Roki Sasaki is ranked No. 1 by everyone who considers him a prospect. Dalton Rushing is a consensus top-30 prospect, and Josue De Paula is top-50.
The national prospect lists are in, with the usual six outlets posting a ranking of at least 100 prospects in addition to CBS Sports unveiling its top 25 entering 2025. Taken together, these give us a pretty good idea of which Dodgers prospects are highly rated, including a few who are consensus top selections.
For starters (literally), Roki Sasaki is considered the top prospect in baseball by every outlet that has classified him among the prospects. Because he was not considered a “foreign professional” with enough experience, the 23-year-old pitcher was classified as an international amateur and signed a minor league contract with the Dodgers on January 22, subject to international bonus pool limits.
Baseball America, ESPN, FanGraphs, and MLB Pipeline all counted Sasaki as a prospect, and each site ranked him No. 1 overall. Baseball Prospectus, The Athletic, and CBS Sports did not classify Sasaki as a prospect because of his four seasons pitching professionally in NPB.
Dalton Rushing, the catcher who added left field to his tool belt last season, might hit his way into the majors in 2025. He’s a consensus top-30 prospect in baseball, topping out at eighth overall at FanGraphs. Rushing’s average ranking this preseason is 21st overall, compared to 64th last year.
“It’s enough offense that it doesn’t really matter what position Rushing plays; he’s going to hit enough to profile,” Eric Longenhagen wrote at FanGraphs on Monday. “If he can keep improving as a defender, he’ll be a multi-time All-Star.”
Outfielder Josue De Paula this year is a consensus top-50 prospect after hitting .268/.404/.405 with a 130 wRC+ as a 19-year-old between both Class-A levels last season. His highest rank is ninth overall at Baseball Prospectus, with an average ranking across seven sites of 31st.
CBS Sports only ranked their top 25 prospects league-wise, with Rushing (22nd) and De Paula (25th) making it, so we don’t know who their 26-100 prospects are. But shortstop Alex Freeland made the other six top-100 lists, with an average ranking of 57th overall.
Outfielder Zyhir Hope was the third-ranked Dodgers prospect at CBS Sports, but outside of their top 25 in baseball. He made five of the six top-100 lists, ranking from eighth at Baseball Prospectus to 75th at MLB Pipeline. FanGraphs did not rank Hope in its top 102 prospects, but in a separate chat about the list, Longenhagen said, “[Arizona Fall League] performance definitely moved the needle for me, he’s a talented guy who I’ve got just outside the Top 100.”
Pitcher Jackson Ferris, who was acquired with Hope from the Cubs in the January 2024 Michael Busch trade, was named to four top-100 lists this year, and was among the 15 prospects listed by Keith Law just outside of his top 100 at The Athletic.
River Ryan, out this season after Tommy John surgery, is still thought highly of, especially by the three prospect lists that included him: 54th at The Athletic, No. 94 at ESPN, and 101st at FanGraphs.
In all, nine Dodgers were named to at least ont top-100 list, including 18-year-old shortstop Emil Morales 80th overall at ESPN and 23-year-old Edgardo Henriquez No. 91 at FanGraphs after making his major league debut and pitching in the postseason bullpen last season for the Dodgers.
Two other teenagers were named to lists outside the top 100. Outfielder Eduardo Quintero, signed out of Venezuela in January 2023, was ranked 106th overall at ESPN. Shortstop Kellon Lindsey, drafted in the first round by the Dodgers in 2024, was among the 101-115 group at The Athletic.