Although there are more re-ranks throughout the year these days than in years past, and although I do enjoy them all as a Prospect Fiend, there are generally two re-ranks that are bigger than the rest: ones that come in the offseason after a full accounting of performance, development, and scouting, plus ones that come around midseason after the draft.
The latter is where we are today, with Baseball America updating its organizational top-30 lists to account for player updates and the addition of new prospects via the summer draft. You can and should check out the full list for updated scouting reports here at BA.
As you can see just from the names, the changes are dramatic:
Josiah Hartshorn – OF Jefferson Rojas – SS Kane Kepley – OF Owen Ayers – C Jaxon Wiggins – RHP Ethan Conrad – OF Cade Townsend – RHP Caden Sorrell – OF Kaleb Wing – RHP Ty Southisene – 2B Dominick Reid – RHP Johan Geraldo – SS James Triantos – 2B Juan Cabada – SS Myles Bailey – 1B Jonathon Long – 1B/OF Jostin Florentino – RHP Brooks Caple – RHP Carson Jasa – RHP Mason McGwire – RHP Eli Jerzembeck – RHP Riley Martin – LHP Will Sanders – RHP Pierce Coppola – LHP Nick Dean – RHP Juan Tomas – SS Angel Cepeda – SS Jace Beck – RHP Brandon Birdsell – RHP Emilio Ramos – RHPWow. Where even to begin?
The boosts for Josiah Hartshorn, Owen Ayers, and Kaleb Wing were long expected and deserved. If Wing hadn’t suffered an unspecified injury, I probably would argue for him to be even higher. BA remains by far the high service on Kane Kepley, whom they see as a top-100 type. The list is an even split between position players and pitchers now that breakouts Brooks Caple, Jace Beck, Mason McGwire, and Emilio Ramos are included, plus the newly-drafted Cade Townsend and Carson Jasa. That said, the list is still heavily, heavily tilted toward the positional side, with 12 of the top 16. Jostin Florentino hasn’t yet taken another step forward after a mini-breakout in 2025, but BA is staying high on him. For what it’s worth, his strikeout rate has popped to near 40% over his last five starts at South Bend. Only 21 years old. The upside among the big block of pitchers behind Florentino is perhaps not sky high, but there are a whole lot of guys who have big league potential as a back-of-the-rotation guy, a swing guy, or a true reliever. Maybe not sexy, but as we’ve seen, having lot of those guys has a lot of value if they’re ready for The Show. That Ty Southisene ranking. Wow. Kinda love to see the helium. He just turned 21 and is hitting .321/.448/.372/122 wRC+ at High-A as a shortstop, so you can’t sleep on those data points. But so much of his productivity is coming from the walks that I’m not sure will be there against better pitching (unless he starts doing a whole lot more damage). The Cubs get some grief for the state of their farm system, but it’s simply not true that there aren’t a lot of compelling prospects in the upper tier of this group. That’s why it’s interesting to me to see Townsend and Caden Sorrell immediately slotting inside the top-10. Sure, the available space was helped by the graduations of Pedro Ramirez, Kevin Alcantara, and Moises Ballesteros, but still. I think BA is pretty high on those two, relatively speaking. Kinda feels like there should’ve been spots for Brett Bateman and Jose Escobar near the back of the list, but we’ll call them Honorable Mentions.Hence then, the article about a new post draft top chicago cubs prospect list has some dramatic changes was published today ( ) and is available on Bleacher Nation ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
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