Atlanta Braves Composite Prospect Rankings for the 2025 Season
There's widely divergent ideas as to the quality of this Braves farm system...so we scraped just about every single prospect list we could find to make one definitive resource
The frustrating thing about college football recruiting rankings (or college baseball team rankings, for that matter) is that there are just so many of them.
For football recruiting, you can use Rivals or On3 or ESPN or 247Sports to evaluate how good your incoming class is. And for college baseball, there’s even more polls: D1Baseball, Baseball America, the Coaches Poll through USA Today, College Baseball Insider, the NCBWA (the National College Baseball Writers Association, of which I am a member) and countless more.
It’s similar with prospects. There are just so many places to get prospect rankings - how is the passionate minor league enthusiast supposed to know where the consensus on a player truly is?
Introducing the Atlanta Braves Prospect Composite!
Click to access the Atlanta Braves Prospect Composite on Google Docs
For sake of basic explanation:
I collected several different prospects lists and put them into groups, delineated by a black border. Here are those tiers, along with an explanation of why they’re sorted where they are.
Tier 1
Baseball America
MLB Pipeline
Baseball Prospectus
FanGraphs
Any fan of prospects knows about these four sites - they together comprise what I refer to as The Prospect Apparatus™. Baseball America is the gold standard in prospect coverage, MLB Pipeline is the league’s own prospect coverage and get great access to both the players and decision-makers, while Baseball Prospectus and FanGraphs are outside of those ecosystems but still do great work.
(UPDATE: Pipeline and FanGraphs rankings now added!)
Tier 2
The Athletic
ESPN
Dynasty Dugout
Next, we have three individual baseball writers who do really good work but are in the second tier due to one factor - for ESPN (Kiley McDaniel) and The Athletic (Keith Law), it’s because they only go twenty prospects deep. For friend of the site Chris Clegg at
, his rankings are as deeply researched and vetted as anyone in tier one, but they’re also designed for fantasy baseball over “real-life” baseball (for lack of a better term.) Because of that, I put them in this second tier so that readers can adjust to that slight fact while still enjoying the quality work that Chris does.Tier 3
Prospects 1500
Battery Power
Outfield Fly Rule
These three are lists that come from sites staffed by non-journalists, but that still do good work. I know a lot of the Prospects 1500 folks personally (and have actually assisted with several of their team lists in the past), while Battery Power and Outfield Fly Rule focus exclusively on the Braves and do good work with their minor-league coverage.
I also added some color coding to the spreadsheet - the higher a prospect is ranked, the closer to green the ranking is (and vice-versa for red). This helps you both get a quick idea of a player’s general ranking range via a glance, but also to see where a player is egregiously under or over-valued by one site as compared to the rest.
I’m not inherently saying that being under or overrated by one particular site is a bad thing - maybe they’ve noticed something that the rest of the industry hasn’t caught up to yet - but it’s still noteworthy to see where there’s consensus and where there is more variance than usual.
Future Quality of Life upgrades to come:
Vet future additions to the composite: Just Baseball, CBS Sports Fantasy, Pitcher List
Figure out the formula to both weight the tiers but also ignore the zero/blank spaces so that we can generate a single number for each prospect
Add average ETAs, FVs, or tool grades