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The Stash List Week 10: Top 10 Pitching Prospects to Stash in 2025

top 10 pitching prospects to stash in redraft league

John Villavicencio
Dynasty 5/31/2025

The Pitcher Edition of the Stash List highlights the 10 best pitching prospects likely to make an impact during the 2025 season.

Prospects are often thought of as only holding value in dynasty formats. However, knowing which prospects hold value for the current season can help set you apart in redraft leagues. Several have a 2025 ETA, and getting ahead of the curve on rostering these prospects is a key part of roster management. Last year, we saw more pitching prospects make their debut than ever before, and there is no reason we should expect to see anything change in 2025. Keep reading to find out the top ten pitchers you should stash in your redraft leagues.

 

Ground Rules

 

  • The Stash List is for your redraft leagues and does not consider impact beyond 2025.
  • Only current minor league players who are expected to make an impact this season are included.
  • Upside, proximity, health, and opportunity are all weighed for each player.
  • The focus is on 12-team leagues with standard categories.
  • Rankings and roster percentages will be updated weekly.
  • Stats will be updated weekly for all players through Thursday’s games.

 

The Stash List

 

Graduates/Call-Ups

 

The following prospects got the call to the major leagues within the last week:

In the Pittsburgh pitching carousel, Braxton Ashcraft is the latest prospect to get a chance at sticking on the active roster. He will be working in long relief and could be in line for more appearances after a three-inning scoreless outing in which his fastball was sitting 97 mph.

Carson Palmquist pitches for Colorado, and until Chase Dollander wins the Cy Young, it will remain difficult to get behind any starting pitcher in Colorado. He has low-90s velocity and minimal movement on his pitches. Even worse, he has shown poor control in the major leagues with eight walks to six strikeouts over 13.1 innings.

Janson Junk had a successful long relief session for Miami against the Angels on May 24, using his sharp slider 56% of the time. Junk has an 18.5% K-BB in 45.1 Triple-A innings this season, so he could be worth tracking.

Jacob Lopez looked like a solid pickup until the fourth batter of his matchup against the Blue Jays on May 29. He proceeded to give up two home runs and seven runs in total. With J.T. Ginn injured, the Athletics may begin dipping further into their depth chart, likely Osvaldo Bido or Joey Estes, if Lopez were to get demoted. Luis Morales fans will have to wait until a little later in the summer.

 

Since many pitchers below will be on the stash list for the foreseeable future, let’s dig deeper into a different part of their profile each week. We will break down any patterns in pitch usage along with sharing game film for you to review.

 

Top 10 Pitching Prospects to Stash

 

1. Bubba Chandler, RHP, Pittsburgh Pirates

2025 AAA Stat line: 43.2 IP | 2.27 ERA | 34.5 K% | 11.3 BB%

2024 MiLB Stat line: 119.2 IP | 3.08 ERA | 30.9 K% | 8.6 BB%

 

Bubba Chandler has reached ten Triple-A games played in 2025, a few more than anticipated by prospect hounds. Entering June, he has built up to a major league starter’s pitch count, but is still playing for Indianapolis. The Pirates called up Mike Burrows to take over for Carmen Mlodzinski, and Burrows was hit pretty hard. Pirates are also giving Braxton Ashcraft a chance at long relief. Therefore, we will continue to root for a Chandler promotion despite his mixed results over the last few starts. Overall, Chandler is experiencing increased velocity that has raised the strikeout percentage, but it has also come at the expense of an increased walk rate and slightly higher hard-hit rate.

In his latest start, the final line shows the contradictory elements of Chandler’s profile. He did well the first time through the order by striking out three batters and allowing one walk. The opposing Toledo lineup seemed to be swinging early as a team strategy, making for a few quick innings. Thus, Chandler could extend into the seventh inning for the first time all season, which made his no-hit more likely than not. He put a few hitters on and was relieved by Eddy Yean, who served up a three-run bomb, bringing Chandler’s gifted runners around to score. The breakdown highlights that Chandler has the dominant stuff but still needs to finish off batters to avoid damage to his team and stat line.

