Junior Caminero is the new No. 1 prospect in baseball, according to Baseball America.
According to Baseball America, Tampa Bay Rays infielderJunior Caminero is the new No. 1 prospect in all of baseball. They updated their Top 100 rankings on Tuesday and put this note out on social media:With the graduation of Jackson Holliday , Caminero is also the No. 1 prospect in the MLB.com Top 100.
The 21-year-old is currently up with the big-league club. He's hitting .275 in 19 games for Tampa Bay. He has three home runs, nine RBI and two stolen bases.The following comes from a portion of his MLB.com prospect profile: Starting from an open stance, the right-handed slugger routinely unloads on pitches of all kinds with exit velocities that would pop up Major League leaderboards right now, nevermind ones adjusted for age. It’s near top-of-the-scale power that plays to all fields -- eight of his 20 Double-A homers went the other way to right -- and it’s a big reason why Tampa Bay wanted him nearby in the playoffs.
Caminero can play second or third base and should assume the position full-time for the Rays in the 2025 season. Though they will miss the playoffs this year, Tampa Bay is well positioned moving forward given that pitchers Drew Rasmussen, Jeffry Springs and Shane McClanahan should all be fully healthy.Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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