Six Rays prospects featured among Baseball America’s Top 100
2023 1st round selection Brayden Taylor was among the six
The Tampa Bay Rays continue to receive excellent grades regarding their farm system.
Baseball America released their list of the top 100 prospects in the game entering the 2025 season and it featured six members of the Rays organization.
11. Carson Williams
65. Brayden Taylor
80. Tre’ Morgan
87. Xavier Isaac
90. Trevor Harrison
94. Gary Gill Hill
Carson Williams once again receives high praise from prospect pundits, with his defensive wizardry helping to make him the best shortstop prospect in all of baseball.
Meanwhile, the bottom end of the Top 100 contains the rest of the Rays prospects. Xavier Isaac awed scouts for the better part of the 2024 season and surged up rankings, but a poor showing following a late season promotion to Double-A has led some to be skeptical; regardless, he is still making the cut and is considered one of the best first base prospects in the game.
After several years of not having a pitcher (besides a recovering Shane Baz), the Rays have landed two young hurlers: Trevor Harrison and Gary Gill Hill.
Baseball America is particularly enamored with Harrison as they tabbed him as player to rise in the rankings
Harrison exerted his will on hitters in the Florida Complex League until July 4, when the Rays showed mercy and moved him to Low-A. His control got a tick worse against more seasoned hitters, but his strikeout numbers remained nearly identical. The righthander from Florida’s fastball and changeup each grade as potentially plus offerings, and his changeup is only a tick below those heights. His control projects as average. Harrison’s ceiling is as high as any pitcher in Tampa Bay’s season, and he could continue scratching at it in 2025.
The Rays and Dodgers tied for the second most prospects on the Top 100, with the Mariners leading the way with 7 prospects, although the Rays nearly had three more prospects make the list as Baseball America published a piece on 15 players that just missed the cut. It was the trio of Chandler Simpson, Brailer Guerrero, and Santiago Suarez who were left on the outside looking in.
Tampa Bay did have the most players receive consideration for the list as 14 players garnered votes from the Baseball America staff. Here are the remaining five Rays prospects that have not been mentioned thus far, that received votes:
Aidan Smith, OF
Brody Hopkins, RHP
Dylan Lesko, RHP
Jackson Baumeister, RHP
Theo Gillen, OF