 

Chandler has utilized his pitch mix in roughly the same order of preference for the entire ten-game stretch, with a few exceptions. When the fastball is deprioritized, he bumps up the changeup. There isn’t a direct correlation, but when he turned away from the four-seamer, it appears that he lost control and walked more batters than in other games. The curveball had a high usage rate of 17% in game 1, but seems to be a filler pitch over the last nine games. Although it has a modest .231 batting average against it, there is an xWOBA of .370. On the other hand, he is still achieving a 37% whiff rate with the breaking pitch. His other glove-side breaking pitch, the slider, is also his worst whiff pitch at 29% with a .238 xWOBA and .324 average against. Chandler leans on the increased velocity of his four-seamer to finish off at-bats with its 44% strikeout rate. Finally, the changeup is released at a similar point as the slider, yet breaks to his arm-side, up to 20 inches in the May 24th game. Take a look at how he performs in his scheduled home start on May 30 against the Indianapolis Indians.

 

2. Logan Henderson, RHP, Milwaukee Brewers

2025 AAA Stat line: 30.0 IP | 2.40 ERA | 34.8 K% | 9.6 BB%

2024 MLB Stat line: 21.0 IP | 1.71 ERA | 35.8 K% | 7.4 BB%

 

After performing well in his first four major league starts, Logan Henderson was optioned down to Triple-A Nashville to make way for a pack of Brewers veteran arms returning from rehab stints. Generally, Henderson did not have much trouble dispatching opposing lineups and minimized the damage when he did put runners on base. He went at least five innings in all four starts with a strong 28.4% K-BB. One could question the move for performance reasons, but the organization has to create the best roster possible, and Henderson ended up being vulnerable with the options left on his contract. The main area to improve for him is to reduce the number of fly balls allowed, as he did serve up three home runs in his short time up in the major leagues. If big league hitters are going to make more contact on his pitches in the zone and put them in the air, then his two-pitch mix could be exposed over a longer duration with Milwaukee.

Henderson relies heavily on a mix of four-seamer and the changeup for 88% of his pitches. Fortunately, these are his best whiff pitches that have also been great at limiting hard contact, as seen by the sub .278 xWOBA on each. In Triple-A, he mixed in the cutter and slider more often, but, understandably, they were tapered down in Milwaukee due to their poor performance, as seen by an xWOBA above .400 on each. The one common thread across all levels for Henderson is that he is releasing the ball with a flatter attack angle that will make his pitches appear as though they are rising more than they are. He will likely stay in Nashville for at least ten days, so let’s take note of how his supporting pitches perform.

 

3. Mick Abel, RHP, Philadelphia Phillies

2025 AAA Stat line: 52.1 IP | 2.41 ERA | 27.2 K% | 10.6 BB% 

2025 MLB Stat line: 6.0 IP | 0.00 ERA | 40.9 K% | 0.0 BB%

 

In Mick Abel’s return to Triple-A Lehigh Valley, shades of the walk-prone profile crept back into the landscape. The four free passes cast a small shadow on a solid eight-strikeout and one-run performance. Abel had to overcome a rough first inning again, allowing two walks and a sacrifice fly at the jump. Fortunately, he got his command back to generate 13 whiffs while allowing only three hard-hit balls on 13 balls in play.

Curiously, Abel’s stuff and velocity were a touch down in his return to the minor leagues. Lance Brozdowski, among others, has noted how the minor league baseball has larger seam heights that will lead to more movement. Therefore, we would reason that Abel should have held any gains from his major league debut. Although the spin and movement on his curveball helped it move more laterally than usual, it is still his best whiff pitch with six alone in this game. The other surprising sight was that his fastball velocity was down to 96 mph after sitting 97-98 with the Phillies. The more plausible cause for any discrepancy in measurements is likely due to Statcast accuracy, as his extension was back to 6.7 feet on most pitches for the IronPigs after stretching out to 6.9 feet with the Phillies. Nevertheless, Abel has five pitches to mix in throughout the game depending on the opponent. This will likely lead to variations in his pitch usage to coincide with the handedness of the opposing lineup and his feel for a specific pitch. In 2025, Abel has shown consistency in his mechanics that has helped reduce the historically high walk rate and locate his pitches for strikes 64% of the time.

