Seattle Mariners Farm System Ranked No. 1 in Baseball According to Bleacher Report
The Seattle Mariners have one of the most well-regarded minor league systems in baseball. The team had a league-high eight top 100 prospects at the end of 2024 according to Baseball America and five listed on MLB Pipeline's list.
The Mariners will have seldom few graduates among their top prospects. Middle infielder Cole Young, third baseman Ben Williamson, left-handed pitcher Brandyn Garcia and right-handed pitcher Logan Evans are expected to factor into the major league roster at some point this season, possibly as soon as Spring Training.
But Seattle's farm system, even with those aforementioned players potentially getting called up, is still loaded with talent. And a recent article from Bleacher Report named the organization's farm the best in all of baseball.
Who got the best young talent?@JoelReuterBR ranks all 30 teams' farm systems 👉 https://t.co/MHkKVHF0eT pic.twitter.com/RKyExsFwz3
— B/R Walk-Off (@BRWalkoff) December 30, 2024
The publication's recent rankings was put together by Joel Reuter. In the Mariners' portion of the list, Reuter had six minor league players in the team's top 10 listed as "Tier 1" minor leaguers: Lazaro Montes, Colt Emerson, Harry Ford, Young, Felnin Celesten and Michael Arroyo.
Seattle's other top 10 prospects — Jonny Farmelo, Evans, Ryan Sloan and Jurrangelo Cijntje — were listed as "Tier 2" minor leaguers.
Logan Evans was throwing GAS tonight ⛽️
— Arkansas Travelers (@ARTravs) September 26, 2024
6.0 IP | 5 H | 1 R | 9 K pic.twitter.com/1Ef52fZj8k
Reuter had the following assessment on Seattle's farm system in his article:
With a stacked starting rotation in the majors, it is to the Mariners' benefit that their top-prospect list is loaded with bats, though many of them are still rising the ranks in the lower levels of the minors. Harry Ford and Cole Young could both see their first big league action in 2025, while Lazaro Montes and Felnin Celesten will look to build off breakout 2024 seasons with more of the same against tougher competition.
As talented as the Mariners' minor league prospects already are, there's a chance that their talent pool can be even better by the end of 2025 depending on the progression of prospects like Emerson and Montes and how well 2024 draft picks Sloan and Cijntje do in their first professional seasons.
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