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Best Of BA 2025
Plus: Ranking every prospect traded this offseason & Prospect Handbook digital copies
Baseball America’s Best Of 2025
As 2025 wraps up, we wanted to pull together some of our favorite and most meaningful Baseball America content from the past year.
From flagship rankings and prospect deep dives to draft coverage, exclusive college baseball reporting, data-driven fantasy resources and industry conversations, our staff spent the past 12 months hard at work providing the best baseball coverage possible for our valued readers and subscribers.
So, before turning the page to 2026, we proudly present a curated look back at the work that shaped our coverage in 2025. As always, thank you for reading, and we look forward to bringing you more great BA content in the new year.
TRADED PROSPECTS
Ranking Every Prospect Traded This Offseason
After a quiet start to the offseason, the trade market—especially in the AL East—heated up in December.
With 42 prospects traded so far this offseason, here’s our initial big board ranking every prospect dealt since the end of the 2025 season. We will continue to update this list until spring training. You can find more information on our prospect grade scale here, and a link to all of our 2026 Top 10s here.
GET YOUR 2026 PROSPECT HANDBOOK
Prospect Handbook 2026: Digital Copies Available Now
Recently, the Baseball America staff put the finishing touches on the new Prospect Handbook. And while physical copies of the 2026 edition won’t ship until March, if your preorder your copy now, we’re excited to announce a digital PDF version will be sent your way so you can get an early start on your new year’s reading. Contents include:
Top 30 prospect lists for every team
Brand new scouting reports on 900+ players
Org talent rankings & lots more
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NCAA RULE CHANGES
How MLB’s Next CBA Could Reshape College Baseball
With MLB’s collective bargaining agreement set to expire on Dec. 1 of next year, college coaches are increasingly mindful of the possibility of structural change at the professional level that could affect the college game, including scenarios that could involve fewer draft rounds or further contraction of the minor leagues.
As BA’s Jacob Rudner reports, behind the scenes, college baseball has not been idle as it prepares for what could be a major shift in its role as a player development pipeline for future MLB players.
LATEST PODCASTS
New BA Podcasts For Weekend Listening
Looking for something to listen to this weekend? Baseball America has you covered with new podcast episodes:
Future Projection: Paul Davis Joins To Talk Pitching Development & Answering Listener Mailbag Questions
Prospect Podcast: Who Was 2025’s Most Improved Prospect?
College Podcast: Inside Genei Sato’s Penn State Commitment
Want even more BA podcasts? sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Player FM to make sure you never miss an episode.
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TRENDING NOW AT BASEBALL AMERICA
👀 ICYMI: Our updated 2027 college draft rankings dropped earlier this week.
❓️Have you taken BA’s annual Holiday Prospect Quiz yet?
🙏 J.J. Cooper assigned “Hope Meter” grades for every team heading into 2026.
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