Power wins games. As MLB Network insider Tom Verducci has noted, the last six World Series champions have ranked first, third, fourth, third, third and second in regular-season home runs.
Teams are always hunting more long balls, and we’re here to tell you where they can get them. We’ve identified the best power prospect in each farm system below, a group of sluggers that includes 18 members of MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 list.
Blue Jays: Arjun Nimmala, SS (MLB No. 77)
Nimmala was always going to be a long-term project when Toronto drafted him 20th overall at just 17 years old in 2023, and almost three years later, this is still a projection play. His right-handed swing features a vicious uppercut, and he’s been filling out his 6-foot-1 frame with 20 added pounds of muscle this offseason. His 13 homers last year may not have jumped off the page, but keep in mind they were the second-most by a 19-year-old in a Northwest League season since the circuit transitioned to full-season ball.
Orioles: Samuel Basallo, C/1B (MLB No. 8)
The AL East will get to know Basallo’s powerful left-handed bat full time in 2026. The fact he’s at least an above-average hitter gives confidence he’s going to get to his tremendous raw pop at the highest level. He registered some of the most impressive exit velocities in the Minors last year, with a max EV of 115.9 mph and his 90th percentile EV of 108.2. If he turns into a plus hitter, our 65 power grade might be light.
Rays: Xavier Isaac, 1B (1B No. 9)
Isaac’s pure raw power is some of the best in the Minor Leagues, and his top-end exit velocities have long been above the MLB standard. He was limited to only 41 games with Double-A Montgomery in 2025 and later revealed he underwent “life-saving” brain surgery in the middle of the summer. Health is the most important thing for Isaac, and after he returns to play this spring, everyone in the Tampa Bay system can get back to dreaming of future 35+-homer seasons from the first baseman.
Red Sox: Justin Gonzales, OF
Gonzales not only has the most raw power in Boston’s system but also some of the best bat-to-ball skills, which helped him win the Carolina League batting title (.298) as the Single-A circuit’s second-youngest qualifier (age 18). Signed for $250,000 out of the Dominican Republic in 2024, he has considerable bat speed and strength but also had the 11th-worst ground-ball rate (57 percent) in the Minors last year, which is why he went deep just four times in 81 games and slugged .423. He has at least 30-homer upside if he can improve his bat path.
Yankees: Spencer Jones, OF
Jones had a monster 2025 season, slashing .274/.362/.571 with 35 homers and 29 steals in 116 games between Double-A and Triple-A while ranking second in the Minors in homers and fifth in slugging, but he also carried a 35 percent strikeout rate. The 2022 first-rounder from Vanderbilt combines bat speed, strength and leverage for huge raw power, but he also has a naturally long swing, chases too many pitches and misses too many strikes.
Guardians: Chase DeLauter, OF (MLB No. 46)
DeLauter’s unusual combination of size, athleticism, performance and plate discipline comes with plus usable power and the plus hitting ability to tap into it. Repeated injuries have limited him to 138 Minor League games since he went 16th overall out of James Madison in 2022 (and he was scratched Wednesday from a Cactus League game for precautionary reasons), but his .302/.384/.504 line with 20 homers is testament to his potential.
Royals: Carter Jensen, C (MLB No. 18)
As is the case with much of his game, Jensen has steadily grown his power in pro ball, going from 11 homers in his first full season to 23 last year between Double-A, Triple-A and the Majors. His data over the small sample of The Show was special too, showing big bat speed and a repeated ability to find the barrel. With the Kauffman Stadium dimensions becoming more hitter-friendly in ‘26, Jensen seems to have picked a good time to mount a Rookie of the Year campaign.
Tigers: Josue Briceño, C/1B (MLB No. 40)
Briceño won the Arizona Fall League Triple Crown in 2024 by hitting .433 with 10 homers and 27 RBIs in 25 games and followed that up by slugging a career-best 20 dingers in 100 games between High-A and Double-A last year. The left-handed slugger has big-time strength and gets it to appear in games by constantly elevating on contact. His numbers slipped in the Eastern League, but he was still young for the league at 20 years old and building on his longest season yet. He could push for 30+ homers deeper into his 20s, lessening the worry that he’ll need to move to first base full time.
Twins: Walker Jenkins, OF (MLB No. 14)
We’ve toggled back and forth between Jenkins and fellow outfield prospect Emmanuel Rodriguez over the past few years, and both have had issues staying healthy in order to show off their plus power. Jenkins gets the edge this time around because his feel for hitting provides a little more confidence he’ll keep tapping into his pop. Even with all his missed time, the left-handed hitter has slugged .464 in his career and had a 135 wRC+ last year. He homered 10 times in 84 games in 2025 and he’s barely scratching the surface.
White Sox: Braden Montgomery, OF (MLB No. 36)
Considered more of a hit-over-power guy when he was one of the best two-way prospects in the 2021 high school class, Montgomery now stands out with his plus-plus raw pop. A switch-hitter with lightning-fast bat speed, he came from the Red Sox in the Garrett Crochet trade in December 2024 and batted .270/.360/.444 with 12 homers and 50 extra-base hits in 121 games while advancing from Single-A to Double-A in his subsequent pro debut.
