After revealing the Purple Row community’s Colorado Rockies top prospect list over the last couple weeks, it’s time to show the whole list at once with some voting stats. I’ll also have some thoughts on the state of the system as a whole tomorrow to conclude the series.
Without further ado, here is the full mid-season 2025 Top 30 PuRPs list, including some voting stats:
| Rank | Player | Total | # Ballots | High Ballot | Mode Ballot | Position | ETA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethan Holliday | 676 | 23 | 1 (16) | 1 | SS | 2029 |
| 2 | Charlie Condon | 657 | 23 | 1 (5) | 2 | 1B | 2026 |
| 3 | Robert Calaz | 589 | 23 | 2 | 4 | OF | 2028 |
| 4 | Kyle Karros | 579 | 23 | 3 | 7 | 3B | Now |
| 5 | Brody Brecht | 577 | 23 | 1 (1) | 2 | RHP | 2028 |
| 6 | Cole Carrigg | 577 | 23 | 3 | 3 | OF | 2026 |
| 7 | Zac Veen | 563 | 23 | 1 (1) | 4 | OF | Now |
| 8 | Jared Thomas | 511 | 23 | 3 | 6 | 7 | OF | 2026 |
| 9 | Sean Sullivan | 493 | 23 | 2 | 9 | 11 | LHP | 2026 |
| 10 | Yanquiel Fernandez | 438 | 22 | 5 | 8 | OF | Now |
| 11 | Gabriel Hughes | 378 | 21 | 2 | 13 | 15 | RHP | 2026 |
| 12 | JB Middleton | 375 | 23 | 10 | 11 | RHP | 2028 |
| 13 | Ryan Ritter | 375 | 21 | 7 | 12 | SS | Now |
| 14 | Griffin Herring | 370 | 20 | 6 | 10 | LHP | 2027 |
| 15 | Max Belyeu | 367 | 23 | 9 | 14 | OF | 2027 |
| 16 | Roc Riggio | 349 | 22 | 6 | 14 | 2B | 2026 |
| 17 | Carson Palmquist | 278 | 20 | 8 | 13 | LHP | Now |
| 18 | Sterlin Thompson | 267 | 20 | 10 | 15 | 16 | OF | 2026 |
| 19 | Ashly Andujar | 206 | 19 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 22 | SS | 2029 |
| 20 | Jaden Hill | 201 | 17 | 11 | 17 | RHP | Now |
| 21 | Welinton Herrera | 192 | 19 | 9 | 30 | LHP | 2026 |
| 22 | Jordy Vargas | 163 | 18 | 15 | 23 | RHP | 2027 |
| 23 | Warming Bernabel | 156 | 12 | 2 | 21 | 1B | Now |
| 24 | Drew Romo | 154 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 26 | C | Now |
| 25 | Jackson Cox | 120 | 17 | 17 | 24 | RHP | 2027 |
| 26 | McCade Brown | 104 | 12 | 9 | 25 | 29 | RHP | Now |
| 27 | Braxton Fulford | 81 | 10 | 11 | 27 | 29 | C | Now |
| 28 | Josh Grosz | 72 | 11 | 19 | 20 | 26 | 27 | 30 | RHP | 2027 |
| 29 | Roldy Brito | 71 | 8 | 15 | None | OF | 2028 |
| 30 | Konner Eaton | 65 | 11 | 19 | 22 | 30 | LHP | 2027 |
Ethan Holliday, Colorado’s first-round pick in 2025 (16 of 23 first place votes, including mine) topped 2024’s first-rounder, first baseman/outfielder/third
baseman Charlie Condon (five first place votes and 11/23 seconds). Outfielder Robert Calaz, third baseman Kyle Karros, and pitcher Brody Brecht rounded out the top five. Brecht and outfielder Zac Veen each also received one first place vote.
As a reminder, 30 points were granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc. Until a player was named on eight ballots, his vote totals were modified on a sliding scale to avoid an individual ballot having too much say over the community forecast — though that wasn’t a factor this time around. There were two ties on the top 30, one of which was broken by number of ballots and the other by the highest ballot tiebreaker. Other ties were broken for non top-30 players according to voting rules. Polling concluded in early August and since then, no player receiving votes has left the system (though several have had their rookie and PuRPs eligibility exhausted).
For more info on voting numbers for players that didn’t quite make the top 30, please check out the intro post to this edition of the PuRPs list, two articles’ worth of multi-ballot players (Part I and Part II) as well as the write-ups of the honorable mention PuRPs.
Some more notes:
- The top 18 players were listed on at least 20 of the 23 ballots — 11 were named on each ballot. Beyond that, the entire top 22 was listed on at least 17 of the 23 ballots.
- 65 players received at least one vote for this PuRPs list (down from 69 last time), 50 got mentioned on multiple ballots (down from 51), while 37 were named on at least eight ballots (and therefore were unmodified). Here is a link to the polling thread.
- In this edition of the PuRPs list, there were a whopping 13 new names compared to the pre-season 2025 list, only six of whom were in the system for the pre-season poll.
- Among those who were on the mid-season list, the biggest risers were Kyle Karros (up 8 slots) and Jared Thomas (up 6 slots). The biggest fallers who remained on the list were Jordy Vargas (down 9) and Carson Palmquist (down 8).
- Breaking the list down by position, there are 13 pitchers (two of whom are definitely relievers; eight are righties, five are southpaws, and only one is in the top ten), three corner infielders, eight outfielders, four middle infielders, and two catchers — there’s some positional flexibility in there of course.
I’ll have more on the overall system in my concluding post tomorrow!
