Top Standouts in the Los Angeles Angels’ Farm System
While the Angels' farm system is constantly being ranked as one of the worst in baseball, it is still full of plenty of young talent that has a chance to make an impact at the big league level.
While the Los Angeles Angels‘ farm system is constantly being ranked as one of the worst in baseball, it is still full of plenty of young talent that has a chance to make an impact at the big league level.
The Arizona Complex League Angels took home their first ever championship in 2025 and the lower levels of the organization contains a lot of prospects that could make up the future of the Angels’ major league team.
As of June 29, all six of the Angels minor affiliates have records above .500, signaling that the future could be bright for a team that hasn’t appeared in the playoffs since 2014 at the game’s highest level.
Highlighted below are a handful of prospects from each level that have been excelling in the first half of the 2026 season.
Triple-A Salt Lake
Rada has been a top prospect in the Angels organization ever since joining them as part of their 2022 international signing class. He ranked as the 29th best prospect in the class and brings more than just a contact-first bat.
Rada is above-average in the speed, arm, and fielding departments, making him a primary candidate to take over the Angels’ center field duties in the near future.
Through 70 games this season, Rada already has 25 stolen bases and has stolen more than 50 bags in two of his five affiliated seasons. He’s gonna get on base and use his speed to create runs.
As mentioned, power is not a part of Rada’s game. Across five minor league seasons he has only managed to hit eight home runs. Don’t worry about that aspect, because Rada has hit for a .275 batting average to accompany an above-average .385 on-base percentage.
That in part is as result of his career 12.7% walk rate and a 18.8% strikeouts clip — both being above-average marks elevating his offensive profile. Rada does a good job at swinging at pitches in the zone, and ranks in the 71st percentile for making contact with those pitches. As a whole he’s gonna constantly make contact with his 18.9% whiff rate puts him in the 76th percentile.
The only problem is that Rada will hit a lot of ground balls, hence his 56.8% mark this season. His batted-ball metrics are pretty slim picking and he ranks in the bottom in terms of exit velocity, barrel rate, and hard-hit percentage.
Other Notable Standouts:
Victor was the Angels 15th round selection in 2024 out of UCF. He hasn’t been viewed as a top-30 prospect since he entered the system but has shown promising results in the upper levels of the minors.
This year between Double- and Triple-A, Victor has pitched to a 3.38 ERA while striking out 12.8 batters per nine innings. Even with the strikeouts, he’ll give out a lot of free passes and tends to get hit pretty hard. Over his three minor league seasons, Victor walks 6.2 batters every nine innings.
This year, Victor has featured a fastball sitting around 98 mph paired with a slider that sits in the lower 80s. His surface level stats look promising, but his underlying numbers have kept him out of the rankings. He’ll have to clean up his command and control and limit the hard contact moving forward.
Gobbel is in a boat similar to Victor. He hasn’t had much prospect hype but has put together a nice season with the Salt Lake Bees. He was an undrafted free agent signed by the Angels in 2022 out of Belmont Abbey College.
Thus far in 2026, Gobbel has spent most of his time in Double- and Triple-A along with four games in the complex league. Overall, he owns a .279 batting average and an .824 OPS. He has five homers thus far, but he did hit 17 home runs last season and has the ability to drive in 50-60 runs per season.
Double-A Rocket City
Since being drafted by the Angels in the 19th round of the 2023 MLB Draft out of Georgia Premier Academy, Rodriguez has been one of the more surprising and fun stories to follow within the organization this season and last.
Rodriguez didn’t do much at the plate during his first two affiliated seasons in the Arizona Complex League. He broke out last season in Single-A as he owned a .281 batting average and .842 OPS to go along with 14 home runs.
This wasn’t a fluke as he played in 125 games while making 560 plate appearances. It was hard to know if this performance could be sustained with Rodriguez not being in any top-30s last year and he wasn’t mentioned much before his breakout season.
He has proved so far in 2026 that he’ll be able to maintain the production we got to see last season. Rodriguez’ impressive 2025 campaign earned him a promotion to Double-A where the success has carried over.
Rodriguez already has 11 home runs putting him on pace to almost double his 2025 total — even at a better level of play. He’s batting .292 and sporting a career best .890 OPS. This impressive start has caught the eye of MLB Pipeline and Baseball America where he is now viewed as an Angels top-30 prospect by both sites.
Last season in Single-A, Rodriguez managed above-average walk and strikeouts rates but has further improved in 2026. In 2025, Rodriguez walked 11.3% and struck out at a 23.2% clip. Both were respectable marks, but so far this season Rodriguez has bumped his walk rate up to 15.9% while cutting his strikeouts to a 19.2% mark.
Hitting the ball to the opposite field is Rodriguez’ sweet spot as shown by his 45.2% opp rate and only a 9% pull-air rate. You’ll see a lot of his home runs fly out to right field with him being a right-handed hitter.
Contact has been an issue for Rodriguez, and that will be a very telling fact to show if he’s ready to take the next step in his young, bright career.
Other Notable Standouts:
Flores is forcing his way into the Angels catching mix of the future. He’s a rising prospect and his good first half play in High-A earned him a recent promotion to Double-A. The 20-year-old is on pace to make his major league debut in 2028.
