2025 Community Prospect Rankings: Edwin Arroyo is the Reds #3 prospect!

All he needs now is a healthy 2025 season!

After a 2024 that was almost completely lost to injury, Edwin Arroyo finally made his return to the diamond in the Arizona Fall League last October. His numbers there in a terribly small sample didn’t exactly jump off the page, but he once again showed his trademark excellence as a defender and baserunner, highlighting the skills that have had executives across the game holding him in high regards for years.

He’s still just 21 years old, yet has been judged to be a big-league caliber defender at shortstop for years already. When his shoulder is right, he’s shown the ability to be a gap hitter from both sides of the plate, something that should be on display for AA Chattanooga from day one in 2025.

He’s also younger right now than Matt McLain was when McLain was drafted out of UCLA.

There’s still a ton of time for the best of Arroyo to emerge, and that talent level was good enough for you to vote him as the #3 prospect in the Cincinnati Reds system for 2025.

Chase Petty, RHP – 22 years old

2024 at a glance: 4.20 ERA, 1.34 WHIP, 130/59 K/BB in 137.0 IP split between Chattanooga Lookouts (AA Southern League) and Louisville Bats (AAA International League)

Pros: Athletic build, fastball that can touch 100 mph; plus slider, developing changeup; allowed zero (0) home runs in 68.0 IP in 2023

Cons: Walk-rate spiked in 2024 (3.9 after sitting at 2.0 in 2023)

As Doug Gray noted at RedsMinorLeagues.com, Petty’s stuff looked better than ever in 2024 despite his numbers taking a bit of a step back. He dealt with an elbow injury early in the 2023 campaign that limited his workload and perhaps cost him a bit of velocity, but the power pitcher the Reds thought they’d acquired from Minnesota in the Sonny Gray deal finally looked to be back last year.