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The 2025 Minor League regular season is slowly wrapping up, and the playoffs begin this week. Technically, they started at the end of July when the Blue Jays won the Florida Complex League title and the Angels won the championship in the Arizona Complex League.
But I’m talking about the full-season leagues. Single-A and High-A leagues all finished up last weekend and the postseason begins Tuesday. There are scores of ranked prospects playing for a ring this week, highlighted by eight Top 100 prospects in action. That elite crop is led by three first-round picks from the 2025 Draft: No. 4 overall pick Ethan Holliday of the Rockies (No. 17 overall prospect), No. 1 selection Eli Willits of the Nationals (No. 18) and the Marlins’ Aiva Arquette (No. 38), taken No. 7 overall.
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Let’s take a look at all of the ranked prospects in the playoff series across A ball. Top 30 ranks are in parentheses and Top 100 prospects are italicized. All players were listed on the team’s roster as of Monday, with players on injured lists not mentioned below.
SINGLE-A
St. Lucie: Mitch Voit, 2B (No. 9); Antonio Jimenez, SS (No. 18); Daiverson Gutierrez, C (No. 19); Trey Snyder, INF (No. 29)
Daytona: Alfredo Duno, C (No. 3); Tyson Lewis, SS (No. 4); Arnaldo Lantigua, OF (No. 12); Mason Neville, OF (No. 13); Sheng-En Lin, RHP/DH (No. 14); Mason Morris, RHP (No. 15)
Duno and Lewis are the headliners here, with Lewis really jumping onto radars by hitting his way from the ACL to full-season ball. Lin hit in the ACL and is now pitching only. Voit is one of many members of the ‘25 Draft Class; the Mets took him No. 38 overall.
Lakeland: Jake Miller, LHP (No. 19); Jude Warwick, SS/2B (No. 22); Nick Dumesnil, OF (No. 23); Kelvis Salcedo, RHP (No. 28)
Clearwater: Gage Wood, RHP (No. 4); Alirio Ferrebus, C (No. 27)
Each team has a 2025 draftee to boast. Dumesnil came into the spring as a potential first-rounder, but a rough start to his junior season at Cal Baptist led to him falling to the eighth round, even though he did finish with an OPS over 1.000 for the Lancers. Many of you remember Wood from his College World Series 19-strikeout no-hitter that helped him land in the first round.
Lynchburg: Dean Curley, INF (No. 11); Juneiker Caceres, OF (No. 14); Joey Oakie, RHP (No. 17); Aaron Walton, OF (No. 20); Dauri Fernandez, INF (No. 23); Luke Hill, 3B/2B (No. 27); Nolan Schubart, OF (No. 28)
Fredericksburg: Eli Willits, SS (No. 1); Luke Dickerson, SS (No. 4); Ethan Petry OF/1B (No. 8); Angel Feliz, SS (No. 14)
It would have been understandable had the Nationals not moved Willits out of the complex, but thankfully they did and he hit .300 with a .397 OBP in 15 games during his regular season pro debut and gets to extend it now. The Guardians offer a pair of draftees in Curley and Walton. Oakie has been hot on the mound as of late, allowing just one hit and no runs over his last two starts. The opener of this one can be watched for free on MiLB.TV.
Columbia: Yandel Ricardo, SS (No. 5); David Shields, LHP (No. 6); Kendry Chourio, RHP (No. 8); Ramon Ramirez, C (No. 9); Asbel Gonzalez, OF (No. 12); Blake Wolters, RHP (No. 18); Hiro Wyatt, RHP (No. 22)
Myrtle Beach: Kane Kepley, OF (No. 12); Cole Mathis, 1B/3B (No. 17); Angel Cepeda, INF (No. 24); Ty Southisene, 2B (No. 28); Eli Lovich, OF, (No. 29)
The Royals have four Top 10 prospects on the Fireflies roster and four pitchers led by the lefty Shields. Conversely, all five of the Cubs are position players, topped by 2025 second-rounder Kepley.
San Jose: Jhonny Level, SS (No. 4); Argenis Cayama, RHP (No. 10); Keyner Martinez, RHP (No. 11); Jacob Bresnahan, LHP (No. 12); Trevor Cohen, OF (No. 22); Gerelmi Maldonado, RHP (No. 24); Luis De La Torre, LHP (No. 25); Yunior Marte, RHP (No. 27); Walker Martin, SS/3B (No. 28); Lorenzo Meola, SS (No. 29)
Fresno: Ethan Holliday, SS (No. 1); Robert Calaz, OF (No. 4); Brody Brecht, RHP (No. 5); Kelvin Hidalgo, SS (No. 25); Tanner Thach, 1B (No. 27)
All eyes will be on Holliday, who topped our Draft Top 250 rankings and has 18 games of pro experience on his resume, but it’s hard not to be gobsmacked by the volume of Giants prospects in San Jose, with 11 members of their Top 30.
