Top 25 Fantasy Baseball Prospects to Stash (Redraft): Eric Cross' Rookie Rankings for Week 13

June 25, 2025

Eric Cross' top 25 fantasy baseball prospects to stash in redraft for Week 13 (2025). His updated MLB rookie rankings for prospect call-ups to make 2025 impacts.

What a week it's been for prospect promotions, especially on the pitching side. We've already seen two dominant outings from Jacob Misiorowski, and now we have Chase Burns making his Major League debut against the New York Yankees on Tuesday.

In this week's stash rankings, I've also included Joe Boyle and Kristian Campbell. Neither one are technically prospects, but I've received plenty of questions about stashing both guys, so I figured it would be beneficial to include them.

These prospect rankings are for 2025 redraft value only. These are MLB prospects who could potentially make a fantasy baseball impact in 2025 redraft leagues. You can also see our top fantasy baseball dynasty prospects rankings for longer-term outlooks and our 2025 fantasy baseball rankings dashboard for all other league formats.

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Top 25 Prospects to Stash in Redraft Leagues

My prospect write-ups are below the rankings. These rankings are for 2025 redraft value only, not dynasty. These are MLB prospects who could potentially make a fantasy baseball impact in 2025.

Promoted This Week: Chase Burns (CIN), Chandler Simpson (TB)

Promoted Last Week: Didier Fuentes (ATL), Jack Perkins (ATH), Thomas Saggese (STL)

Honorable Mentions (Hitters): Bryce Eldridge (SFG), Jett Williams (NYM), Kevin Alcantara (CHC), Owen Caissie (CHC), Harry Ford (SEA),  Sterlin Thompson (COL), Yanquiel Fernandez (COL), Alex Freeland (LAD), Blaze Jordan (BOS).

Honorable Mentions (Pitchers): Thomas Harrington (PIT), Nolan McLean (NYM), Jonah Tong (NYM), Brandon Sproat (NYM), Carson Whisenhunt (SFG), Cam Schlittler (NYY), Cade Cavalli (WAS)

Fantasy Baseball Prospect Rankings Analysis

Chase Burns, Cincinnati Reds

It's always a great day when your #1 overall pitching prospect gets the call to the Majors. It's also great when a pitcher with immense upside surpasses even the lofty expectations put on him when he was drafted last year. Chase Burns has been nothing short of phenomenal this season across three levels, combining for a 1.77 ERA, 0.77 WHIP, 5.4% walk rate, and a 36.8% strikeout rate. Now, he gets to terrorize Major League hitters, starting with the New York Yankees on Tuesday.

Chase Burns dials it up to 98.6 in his Triple-A debut 🔥

MLB's No. 3 pitching prospect (@Reds) racks up 7 K's with 13 swings & misses in 5.1 IP for the @LouisvilleBats. pic.twitter.com/shCekUr9g5

— MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) June 12, 2025

Burns features a 70-grade fastball and slider, the latter of which generated 11 whiffs in his final Triple-A start last Thursday. While he can dominate with just those two offerings, Burns also mixes in a solid curveball and changeup. Add in plus command and control, and Burns checks off every box I look for in a future ace-caliber Major League pitcher. He needs to be immediately added to all leagues where he's available.

It's always difficult to predict how rookies will do, especially pitchers. However, there aren't any pitching prospects with more upside than Burns. If anyone were to take the league by storm out of the gate, he's the one I'd bet on.

Joe Boyle, Tampa Bay Rays

While he's technically not a prospect anymore, I've received plenty of questions about Joe Boyle on social media platforms, so I figured I'd include him this week. As a 6'8 right-hander, Boyle immediately stands out on the mound, and his stuff follows suit. In 11 starts following his five-inning, no-hit debut on April 13, Boyle has dominated to the tune of a 1.77 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 8.8% walk rate, and a 32.9% strikeout rate. Opposing batters are hitting just .159 against Boyle during this span.