Angels: Gabriel Davalillo, C
Signed for $2 million at the start of the 2025 international signing period, Davalillo put his best foot forward during his debut in the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League, finishing with a .302/.408/.518 line to go along with seven homers in 41 games. He has a solid approach and can really turn on pitches to his pull side. His size and raw pop draw Francisco Alvarez comps and if he can commit to his conditioning routine, he could be a middle-of-the-order type, regardless of where he plays defensively.
Astros: Xavier Neyens, SS
Neyens’ combination of physicality and power propelled the Washington prep product to the No. 21 overall pick in the 2025 Draft and a $4.12 million bonus. He already has at least plus-plus raw power and can launch balls in the air regularly. He does come with some questions about his hitting ability, but the Astros have helped him make some mechanical adjustments to get his bat on time more often.
Athletics: Devin Taylor, OF
The A’s don’t waste much time in pushing college hitter draftees up to the big leagues, so don’t be surprised if Taylor, their second-round pick last year, jumps on that fast track. He has the bat to do it, after hitting an Indiana career home record with 54 long balls, then smacking six more over 28 games during his pro debut. The left-handed hitter can generate power to all fields, makes a ton of contact — he even cut down his chase rate during his junior year with the Hoosiers — and does a good job recognizing spin.
Mariners: Lazaro Montes, OF (MLB No. 43)
There’s some swing-and-miss here, but it comes with about as much raw power as anyone on this list. The huge 6-foot-5 left-handed hitter regularly brings bat speed and loft to the box, and while his strikeout rate went up last year, mostly because he struggled in his first taste of Double-A, he has an approach. He hit 32 homers in 2025 and has slugged .518 thus far in his career. Don’t be shocked to see him figure out Double-A pitching, which he’ll face at age 21, this season.
Rangers: Sebastian Walcott, SS/3B (MLB No. 7)
The youngest batting qualifier (19 years old) at Double-A last year, Walcott ranked as the best prospect in the Texas League after slashing .255/.355/.386 with 13 homers in 124 games and generating higher exit velocities than almost any player his age — and many big leaguers of any age. Signed for $3.2 million out of the Bahamas in 2023, he’ll miss much of this season after having internal brace surgery last week.
Braves: David McCabe, 3B/1B
A switch-hitter, McCabe hit 30 homers in his sophomore and junior years at UNC Charlotte, helping him land in the fourth round of the 2022 Draft. When he hit 17 homers in his first full season of pro ball, it looked like he was on his way to establishing himself as a solid corner infield option for the Braves. That progress was slowed by Tommy John surgery in February 2024, limiting him to just 35 post-surgery games. He hit 14 more out in 2025 while reaching Triple-A for the first time.
Marlins: Owen Caissie, OF (MLB No. 42)
The key prospect in the January deal that shipped Edward Cabrera to the Cubs, Caissie always has produced despite consistently being one of the youngest players in his leagues. He batted .286/.386/.551 with 22 homers in 99 Triple-A games at age 22, ranking third in the International League in OPS while demonstrating one of the best combinations of bat speed, strength, leverage and all-fields power in the Minors.
Mets: Ryan Clifford, 1B/OF (1B No. 5)
Clifford has gone deep 72 times over his first three full seasons in pro ball, tying him for the eighth-most homers in the Minors since 2023. That’s despite being young for every level he’s played at, including Triple-A, where he rounded out his age-21 season last summer. There’s a good combination of lower-half strength, bat speed and lift-and-pull angles that makes his pop his most exciting tool, and after dealing with strikeout issues for much of his career, he exhibited more promising contact rates at the Minors’ top level.
Nationals: Ethan Petry, OF/1B
Petry set the South Carolina freshman record with 23 homers in 2023, added 21 more as a sophomore and was limited to only 44 games as a junior due to a sprained left shoulder. No matter, the Nationals still took him in the second round in 2025 and he made up for the lost time in the Arizona Fall League, where he topped out with a 114.8 mph max EV and regularly showed bat speeds above 75 mph — much more promising signs than his .298 SLG in the desert. Petry is healthy this spring and already appearing in Grapefruit League games.
Phillies: Aidan Miller, SS (MLB No. 23)
In the summer before his senior year of high school, Miller won a high school home run derby, serving notice that his raw power was legit. A broken hamate didn’t let him show it off during his senior year, and even though he’s knocking on the door by reaching Triple-A last year, the 21-year-old is still figuring out how to get to his power as a pro. An adjustment to his approach in 2025 unlocked a lot, and he had a 1.099 OPS from Aug. 1 through the end of the season as he learned to attack pitches early in counts to get to his pop without sacrificing his hit tool.