 

The outlook for Abel’s playing time hinges on Taijuan Walker’s performance. Walker has a 20% strikeout rate and a 9.3% walk rate, while suppressing enough runs (2.97 ERA) and hits (1.30 WHIP) to be a solid fifth starter. The other thing to consider is the performance of their long relief, since that would be the best spot for Walker and his $18 million contract to assume. One of Joe Ross, Carlos Hernández, or Max Lazar would likely need to be hurt for that chain of events to initiate. Furthermore, Abel is also contending with Andrew Painter’s progress towards a mid-summer call-up. Painter has reached 70 pitches in a gradual buildup to his debut. Abel has the proximity advantage, having already proven himself, and will likely get the next chance to back it up. Hopefully, that will occur sooner rather than later. Let’s see how he performs against Norfolk’s stacked lineup on May 30.

 

4. Andrew Painter, RHP, Philadelphia Phillies

2025 A+, AAA Stat line: 28.1 IP | 3.18 ERA | 27.4 K% | 6.8 BB%

2024 MiLB Stat line: 15.2 IP | 2.30 ERA | 30.5 K% | 6.7 BB%

 

Fantasy managers of Andre Painter just need to keep singing, “a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down” as you check off another day of staying on track for his July debut. Painter met another marker on May 29, throwing a new season of 81 pitches, only 60% of those for strikes. In this start against the Norfolk Tide, it was smooth sailing until the fifth inning when he gave up two runs on three hits. The Tide were some of the stiffest competition he has faced, with Colton Cowser, Jordan Westburg, Coby Mayo, and Samuel Basallo in the lineup. Nice team, Norfolk! Quick digression, Cowser is hungry for his call-up, going 3 for 3 with three doubles against Painter.

Given the left-handed majority of this lineup, it makes sense that Painter threw his cutter more frequently than normal. On the other hand, this adjusted pitch usage did not completely reduce damage, as he allowed six hard hits on the day. Entering this game, Painter has a developing area of concern with OPS splits of .536 versus right-handed batters and .807 versus left-handed batters. If the increased cutter use doesn’t address the discrepancy, then the changeup could be the solution, given its release point is similar to that of the cutter. Or we can just return to last week’s deep analysis when I suggested he needs glasses…

 

Painter had been building up a more balanced pitch mix before the Buffalo matchup. The breaking pitches were becoming a prominent part of the arsenal as his arm health develops, and he faced the opposition a third time. His secondaries are registering an amazing whiff rate and inducing poor contact, yet he minimized their presence here. To combat the lack of secondaries, Painter threw a four-seamer or sinker 88% of the time. As he builds closer to new career highs in innings (103.2 in 2022), his pitch mix could be a signal of confidence in the strength and health of his arm.

 

Painter is competing with himself for his call-up. He has increased from 37 pitches to 71 pitches over six weeks, roughly an 8% weekly increase. This puts him on a trajectory to exceed 85 pitches in the middle of June. The front office has estimated July as a likely time to debut, which makes sense since there is no rush to push him and he would be unlikely to reach a high innings given his injury history.

 

5. Jacob Misiorowski, RHP, Milwaukee Brewers

2025 AAA Stat line: 56.1 IP | 1.60 ERA | 32.3 K% | 10.0 BB%

2024 MiLB Stat line: 113.0 IP | 3.03 ERA | 34.2 K% | 10.0 BB%

 

In the big picture, Jacob Misiorowski has shaken off enough of the control issues to quiet the reliever talk spoken about his name. His cumulative walk rate through the first eleven games has dropped 30% from last season to a 10% walk rate in 2025. This improved command, coupled with dynamic stuff, has dropped his WHIP to sub-1.00. His ascension this season from relief pitcher vibes to stud pitcher, therefore, heightens any anxiety over backward steps on the field. His last two starts have not met high expectations, but at least on Memorial Day, we can take comfort in a 64% strike rate over 87 pitches. He only managed four innings, but racked up 14 swinging strikes and eight strikeouts. Matt Collier notes how we should hope for enough control and strikeout upside so that he can make it at least five innings, while limiting damage done by opposite-handed bats.