The stuff has always been good with Boyle with an upper-90s fastball, low-90s slider, and a low-90s splitter. Boyle can miss bats with all three offerings, and that was on full display in his last Triple-A start, where he had 18 whiffs, with 16 of those coming on his 4-seamer (6) and slider (10). But my issue with Boyle up until recently was his lofty walk rate. Boyle registered a 20% walk rate in 2022, a 17.8% walk rate in 2023, and an 18.6% walk rate in 2024 between Triple-A and the Majors.

I'm fine with a walk rate around 10% for pitchers with elite or near-elite stuff, but when that walk rate is over 12%, that's when I start fading them in my rankings, which was definitely the case with Boyle. But Boyle has turned things around this season with a 10% walk rate overall and 8.8% over his last 11 starts.

If that continues, he could establish himself as an impact arm for fantasy. We could see him fairly soon in Tampa Bay as well, especially if there's an injury or if Taj Bradley or Shane Baz continue to struggle.

Samuel Basallo, Baltimore Orioles

With Adley Rutschman now on the IL with a strained oblique, the odds of us seeing Samuel Basallo in the near future have increased, especially if this becomes more of a long-term absence for Rutschman. The Orioles initially called up Maverick Handley, but it could only be a matter of days before Basallo gets the call to start, or they could continue the same frustrating dance we've seen from Baltimore with their prospects over the last year or two. Hard to say.

BOMBS AWAY FOR BASALLO!!

Samuel Basallo launches his 13th homer of the season and 3rd one of the week. 411 ft. 109.1 mph EV

3-1 Norfolk T3 pic.twitter.com/WsFyRFsntD

— Norfolk Tides (@NorfolkTides) June 8, 2025

In 48 games for Triple-A Norfolk this season, Basallo has already cranked 15 home runs with a .271/.378/.590 slash line. He ranks seventh in ISO and 11th in SLG among all minor leagues with at least 190 plate appearances, which becomes even more impressive when you remember that he's only 20 in Triple-A. Basallo's contact skills are a bit below average, but he makes up for it with an elite 93.9 mph AVG EV, 58.1% hard-hit rate, and a 20.5% barrel rate.

Kristian Campbell, Boston Red Sox

Another non-prospect that I wanted to include this week is Kristian Campbell of the Boston Red Sox, who was recently optioned to Triple-A Worcester. Campbell was hitting well in April, but a late-April rib injury really derailed his season, and he hasn't been the same since. Hopefully, a few weeks in Triple-A will help the 22-year-old second baseman reset and get back to being the hitter we saw in 2024 and in April this season.

In his first two games back in Triple-A, Campbell has reached base four times via a double, triple, and two walks. Even though the surface stats fell off drastically after April, Campbell was still running a 41.8% hard-hit rate, 11% walk rate, and a 23.4% chase rate in the Majors. The talent is still there, and the long-term outlook is still bright. Assuming the bat awakens down in Triple-A, I'd expect Campbell to be back up shortly after the All-Star break.

Brice Matthews, Houston Astros

One of the hottest hitters in Triple-A over the last month has been Houston's Brice Matthews. In his last 115 plate appearances, Matthews has racked up 14 extra-base hits, five home runs, and six steals with a 347/.443/.612 slash line. He's also been walking at a 13.9% clip during this timeframe, but unfortunately, that also comes with a 30.4% strikeout rate.

The strikeouts and contact skills are the concern with Matthews. He's currently sporting a 73% zone contact rate and 64% overall contact rate in Triple-A to go along with that higher strikeout rate that I already mentioned. He's probably never going to be a good source of AVG, but there's an above-average power and speed blend here from the second base position, and Matthews has shown that this season with a 91.6 mph AVG EV, 46.9% hard-hit rate, and a 12.6% barrel rate.

While Mauricio Dubon hasn't been terrible at the plate, I can see Houston giving Matthews some run there in the near future and pushing Dubon back into a super-utility role.

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