The Tampa Bay Rays have top-of-the-line farm programs in all of baseball and one of the crucial divisive in relation to rating the person gamers throughout the system.
The group options a wide range of gamers with greater flooring that seem like protected bets for changing into high quality huge leaguers, akin to SS Carson Williams, INF Brayden Taylor, and 1B Tre’ Morgan; whereas others have the prospect to be elite but additionally have a dangerous likelihood of reaching that degree like 1B Xavier Isaac and RHP Yoniel Curet.
These gamers talked about are simply 5 of the 14 that obtained spots on numerous High 100 prospect rankings coming into the 2025 season.
The six publications being referred to are as follows: ESPN, Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs, Baseball America, CBS Sports activities*, and MLB Pipeline.
*It ought to be famous that CBS Sports activities solely coated the highest 50 prospects coming into the season. That checklist was revealed at present.
What these publications all agree on is that Carson Williams is the Rays high prospect and a high 10 prospect in all of baseball. Baseball America not too long ago pushed him all the way down to eleventh following Roki Sasaki signing with the Dodgers, after the checklist was revealed, whereas CBS and ESPN each ranked him fifth within the recreation.
After Williams, although, there was a number of divisiveness.
2022 first spherical decide and hulking slugger Xavier Isaac receives a number of reward for his energy and newly famous athleticism, however his weak point towards left-handed pitching and excessive strikeout totals have led skepticism about how properly he’ll have the ability to deal with superior pitching within the higher ranges of the minors. Isaac was listed by 5 publications and averaged a seventy fifth general placement.
Brayden Taylor, then again, doesn’t have any standout instruments however is taken into account above common at most each aspect of the sport. Thus, Taylor was ranked forward of Isaac by each ESPN and Baseball America, however was left off of FanGraph’s high 100 altogether.
However, the consensus has been that Carson Williams, Xavier Isaac, and Brayden Taylor are the Rays high three prospects. After that trio, you’ve got a mixture of eleven gamers.
Listed here are the Rays 14 prospects featured with their common high 100 rating and what number of lists they appeared on in parentheses.
Carson Williams – 7.8 (6)
Xavier Isaac – 74.8 (5)
Brayden Taylor – 66.3 (4)
Tre’ Morgan – 86.7 (3)
Brody Hopkins – 66 (2)
Chandler Simpson – 81.5 (2)
Trevor Harrison – 89.5 (2)
Theo Gillen – 93.0 (2)
Jackson Baumesiter – 60 (1)
Yoniel Curet – 61 (1)
Dominic Keegan – 69 (1)
Aidan Smith – 87 (1)
Gary Gill Hill – 94 (1)
Ty Johnson – 94 (1)
It also needs to be famous that a number of of the publications revealed the gamers that simply missed their high 100’s as properly, with EPSN rating 10 Rays prospects amongst their high 138 and 14 among the many high 200.
MLB Pipeline revealed an article by which they acknowledged that Chandler Simpson and Aidan Smith simply missed making their High 100 checklist.
Baseball America adopted swimsuit and included Chandler Simpson in addition to Santiago Suarez and Brailer Guerrero (Guerrero wasn’t featured by any of the six publications).
In the meantime, FanGraphs revealed a chunk by which they predicted that Santiago Suarez, Theo Gillen, Gary Gill, Jackson Baumeister, Jose Urbina, and Aidan Smith are gamers that might rise into their High 100 this season.
