Major League Baseball’s Draft Lottery will take place at the Winter Meetings in Dallas on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. ET. It’s time to get to know who the 16 teams eligible for the lottery are hoping to get a chance to select.

MLB Pipeline’s new 2025 Top 100 Draft Prospects list provides our first look into what the next class has to offer. While last year’s class was extremely college heavy, the pendulum is shifting in the other direction this year, with a number of exciting high school players, hitters in particular, dotting the new list.

The top 10 of the new rankings is split evenly, with five collegians and prepsters each, starting with a very familiar last name:

1. Ethan Holliday, SS/3B, Stillwater HS, Okla.
2. Jace LaViolette, OF, Texas A&M
3. Jamie Arnold, LHP, Florida State
4. Tyler Bremner, RHP, UC Santa Barbara
5. Seth Hernandez, RHP, Corona HS, Calif.
6. Kayson Cunningham, SS, Johnson HS, Tex.
7. Aiva Arquette, 2B, Oregon State
8. Xavier Neyens, 3B, Mount Vernon HS, Wash.
9. Kruz Schoolcraft, LHP/1B, Sunset HS, Ore.
10. Brendan Summerhill, OF, Arizona
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Yes, that’s Matt’s son and Jackson’s younger brother at the top of the list, giving the Holliday boys the chance to do something that’s never been done: Siblings both going No. 1 overall, surpassing B.J. and Justin Upton, who went No. 2 and No. 1 in their respective Drafts.

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Including Holliday, there are 44 high schoolers on this new ranking, and he represents a demographic that stands out a little more than other groups. There are some very intriguing prep infielders on the list worth keeping an eye on, even beyond Holliday and Cunningham in the top 10. There are three -- Eli Willits, Billy Carlson and Sean Gamble -- in the 11-20 range who are not only high school infielders, but have the chance to play premium positions.

“High school hitters are probably the headline,” one scouting director said. “There are a handful of guys in the infield who have a chance to stay in the middle of the diamond, so that’s always attractive when you see that going into a Draft. I think there’s a subset of the group at the top that has the chance to vault themselves into the first round as well.”

“The high school position group is definitely the strength,” a second director agreed. “Even after you get past the Holliday, Cunningham, Neyens group, it’s really interesting. If they come on in the spring, it might be a really good class.”

While Holliday represents the highest profile Major League family ties story, he’s far from the only one on this list. Willits is the son of former big league speedster, Reggie Willits. No. 25 Brady Ebel’s father, Dino, is the Dodgers’ third-base coach. Quentin Young, at No. 37, is Delmon and Dmitri’s nephew. No. 59 Carson Brumbaugh’s dad, Cliff, touched the big leagues in 2001 and played for years in Korea and Japan. Cam Leiter (No. 90) is Al and Mark’s nephew.

“I think as an industry we do value [family ties] to some degree,” the first scouting director said. “They’ve been around the game, their instincts are advanced, the baseball IQ is generally there. It takes a player longer to figure it out if they don’t have those.”

The University of Tennessee won the College World Series in 2024, and if representation on a Draft Top 100 points to more success, the Volunteers are in good shape. They have six players on the list, starting with No. 24 Dean Curley. Oregon State is next with five representatives, topped by Arquette in the top 10, while Louisiana State has four. Arkansas and Wake Forest each have three and so does Corona High School in California, somewhat surprisingly. The 2024 National High School Invitational champions have three potential first-round picks in Hernandez, Carlson and Ebel.

It’s a pretty deep group out west, and while it’s never surprising to see California have a lot of representation, it is noteworthy that they top the list with 17 players, while the closest state is Tennessee, thanks to all those Volunteers, with nine. Oregon and North Carolina each have eight while Texas and Florida, in a relative down year in the Sunshine State, have seven apiece.

“It’s a really interesting collection of guys with huge upside out west, and a lot of them play up the middle,” the second scouting director said. “Teams like athletic, up-the-middle players who perform on the showcase circuit and you can put together a pretty long list of guys who did that out west.”