2025 Major Publication Prospect Rankings

[Jim Goulart]

AUDIO via Rotowire's Baseball Podcast Feed: 

James Anderson and Ryan Topp rank the Brewers top 10 prospects for fantasy (and real life) and then touch on the Brewers' World Series odds, the projected 2026 lineup, rotation and more!

2:35 Jesus Made

7:30 Luis Pena

12:00 Cooper Pratt

21:10 Logan Henderson

24:45 Andrew Fischer

28:25 Jeferson Quero

30:50 Braylon Payne

33:35 Robert Gasser

36:40 Brock Wilken

40:30 Marco Dinges

42:50 Luke Adams

46:05 Bishop Letson

49:30 Brady Ebel

52:15 Honorable Mentions

57:55 World Series Odds

1:04:35 Projected 2026 rotation/lineup

[Jim Goulart]

Pitcher List Top 10 (and a few prospect comments on others)

[Matt]

I was guilty of this too, but every publication is sleeping on Kuehner. He deserves to be firmly in the top 15, and probably top ten. 

[Jim French Stepstool]

So much to get excited about with this farm system. A couple of things that have stood out to me lately:

The performance of Blake Burke since moving to Biloxi. An advancement to AA often can be a minefield for a hitter, sometimes even a dead end. But he actually seems to have upped his game & has flashed some power. The injuries to Wilken & Adams have opened a door for him that might've stayed closed until '26, and he kicked it wide open.

I was perusing Luis Penas' numbers. I doubt if anyone has ever kept track of such a thing, but how often has someone playing at the professional level driven in 100 runs at age 17-18? He has 97 RBI & won't turn 19 until the off season. It's just too bad he's so one-dimensional; he's only stolen 80 bases.

Fun times, and not just in Milwaukee.

[sveumrules]

2 hours ago, Jim French Stepstool said:

I was perusing Luis Penas' numbers. I doubt if anyone has ever kept track of such a thing, but how often has someone playing at the professional level driven in 100 runs at age 17-18? He has 97 RBI

From what I can tell looking at the FanGraphs 2024-25 minor league leaderboard sorted by age, Pena’s 97 RBI are 4th among 17-18 year olds these last two years.

Just ahead of Leo De Vries (95), and just behind Emil Morales (100) & Wilder Dalis (102).

But the undisputed King of Teenage Steaks appears to be Eduardo Tait with 134 RBI, mostly on account of having an extra 200ish PA on Morales, Dalis and Peña.

[Jim French Stepstool]

4 hours ago, sveumrules said:

From what I can tell looking at the FanGraphs 2024-25 minor league leaderboard sorted by age, Pena’s 97 RBI are 4th among 17-18 year olds these last two years.

Just ahead of Leo De Vries (95), and just behind Emil Morales (100) & Wilder Dalis (102).

But the undisputed King of Teenage Steaks appears to be Eduardo Tait with 134 RBI, mostly on account of having an extra 200ish PA on Morales, Dalis and Peña.

Nevermind.😁

[mudbutt]

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46017620/2025-mlb-prospect-rankings-update-kiley-mcdaniel-konnor-griffin-kevin-mcgonigle-jesus-made

Kiley updated his Top 100.  Of note versus the usual is he has Luke Adams at 90 and has Adamczewski on in contention to be top 100.

[sveumrules]

20 minutes ago, mudbutt said:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46017620/2025-mlb-prospect-rankings-update-kiley-mcdaniel-konnor-griffin-kevin-mcgonigle-jesus-made

Kiley updated his Top 100.  Of note versus the usual is he has Luke Adams at 90 and has Adamczewski on in contention to be top 100.

I understand Adams goes about things in a little bit of an unconventional way, and at this point is pretty much a 1B only prospect, but out of 546 players with at least 1,000 PAs across all the minor leagues since 2023 his 148 wRC+ is tied with Xavier Isaac for the best in all of MiLB.

& he's been doing it all while being at least two years younger than league average (closer to three in Biloxi) each step of the way.

[jay87shot]

On 8/15/2025 at 6:41 PM, Matt said:

I was guilty of this too, but every publication is sleeping on Kuehner. He deserves to be firmly in the top 15, and probably top ten. 

The problem is who do you move down out of the top 10-15-20 for him. There have only been a few top prospects who haven't performed well (or injuries have moved them down). I would guess Kuehner is a top 10 prospect in like 10 other organizations but for us I have him borderline top 20 still. The same can be said for guys like Melvin Hernandez and Manny Rodriguez, both have been amazing as teenagers but are both borderline top 30 guys because our system is so deep (velocity is a reason as well).

[markedman5]