Rhett Lowder took home the #3 spot in this year’s Community Prospect Rankings, doing so in a pretty dominant fashion. Next up, we’ll figure out who deserves spot #4 on the list with another crowded ballot full of high draft picks and well regarded risers within the system.

There will be an embedded Google Form with polling that should show up at the bottom of this post, but if you’ve found this through a search engine that strips out embeds, there will be a link right here included during open voting that will take you to your ballot. Once voting closes, they’ll disappear into the ether and you’ll never see them again (until voting for the next spot begins the next day).

On to the voting for the prospect deserving of spot #4!

Cam Collier, 3B/1B (21 years old)

2025 at a glance: .279/.391/.384 with 4 HR, 21 2B in 396 PA split between ACL Reds (Arizona Complex League), A+ Dayton Dragons (Midwest League), and AA Chattanooga Lookouts (Southern League); .221/.368/.325 with 1 HR in 95 PA with Peoria Javelinas (Arizona Fall League)

Pros: Plus hit tool and his plate discipline is rapidly moving into plus category as well; plenty of power that we’re still hoping can return in-game after his thumb injury

Cons: Defense leaves a lot to be desired, and he’s likely already a 1B-only at this point

Collier busted his thumb in spring training in 2025, and the break (and recovery) caused him to miss the first two months of the season. A rehab stint came in Arizona next, and he eventually worked his way all the way up to AA Chattanooga…albeit with a shocking lack of power from the guy who swatted 20 homers for A+ Dayton in 2024, a mark that tied him for the Midwest League lead.

What Collier did do in 2025, though, is begin to show some pretty elite OBP skills, and if he can maintain that and get the power back a year removed from the broken thumb, well, the Reds have the guy they gave an overslot bonus to in the 1st round back in 2022 who repeatedly made Top 100 overall prospect lists in his first years as a pro. And even if that all only comes as a 1B who’s not the world’s greatest defender that’s an incredibly valuable thing, especially with the dearth of offense the franchise owns right now.

Chase Petty, RHP (23 years old)

2025 at a glance: 6.39 ERA, 1.61 WHIP, 102/58 K/BB in 112.2 IP with AAA Louisville Bats (International League); 13 ER in 6.0 IP with Cincinnati Reds

Pros: Three plus pitches, including a fastball that flirts with 100 mph and 60-grade slider and cutter

Cons: Lit up in first cups of MLB coffee, and struggled in AAA after being sent back down

Petty has long been on the radar of every scout in the game, a former 1st round pick of the Minnesota Twins out of high school (whom the Reds had eyes on drafting back then, too). He was the centerpiece of the deal that sent Sonny Gray the other way, and he’s pitched his way onto multiple Top 100 overall prospect lists since.

Of course, he’s also pitched his way back off those same lists, with much of his work in 2025 doing just that. He was shelled at the big league level, though that’s with the caveat that he’d just turned 22 years old when that went down. The stuff’s still there, he’s just struggled to blend it all together for long enough stretches to show he can be an effective big league starter. The hope is that the lumps he took in 2025 paired with a mostly healthy offseason for the first time in a while will send him into 2026 both ready and with something to prove.

Edwin Arroyo, SS (22 years old)

2025 at a glance: .284/.345/.371 with 3 HR, 12 SB in 521 PA with AA Chattanooga Lookouts (Southern League)

Pros: High contact, low-K approach at the plate (just 16.9% K% in ‘25); elite defensive shortstop with plus arm who can switch-hit with success from both sides of the plate; always young at every level he’s played

Cons: Power has dried up since his lost 2024 due to shoulder surgery – will it ever return?

We’ll forgive you if it seems as if we’ve been waiting on Edwin Arroyo forever. After all, it’s now 2026 and the Luis Castillo deal with Seattle was all the way back in 2022. Still, Arroyo played the first 84 games of his 2025 season as a 21 year old in the AA Southern League, and by season’s end he finished tied for 4th in the league in hits (with 132).

By most all accounts, he could step in defensively as Cincinnati’s everyday shortstop today and be pretty dang good at it. Imagine that paired with even a .320 OBP from a switch-hitter! That’s not at all out of the realm of expectations for what he’d be right this very minute!

