THE 25 BEST MLB PLAYERS UNDER AGE 25 FOR THE 2025 SEASON
Major League Baseball has never had as much talent as it does right now. Year after year, teams get better at evaluating and developing young potential, and players enter affiliated ball bigger, faster and stronger than their predecessors. And as the league continues to root out service time manipulation with mechanisms like the Prospect Promotion Incentive plan, teams are putting their best young players in the majors as soon as they think they’re ready.
As a result, the prevalence of young stars is at an all-time high. Entering the 2025 season, there’s an abundance of young players who are already household names (or close to it). So it feels like the right time to break out SI’s top 25 players under 25.