In case you missed it: with new additions to the farm system and some improvements to familiar faces, we decided the All-Star Break was a good time to re-evaluate the farm system rankings we did back in the off-season. Read all about our methodology in the introduction to this series, and catch up with any other articles in the series you might have missed in the main article hub.
We’re going to set aside Tier Six (orange), also known as The Field, for now, and focus instead on what we’ve labeled Tier Five and colored red.