Hot Sheet: Ranking MLB's 20 Hottest Prospects

Plus: 10 Statcast standouts, a new college No. 1 & RoboScout's breakout prospects

May 05, 2025

Leo De Vries 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.

We open May with a new list of Hot Sheet names topped by a Padres prospect who figures to continue his exciting rise to prominence in the coming weeks and months: Leo De Vries. Only 18 years old, the Dominican-born shortstop slashed .533/.667/.867 last week while not striking out a single time in 22 at-bats.

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.

STATCAST STANDOUTS

Bubba Chandler, Coby Mayo Headline 10 Statcast Standouts (May 5)

Every Monday morning, Eli Ben-Porat highlights 10 players who stood out over the previous week based on underlying Statcast metrics. This week’s list includes:

  • A deep dive on baseball’s best pitching prospect

  • Tweaks Coby Mayo has made

  • A Rays prospect who can really mash

  • An early look at Samuel Basallo’s jaw-dropping data

  • An electric arm waiting in the wings for the Giants

Week 12 College Baseball Top 25 Rankings

Once again, there's a new No. 1 in the Baseball America college baseball Top 25 rankings.

Georgia has claimed the top spot after a perfect 4-0 week and Texas' winless weekend against Arkansas. The Bulldogs are the fifth different team to be crowned No. 1 in 2025.

Five teams—North Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, Coastal Carolina and Dallas Baptist—turned in perfect weeks. Only NC State failed to win a game. TCU and Kansas exited the rankings while Florida and Arizona returned for the first time since Week 7 and 11, respectively.

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.

Can RoboScout Predict Breakout Prospects For 2025?

For this week’s edition of RoboScout, in addition to ranking the top 10 prospects for each full-season minor league level, we’re also taking a look at who RoboScout identified as level leaders on this date in 2024 to see how this year’s crop compares. Highlights include:

  • More evidence for Sean Liñan’s ongoing breakout

  • Our top Hot Sheet prospect continuing to dominate High-A

  • A reminder of how good last year’s Double-A hitters were

TRENDING NOW AT BASEBALL AMERICA

⬆️ Up-arrow Yankees prospect George Lombard Jr. is headed to Double-A.

💪 Yankees 2024 first-rounder Ben Hess believes he’s a top-of-the-rotation arm.

1️⃣ Jacob Rudner wrote about Georgia taking over the No. 1 ranking.

🔥 Oklahoma State’s Harrison Bodendorff led off this week’s Ace Report.

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