Roman Anthony is no longer the best prospect Baseball America’s new top 100 listbut the Red Sox are well represented at the top of the list.
The site released its 2025 preseason prospect rankings on Wednesday and new Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki, who signed with Los Angeles next week, is the game’s top prospect. Anthony is tied for second with last year’s breakout star, Kristian Campbell, fourth in all of baseball. Shortstop Marcelo Mayer is at No. 15, giving the Red Sox two top-four prospects, and three top-15 prospects.
Shortstop Franklin Arias is the fourth and final Red Sox prospect on the list, coming in at No. 76. Two of the four prospects Boston traded to the White Sox for Garrett Crochet in December they are also in the top 100: Kyle Teel ranked 52nd and Braden Montgomery ranked 66th.
After a very strong 2024 season, Anthony, who was ranked 21st before last season, finished last year at No. 1 on BA’s list, but has been overtaken by Sasaki, the Japanese phenom who undoubtedly he will be on the Dodgers’ opening day roster. Campbell was ranked as the No. 24 prospect in the sport at the end of last season when took home the BA Minor League Player of the Year award by hitting .330 with 20 homers, 32 doubles, 77 RBI and 24 steals in 115 games across three levels. (High-A Greenville, Double-A Portland and Triple-A Worcester). The 2023 fourth-round pick wasn’t considered a top-100 prospect before last season. He ranks behind only Sasaki, Anthony and third base prospect Jackson Jobe, who made his major league debut (and pitched in the postseason) for Detroit late last year.
Mayer, whose 2024 season was cut short due to injury, was ranked 10th at the end of last year by BA. He did not play for the WooSox after being promoted to Triple-A along with Anthony and Teel in August and will likely start the year there. Anthony and Campbell, two of the best Red Sox prospects in recent memory, will both get a chance to write the Opening Day roster. Both described that as a goal at last week’s rookie development program in Boston.
“I’m going to go into spring training with that attitude and do everything I can,” Anthony said. “But also at the same time, trusting the front office and what they have planned. But for me that’s the mindset going into spring training.”
“That’s the goal,” Campbell said. “That’s been the goal all along — to compete. I love to compete and the goal of baseball is to compete. So that’s one of our goals, for sure.”
Arias, a 19-year-old shortstop from Venezuela who signed with the Sox for $525,000 two years ago, started getting potential recognition late last year. He hit .309 with an .896 OPS in 87 games between rookie ball and Single-A Salem last year. Will start the year in Salem or Greenville.
Teel, who was Boston’s first-round pick (14th overall) in 2023, was ranked No. 62 by BA before last year, a solid season in which he reached the Triple- A for the first time. Due to an ankle injury, Montgomery has yet to make his professional debut after being drafted with the 12th overall pick out of Texas A&M in July. The rebuilding White Sox have five prospects on the new top 100 list: lefty Noah Schultz (10th), shortstop Colson Montgomery (39th), lefty Hagen Smith (40th), Teel (52nd) and Braden Montgomery ( 66th). Teel will likely make his big league debut in 2025.
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