2025 MLB Farm System Statcast Hitting Rankings

As mentioned in our 2025 Hit+ leaderboard, Baseball America has measured performance throughout the 2025 season based on underlying metrics via Hawk-Eye data gathered across the minor leagues. The RoboScout model incorporates some of this data to assess the minor league performance of hitters and pitchers and evaluate their future major league performance.

Today, we’ll be ranking how each organization’s collection of minor league hitters performed via these metrics in 2025. You can find our corresponding pitcher rankings here.

Our Methodology

Using the same methodology to capture a hitter’s true underlying performance, we used weighted on-base average (wOBA) as our baseline and created a Hit+ score that weights each key metric by how strongly it correlates with future wOBA. Like wRC+, Hit+ is centered at 100, so scores above that mark indicate better-than-average underlying performance or vice versa.

Primary inputs include:

Contact rate and in-zone contact rate (zCon%)
90th percentile exit velocity (EV90)
Chase rate and Swing%–minus–Chase%
Barrel rate (BRL%)
Expected weighted on-base average on contact (xwOBAcon)

One important note: Due to data availability, each hitter’s performance was compared to the overall minor league average rather than level-specific averages. As a result, a Double-A and Low-A hitter with the same contact rate against breaking balls, for example, are evaluated equally in that category.

Please note Hit+ scores do not reflect a player’s defensive or running ability.

For the organization scores, the metric (Hit+, Contact rate, barrel rate, etc.) of each player in the organization was “weighted” by the number of plate appearances they had. So, if one hitter had a Hit+ of 200 but with only 10 plate appearances, his influence on the organization’s aggregate Hit+ would be 10% of someone who had 100 plate appearances.

Below are the weighted scores (where 100.0 is average) and rankings for each organization. Note that “Swing Dec” is represented by Swing%-minus-Chase%.

Statcast Scores For All 30 Organizations

org	hit+	swingdec	cont%	zcon%	90ev	brl%	xwobacon
Los Angeles Dodgers	103.3	100.9	100.9	99.7	100.8	101.8	102.4
Detroit Tigers	102.2	102.3	99.3	99.4	102.1	103.1	101.4
San Francisco Giants	102.2	100.4	101.6	101.4	101.0	101.1	101.8
Houston Astros	101.8	99.2	98.3	98.9	102.5	101.7	101.1
Minnesota Twins	101.8	98.9	101.0	100.9	100.6	101.5	101.5
New York Yankees	101.4	102.1	97.9	97.6	101.6	102.6	101.7
Toronto Blue Jays	101.1	100.7	100.8	100.6	100.1	100.9	99.0
Seattle Mariners	100.7	101.3	99.2	99.6	101.0	100.7	101.6
Arizona Diamondbacks	100.6	98.5	101.6	101.5	98.4	98.8	102.5
Chicago White Sox	100.4	102.2	99.2	99.3	100.3	100.5	101.4
New York Mets	100.3	99.2	100.4	100.7	101.7	100.7	98.8
Pittsburgh Pirates	100.3	99.6	98.8	99.2	101.5	101.0	99.6
Chicago Cubs	100.1	100.5	100.0	100.2	100.4	99.9	99.5
St. Louis Cardinals	99.9	98.3	101.7	101.4	100.0	99.7	99.0
Cincinnati Reds	99.8	99.1	99.1	99.3	101.0	100.4	100.7
Athletics	99.7	99.6	102.3	101.9	97.8	98.3	99.8
Los Angeles Angels	99.7	101.0	97.6	97.7	99.5	100.6	102.5
Milwaukee Brewers	99.7	101.4	100.2	99.8	99.4	98.7	99.1
Philadelphia Phillies	99.7	99.9	100.0	99.9	100.4	100.3	99.0
Baltimore Orioles	99.6	101.1	99.0	98.1	100.1	100.6	98.8
Miami Marlins	99.5	99.9	100.3	100.3	100.2	99.6	98.4
San Diego Padres	99.3	100.0	100.3	100.3	97.8	99.1	100.0
Boston Red Sox	99.2	98.2	98.9	99.5	100.6	99.6	99.1
Cleveland Guardians	99.2	101.0	102.0	101.6	97.6	98.5	98.3
Colorado Rockies	98.6	96.5	100.2	101.2	98.8	98.2	101.5
Texas Rangers	98.6	97.5	102.1	102.2	97.3	98.2	98.7
Tampa Bay Rays	98.2	99.5	100.6	100.5	98.7	97.8	98.4
Washington Nationals	98.1	100.8	97.6	97.6	102.1	99.5	98.9
Kansas City Royals	97.8	98.7	99.1	99.8	98.6	98.5	98.8
Atlanta Braves	97.6	101.9	100.7	100.5	97.9	97.6	97.4

