And they all have one distinct characteristic in common!
The farm of the Cincinnati Reds was represented by a trio of pitchers in Baseball America’s latest edition of the Top 100 overall prospects in baseball.
Each of Rhett Lowder, Chase Burns, and Chase Petty made the cut, and not a single position player prospect on the Cincinnati farm made the cut. The entire list can be seen here, if you’re a subscriber to Baseball America.
Lowder, who excelled in his initial work against big league hitters at the tail end of the 2024 season, checked in as the 8th best pitcher on the list, with Burns – Cincinnati’s 1st round pick (2nd overall) in last summer’s MLB Draft – ranking right behind him on the Top 100. Petty, meanwhile, snuck in as the 98th best prospect on the list, albeit as a guy who has the upside to move up this year if his numbers finally match the stuff he began to flash again when healthy last year.
Neither of Edwin Arroyo or Cam Collier made the list, obviously. Both had been included in the latter half of BA’s pre-2023 list, but had already fallen off it by this time last year. Meanwhile, Noelvi Marte’s disastrous 2024 campaign (that included his 80-game PED suspension at the big league level) fell all the way off the list after ranking 23rd in the preseason Top 100 one year ago.