CINCINNATI ¨C Building and maintaining a competitive window via their farm system has been the Reds¡¯ long-time goal. Heading into the 2025 season, it looks as if they are still making inroads developing promising young talent that could help the big league club in the near future.

On Friday, MLB Pipeline revealed its newest Top 100 prospects with Spring Training just weeks away. For the second year in a row, five members of the Reds organization made the list. That is again tied for the most Cincinnati has had since MLB.com started posting lists in 2004.

Here is a breakdown of the Reds in the rankings:

RHP Chase Burns: No. 26 overall

RHP Rhett Lowder: No. 35

3B Sal Stewart: No. 84

3B Cam Collier: No. 91

SS Edwin Arroyo: No. 92

Only the Cubs and Mariners (seven each), White Sox, Dodgers and Tigers (six each) have more players in the Top 100. The annual rankings are put together by the MLB Pipeline team, which creates the list using input from industry sources, including scouts, scouting directors and other evaluators. It is an aggregate analysis that considers the players¡¯ skill sets, upside, proximity to the Majors and potential impact on their teams.

The list only includes players with rookie status in 2024, including Lowder, who debuted last year but did not accumulate enough service time (45 days on the active roster), or innings pitched (50) to graduate.

Of the Reds¡¯ group, only Burns has yet to play a professional inning. The 22-year-old was the second overall selection in the 2024 Draft out of Wake Forest, but given the time off between his college season and the Draft, Cincinnati wanted to give him a clean slate and hold him from pitching until the instructional league and the 2025 season.

Burns' plan is similar to one that was already followed by Lowder, who was taken seventh overall ¨C also from Wake Forest ¨C in 2023. In 2024, Lowder made 22 starts in the Minors before reaching the Major Leagues on Aug. 30.

Once up, Lowder went 2-2 with a 1.17 ERA and a 1.27 WHIP in six big league starts. In 30 2/3 innings, he allowed 25 hits and 14 walks with 22 strikeouts. Set to turn 23 in March, Lowder is well-positioned to compete for a spot in Cincinnati's rotation this spring.

Stewart, 21, batted .279/.391/.454 with eight home runs and 46 RBIs while notching almost as many walks (50) as strikeouts (57) over his 80 games and 338 plate appearances for High-A Dayton last season. A wrist injury that required surgery in mid-July prematurely ended his season. Stewart, who was the 32nd overall pick in the 2022 Draft, will likely open 2025 at Double-A.

Collier is still only 20 despite being about to enter his third full professional season. The lefty hitter batted .248/.355/.443 and tapped into his power potential with 20 homers and 74 RBIs in 119 games for Dayton.

Arroyo, 21, missed the entire 2024 season after tearing the labrum in his left shoulder diving back to first base on a pickoff play in March during a game vs. the Giants. After recovering from surgery, he made up some reps by playing 18 games in the Arizona Fall League and showing that he was healthy. After he spent nearly all of 2023 in Dayton, Arroyo was expected to open '24 with Double-A Chattanooga and will likely be there to begin '25.