is an athletic OF who was a two-way player in college and hits to all fields. He’s raw since he’s transitioning from being a two-way player, but there’s a lot of upside to open up now that he’s only focusing on hitting.
  • Ranking Explanation: Benge is an interesting player who I think has 25 homer, 15 steal upside with a good batting average, but Salas and Ralphy are younger and have been doing it in the minors. The college guys always have to prove it fast since they have their player age clock ticking a bit faster when they first come up, but Benge should start 2025 in high A and work his way up for a 2026 debut.
  • Previous Rank: N/A (2024 draftee)

125. OF Jacob Melton (Astros)

  • 2024 AA: .253/.310/.426 | 7 BB%, 23.5 K% | 37 XBH, 15 HR, 30 SB (105 games)
  • Age: 24
  • ETA: Early 2025
  • fScores: 89 fContact, 74 fDiscipline, 94 fPower, 214 fSpeed
  • Comp: James Outman with more speed, maybe a Jose Siri profile
  • Prime Skills: There are some nice power, and speed skills here, but the hit tool and plate skills are lacking. Dude has an interesting wide-open stance with a lot of movement, but he hits some moon shots and he could debut in 2024 if the Astros have some bad injuries and Melton can progress the hit tool.
  • Ranking Explanation: The power/speed combo is top 100 stuff, but the big question is if he can get to enough contact to make them work. It’s slightly concerning that he has more HR power than doubles power as it begs how boom or bust he is as a hitter and limits his speed upside if he’s not just getting on base at a higher clip to utilize his tools. Melton can improve the strikeout rate, but he also has inconsistencies in his power with a lower average EV than he should have for his power potential because he’s too willing to chase for bad contact. He’s older and I’m not sure there’s much more here than a #4 OF, but he will probably be worth adding and have his weeks of production when he’s hot.
  • Previous Rank: 119

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