High School Helium Names To Know For 2025 Draft

Plus: BA's breakout prospect teams & top 25 MLB storylines for 2025

March 19, 2025

Steele Hall Leads Early HS Helium Names For 2025 Draft

We’ve spent the first few weeks of the 2025 draft season diving in on college players. Now it’s time to move to the prep ranks and highlight a few notable risers from early-season reporting around the country.

Arguably the buzziest high school player out there is Alabama shortstop Steele Hall. The quick-twitch defender went 34th in our latest mock draft and has reportedly undergone an offensive transformation this spring that puts him at the top of Carlos Collazo’s list of helium HS players to know.

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Breakout MLB Prospect Teams For 2025

Each year, Geoff Pontes, Dylan White and Matt Eddy build a team of prospects we expect break through in the upcoming season.

This year, we conducted a draft to ensure that we each had a unique breakout team with no duplication of players. We used the loosest possible definition of a breakout candidate—only players who don’t appear on the preseason Top 100 Prospects are eligible. Drafted positions included C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, UT and four P.

WELCOME TO THE 2025 SEASON

25 Things To Know For The 2025 Season

Though 28 teams will have to wait a little while longer to get started on their 2025 campaigns, the new MLB season is officially underway with the reigning champion Dodgers sweeping a 2-game series against the Cubs in Japan.

With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of 25 key storylines to know heading into the new season. From teams with new homes, star players primed to set records and key prospects already making history, there will be a lot to watch this season.

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BA PROSPECT PROFILES

Scouting Every AL Central No. 1 Prospect For 2025

As part of the ramp up to the start of the season, Baseball America is going deep top prospects around MLB. Joined by Scott Braun, J.J. Cooper, Geoff Pontes, Ben Badler and Carlos Collazo provide Prospect Profile analysis for the AL Central’s top prospects:

  • Travis Bazzana, 2B, Guardians

  • Noah Schultz, LHP, White Sox

  • Jackson Jobe, RHP, Tigers

  • Walker Jenkins, OF, Twins

  • Jac Caglianone, 1B, Royals

In our Prospect Profile videos, we explain how each player climbed to No. 1 in their system, run through scouting reports and lay out what you should expect in 2025.

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