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Rankings season is upon us. Rejoice and be glad! Just like when your dad lets you open one present on Christmas Eve before Santa comes the next morning, I’m dropping the first of three Top 100 prospect rankings on January Grey Rankings Eve. January Grey Rankings Day should be a gosh dern national holiday. This Top 25 will be followed by a Top 50 on Wednesday and finally the rest of the Top 100 next Sunday. For detailed info on any of these prospects, go to the 2019 Minor League Preview Index. There, you’ll find links to all thirty team pages, their top ten prospects, and my (vague and misinformed) thoughts on each of them. Later this offseason, I’ll release a special list just for redraft leagues once some playing time etc. situations come into sharper focus. Enough chatter. Here’s the Top 25 fantasy baseball prospects for 2019…

1. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 3B | TOR | 2019

2. Fernando Tatis Jr., SS | SDP | 2019

3. Eloy Jimenez, OF | CWS | 2019

4. Victor Robles, OF | WAS | 2019

5. Wander Franco, SS | TBR | 2022

6. Royce Lewis, SS | MIN | 2020

7. Keston Hiura, 2B | MIL | 2019

8. Kyle Tucker, OF | HOU | 2019

9. Bo Bichette, SS | TOR | 2019

10. Nick Senzel, 3B | CIN | 2019

11. Carter Kieboom, SS | WAS | 2020

12. Brendan Rodgers, SS | COL | 2019

13. Peter Alonso, 1B | NYM | 2019

14. Alex Kirilloff, OF | MIN | 2020

15. Taylor Trammell, OF | CIN | 2021

16. Christian Pache, OF | ATL | 2020

17. Jo Adell, OF | LAA | 2021

18. Forrest Whitley, RHP | HOU | 2019

19. Brent Honeywell, RHP | TBR | 2019

20. Dylan Cease, RHP | CWS | 2019

21. Andres Gimenez, SS | NYM | 2019

22. Luis Urias, 2B | SDP | 2019

23. Francisco Mejia, C | SDP | 2019

24. Austin Riley, 3B | ATL | 2019

25. Luis Robert, OF | CWS | 2020

It’s hard not to find a winner in this quarter of the list given that all of them have the tools to be above-average everyday players (even some potential stars). In terms of fantasy bucks, you’re looking for (hoping for) a return of anywhere from $20 – $30+ in value. Two big risers this year have been Keston Hiura and Peter Alonso. Their role with their clubs isn’t completely clear (yet). Both played well in the “prospect graduate school” that is the Arizona Fall League and both have nothing to prove in the minors. There’s a nice chunk of talented outfielders from Kirilloff to Adell to choose from, and we have our first “mini-tier” of pitchers in Whitley, Honeywell, and Cease. It’s kind of interesting that they all (will potentially) throw in the AL, which is usually the worse league for arms, but that’s how this prospect cookie crumbled.