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This is our third year canvassing the baseball talent landscape using this methodology, having introduced the rankings in 2023 at FOX Sports and continued with another edition in 2024 here at Yahoo Sports. The goal remains to paint a broad picture of which organizations have the most promising collections of young hitters and pitchers who can help sustain success at the major-league level in the short and long term.
Farm system rankings and top prospect lists are classic approaches to accomplishing this objective, and such exercises do help convey which teams boast the brightest futures based on their collections of impact players developing in the minors.