Misiorowski has slowly added the changeup to his pitch mix throughout the 2025 season, from 1% in an early April introduction to 8% in his latest start. The pitch helps him move hitters’ eyes horizontally to his arm side so that he can attack with the fastball up or the slider in the opposite direction. Although he has a high whiff rate on his entire arsenal, adding a pitch with a 30% whiff rate suppresses contact from right-handed batters. The cherry on top for Misiorowski is that he is getting an elite extension and a similar enough release height on three of his four pitches, further complicating matters for hitters deciding on whether to swing or not. He may feel pressure to blast the zone with 100 mph four-seamers, but his success will likely be determined by how well the slider, curveball, and changeup perform.

 

The Brewers are bringing back a few veteran arms, Jose Quintana and Brandon Woodruff, thus displacing a few current rotation pieces. Misiorowski should just focus on throwing strikes and strengthening his secondary pitches so that he is not so predictable when he gets the call-up.

 

6. Chase Burns RHP, Cincinnati Reds

2025 AAA Stat line: 40.2 IP | 2.21 ERA | 43.0 K% | 5.3 BB% 

2024 NCAA Stat line: 100.0 IP | 2.70 ERA | 48.8 K% | 7.7 BB%

 

For eight out of his nine total games, Chase Burns has generated double-digit whiffs on his elite stuff. In his most recent start against the Trash Pandas, his strikeout total reached double digits as well. Burns has been clocked with a triple-digit fastball, but uses a slider to punish hitters who gear up for that velocity. Although the fly ball rate is creeping up in May, he did not succumb to the long ball in this game. He also continued a trend of throwing strikes, nailing down a 65% strike rate here and allowing zero free passes. Burns is up to 40.2 innings on the year and could reasonably exceed 120 innings in 2025 after reaching the century mark last season. Where would you rather have him get those innings, Double-A, Triple-A, or the M-L-B?

 

Burns utilizes a high arm slot that puts a downward attack angle on all of his pitchers. For most of his four-pitch mix, this is not an issue as it enhances their vertical movement. Although the upper-90s fastball has been clocked at triple digits, this particular angle will land the four-seamer in the lower third of the zone more often than not. Combine that angle with a batter’s tendency to swing with an upper cut, and we will observe a lot of fly balls when Burns is on the mound. As the weather heats up, watch his ratio of ground balls to fly balls to assess how he is pitching. He had been holding steady in the 40% range of ground balls to fly balls until these last two games, where he fell to under 22%.

I am unfamiliar with the specifics of the Chattanooga home ballpark, but Cincinnati’s home venue isn’t referred to as the Great American Smallpark by chance, and this could mean trouble for Burns if he cannot develop horizontal movement or work in a different location to this pitch. To his benefit, his secondaries are strong enough that they could mess with any hitter sitting on the fastball.

 

7. Cade Cavalli, RHP, Washington Nationals

2025 AAA Stat line: 27.2 IP | 3.25 ERA | 29.3 K% | 8.6 BB% 

2024 MiLB Stat line: 8.1 IP | 2.16 ERA | 41.9 K% | 16.2 BB%

 

Welcome to the stash list, Cade Cavalli! And shout out to Alex T in the Pitcher List Discord for the suggestion!

