Lost in the CWS and draft content shuffle, we got an updated top 30 from Baseball America last week. We don’t get too many mid-season revampings of the top 30 Prospects, especially from some of the main pundits (who have lots of other stuff to cover mid-season, like draft scouting), but Baseball America has made it happen. So here’s their 6/6/25 updated Nats top 30.
This is worth a recap post, because there’s a huge amount of change and churn here. They haven’t just graduated a couple players and moved everyone else up a slot. They’ve really given some thought to moving players around, enough so that I’m going to list where they’re ranked now and where they were back in January.
| Rank | Jan 25 Rank | Last Name | First Name | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Sykora | Travis | RHP (Starter) |
| 2 | 3 | Susana | Jarlin | RHP (Starter) |
| 3 | 4 | House | Brady | SS/3B |
| 4 | 6 | Clemmey | Alex | LHP (Starter) |
| 5 | 11 | Dickerson | Luke | SS/CF |
| 6 | 10 | Lile | Daylen | OF (CF) |
| 7 | 7 | Cavalli | Cade | RHP (Starter) |
| 8 | 5 | King | Seaver | SS |
| 9 | 8 | Lomavita | Caleb | C |
| 10 | 12 | Hassell III | Robert | OF (CF) |
| 11 | 13 | Bennett | Jake | LHP (Starter) |
| 12 | 22 | Morales | Yohandy | 3B |
| 13 | 15 | Feliz | Angel | 3B/SS |
| 14 | 40+ | Henry | Cole | RHP (Starter) |
| 15 | 29 | Lord | Brad | RHP (Starter) |
| 16 | 9 | Wallace | Cayden | 2B/3B |
| 17 | 14 | Bazzell | Kevin | C/3B |
| 18 | 17 | Cortesia | Brayan | SS |
| 19 | 25 | Stuart | Tyler | RHP (Starter) |
| 20 | 36 | Kent | Jackson | LHP (Starter) |
| 21 | 26 | Hernandez | Daniel | C |
| 22 | 19 | Lara | Andry | RHP (Starter) |
| 23 | 40+ | Riley | Cornelio | RHP (Starter) |
| 24 | 35 | Tejada Jr. | Yoel | RHP (Reliever) |
| 25 | 40+ | Mota | Jorgelys | SS |
| 26 | 16 | Pinckney | Andrew | OF (Corner) |
| 27 | 40+ | Davian | Garcia | RHP (Starter) |
| 28 | 23 | Green | Elijah | OF (CF) |
| 29 | 28 | Vaquero | Cristian | OF (CF) |
| 30 | 24 | Cranz | Robert | RHP (Reliever) |
So, lets get into it:
- Jan 2025’s #1 Crews has graduated, of course.
- 2-3-4 from January just moved up a spot each, making Sykora our #1 on their list. It’s the first time Sykora has officially been #1 on any list that I track or am aware of.
- Seaver King, despite being promoted recently takes a dip on their list, dropping from #5 to #8. Fair. He’s not had the glitzy pro debut we were hoping for.
- Dickerson gets a huge bump with his impressive pro debut, which has already resulted in a promotion.
- Lile gets credit for his excellent 2025 season, which has resulted in his graduation to the majors, and gets ranked at #6, the highest he’s been on any list either. He hasn’t been hitting necessarily awesome in his majors stint, but lots of players struggle in their debut.
- Morales, as we discussed ad naseum during the off-season, had been relatively unfairly dropped on a lot of lists for a hand injury that we know takes a while to come back from … well he’s back. He’s now in AAA, and BA jumped him 10 spots from January to June.
- Cole Henry! Outside BA’s top 40 six months ago, now he’s firmly in the MLB bullpen and listed at #14 here, one spot ahead of Lord, which … well, come on, who is more valuable to the MLB team? A guy who throws an inning every other day or a guy who has proven he can pitch in the rotation or in relief at the MLB level? Honestly, it won’t matter in a couple of months b/c both seem set to graduate from the prospect ranks soon anyway.
- Wallace gets dumped a slew of spots. Fair. He’s struggled this year and has done nothing to show any improvement or any push upwards.
- Bazzell only dropped a few spots: surprised he’s not penalized more for his slow pro start
- Jackson Kent gets due recognition for the solid start to his pro career in High-A.
- Riley Cornelio makes his debut on any prospect list anywhere, coming in at #23. After years of mediocre ERAs and stats, he’s put it together so far in 2025, and is now in AA.
- Yoel Tejeda, the FSU draftee from last year, is dealing in Low-A. The above table lists him as a Reliever initally, but he’s proven to be a solid starter so far in 2025. He may get a promotion to High-A at the mid-season at this rate.
- Davian Garcia is another Low-A 2024 starter who’s holding his own. His numbers aren’t quite as good as Tejeda, but the FGCU 6th rounder certainly has promise. Also as with Cornelio, this is first time on any prospect list.
- Pinckney and Green take understandable dips on the rankings. Though Pinckney is in AAA, he’s struggling. Green has been mysteriously non-transacted to XST, perhaps the team finally fed up with his 2K/game rate.
- Super reliever prospect Cranz, inexplicably ranked #24 in January, hangs on to the last spot at #30. I’m not sure why they dumped him so far: he’s got a .108 BAA so far as the closer in Low-A.
Highest guys on my ranking not to be mentioned here:
- Hurtado our big 2024 IFA bonus guy, still in DSL. Its early.
- Glove-first SS guys like Ramirez Jr., Made; still not really hitting.
- Armando Cruz, our big 2021 IFA bonus guy, struggling in Wilmington.
- Alvarez; may have been opening day starter in AAA but seems not to really be a prospect.
- Brzycky: BA had him #21 earlier this year and he’s been promoted; why dump him based on 11 MLB innings? He hasn’t graduated. I dunno.
- 4-A types like Baker, Nunez, Chapparo. I think BA thinks of them as spare parts as opposed to prospects.
- Millas: #18 in January, not out of the top 30. Interesting. I know theres plenty of people who think Millas is better than Adams who read this … he’s basically done nothing this year.
- Lastly, most of the guys in the BA 31-40 range from January are nowhere to be found on the new list; probably still treading water in that range on their internal lists.