The mid-season is a good point to catch up with your own mistakes and see the reality ruining your predictions. We started nearly half a year with the latest iteration of Zips’ top 100 prospects Algorithms that seized my life and crushed all traces of humanity The ZIPS projection system is underway in the 2025 setback.
For each of the top 100 prospects, I include their charts for minor league translations for 2025 and what has changed in the 2026-2030 war since February. Last year was my first mid-term review of the prospect list and some of my charts made things confusing, so this time I made them less/opacity in hopes of better communicating the data. Translation and prediction are through Monday’s game. As a quick reminder, Zips averaged outlooks ranked 20th and 80th grade professional war forecasts and explicitly abandons players, which does not need to bring a desktop, so there is no professional experience in high school batsmen or pitchers.
Zipper Top 100 Prospects – 1-25 Batsmen
Zips naturally got a little frustrated with Carson Williams as he struggled offensively this year, but he still wore gloves, and a third of the WRC+ got a great defensive shortstop in Triple-A, which wasn’t so bad that he would make him fall to the team. If Zips knows the first half of the 2025 season in February, there will be Roman Anthony crossing Williams, Roki Sasaki and Samuel Basallo. 1 baseball prospects. Unlike Williams, Basallo is excellent, but Anthony gets better.
Dylan Crews continued to struggle with the offense in the Grand Slam, although to his credit, the Nationals didn’t panic about it. Still, it’s his exposure rate since the major league debut in late August last year. Bryce Eldridge is still young, but he hasn’t hit in Triple-A, so he’s much less likely to force him into the Giants’ squad this year. Zips still like Cole Young, it was his 11th huge strike that hit him a few days ago! Even so, his defense actually has how many balls in the profession. Speaking of hot spots, Kristian Campbell and Coby Mayo have their own…but make predictions about the future rather than on the plate. It’s not just a Major League Baseball performance; Mayo has only translated .201/.277/.374 among minors this year, and Campbell actually hits worse in Triple-A than he has ever been in the Grand Slam since he was relegated.
Matt Shaw and Jace Jung are two other infielders who have experienced decent size blows, though they haven’t fallen like Campbell or Mayo. Both may be good, but it is fair to downgrade a little bit. Jordan Lawlar’s big gains aren’t because his Do Capor League was bad (19-19), but because he went into the court after missing so much time last season.
Zippers’ first 100 prospects – 1-50 pitchers
| Player | rank | era | IP | human Resources | BB | so | FIP | 5 Years of War (February) | 5 Years War (now) | difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roki Sasaki | 1 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 12.3 | 8.2 | -4.1 |
| Noah Schultz | 27 | 5.94 | 63.7 | 10 | 44 | 51 | 5.84 | 7.6 | 4.6 | -2.9 |
| Andrew’s Painter | 30 | 5.27 | 66.7 | 10 | 20 | 52 | 4.38 | 6.8 | 6.6 | -0.2 |
| Caden Dana | 37 | 5.50 | 52.3 | 8 | 26 | 43 | 5.04 | 8.1 | 5.2 | -3.0 |
| Bubba Chandler | 39 | 3.86 | 77.0 | 9 | twenty three | 72 | 3.83 | 8.0 | 9.5 | 1.4 |
| Jackson Jobe | 40 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 6.8 | 6.6 | -0.2 |
| Carson whispers | 46 | 4.50 | 94.0 | 12 | 25 | 62 | 4.26 | 8.5 | 7.3 | -1.2 |
| therefore | 49 | 5.09 | 17.7 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 4.96 | 8.3 | 6.6 | -1.6 |
| Jarlin Susana | 50 | 5.67 | 27.0 | 3 | twenty three | 26 | 5.50 | 7.3 | 7.1 | -0.1 |
It’s an absolutely brutal year for Zips’ top pitching prospects, and because there’s a lot of overlap between the zip code list and other top prospect lists, our predictions here may not be alone. Jackson Jobe competed in the Grand Slams all year round, but with every 9 innings and 5 walks, Zips wasn’t more excited about him than in the winter. Bubba Chandler is the only real winner of the year and is now likely the second best zipper pitching prospect. Chase Burns didn’t get a projection for the season, but starting with his 13 minor leagues, he stopped qualifying as a prospect at some point in the next few weeks.