After succumbing to arm injuries and getting Tommy John surgery in 2023, Cavalli is back at Triple-A with a new attack plan. Unbeknownst to me, he was touching 102 mph in the 2021 Futures Game, but has settled for topping out at 98 mph this go-around. No worries, as he is generating a ton of whiffs on the combination of an elite curveball and changeup. In his most recent start, he produced 18 called strikes and whiffs on a curve that was falling as much as 53 inches with 10 inches of horizontal break. Cavalli is gradually building up his pitch count, but there is no question about his command while throwing 73% of his 71 pitches for strikes. In addition, he limited contact with only three hard-hit balls out of the eight balls in play. I had somewhat written him off after his disastrous debut with seven earned runs allowed back in 2022, but Cavalli is back with a vengeance in 2025.

So far, Cavalli is showing a four-pitch mix, with the changeup and curveball leading the way. These two pitches have similar release points, but are bending to polar opposite sides of the zone. The exciting part of his mix is that he is currently governing his velocity to maintain arm health. It will be intriguing to see if he can gain greater separation between the four-seamer and the sinker to harness more swing and miss out of hitters. Cavalli is also generating a healthy 60% rate on ground balls through fifty innings. Having thrown just over 300 pitches so far in 2025, we will need to check back later to more accurately asses his progress.

 

Washington is a good bang for the buck on their rotation at the moment, but all eyes are on Trevor Williams. Williams is the poorest-performing righty with options left in the rotation. I would imagine that Cavalli needs to hit 85 pitches in a game before being considered a viable call-up. He is likely 2-3 weeks away from that range, making him a strong stash now before people catch wind of his performance.

 

 

8. Ian Seymour, LHP, Tampa Bay Rays

2025 AAA Stat line: 55.0 IP | 3.11 ERA | 33.3 K% | 6.4 BB% 

2024 MiLB Stat line: 145.0 IP | 2.35 ERA | 28.1 K% | 7.1 BB%

 

If there is no hope for a call-up, does this affect a player’s drive to succeed? Or could it be a coincidence that Ian Seymour is not performing as crisply in this stretch of the season? Whatever the reasons, Seymour is having mixed results that do not demand an immediate call for his promotion in the near term. He did not reach the sixth inning for the fourth consecutive start. Part of the issue is that the fly balls are starting to creep up, and it hurt him in this game with the two home runs. This is not a batted ball outcome he can allow if promoted to Tampa Bay.

 

The changeup is his star pitch, and it is what allows him to limit hard hits. The horizontal movement of the changeup can get up to 20 inches of arm-side break and has achieved a 44% whiff rate on the season. Seymour is part of the low velocity revolution, topping out at 93 mph with the fastball on a good day. The average induced vertical break is strong enough to maintain a stellar whiff rate, especially given its similar release point and flight path to the cutter. He has thrown the four-seamer less often than a month ago, but it is still his primary pitch.

 

My concern for Seymour is likely more acute since I have been following him so closely all season. In addition, I have lost patience, probably too hastily, with the Tampa Bay organization. I am also downgrading their pitchers due to their home ballpark and division foes. That is something they have historically overcome, but it still feels more likely that their rotation will suffer in the open-air, humid conditions of George M. Steinbrenner Field.

 

9.  Joe Boyle, RHP, Tampa Bay Rays

2025 AAA Stat line: 43.0 IP | 1.88 ERA | 27.6 K% | 11.8 BB%

2025 MLB Stat line: 5.0 IP | 0.00 ERA | 38.9 K% | 11.1 BB%

 

There is some drama surrounding Joe Boyle at the moment after being pulled after two innings in his Memorial Day start against Memphis. Reports are that it was a precautionary move and that it was not a specific injury. The announcers continually reminded listeners that both teams arrived for the game early in the morning on what is normally a day off. Boyle was two ticks down on his four-seamer with about one inch less in his usual release height on all pitches. His 62% strike rate on the season is much improved from previous years, so it was startling to see him only reach 53% in this game. Most dynasty managers are buying into this organization fixing his control issues, so hopefully, they don’t also have to help him heal from an injury. His plummet on the stash list is mainly due to the injury concern, and he will bounce up higher if there is nothing significant reported in the next week.