Brewers: Blake Burke, 1B
Burke hit 20 homers and slugged .702 in 72 games for the national title-winning Tennessee team in 2024, leading the Brewers to take him 34th overall in that year’s Draft. He didn’t produce at the same over-the-fence level in his first full season at High-A Wisconsin, but that script flipped with a second-half promotion to Double-A Biloxi, where he went deep 11 times in 37 games after lifting the ball more consistently. Burke relies on upper-body strength and minimal lower-body load to get to his pop, and it should be interesting to see how he builds on that late ‘25 momentum in year two.
Cardinals: Rainiel Rodriguez, C (MLB No. 37)
Rodriguez headed stateside with plenty of intrigue after slugging .683 in 41 Dominican Summer League games in 2024, and he managed to beat expectations by going deep 20 times in 84 contests across the Rookie-level Florida Complex League, Single-A and High-A. His 104.2 mph 90th-percentile exit velocity in the Florida State League was great for someone in his age-19 season, and he regularly pulls and lifts the ball to turn that loud contact into extra-base knocks (like his 106.7 mph double on Sunday). He could be one of the game’s best slugging catchers by the time he reaches the bigs.
Cubs: Kevin Alcántara, OF
Part of the trade that sent Anthony Rizzo to the Yankees in July 2021, the 6-foot-6 Alcántara possesses a rare combination of size and athleticism, and his package of tools includes well-above-average raw power that enables him to knock balls out of any part of the park. He still needs to improve his selectivity to maximize his damage, but he batted .266/.349/.470 with a career-high 17 homers as a 22-year-old at Triple-A.
Pirates: Konnor Griffin, SS/OF (MLB No. 1)
For this entry, just go watch the two homers Griffin hit against the Red Sox in Grapefruit League action on Tuesday. We’ll wait. With the adjustments to his mechanical setup at the plate, Griffin fixed holes in his swing to turn himself into a plus hitter with at least plus power. Maybe there are others on this list with more raw power, but you’d be hard-pressed to find someone with more usable pop than the 19-year-old phenom. He is, as Bryce Harper put it, “a grown-ass man.”
Reds: Sal Stewart, INF (MLB No. 22)
An interesting debate can be had here between Stewart and fellow Top 100 prospect Alfredo Duno (No. 38), and Duno might have more raw pop. But Stewart’s feel for hitting breeds confidence he’s going to keep getting to his right-handed thump consistently, and in the big leagues. He hit 20 homers and slugged .524 in the Minors last year, then led the Reds with five home runs in September. There’s a reason he’s a legit Rookie of the Year contender.
D-backs: Ryan Waldschmidt, OF (MLB No. 59)
The player the D-backs took with their 2024 PPI pick after Corbin Carroll’s Rookie of the Year win, the Kentucky product showed little issue bringing his power to the pro side with a .473 slugging percentage and 18 homers between High-A and Double-A in his first full season. It may be closer to above-average raw power than plus, but he brings it to play with an uphill swing that allows him to yank the ball in the air. The 23-year-old is a dark horse candidate to win a Major League job in Arizona’s outfield this spring.
Dodgers: Josue De Paula, OF (MLB No. 15)
De Paula earns comparison to a slightly smaller but more athletic version of Yordan Alvarez because of his advanced combination of swing decisions and exit velocities. Signed for $397,500 out of the Dominican Republic in 2022, he was named Futures Game MVP last July after going deep off White Sox lefty Noah Schultz (MLB No. 49) and spent most of his age-20 season at High-A, where he ranked second in the pitcher-friendly Midwest League in on-base percentage (.406), OPS (.827) and walks (82) while homering 12 times in 98 games.
Giants: Bryce Eldridge, 1B (MLB No. 25)
No one on this list has more raw power than Eldridge, who has exceptional strength and leverage in his 6-foot-7 frame and a left-handed stroke with bat speed and loft. He has 40-homer upside and launched 25 homers in 100 games between Double-A and Triple-A despite battling wrist and hamstring injuries, then became the youngest position player in the Majors (age 20) when he made his big league debut in mid-September.
Padres: Alex McCoy, OF
McCoy will be one of the players everyone notices in any ballpark he enters because he’s built like a tank at 6-foot-6, 260 pounds. A nondrafted free-agent signing out of Hofstra in 2024, he worked around hamstring and quad issues to slug .513 with six homers in 53 games for Single-A Lake Elsinore. More impressively, he ran his top-end exit velocity up to 118 mph. There might be some swing-and-miss to watch as he works his way up the chain and he’s already 24, but this rare type of raw pop will make McCoy worth following at High-A and above.
Rockies: Ethan Holliday, SS (MLB No. 24)
Son of Matt, brother of Jackson, Holliday was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2025 Draft and sat atop our Top 250 rankings. He might have as much raw and usable power as anyone in his Draft class and he can get to it effortlessly. It’s a swing built for power with strength, bat speed and leverage. There are some swing-and-miss concerns, but don’t read too much into his very brief pro debut when he was pushed to full-season ball. He’ll play all year at age 19, with plenty of time to figure it all out.
