Carson Williams, SS
Details: Age 21 … 2021 28th overall pick … played 2024 at Double-A Montgomery.
Rankings:Baseball America, 11th; Baseball Prospectus, 7th; ESPN, 5th; MLB Pipeline, 9th; The Athletic, 8th.
Comments: From MLB Pipeline: “On four of the five major tools alone, Williams could be a future All-Star shortstop.” … From The Athletic’s Keith Law: “Williams is the most enigmatic prospect in the minors to me: He does absolutely everything you’d want a position-player prospect to do, except he strikes out way too often (28.5%).” … From ESPN: “Reminds me of early-career Trevor Story or later-career Dansby Swanson. … Power-over-hit shortstop with Gold Glove potential.”
Brayden Taylor, INF
Details: 22 … 2023 19th overall pick … split 2024 between High-A Bowling Green and Montgomery.
Rankings:Baseball America, 65th; Baseball Prospectus, 70th; ESPN, 63rd; MLB Pipeline, 67th; The Athletic, 89th.
Comments: From Baseball America: “Taylor is boringly good and mundanely well-rounded. It’s hard to point to any aspect of his game or toolset that’s exceptional, but he does everything well.” … From ESPN: “Polished defender and hitter who has a good shot to be a solid every-day player.” … From Baseball Prospectus: With further offensive improvement, “he should make last year’s Brandon Lowe comp look reasonably prescient.”
Xavier Isaac, 1B/OF
Details: 21 … 2022 29th overall pick … split 2024 between Bowling Green and Montgomery.
Rankings: Baseball America, 87th; Baseball Prospectus, 67th; ESPN, 71st; MLB Pipeline, 51st
Comments: From Baseball America: “While Isaac showed significantly more swing and miss in 2024, his ability to do significant damage on contact makes him one of the game’s premier power-hitting prospects.” … From Pipeline: “The left-handed slugger truly pops from a power standpoint … but evaluators were getting more timid about him after he missed on 49.3% of his Double-A swings.” … From Baseball Prospectus: “If there’s (a 20-year-old, as he was last season) out there that hits the ball harder than Isaac, I’d be surprised.”
Tre’ Morgan, 1B/OF
Details:22 … 2023 third-round pick … split 2024 between Class-A Charleston, Bowling Green, Montgomery.
Rankings: Baseball America, 80th; MLB Pipeline, 94th
Comments:From Baseball America: “Praising a first baseman’s defense is usually a backhanded compliment. But Morgan really is a left-handed shortstop playing first, and his bat is good enough to make him a well-rounded prospect. … From Pipeline: “Using a puck knob bat and a choked-up grip, Morgan hits like a player anemic to the K.”
Theo Gillen, OF
Details: 19 … 2024 18th overall pick … Debuted after draft at Charleston.
Rankings: Baseball Prospectus
