2025 Bowman Baseball Checklist: What you need to know

Other Notable Prospects

Several prospects who either just missed Just Baseball’s top 100 list and or are ranked within the top 10 of their team’s farm system are featured on the checklist as well. This group includes:

• Franklin Arias – SS – Red Sox
  Jhostynxon Garcia – OF – Red Sox
• Eduardo Quintero – OF – Dodgers
  Josue Briceño – 1B – Tigers
  Gary Gill Hill – RHP – Rays
  Jhonny Level – SS – Giants
  Luis Peña – SS – Brewers
  Yophery Rodriguez – OF – Brewers
  Malcolm Moore – C – Rangers
  PJ Morlando – OF – Marlins
  Sam Stafura – SS – Reds 
  Jonah Tong – RHP – Mets
  Winston Santos – RHP – Rangers
  Walker Janek – C – Astros
  Caleb Lomavita – C – Nationals
  

Don’t Sleep

When you have a checklist that features 105 autographs, there’s surely going to be some overlooked prospects and this crop has the potential to offer several diamonds in the rough. Here’s some potential sleepers in the product:

Aron Estrada – 2B – Orioles
Franyerber Montilla – 2B – Tigers
Èmilien Pitre – 2B – Rays
Payton Eeles – 2B/SS – Twins
Hyun-Seok Jang – RHP – Dodgers
Cobb Hightower – 2B – Padres
Jonathan Long – 1B – Cubs
Matt Wilkinson – LHP – Guardians
Yeremi Cabrera – OF – Rangers
Luis Merejo – 1B – Guardians
Will Simpson – 1B – Athletics

Finally, Some Hope!

Dodgers top prospect Zyhir Hope is a fascinating name on the checklist. The #8 prospect on our Top 100 was supposed to have his 1st Bowman autos back in last year’s 2024 Bowman. The card was even used in the promotional content leading up to the release.

Then…nothing. Well a little something. As of this writing only three true 1st Bowman autos of him in a Cubs uniform have surfaced. His true blue “My first Bowman Auto” as well as a pair of red lava /5 versions. Whether this was an error on the inclusion of them or on how many they actually printed is still a mystery.

In the next two Bowman releases he had prospect cards in a Dodgers uniform but no autos. Something that has been seen before (see Merrill, Jackson), but not to this magnitude as previous cases we still at least had 1st Bowman chrome non-autos. With Hope, we don’t. He does have autos in this set so interested to see if tops designates them with a 1st, but I can’t see that happening.