It’s the end of the season, which means that several of the top 100 prospect lists are going to get spruced up. Players rising, players falling, players added via draft and international signing debuts.
If you’re one that likes to look to the future, this is a good time of year.
Over at Fangraphs, they tidied up their own top 100 list
and released it this week. Several Phillies youngins’ were there:11. Aidan Miller
15. Andrew Painter
95. Moises Chace
Nary a sign of Gage Wood or Justin Crawford, which might be discouraging to some, but shouldn’t surprise anyone that follows the Fangraphs prospect team.
Of the ones named, Eric Longenhagen had a few interesting things to say.
On Aidan Miller:
Several players in this group – Colt Emerson, JJ Wetherholt, Leo De Vries, and Aidan Miller – all have issues on defense that might prevent them from remaining at shortstop. Emerson, Wetherholt, and De Vries have arm strength and accuracy issues, while Miller’s hands were sketchy and error-prone late in the year.
On Andrew Painter:
When you look at the 2025 season as a whole, Painter’s stuff has performed like it’s made of average-or-below components across the board, but for the last six weeks of the season he upped his changeup usage a ton. Both it, and his slider, played more like plus offerings in terms of miss and chase during that window. If there’s a real issue looming here it’s Painter’s lack of fastball miss…He still has a very favorable overall forecast as a mid-rotation workhorse with good secondary stuff and command, but it’s tough to project him as a contender’s no. 1 or no. 2 starter if he doesn’t have an impact fastball, and so he slides down an FV tier on this end-of-season update.
The entire write up of Painter is worth a read. It’s somewhat pessimistic in its view, but it’s also a very honest evaluation about his future.
We’ll have more updates to the top 100 prospect lists as they come out.
