Demetrio Crisantes Chases MiLB Record With 57-Game On-Base Streak Heading Into 2025
Image credit: Demetrio Crisantes (Photo by Bill Mitchell)
Diamondbacks infielder Demetrio Crisantes is one of the season’s biggest breakout prospects. The 20-year-old crushed the competition in the Arizona Complex League, then moved to Low-A Visalia and didn’t miss a beat.
The Class A regular seasons are in the books now, and Crisantes finished his half-year with the playoff-bound Rawhide by hitting 333/.429/.478. His line between both levels was .341/.429/.492 with 23 doubles, seven home runs, 60 RBIs and 30 stolen bases.
He is one of just two qualified hitters in the minor leagues to accumulate more than 30 doubles, five triples, five home runs and 30 stolen bases while striking out fewer than 70 times. Dig deeper, however, and there is a more interesting nugget to be found in his numbers.
Once the 2025 season begins, he’ll have a trio of Red Sox greats in his sights.
Crisantes closed his season on a MiLB-best 57-game on-base streak, leaving him just nine games short of the 66-game streak Mookie Betts amassed between the 2013 and 2014 seasons and just 14 games shy of tying Kevin Millar and Kevin Youkilis’ 71-game stretches.
Youkilis and Millar’s marks are acknowledged as the minor league record, but only in an unofficial capacity. Record-keeping in the minors is not extensive enough to produce an iron-clad designation for the longest on-base streak of all-time.
As a former MiLB official explained to the Portland Press-Herald in 2014: “In most cases, we cannot definitively say whether an accomplishment is the longest, most, etc., in MiLB history because our records do not go all the way back to our first season in 1902.”
Crisantes’ streak—and his season as a whole—has earned the 2022 seventh-round pick plenty of acclaim. He ranked among the Arizona Complex League’s Top 20 prospects this summer, and later in the year he earned a spot on BA’s Top 100 Prospects.
Whether he can catch Betts, Millar and Youkilis will have to wait for the spring, but until then Crisantes’ loud year has turned him into a prospect too good to ignore.
