Major League Baseball recently announced their 2025 mid-season farm system rankings, and the Arizona Diamondbacks have made a significant leap from where they were coming into the year.<\/p>\n
The D-backs have added an influx of young talent to their system of late. Part of that, of course, has to do with the 2025 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n
Related Content: 2025 MLB Draft: Tracking Every Diamondbacks Pick<\/a><\/p>\n But Arizona also became heavy sellers at the Trade Deadline, bringing in a wealth of new prospects.<\/p>\n For both their draft class and trade hauls, the D-backs focused on bringing in as much pitching as possible to bolster weak organizational (and major league) depth.<\/p>\n MLB.com’s Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra and Jonathan Mayo compiled their evaluations of each MLB team’s farm system and the MLB top 100 prospects therein. They ranked each team from 1-30, and compared that ranking with the previous year’s rankings.<\/p>\n The Diamondbacks made a significant jump, moving up six spots from their preseason rank. Arizona came in 16 \u2014 still below average \u2014 but that’s a far cry from the 22 they sat at ahead of the year, and the 21 they ranked at the midseason point of 2024.<\/p>\n Top prospect Jordan Lawlar came in at No. 23 among all MLB prospects. Outfielder Ryan Waldschmidt placed 69th in MLB’s top 100.<\/p>\n “What Arizona lacks in top-top talent \u2013 Lawlar\u2019s piling up injuries have taken some of the bloom off his rose \u2013 it\u2019s made up for in depth at this year\u2019s Draft and Trade Deadline,” Callis, Dykstra and Mayo wrote.<\/p>\n “The D-backs got particularly stronger on the mound with Kohl Drake (No. 8), Patrick Forbes (No. 10), Mitch Bratt (No. 11), David Hagaman (No. 17), Dean Livingston (No. 18), Brian Curley (No. 19) and Ashton Izzi (No. 20) all joining the Top 20 via the Draft or a deal in recent weeks.”<\/p>\n