Zipper Top 100 Prospects – 26-50 Batsmen
Jacob Wilson is the biggest gain of the next batch of batsmen. His large contact method on the plate was excellent in the Grand Slams, so his predictions made a huge upgrade from the prospect status. Zips has been up and down with Jett Williams over the last few years, but lost a crucial season due to his surgery in the Triangular Fiber Ball surgery, which is part of his Triangular Fiber Ball exercise complex, which is part of a wrist or some kind of building. (Wrist, I guess.) That said, among senior minors, he reached .291/.399/.495 as a 21-year-old shortstop is a great way to get the trend to drive again. Kevin McGonigle has performed well among minors, although it remains to be seen how he has performed on Double-a.
Prior to the season, Zips thought Brayden Taylor might have played well enough to support what it sees as a great glove. Instead, for anyone who can be called the prospect, he has been one of the worst offensive players of 2025, and the truth is, I’m not even sure why he’s struggling. Fortunately, this is more like a ray problem than my problem! Taylor’s rollers were the biggest drop for any prospect expected last winter Zips. Zips hopes to advance from Thayron Liranzo, Orelvis Martinez is so scary that I’m not sure if he should be considered Plan B for anyone in Toronto this year. Dalton Rushing took a hit here, but that’s because Zips now see him as an outfielder, not a catcher.
Top 100 Postal Codes Outlook – 51-75 Batsman
Although Moisés Ballesteros is closest, there is no huge gain in the 51-75 group. I’m not sure he’s actually the catcher than six months ago, but given that he keeps smashing the ball every time he’s promoted among minors, he probably doesn’t need to be a tool of being good at ignorance. I got a special Sammy Sosa card in MLB, thanks to Ballesteros, although neither he nor Cubs benefited from it I Happy.
Bryan Ramos is one of Zips’ players, taller than most people a few years ago, and although it looks like this for a while, he does feel disappointed in 2024 and hasn’t rebounded this year. Assuming he is still eligible for a prospect list next winter, he may not be in the top 100 of Zips in 2026. Thomas Saggese has done well with minors this year, but Zips tends to disproportionately perform minor leagues, which is his coffee cup this year.
Zipper Top 100 Prospects – 76-100 Batsmen
There is no time missing out on concussion or back problems and the timing of your second professional season, which is the real boon for Brice Matthews’ predictions. Now it seems he might be the one who pushed Jose Altuve back to the left forever. My thoughts on the Yankees were bad in order to get the rewards from Spencer Jones by the deadline, but from the translation and predictions, I could be in myopia. After all, he is 24, not 28, and he is definitely a minor league pitcher. It’s getting harder to ignore the idea of being a real clutter in the Grand Slam, and as an Oriole fan, unwilling to take root in the Yankees, it’s a hard pill to swallow.
Edwin Arroyo is still young and missed the lip bones throughout the 2024 season, but even though he is healthier (but currently suffering from pain Hammy), he is back as a middle single batsman, so the distance Zips sees is much smaller than it was a few years ago. Enrique Bradfield Jr. If he was the successor to O Cedric Mullins, it would look unlikely to hand over immediately. Zips did feel upset with Jared Serna, who somehow had only 5 additional hits in Double-a this season with just 15 additional hits in 284 sets, and had much fewer chances at the same level last year.
Zipper Top 100 Prospects – 51-100 Pitchers
Quinn Mathews, starting with 12 triple A’s starting this year, almost allowed walking (44) with him throwing innings (44 1/3), which is hardly auspicious sign of the pitching prospect. This is one of those unusual situations where you wish his shoulder pain was actually worse than publicity, just providing a more obvious explanation for what he was a cruel year for him. I would have offered Rockies honors for this year’s Grand Slam, but it didn’t actually work well, and Triple-A is the right place for him right now.
But wait, there are more! I asked Zips about a table that didn’t rank in the top 100 in February.
The biggest mover, the top 100 non-zippers
Jacob Reimer missed half of the 2024 season with a hamstring injury, but his game was already healthy and suddenly hit the strength. Zips was highly skeptical about his replacement level before the season, but now thinks he does have the potential to be a Grand Slam starter at some point. Picking up Cam Smith in the Kyle Tucker trade seems like a brilliant move for the Astronauts. Kaelen Culpepper is definitely great in his first full professional season and I would be shocked if he doesn’t have a very high ranking on the prospect list for next year. Zips think Brock Wilken has been back as the best choice for winemakers at third base, or at least, if not for him to make it as early as September, he might not be suitable to keep him on the shelf.