Statcast Rankings For All 30 Organizations

org	hit+	swingdec	cont%	zcon%	90ev	brl%	xwobacon
Los Angeles Dodgers	1st	10th	8th	19th	10th	3rd	3rd
Detroit Tigers	2nd	1st	19th	22nd	3rd	1st	9th
San Francisco Giants	2nd	14th	6th	6th	8th	6th	4th
Houston Astros	4th	22nd	27th	26th	1st	4th	11th
Minnesota Twins	4th	24th	7th	8th	12th	5th	8th
New York Yankees	6th	3rd	28th	30th	5th	2nd	5th
Toronto Blue Jays	7th	12th	9th	10th	17th	8th	19th
Seattle Mariners	8th	6th	21st	20th	9th	10th	6th
Arizona Diamondbacks	9th	26th	5th	4th	25th	22nd	1st
Chicago White Sox	10th	2nd	20th	24th	15th	13th	10th
New York Mets	11th	21st	12th	9th	4th	9th	23rd
Pittsburgh Pirates	11th	19th	26th	25th	6th	7th	15th
Chicago Cubs	13th	13th	17th	15th	13th	16th	16th
St. Louis Cardinals	14th	27th	4th	5th	19th	17th	20th
Cincinnati Reds	15th	23rd	22nd	23rd	7th	14th	12th
Athletics	16th	18th	1st	2nd	28th	26th	14th
Los Angeles Angels	16th	8th	29th	28th	20th	12th	2nd
Milwaukee Brewers	16th	5th	15th	18th	21st	23rd	18th
Philadelphia Phillies	16th	17th	18th	16th	14th	15th	21st
Baltimore Orioles	20th	7th	24th	27th	18th	11th	25th
Miami Marlins	21st	16th	13th	14th	16th	19th	27th
San Diego Padres	22nd	15th	14th	13th	27th	21st	13th
Boston Red Sox	23rd	28th	25th	21st	11th	18th	17th
Cleveland Guardians	23rd	9th	3rd	3rd	29th	24th	29th
Colorado Rockies	25th	30th	16th	7th	22nd	27th	7th
Texas Rangers	25th	29th	2nd	1st	30th	28th	26th
Tampa Bay Rays	27th	20th	11th	11th	23rd	29th	28th
Washington Nationals	28th	11th	30th	29th	2nd	20th	22nd
Kansas City Royals	29th	25th	23rd	17th	24th	25th	24th
Atlanta Braves	30th	4th	10th	12th	26th	30th	30th

Top Seven Organizations (Hit+)

Dodgers

The Dodgers are pretty much universally acclaimed as player development behemoths and, unsurprisingly, rank at the top of the list. Some of their hitters of note include Mike Sirota (Hit+ of 122), Charles Davalan (116), Josue De Paula (114), Emil Morales (114), Eduardo Quintero (113), Zyhir Hope (112) and Ching-Hsien Ko (112).

Interestingly, the Dodgers rank in the top 10 of every facet of Hit+ except for in-zone contact rate.

Tigers

The Tigers have Baseball America’s No. 2 prospect, Kevin McGonigle (118), plus other Top 100 Prospects like Max Clark (114), Josue Briceño (112) and Bryce Rainer (112), so it isn’t surprising that the Tigers rank highly in this metric. The Tigers flirted with best record in the American League for much of the season and made it Game 5 of the ALDS. Their future at the plate looks bright, too.

The Tigers really excel in swing decisions—where they rank No. 1—and in their ability to damage upon contact based on their exit velocity, barrel rate, and xwOBAcon.

Giants

To be honest, I was a bit surprised that the Giants graded so highly. But they ranked in the top 10 for contact rates and on damage-on-contact.

Voracious Baseball America readers are aware that Parks Harber (121) has excellent Statcast data (here and here). Other hitters with compelling data are Bryce Eldridge (121), Josuar Gonzalez (110), Bo Davidson (110), Drew Gilbert (112) and Dakota Jordan (111).

