Red Sox have No. 2, No. 4 prospects on Baseball America’s new Top 100 list

Roman Anthony is no longer the top prospect on Baseball America’s new top 100 list, but the Red Sox are well represented at the top of the list.

The site released its 2025 preseason prospect rankings Wednesday and new Dodgers righty Roki Sasaki, who signed with Los Angeles next week, is the top prospect in the game. Anthony is ranked at No. 2 with last year’s breakout star, Kristian Campbell, ranked fourth in all of baseball. Shortstop Marcelo Mayer is at No. 15, giving the Red Sox two prospects in the top four — and three in the top 15.

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 are also in the top 100: Kyle Teel was ranked at No. 52 and Braden Montgomery was 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 bumped by Sasaki, the Japanese phenom who will certainly be on the Dodgers’ Opening Day roster. Campbell was ranked the No. 24 prospect in the sport at the end of last season when he took home BA’s Minor League Player of the Year award by hitting .330 with 20 homers, 32 doubles, 77 RBIs and 24 steals in 115 games across three levels (High-A Greenville, Double-A Portland and Triple-A Worcester). The 2023 fourth-round pick was not considered a top-100 prospect before last season. He slots in behind only Sasaki, Anthony and No. 3 prospect Jackson Jobe, who made his major league debut (and pitched in the postseason) for Detroit at the end of 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 have a chance at cracking 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 mentality going into spring training.”

“That’s the goal,” Campbell said. “That’s been the goal the whole time — to compete. I love competing and the point 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 prospect recognition at the end of last year. He hit .309 with an .896 OPS in 87 games between rookie ball and Single-A Salem last year. He will either start the year back at Salem or in Greenville.

Teel, who was Boston’s first-round pick (14th overall) in 2023, was ranked by BA at No. 62 before last year, a solid season in which he reached Triple-A for the first time. Because of an ankle injury, Montgomery has yet to make his pro debut after being selected with the 12th 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.