The Athletic ’s Keith Law released his annual top 100 MLB prospects heading into the 2025 season earlier this week. I’d recommend marking this time of year on your calendar and celebrate my colleague’s in-depth coverage of all things Bowman 1st cards — I mean minor league prospects.

Many of the top prospects on this list a year ago -- including Jackson Holliday, Jackson Chourio, Wyatt Langford and Paul Skenes -- have graduated to the majors, so it is a perfect time to get familiar with a new wave of future stars ready to make their mark on the sport.

Well, sort of, at least. The Rangers have three prospects ranked on the preseason top 100 lists of the five major outlets — Baseball America, MLB Pipeline, ESPN, The Athletic and Baseball Prospectus — that evaluate the league’s young talent. And, for the most part, there’s relative consensus on where each of the prospects rank, too.

Law's annual top 100 MLB prospect ranking leads off with Boston's Roman Anthony and includes 15 players from last year's draft.

We rank and hand out superlatives for the future stars who just missed Kiley McDaniel's top 100 prospect list.

Keith Law of The Athletic has six Cleveland prospects in his Top 100 MLB prospects list prior to the 2025 season.

Every year that I produce a top 100 MLB prospect ranking, I go through an iterative process where I start with more than 100 players, circulate the first cut to industry sources, move some guys around,