Astros

In RoboScout articles, I often talk about how the Astros have a hitter type preference that highly emphasizes ‘quality of contact.’ That shows up in the data again here, as Houston hitters rank first in 90th percentile exit velocity. That comes at the expense of swing decisions and contact rate, however. Still, as quality of contact supersedes the other facets, and Houston ranks highly overall, though there may be a high accompanying strikeout rate.

From a Statcast point of view, the Astros have a number of hitters grading out well in Hit+ who we’ve identified over the last couple months. Ethan Frey (120), Zach Cole (117), Will Bush (117), Anthony Huezo (114) and Lucas Spence (113) have all been written about or podcasted about as hitters with surprisingly good Statcast data. With their contributions—and from others like Drew Brutcher (109) or 17-year-old DSL hitter Sami Manzueta (109)—the Astros grade as the organization with the fifth highest Hit+.

Twins

RoboScout has vouched for Luke Keaschall and Emmanuel Rodriguez (112) in the past, and 2025 is no exception. Some other noteworthy hitters include Kala’I Rosario (115), Walker Jenkins (113), Hendry Mendez (112), who was talked about here, Gabriel Gonzalez (108) and Kaelen Culpepper (106).

Yankees

With his outrageous power, Spencer Jones still has a Hit+ of 117 even with extreme swing-and-miss. Dax Kilby (120), Richard Matic (113), Dillon Lewis (110), Brian Sanchez (109) and George Lombard Jr. (108) also contributed to New York ranking near the top of the league.

The Yankees rank in the top five for swing decisions and exit velocity, but are near the bottom of the league for contact rate. Their in-zone contact rate ranks dead last.

Blue Jays

Toronto has the No. 1 seed in the American League and some reinforcements percolating in the minors, as the Blue Jays rank seventh in Hit+. RJ Schreck (117) and Yohendrick Pinango (116) had high Hit+ data in 2024 and they sustained it into 2025. Other noteworthy and possibly underrated hitters include Sean Keys (114), Sam Shaw (110), Juan Sanchez (107) and Victor Arias (106).

Bottom Five Organizations (Hit+)

Braves

The Braves had a year to forget, and their minor league hitting corps didn’t have the aggregate strength from a Hit+ point of view, either. Some hitters of note, though, are David McCabe (114), Cody Miller (107) and DSL youngster Diego Tornes (105).

Atlanta ranks in the top five for swing decisions and top 10 in contact rate. The Braves system doesn’t have much thump, though, ranking at the bottom in barrel rate and expected damage on contact.

Royals

Despite perennial RoboDarling Carter Jensen’s 119 Hit+ and Jac Caglianone’s 114, the organization as a whole is lagging behind other systems. They do have some solid contributions from Blake Mitchell (107), Gavin Cross (105), Warren Calcano (104) and Ramon Ramirez (105).

The Royals sit in the bottom quartile of the league in swing decisions, contact rate and 90th percentile exit velocity.

Nationals

Daylen Lile (113), Andres Chaparro (115), Brady House (111), Jose Tena (111) and Robert Hassell III (105) all earned meaningful plate appearances in the major leagues this year. Unfortunately, behind them, it’s a bit thin. Still, Washington has players like Yohandy Morales (106), Nauris De La Cruz (105), Ethan Petry (106), Luke Dickerson (104) and Eli Willits (104) all showing above-average skills.

Interestingly, the Nationals rank second in 90th percentile exit velocity but are in the bottom third in barrel rate and expected wOBAcon. So. while Washington is hitting it hard, it’s doing it straight into the dirt. The Nationals rank dead last in both in-zone contact and contact rate, which might be an artifact of a philosophy or the unintended consequences of their player development.

Rays

I was a bit surprised to see the Rays in the lower tier. Although they do have some individual standouts like Theo Gillen (112), Nathan Flewelling (109), Xavier Isaac (109) and Brailer Guerrero (106), they also had somewhat disappointing seasons from Tre’ Morgan (100), Maykel Coret (98) and Adrian Santana (97).

Rangers

The Rangers are near the bottom in swing decisions and also in their ability to do damage on contact. They are a team of extremes—they are at the top for contact rate—implying this might be a drafting and scouting philosophy.

Some of their better standouts are Abimelec Ortiz (114), Devin Fitz-Gerald (112), Dylan Dreiling (112), Elorky Rodriguez (110), Cody Freeman (109, Keith Jones II (107) and Sebastian Walcott (106).