Updated Yankees top 30 prospects list shows 2025 MLB Draft's impressive early impact

If you're disillusioned by the New York Yankees' recent play over the past (checks watch) six years, you're not alone. While it can feel inauthentic to tout farm system success when we've seen countless Yankees position player prospects hit the big leagues and regress, it still means a lot to the future of the franchise to have genuinely respected assets to deal in moments of uncertainty.

That's not to say the Yankees should be proud of keeping their top seven prospects untouched at this summer's deadline, but ... as long as they're not off limits this winter, when they're trying to build a complete roster instead of patch one up on the fly, we can get behind it.

After an impressive 2025 Draft and step foward for the entire farm this season, it seems the Yankees have doubled the respected trade assets they had last offseason. That counts for something.

MLB Pipeline updated their Top 100 rankings this week, as well as released refreshed Top 30 lists for each team after a summer of drafting and dealing. 2025 Yankees first-rounder Dax Kilby was the highest-ranked new entrant on the team-specific list, coming in at No. 8. Other high-ranked newcomers include Jeff Kent's son Kaeden at No. 13, SEC lefty Pico Kohn at No. 15, and infielder Core Jackson at No. 18.

Four Yankees — George Lombard Jr. (25), Carlos Lagrange (82), Cam Schlittler (91), Spencer Jones (92) — made the Top 100, the same number of selections as the Farm System Champion Baltimore Orioles. Not bad. Seems good.

Yankees' 2025 first-round MLB Draft pick Dax Kilby debuts in MLB Pipeline Top 30 prospects list at No. 8

The middle portion of the list also accounts nicely for some of the Yankees' biggest summer breakouts, with Brendan Jones and Dillon Lewis rising to Nos. 16 and 17 (even if many believe Lewis deserves more of a bump closer to the top 10).

In all, that top seven remains rock solid, especially as Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz continues to distinguish himself. Perhaps the clearest takeaway is that no draftee was able to immediately tap into the Yankees' molten core at the top of these rankings, which shows that New York has nicely developed and retained their best chips. It also indicates they nicely refilled the middle of their system by developing a few 2024 steals and adding some impact pieces from a limited 2025 draft pool.