Hot Sheet: Ranking MLB's 20 Hottest Prospects

Plus: 50 players in Staff Draft 2.0, Top 25 movement & a RoboScout teaser

April 28, 2025

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Marcelo Mayer Tops This Week’s Hot Sheet

Baseball America’s Hot Sheet ranks the 20 hottest prospects from the previous week while also identifying a weekly helium player to keep tabs on.

The final Hot Sheet of April is topped by Red Sox shortstop and No. 12 overall prospect Marcelo Mayer. The 22-year-old reached base in all six games last week and recorded hits in five of six. He slugged home runs on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday, pushing his season total to seven over the first month.

As always, we’ll be hosting our weekly Hot Sheet Show on YouTube at 3:30 p.m. ET on Monday followed by a Hot Sheet prospects chat on Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET.

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STAFF DRAFT 2.0

BA Staff Draft 2.0 Goes 50 Players For 2025

The Baseball America Staff Draft returns with an expanded 2.0 edition.

Six BA writers came together to make the first 50 picks of the 2025 MLB Draft as if we were the ones calling the shots for big league teams on the clock. As always, this staff draft is not a mock draft. In our mock drafts, we attempt to project what the teams will do on draft day. In this exercise, it’s purely based on who we personally would take. Highlights include:

  • A rising new name in the 1-1 slot

  • A familiar landing spot for HS shortstop Ethan Holliday

  • The hardest throwing prep lefthander of all-time?

Week 11 College Baseball Top 25 Rankings

So far this season, no week has produced more movement across the Baseball America college baseball Top 25 rankings than Week 11.

Four new teams entered the top 10 while and six others moved eight or more spots in our latest update. Arizona, Georgia Tech and Western Kentucky exited the rankings while NC State, Kansas and Dallas Baptist all returned after having spent multiple weeks inside the Top 25 at various points throughout the season.

The Hot Sheet Show airs new episodes every Monday at 3:30 p.m. ET on the Baseball America YouTube channel.

Each week, we go live to chat about the latest baseball news, prospect analysis, player interviews & lots more.

More Early RoboScout Names To Know

With RoboScout still booting up to full capacity, Dylan White returns with another teaser featuring top five hitting and pitching names to know at each level of full-season minor league ball. Highlights include:

  • Dodgers RHP Sean Linan continuing to make a name for himself

  • Leodalis De Vries topping High-A hitters by a massive margin

  • This week’s Hot Sheet Helium pick cracking the High-A top three

TRENDING NOW AT BASEBALL AMERICA

💁‍♂️ Matt Eddy shared seven reasons why LH-throwing position players are dying out.

⚾ Jacob Rudner wrote about Texas A&M still fighting for a postseason berth.

🤘Texas coach Jim Schlossnagle had an emotional first matchup with those Aggies.

💪 LSU’s Kade Anderson led off this week’s Ace Report.

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