The 2024 season was one for the books, but as we look ahead to what's next with just weeks to go before Spring Training games get underway, it's clear that the best is yet to come. That, of course, begins with the reveal of MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list for 2025.

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2025 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 24, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com.

It's the 21st anniversary of MLB.com's first top prospects list, and the 2025 edition of our Top 100 Prospects could be the most loaded with game-changing talent as any list yet!

At the conclusion of the 2024 calendar year, we saw the Nationals' Dylan Crews, the Twins' Walker Jenkins, the Red Sox' Roman Anthony, the Rays' Carson Williams and the Tigers' Jackson Jobe headline this list.

Who will be No. 1 this year? Who will make the biggest leap? Who will slide? And which prospects will we see on this list for the first time?

Tune in Friday to find out!

How the Top 100 is determined

The MLB Pipeline team compiles the rankings using input from industry sources, including scouts, scouting directors and other evaluators. The rankings are an aggregate analysis, taking the players¡¯ skill set, upside, proximity to the Majors and potential immediate impact to their teams into account.

The list only includes players with rookie status in 2025, meaning players who debuted in ¡¯24 but did not accumulate the service time (45 days on the active roster), at-bats (130) or innings pitched (50) to graduate are eligible again this year. First-year players who fall outside of the international pool money rules laid out in the Collective Bargaining Agreement -- that is, who are at least 23 years old and played in international leagues deemed professional -- are not eligible. That excludes some older rookies debuting after careers in places like Japan, Korea and Cuba. Because Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki is 23 and was subject to the international pool money rules, he is eligible for this year's list.

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Former MLB No. 1 prospects

Former No. 1 prospects include the likes of Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani, Joe Mauer and numerous other players who count MVP trophies, Cy Young Awards or Rookie of the Year honors among their respective accomplishments. Last year's NL Rookie of the Year, Paul Skenes, was No. 3 when the 2024 version of this list was unveiled.

MLB's preseason No. 1 prospects by year

2024: Jackson Holliday, SS/2B, BAL
2023: Gunnar Henderson, 3B/SS, BAL
2022: Bobby Witt Jr., SS/3B, KC
2021: Wander Franco, SS, TB
2020: Wander Franco, SS, TB
2019: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 3B, TOR
2018: Shohei Ohtani, RHP/OF, LAA
2017: Andrew Benintendi, OF, BOS
2016: Corey Seager, SS, LAD
2015: Byron Buxton, OF, MIN
2014: Byron Buxton, OF, MIN
2013: Jurickson Profar, SS, TEX
2012: Matt Moore, LHP, TB
2011: Mike Trout, OF, LAA
2010: Jason Heyward, OF, ATL
2009: David Price, LHP, TB
2008: Jay Bruce, OF, CIN
2007: Delmon Young, OF, TB
2006: Delmon Young, OF, TB
2005: Delmon Young, OF, TB
2004: Joe Mauer, C, MIN