Baseball America’s top 10 Rays prospects for 2025

Carson Williams headlines an exciting crop of Rays prospects

Baseball America has released their rankings of the Tampa Bay Rays top 10 prospects entering the 2025 season, as well as indicating which players have the best tools in the system.

Here is the the top ten:

1. Carson Williams, SS
2. Brayden Taylor, 3B
3. Tre’ Morgan, 1B
4. Xavier Isaac, 1B
5. Gary Gill Hill, RHP
6. Trevor Harrison, RHP
7. Santiago Suarez, RHP
8. Chandler Simpson, OF
9. Brailer Guerrero, OF
10. Theo Gillen, OF

Here are some of the fun tool grades given by Baseball America:

• Carson Williams: 70 Field | 70 Arm
• Tre’ Morgan: 65 Hit | 80 Field
• Xavier Isaac: 55 Run
• Santiago Suarez: 70 Control
• Chandler Simpson: 70 Hit | 80 Run

Carson Williams has been the Rays consensus top prospect for over a year now as he is a five tool player with above average power and elite defense. During the early part of the 2024 season, Williams looked to be on his way to being Baseball America’s Minor League Player of the Year, before hitting a midseason slump. The only drawback of his game is his susceptibility to striking out. Regardless, Williams has been ranked among the top 10 prospects in baseball by several publications.

Tre’ Morgan and Chandler Simpson are big risers here as they both enjoyed impressive campaigns. Morgan climbed three levels and Simpson had the best batting average in the minor leagues while also notching over 100 stolen bases.

The Rays are all well represented by pitchers, with three among their top 10, whereas last year they only had a graduating Shane Baz and Yoniel Curet. Currently, Gary Gill Hill is considered the Rays top pitching prospect, but Trevor Harrison and Santiago Suarez could easily overtake him depending on how the season goes.

Meanwhile, the pitcher with the best fastball and who is considered the best athlete in the Rays system, Brody Hopkins, didn’t make it onto the top ten.