He is a great defensive catcher with a plus arm which is great for the Angels future. Logan O’Hoppe and Travis d’Arnaud were the main catching duo coming into this season but are both pretty bad defensively.
Flores could change that landscape in a couple of years.
On top of the defense, he can also hit. He already has 13 home runs this season, including two in Double-A within his first 20 plate appearances. He’s hitting .273 for the season paired with a .878 OPS — both the best clips of his career.
After being drafted in the fourth round of the 2025 draft, Munroe has delivered better results than the organization and fans might have expected. The third baseman out of the University of Louisville started the season in Low-A Tri-City where he had a .258 batting average, .896 OPS, and 11 home runs.
His metrics all look good except for his speed and low swing rates. After an impressive 56 game stint in Low-A, the Angels decided to promote Munroe to Double-A where he already has a few of games under his belt.
Munroe has shown good plate discipline so far walking at a 13.6% clip while only striking out 17.2% of the time. As previously mentioned, his metrics look good, so seeing how his approach at the plate goes moving forward will determine his prospect value and ability to stay productive at all levels of play.
High-A Tri-City
When the Angels decided to draft Bremner with the second overall pick in 2025, it was seen as a shock. It’s been a common theme for the Angels to go under-slot in recent years so they can save money for prep arms in later rounds.
Bremner has only tossed 32 innings this year due as he has been dealing with fatigue and illness. When he has pitched, he has done it well pitching to a 2.81 ERA and 1.22 WHIP. He has struck out 44 batters translating to an impressive 33.6% mark.
He’s keeping the ball in the yard having only allowed three home runs thus far, and has limited free passes to a 6.9% clip. Bremner has been a presence on the mound during the first half, but it will be interesting to monitor how many innings he has under his belt when the season comes to a close.
Looking into Bremner’s arsenal, he features a fastball that has life and will sit around 95 mph while being able to reach 98. His changeup was graded as one of the best out of the 2025 draft class and can be a devastating pitch. His third pitch is a slider which generally will average upper 80s.
Other Notable Standout:
De Jesus is a 21-year old outfielder that was part of the Angels 2022 international signing class. Since joining the organization, he has been popping in and out of top 30 prospect lists largely due to an excessive amount of strikeouts.
He had a poor 2025 campaign even though he did hit 18 home runs — he only managed a .185 batting average paired with a .620 OPS. De Jesus struck out 164 times over 483 plate appearances (34%).
The strikeouts still remain a problem for him in 2026 (33.8%), but he has raised his batting average to .265 along with an improved .851 OPS. De Jesus already has 15 home runs and has driven in 52 runs. He had 55 RBI total in 2025.
Low-A Rancho Cucamonga
Jordan has been very impressive since being the Angels fifth round draft pick in 2024 out of Viera High School. He was very good during his 2024 debut affiliated season where he split time between the Arizona Complex League and Single-A Inland Empire.
Last year, the prepster began the year in rookie ball in Arizona where he logged 47.2 innings while managing a 3.21 ERA and 1.36 WHIP. His performance earned him a promotion to Single-A in early August where he continued to impress with a 0.94 ERA and 0.98 WHIP across 28.1 innings.
He has remained with Single-A and has made 13 starts so far this season. While his ERA has jumped to 4.15, he is striking out a career best 32.7% of batters. With that improvement has come an increase in free passes. Jordan’s 12.8% walk rate is the highest of his career.
The good thing that has continued to the present day is his ability to not surrender a whole lot of home runs. He has allowed four long balls this year, but only seven total for his affiliated career.
Jordan has a longer delivery which industry officials believe should be simplified in order to maintain a consistent delivery to the plate. He has good extension and rotates between a fastball/sinker, sweeper, and a changeup. He’s done a good job being able to command his pitches and throw strikes.
Other Notable Standouts:
The Angels scored on another prep arm in the 2024 draft class with Gregory-Alford. He has followed the same path as Jordan, seeing time between rookie ball and Low-A in 2025. This year he started with Low-A and remains there.
He has made 13 starts thus far, owning a 4.35 ERA and 1.40 WHIP. He has continued to be consistent this year from last year regarding walks and strikeouts — his walk (3.6/9) and strikeout (9.2/9) ratios are right around average. Gregory-Alford doesn’t give up many home runs, only allowing five in 60 innings this year, and seven total for his career.
Gregory-Alford is a big presence on the mound standing at 6-foot-5. He works with a four-pitch mix headlined by a mid-to-high 90’s fastball that is complemented by a slider, curveball, and changeup.
Alvarez might have the most upside out of any prospect in the Angels system. He’s a 19-year old outfielder out of the Dominican Republic and was part of the 2024 international signing class. He stands 6-foot-3 but still only weighs 190 pounds. Once he fully develops into his frame, his power will be more evident and he will become a better athlete as a whole.
He will likely compete with Rada in the future for the center field job. Alvarez spends most of his defensive innings manning center and is pretty good at it. He has good speed and his defense is one of his better tools.
