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Top 10 Nationals Prospects For 2025
Plus: Ben Badler on MLB's increased age fraud investigations in Latin America, top 10 impact freshmen for 2025 & more
Top 10 Nationals Prospects For 2025
We’re continuing our rollout of Top 10 prospect lists for 2025 with a look at the Washington Nationals.
The top of the Nationals system is headlined by Dylan Crews, a sweet-swinging outfielder who went from being a decorated collegian star to a key cog in Washington’s rebuilding process. For the complete Nationals breakdown, be sure to check out:
Stay tuned as we continue prospect drops with the NL Central next week followed by the NL West.
MLB CRACKING DOWN ON AGE FRAUD
Earlier this week, Baseball America’s Ben Badler published a story examining what’s really happening with age fraud in Latin America in light Cesar Altagracia’s reported age discrepancy nullifying an unofficial contract agreement with the Padres.
Today, Ben joined Carlos Collazo on the Future Projection podcast to discuss how MLB’s investigative unit has gained a newfound effectiveness over the last 18 months. The result? A significant rise in crackdowns that, while alarming, doesn’t necessarily correlate to a rise age fraud itself.
You can find Ben’s thoughts in the video above, as well as the full podcast here.
COLLEGE BASEBALL’S NEXT WAVE
10 Impact Freshmen Coming to College Baseball In 2025
With fall baseball soon coming to an end, freshmen across the country have been given the chance to showcase their talent for their respective college programs. In what is the case each season, a number of those freshmen will go on to make a sizable impact in their first year on campus.
While some have already begun to carve out a meaningful role, others will have to wait to play their way into one as the season progresses. While it isn’t crystal clear who is going to start on day one, Peter Flaherty has combed through the ranks of incoming players to highlight 10 freshmen poised to make an impact in 2025.
Highlights include:
A first-round draft talent who made news by making it to campus at LSU
A speedster shortstop looking to give the reigning national champs a boost
One of the most popular helium arms in the 2024 draft cycle who has pitched his way into being a potential day-one option for Oregon State
STUFF+ LEADERS FOR EVERY AGE GROUP
Minor League Stuff+ Leaderboards By Age In 2024
Baseball America’s Dylan White is back with a follow-up to his breakdown of the top minor league Hit+ performers by age group in 2024 with a companion piece highlighting pitchers with the best raw and normalized Stuff+ numbers.
Standouts from the seven age brackets include:
A pair of Top 25 overall prospects in the age-21 group
A trio of 18-year-old American League righthanders with scores 107 or higher
A pair of 19 year olds that could give the Marlins a dynamic 1-2 punch
TRENDING NOW AT BASEBALL AMERICA
🔥 On Thursday, we published our Top 10 Phillies prospects for 2025, headlined by flamethrowing righthander Andrew Painter.
🔨 To go along with the prospect drop, we also published our projected 2028 Phillies lineup and best minor league tools superlatives.
💬 Baseball America’s Josh Norris fired up a chat to answer all things Phillies in his prospects Q&A, too.
✅ Matt Eddy checked in with updated minor league transactions and a FA list.
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