Similar to Misiorowski, Boyle is throwing his fastball at an extreme rate. Boyle’s fastball has less horizontal and vertical movement, but still generates a ton of whiffs. He also produces a lot of free passes with an 18% walk rate on the pitch. If he can’t locate his most frequently thrown pitch, then he will continue to battle with runners on base. Therefore, the splitter is a critical pitch with its zero walk rate, something he should consider throwing more often when he has the feel for it.

 

There will be no need to track Boyle’s call-up if he ends up on the injured list. In addition, frustration levels with how Tampa Bay handles its pitching staff are rising, along with concerns over how batters dominate in its new home ballpark. All of these points factor into the lower ranking for Boyle.

 

10. Michael McGreevy, RHP, St. Louis Cardinals

2025 AA Stat line: 50.2 IP | 3.02 ERA | 25.8 K% | 5.3 BB%

2025 MLB Stat line: 5.1 IP | 0.00 ERA | 25.0 K% | 5.0 BB%

 

Every major league rotation needs arms of different angles, movements, and velocities. Every rotation also needs to guys to just throw a ton of innings. Michael McGreevy is a combination of an innings-eater with a versatile pitch mix. He throws three different fastballs from roughly the same release height that move in all directions at three velocity ranges. His primary pitch is sometimes a looping sweeper with 18 inches of break. Against lefties, he will sprinkle in the changeup and curveball. Although he appears like a bland pitcher with mediocre velocity, McGreevy is a dynamic pitcher for the Cardinals. His pathway is mainly blocked by a healthy rotation, so eyes are on the performance of Andre Pallante. Pallante has a similar maximum velocity now that he finds himself being deployed as a starting pitcher. Pallante is also going deep into games and sometimes getting a decent amount of strikeouts, which takes us back to the profile mentioned at the top of the paragraph. McGreevy just needs to keep plugging away as he builds his case to join the Major League squad.

 

In his latest start against Durham, McGreevy outlasted Ian Seymour to allow only one run over six innings. He reached nine strikeouts by generating 16 whiffs, 10 whiffs alone on the sweeper. That big-breaking slider returns a great 38.8% whiff rate, but he has to locate it well. The sweeper has also given up loud contact to the tune of a .538 slugging percentage, including two home runs. The 6’4″ righty gets a solid 6.5 feet of extension on his entire arsenal. He limits runs. He limits walks. And he has demonstrated a high level of stamina, having thrown at least 134 innings in Triple-A for the last two seasons. You are stashing McGreevy because he will return a ton of innings with a good possibility of 5+ strikeouts.

 

 

On The Bubble

Here are the next several pitchers that were in consideration for inclusion on this week’s list:

Cristian Mena ARI, Gage Jump ATH (Dynasty add), Hurston Waldrep ATL, Nathan Wiles ATL, Braxton Bragg BAL (Dynasty add), Brandon Clarke BOS (Dynasty add), Payton Tolle BOS (Dynasty add), Jaxon Wiggins CHC (Dynasty add), Noah Schultz CHW, Parker Messick CLE, Miguel Ullola HOU, Luinder Avila KCR, Patrick Copen LAD (Dynasty add), Sean Linan LAD (Dynasty add), Jack Wenninger NYM (Dynasty add), Jonah Tong NYM, Nolan McLean NYM, Cam Schlittler NYY (Dynasty add), Griffin Herring NYY (Dynasty add), Henry Baez SDP, Carson Whisenhunt SFG, Tekoah Roby STL (Looking sharp in AA), Trey Yesavage TOR(Dynasty add) & Travis Sykora WSN (Dynasty add who is dominating after recovering from offseason hip issue).

 

Off The List

Here are a few pitchers that have fallen off the stash list:

Noah Schultz CHW (inconsistent performances and still in AA), Carson Whisenhunt SFG (Proximity is questionable since there are many arms ahead of him already on the 40-man roster), Jonah Tong NYM (Lack of proximity and still in AA).

 

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