The baseball industry viewed Alavrez as more a contact-first hitter, but we’ve recently started to see him tap more into his power. Alvarez only had three home runs between his first two minor league seasons, but already has eight this year halfway into the season.
His slash line has looked really good this year in Single-A, hitting for a .308 batting average, getting on-base at a .411 clip, while slugging for a .490 mark. Alvarez has already set a career high in stolen bases (39) and has stolen at least 30 bags in his first three affiliated seasons.
Arizona Complex League
Lugo was part of the Angels 2024 international signing class where he signed for $2.3 million. He is still only 19-years old and has a ton of upside. He made his affiliated debut in 2024 when he played 53 games in the Dominican Summer League owning a .301 batting average and .836 OPS only as a 17-year old.
Fast forward to 2026 where Lugo is putting it all together during his second season in the Arizona Complex League. He has played 44 games thus far with a .286/.407/.497 slash line. Lugo has already collected seven home runs which is a career high — he has only hit 14 homers total across three minor league seasons.
Due to his above-average speed and defensive abilities, Lugo has spent most of his time at shortstop but did log 213.1 innings at third base last year. He stands 6-foot-3 while only weighing 187 pounds, so it’s clear he can still put on a lot of muscle which could add to his overall development and power output.
His current 14.7% walk rate and .211 isolated power are both the best marks of his young career. Last year Lugo was looking at a .101 isolated power showing how big of jump his bat has taken this year.
Lugo’s batted ball metrics have been super impressive. He has an average exit velocity of 92.8 mph and has already hit a ball 116.7 mph. He’s gonna constantly hit the ball hard and has already shown a knack for barreling the ball on a consistent basis.
Other Notable Standouts:
Slawinski is another high-upside prospect similar to Alvarez. The 19-year old was selected in the third round of the 2025 draft out of Lyndon B. Johnson High School. The prep lefty didn’t make his affiliated debut until this year in the Arizona Complex League, but has made his presence known.
Across nine starts and 41.1 innings, Slawinski owns a 3.27 ERA and 1.16 WHIP. His stuff has been missing bats which has contributed to his impressive 60 strikeouts (34.5%). He’s barely walking anyone to go along with that, hence his 5.2% mark.
He is one of the better prospects in the Angels organization and has the potential to be a staple of the major league rotation in the future. Slawinski, along with Jordan and Greogory-Alford could be the rotation of the future if they remain with the organization.
Ford has been a fun story this year and has brought a super energetic style of play. He was drafted in the 14th round of the 2025 draft out of high school and is making huge contributions to the Angels complex league team.
Ford’s 70-grade speed has allowed him to swipe 24 bases while only being caught three times. He’s been an on-base machine, managing a .376 batting average matched with a .511 on-base percentage.
He is doing everything right for a player who has minimal power. On top of his tremendous speed and ability to get on-base at a high clip, Ford has shown great vision at the plate. He has drawn more walks (29) than strikeouts (26) which is a dying art in today’s game.
MLB Pipeline recently added him as the 30th best prospect in the Angels organization. It’ll be fun to watch how he develops and he could be a really fun and important player at the major league level.
Dominican Summer League
Horton was part of this year’s international signing class for the Angels. He was ranked the ninth best international prospect by MLB Pipeline and signed with the Angels for $2 million. Horton is a contact-first bat who will offer plus defense and speed on the base paths.
He is only 17 years old and has been getting playing time in the Dominican Summer League. In a small sample size of 76 plate appearances, Horton is sporting an excellent .290 batting average while getting on-base at a .421 clip.
The speed has been evident as he has gone 6-for-8 thus far on stolen base attempts. Horton seems to have a good approach at the plate, hence that he was walked 11 times while fanning 14 times. That translates to two above-average marks — a 14.5% walk rate and 18.4% strikeout rate.
In this early sample, Horton has done a good job limiting chase and whiff but doesn’t swing the bat very often. As a whole, he’s only swinging 38.9% of the time (35th percentile), while only swinging at 55.6% of strikes (18th percentile). When he does swing in the zone, Horton has made good contact at a 81.7% mark.
MLB Pipeline stated that he has the ability to stick at shortstop and the Angels believe that he fits the position well. While shortstop is Horton’s primary position, he’s only logged eight games at the position while logging five at second base.
Other Notable Standouts:
Recently signed, Cespedes is a 17-year-old outfielder currently playing in the Dominican Summer League. He only has 20 affiliated games under his belt but is batting .361 with a .936 OPS.
In his small sample size of play, Cespedes has already stolen 26 bags while being caught four times. He recently set a record with eight stolen bases in one game, beating the previous high of seven set by Pirates prospect Johan De Los Santos last year.
His batted ball profile and metrics have been very impressive thus far, except for his 1.6% pull-air rate (1st percentile) and that 62.3% of his batted-balls are grounders (6th percentile).
Paredes is in the midst of his second season within the Angels organization. He is 18 years old and has played his first two affiliated seasons in the Dominican Summer League.
In his 19 games played so far in 2026, Parades has a .228/.384/.491 slash line to go along with four home runs and nine stolen bases. His power looks good early as backed by his metrics, but has a hard time making contact causing his high 32% strikeout clip.
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