Baseball America’s final reshuffle still left the Dodgers with seven names on its top-100 list, even after the Dodgers sent Zyhir Hope and River Ryan to the Detroit Tigers in the Tarik Skubal deal. The move did not thin the system the way a blockbuster trade usually does.
That is why people are checking Mlb Farm System Rankings 2026 now: the Dodgers did not just survive the trade, they stayed crowded near the top. Josue De Paula was fourth overall, Eduardo Quintero was 16th, Mike Sirota was 19th and Christian Zazueta jumped from 50th to 24th after a promotion to Double-A that brought 39 strikeouts and only two walks in 24 innings.
Emil Morales came in at 29th and was still a teenager in High-A, which helps explain why the Dodgers had five players in the top-29. That put them in a class of their own in one simple sense: 12 teams did not have a single player ranked that high, while the Dodgers had five. The gap was even wider at the top of the list, where three Dodgers outfielders sat inside the top-20.
Zazueta’s rise is the clearest example of how these rankings were built. The leap from 50 to 24 was not a guess or a reputation bump. It followed results after the promotion, and those results were hard to ignore: batters missed him, and when they did make contact, he rarely gave them a free pass. That kind of jump changes how a system looks in a final ranking update.
The one thing Baseball America did not settle was the full identity of the seven Dodgers names. It named the headliners and left the rest of the group to the list itself, which keeps the system deep enough to fuel more debate than certainty. Zach Root was 67th and Charles Davalan was 89th, and both were picked with consecutive picks in the 2025 draft after coming out of the University of Arkansas. The Dodgers still look loaded, but the next real question is whether the list changes again before the season starts, or whether this is the final word on a farm system that kept its edge even after a major trade.
