Prior to the start of each season, the Draysbay community takes part in an excercise in which the top prospects in the Tampa Bay Rays system are ranked by popular vote.
This season, the Draysbay community ranked the top 25 prospects in the Rays system with several others receiving votes but just falling shy of making the cut.
With the 2025 season officially over, we can now look back and see how each prospect performed and whether their stock has improved, remained the same, or fallen over past several
months.
An important note:
This is not a re-ranking of the Rays top prospects but a review of the prospects in the order that they were ranked entering the season.
Also, I will not be featuring players no longer within the Rays organization.
Honorable Mention: Bob Seymour
What Danny wrote entering the season:
Seymour hits homeruns like he’s a former collegiate baseball player clubbing moon shots over the fence in a bush league game, with the exception of course being that this is professional baseball, and he’s knocking on the door of the majors. Once the 2019 ACC Player of the Year, Seymour was drafted in the 13th round in 2021 and has shown that his power plays at every level, punishing baseballs into the 110’s in exit velo. He interestingly led the minors with a .520 xwOBA on contact (min. 100 balls in play). Basically, if he hits it, he’s getting on base. Is that enough to earn promotion?
Behemoth Bobby Seymour started off the 2025 season back in Triple-A as Durham’s starting first baseman. After tearing through the league following his 2024 promotion, Seymour endured a slump in April but really turned things around as the calendar flipped to May. From April 30th through the end of the season, Seymour hit .277/.343/617 with 26 HR, registering a 140 wRC+ over 335 PA.
Eventually, the Rays couldn’t ignore Seymour’s powerful numbers so they brought him up to the show in mid-August and he made his big league debut in San Francisco on August 15th. Seymour would collect his first big league hit on August 17th and a few days later, launched his first career homerun back home at the New York Yankees. Unfortunately, Seymour struggled and failed to show the power that he had in the minor leagues. From August 30th through the season’s end, Seymour only had one extra base hit over 54 PA.
Minor League Stats by Month:
April: .233/.295/.398 | 5 HR | 31.3 K% | 8.0 BB% | 80 wRC+ | 97 PA
May: .252/.310/.505 | 6 HR | 22.4 K% | 7.8 BB% | 106 wRC+ | 116 PA
June: .315/.386/.697 | 8 HR | 21.8 K% | 10.9 BB% | 169 wRC+ | 101 PA
July: .266/.347/.641 | 7 HR | 23.6 K% | 11.1 BB% | 146 wRC+ | 72 PA
Aug/Sep: .250/.286/.625 | 4 HR | 33.3 K% | 2.4 BB% | 126 wRC+ | 42 PA
2025 SEASON NUMBERS:
AAA: .263/.327/.553 | 30 HR | 1 SB | 25.7 K% | 8.6 BB% | 122 wRC+ | 443 PA
MLB: .205/.253/.282 | 1 HR | 1 SB | 38.6 K% | 4.8 BB% | 48 wRC+ | 83 PA
Bob Seymour’s place on the current roster may be in flux this offseason as the Rays will need to make several decisions that could directly impact his place. As of now, Seymour seems likely to start the 2026 season in Triple-A sharing first base duties with Tre’ Morgan and serve as depth should the Rays need to fill a spot at DH or first base on the active roster.
So is Seymour’s stock improving, the same, or falling?