There’s the shoulder issue we must address, of course. The injury and surgery cost him pretty much all of a lost 2024, and the power he showed in the lower minors simply wasn’t there with Chattanooga in 2025. Maybe that was a bit of rust, a bit of ebb and flow as he cut his strikeout rate significantly from where it was before, a bit of simply working his way all the way back – and, if so, there’ll be more of it in 2026 than in 2025. If it sapped a good bit of his swing for good, though, than he’ll have to reinvent himself.

Editor’s note: I’m still irrationally high on Arroyo, and think he rockets back up prospect lists with a really impressive 2026 with AAA Louisville (and will be in the Reds infield mix by season’s end). But don’t let that sway your vote as the farther down the list he falls this year the more smug I get to be when he’s atop the list next year!

Hector Rodriguez, OF (22 years old)

2025 at a glance: .298/.357/.481 with 12 HR, 6 SB in 345 PA with AA Chattanooga Lookouts (Southern League); .260/.304/.405 with 7 HR, 9 SB in 230 PA with AAA Louisville Bats (International League)

Pros: Plus hit tool featuring low strikeout rates (15.0% last year); potential plus power that’s emerging more in-games

Cons: Aggression at the plate sometimes leads to high chase rates; likely more a corner OF than a CF

Like Arroyo, Rodriguez has continued to be much younger than average at every level, and he technically won’t even turn 22 years old until March. So, we’re talking a 21 year old who spent a third of 2025 at the AAA level and held his own against much older competition here.

He had typically been a gap to gap hitter from the left side, though his power began to show through more in 2025. He does have a tendency to swing at just about everything, though his low K-rate shows just how well he is at actually making contact with even the bad pitches (though that often results in bad contact, too). If he refines that as he moves up – and as the pitchers get better and around the zone more – there’s a chance he’ll keep showing better results, too.

He still needs to show more at the AAA level, but if he does he’ll be in the Reds OF mix as soon as it happens.

Tyson Lewis, SS (20 years old)

2025 at a glance: .340/.396/.532 (.928 OPS) in 207 PA with ACL Reds (Arizona Complex League); .268/.347/.417 (.765 OPS) in 144 PA with Class-A Daytona Tortugas (Florida State League)

Pros: Statcast darling with elite exit velocity and power with his left-handed swing; elite athleticism and plus speed gives him a chance to stick at SS long term, though a move off the position seems likely

Cons: Struck out at an alarming 35.4% rate with Daytona (and at an alarming 29.1% rate overall last year); .432 BABIP across all leagues last year screams ‘regression’

Tools. Tyson Lewis has just about every tool there is. He hit a ball over 119 mph in his pro debut, was the Gatorade Player of the Year in Nebraska prior to being a 2nd round pick (with an overslot bonus) by the Reds, and was originally committed to the University of Arkansas.

The upside here is obvious, as he’s got one of the loudest bats at any level. The swing and miss stuff, though, is something he’ll have to completely overhaul as he moves up the ladder, though getting out of the extremely pitcher-friendly confines of the FSL will perhaps help that some.

Steele Hall, SS (18 years old)

2025 at a glance: Drafted 9th overall in the 1st round of the 2025 MLB Draft by the Cincinnati Reds out of Hewitt-Trussville HS (AL); 2025 Mr. Baseball in the state of Alabama, once committed to powerhouse University of Tennessee before signing with the Reds for $5.75 million

Pros: Speed, and plenty of it; projectable power and potential five-tool player whose defense and arm look like they’ll play plenty well at short; just 17 years old when drafted after reclassifying a year early

Cons: It’s all still ‘projectable’ as, again, he just turned 18 after the draft and has zero professional PA to show for it

Hall reclassified to the class of 2025 despite originally being part of the class of 2026, and the Reds – who’d been scouting him already – thought he had the talent to eventually mature into a player who’d be in the mix for the #1 overall pick in 2026. So, when he was there at pick #9 in 2025, they jumped at the chance to sign him, knowing full well there was no rush for his development.

He’s drawn comparisons to the likes of Trea Turner and Dansby Swanson, which is pretty damn lofty. Despite not having played a pro game and still being just 18, he’s ranked 79th in MLB Pipeline’s list of the Top 100 overall prospects in the game. How quickly he can physically mature and adapt to breaking balls at the top levels remains to be seen, but the speed, glove, and arm all look like they’ll be big-league caliber in very short order.