Dalton Rushing ranked 8th, Alex Freeland (35th) and Josue De Paula (48th) also in top 50. Edgardo Henriquez makes his first top-100 list.
So far every national prospect outlet that has considered Roki Sasaki a prospect has ranked him as the top prospect in the sport. Sasaki heads the top 102 prospects in baseball by Eric Longenhagen at FanGraphs, a list that includes six Dodgers.
Longenhagen split his top-102 list into tiers of future value, based on the 20-80 scouting scale. Sasaki is the only such prospect with a 65 future value:
He hasn’t been healthy for an entire season yet and most of his relevant stats (his ability to generate whiffs with his fastball, avoid walks, and get groundballs) took a nosedive in 2024. Sasaki’s plus-plus, upper-80s splitter (which often has slider shape to his glove side and can easily be mistaken for it) is still easily his best pitch, and might be the nastiest splitter on the planet. When he’s operating at apex, Sasaki looks like a slam dunk, top-of-the-rotation talent, like one of the best handful of pitchers in baseball.
Sasaki was also ranked the best prospect in the sport by Baseball America, ESPN, and MLB Pipeline.
Dalton Rushing, who hit .271/.385/.512 with a 142 wRC+ and 26 home runs between Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma City last season, is ranked as the No. 8 prospect in baseball by FanGraphs, up from 60th last year.
Rushing, one of several Dodgers prospects who are non-roster invitees this spring training, is a consensus top-30 prospect in baseball this year by Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, CBS Sports, ESPN, FanGraphs, The Athletic, and MLB Pipeline. He has an average ranking of 21st on those seven sites, including 16th overall at both ESPN and The Athletic.
Edgardo Henriquez came back from Tommy John surgery last season and rode the train from Low-A Rancho Cucamonga through all four minor league affiliates then the majors and into the postseason in his age-22 season. He makes his first top-100 list, ranked No. 91 at FanGraphs.
“If you’re looking for a Mason Miller character in this year’s prospect crop, Henriquez is probably your guy,” Longenhagen wrote. “He’s an ideally built 22-year-old who throws 100, it’s just that Henriquez’s body and arm are too explosive for him to control right now.”
Shortstop Alex Freeland is ranked 35th at FanGraphs, and outfielder Josue De Paula is No. 48, making the latter a consensus top-50 prospect with an average ranking of 31st at the seven sites listed above.
In a subsequent chat about the prospect list at FanGraphs, Longenhagen said, “The Alex Freeland development is absolute nuts, can’t say I’ve seen anything like that before.”
Longenhagen’s list goes 102 players deep, with the final tier of prospects sporting a 50 future value. River Ryan is at 101st overall, after getting ranked 19th at FanGraphs last year. Ryan, who is on the 60-day injured list and will likely miss the entire 2025 season, was also ranked 52nd by The Athletic and rated 94th by ESPN.
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