Rancho Cucamonga: Emil Morales, SS (No. 7); Ching-Hsien Ko, OF (No. 10); Chase Harlan, 3B (No. 19); Hyun-Seok Jang, RHP (No. 22); Jakob Wright, LHP (No. 29)
Inland Empire: Trey Gregory-Alford, RHP (No. 10); Dylan Jordan, RHP (No. 17); Hayden Alvarez, OF (No. 24); Marlon Quintero, C (No. 27); Ubaldo Soto, RHP (No. 29)
He’s not on the Top 100, yet, but Morales is one to keep an eye on after posting a .911 OPS in his United States debut, playing his way from the Complex League to full-season ball. Watching him face Gregory-Alford, who has made six solid starts since making it to full-season ball, could be a lot of fun.
HIGH-A
Brooklyn: Eli Serrano III, OF (No. 12); Boston Baro, INF (No. 21)
Greensboro: Sammy Stafura, SS (No. 7); Yordany De Los Santos, INF (No. 14); Easton Carmichael, C (No. 20); Jared Jones, 1B (No. 27)
Both of these organizations have more talent at the upper levels, and you’ll have to wait for the Double-A playoffs to watch No. 1 prospect Konnor Griffin in action. But this Greensboro team that won 88 regular-season games still has plenty of talent, including two members of the 2025 Draft class in Carmichael and Jones, while Stafura was the key prospect in the return from the Reds in the Ke’Bryan Hayes deal.
Bowling Green: Aidan Smith, OF (No. 6); Trevor Harrison, RHP (No. 10); Santiago Suarez, RHP (No. 11); Jose Urbina, RHP (No. 12); Gary Gill Hill, RHP (No. 13); Nathan Flewelling, C (No. 27); Émilien Pitre, 2B (No. 28); Adrian Santana, SS (No. 29)
Hub City: Caden Scarborough, RHP (No. 8); Malcolm Moore, C (No. 11); Dylan Dreiling, OF (No. 15); Kolton Curtis, RHP (No. 23); Marc Church, RHP (No. 26); Maxton Martin, OF (No. 29)
There might not be any Top 100 guys in this series, but it certainly is prospect-rich with 14 total Top 30 guys combined on the two rosters, eight of those on their organization’s top 15. With eight Top 30 guys, led by Smith, the Hot Rods have one of the most prospect-stacked rosters in the postseason.
Cedar Rapids: Eduardo Tait, C (No. 2); Marek Houston, SS (No. 7); Dasan Hill, LHP (No. 8); Kyle DeBarge, SS/2B (No. 12); Brandon Winokur, OF (No. 14); Billy Amick, 3B (No. 17); Khadim Diaw, C (No. 22); Jose Olivares, RHP (No. 24)
Beloit: Aiva Arquette, SS (No. 2); Cam Cannarella, OF (No. 7); Noble Meyer, RHP (No. 10); Dillon Head, OF (No. 12); Brandon Compton, OF (No. 12); Chase Jaworsky, SS/2B (No. 16)
This is a fun one, starting with a pair of Top 100 guys who are new to their organizations. Tait joined the Twins courtesy of the Jhoan Duran trade with the Phillies -- he and Diaw create what has to be the best catching prospect tandem in the postseason. And Arquette was the Marlins’ first-round pick in July. He’s one of three Marlins draftees (Cannarella and Compton) from this year while the Twins counter with their 2025 first-rounder as well (Houston).
West Michigan: Dylan Smith, RHP (No. 20); Izaac Pacheco, 3B (No. 21); Lucas Elissalt, RHP (No. 25)
Lake County: Jaison Chourio, OF (No. 6); Jackson Humphries, LHP (No. 29)
Even though the “Big 3” of Kevin McGonigle, Max Clark and Josue Briceño got promoted to Double-A Erie a while back, West Michigan still managed to reach rarified air by winning 48 games in the second half for 92 on the year. It’s been an up-and-down year for Chourio, Jackson’s younger brother, but he was once on the Top 100 and he enters the postseason with a .295 average and .379 OBP from August 1 on.
Everett: Jonny Farmelo, OF (No. 7); Felnin Celesten, SS (No. 9); Tai Peete, OF (No. 12); Teddy McGraw, RHP (No. 14); Josh Caron, C (No. 16); Luis Suisbel, 1B/3B (No. 20)
Eugene: None
Even with Colt Emerson and Lazaro Montes having been promoted to Double-A, that Everett roster is still pretty stacked, with a pair of Top 100 guys and deep talent after that. Eugene’s lone Top 30 guy was Maui Ahuna, but he’s on the injured list. The future of baseball in Eugene is uncertain, but Emeralds fans will get to play host to a pair of championship games to close out the 2025 season, at the least.