Midseason Organization Talent Rankings For Every Club

Now that the trade and signing deadlines have passed and we’ve updated team Top 30 Prospects rankings, we’re looking at how the farm system talent compares for all 30 MLB teams.

This is very much a snapshot in time. If we ranked this just a few weeks from now, James Wood and Jackson Holliday, our top two prospects, would graduate. If that happened, both the Orioles and Nationals would slide down several spots in these rankings. Similarly, the Pirates rank has slid dramatically now that Jared Jones and Paul Skenes have graduated.

Still, there have been notable changes in the first half of the year. The Guardians, Twins and White Sox are among our big risers while the Padres and Rangers tumble due to graduations and trades. We also picked a prospect success story for each organization, which is a player who has significantly raised their prospect stock this year.

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College Baseball’s Scholarship Expansion Could Hurt Mid-Majors

In late July, college baseball coaches learned that the much-despised 11.7 scholarship limit is going away. Beginning with the 2025-26 academic year, Division I schools will have roster limits of 34 players, all of whom can be given full scholarships.

The demise of the 11.7 scholarship limit is almost universally popular. For generations, college baseball has been a sport in which 25 or more players saw playing time, and almost none of them were on full scholarships. This change will ensure that fewer players have to go into student debt—or rely on their parents—to play college baseball.

That’s great news, as pretty much everyone agrees.

But there are a lot of college coaches — especially at mid-major programs — who are stressed about the change.

J.J. Cooper dives into a growing fear across college baseball that the gaps between the bluebloods and the rest of the sport is only continuing to grow. 

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