Team Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Level | ETA
76. Pirates RHP Seth Hernandez | 19 | NA | 2029
I might wind up low on Seth Hernandez despite loving the player. How could you not? He throws a hundred miles an hour with an adult change-up and solid command. Comes down to timeline stuff. Pittsburgh can develop pitching, but they won’t be in any kind of hurry with Hernandez. They have Oneil Cruz and Paul Skenes today. Jared Jones is on the way back and Bubba Chandler is on the way up. Why take a player who’s five years away? It’s certainly defensible because Hernandez is awesome, but it also feels like old thinking in that a front office shouldn’t draft for short-term impact. We have all seen the opposite over the last several years. Amateur baseball has come a long way. Then I think of Jackson Jobe and Andrew Painter, who’ve both been great in the minors at times but have battled injuries throughout their careers. Can’t predict that, of course, but it’s just hard to point to a high school right-hander who has returned a ton of dynasty value. There’s Hunter Greene, but he’s been hurt, too
77. White Sox SS Caleb Bonemer | 20 | A+ | 2027
Bonemer might’ve had the best season of any prospect in his system, slashing .281/.401/.473 with 12 home runs and 29 stolen bases in 107 games across Low and High-A in his debut out of high school. He even closed out the year with an electric couple of weeks in High-A, slugging .611 with two home runs and two stolen bases in 11 games. The plate skills and hit tool both look premium at this point, and at 6’1” 195 pounds with enough athleticism to remain on the dirt, Bonemer is my favorite prospect in Chicago’s system in terms of perception versus dynasty value. Let’s keep the puns out of this for now. I can’t–I won’t–not yet.
78. Cardinals OF Joshua Baez | 21 | AA | 2026
A 2nd-round pick out of high school in 2021, Baez had generally struck out at a 35 percent clip in his time with the club, but in 2025, he cut that down to 20.6 percent in 117 games between High-A and Double-A. He even improved in that area throughout the season and dropped from 21.4 to 20.2 percent in the jump up a level. The slash line reflects his growth: .287/.384/.500 with 20 home runs and a jaw-dropping 54 stolen bases in 63 attempts. Good time to buy, I suspect. The Cardinals have no cause to get in his way.
79. Marlins SS Aiva Arquette | 22 | A+ | 2027
At 6’5” 220 pounds, Arquette might wind up a bit big for shortstop, but he’s got good enough hands to bounce around the diamond. He played mostly second base with Washington before transferring to Oregon State and playing shortstop. High-floor on the dirt helps buy his bat time to come along–not that he’ll definitely need it. He didn’t hit for power during his first month as a professional, but the club jumped him over Low-A, and he still posted a .350 on base percentage in 27 games. I came away more impressed by the homers he didn’t hit, is what I guess I’m saying.
80. Padres 2B Sung Mun Song | 29 | KBO | 2026
Song signed a four-year deal for $15 million dollars about a year after signing a six-year deal in Korea. San Diego is on the hook for a little more on top of the $15 million, so it’s safe to say AJ Preller likes the player, which has historically been a harbinger for success. Song missed two seasons in his mid-20’s to fulfill his required military service and came back the game stronger in his late 20’s, hitting 19 and 26 home runs in his age 27 and 28 seasons. In 2025, he slashed .315/.387/.530 with just 96 strikeouts in 646 plate appearances. Am I confident he’ll hit 26 bombs and steal 25 bases in the big leagues? Course not. He’d be in the top ten if I were. Would I be shocked if that happened? Not at all.
81. Mariners SS Felnin Celesten | 20 | A+ | 2028
A switch hitter who signed for $4.7 million in 2023, Celesten has lost time to injury but still managed to impress during his brief professional career. In 93 Low-A games, he slashed .285/.349/.384 with five home runs and 20 stolen bases, earning himself an 11-game debut with High-A to close out the season, where he’ll probably open 2026. From both sides, Celesten features a steep bat path geared for lift. He could unleash something of a surprise power season if it all comes together with man strength in his early 20’s.
82. Rockies 3B Charlie Condon | 22 | AA | 2026
The 6’6” Condon mashed 37 homers in his junior season at Georgia while slashing .433.556/.1009 despite SEC pitchers doing their best to work around him. Things didn’t go as well after Colorado selected him third overall: .180/.248/.270 with 34 strikeouts in 25 High-A games, but he bounced back okay this year, managing the strike zone much better (25.9% K-rate) and hitting 14 home runs in 99 games split between two levels. His 133 wRC+ in 55 Double-A games provides reason for optimism, even as he batted just .235 at the level. He’s still fallen a bit from the heights of his FYPD days, but the book is far from closed on Condon.
83. White Sox LHP Noah Schultz | 22 | AAA | 2026
At 6’10” 240 pounds with a low-three-quarters release point, Schultz brings a unique look that allowed him to dominate early in minor league career. With anyone that big, the delivery can become a problem, and that’s what happened to Schultz in 2025. He walked 45 batters in 73 total innings across two levels and got particularly exposed in five Triple-A starts, allowing a 9.37 ERA and nine walks in 16.1 innings. Here’s a little snippet from last year’s write-up on Schultz: “Despite the dominant outcomes (0.98 WHIP in 88.1 innings across two levels), his changeup has work to do, and his fastball could use some tweaking to play better up in the zone, but I suspect, given his delivery and release, a cutter and sinker will be auditioned at some point, so his fastball could be separated into a few different pitches (4-seam, sinker, cutter) across time, at which point he’d be a nightmare matchup for just about anybody.” That dream of becoming a nightmare is still alive, and this organization has shown some aptitude with fastball shapes. Might be a decent time to buy if he looks good early.
84. Cardinals RHP Jurrangelo Cijntje | 22 | AA | 2026
Here’s me discussing Cijintje for last month’s Mariners list: “If he were being developed as a righty only, he’d move up a couple spots on the lists. As is, I’m not sure what to do with him. Is he going to learn multiple ways to attack left-handed hitters as a right-handed pitcher? Or is the back-and-forth going to condemn him to some kind of hybrid swingman role?”
Well, St. Louis has stated their intent to develop Cijintje as a right-handed pitcher, so I moved him above Arroyo and Farmelo. Good get for the Cards.
85. Reds RHP Rhett Lowder | 23 | MLB | 2024
Much to the chagrin of my Highlander squad, Lowder didn’t pitch at all in 2025 due to a forearm injury followed by an oblique issue, so the profile remains much the same as it was with a little added injury risk for a guy who isn’t the most limber athlete on the planet. He was amazing as a collegian and continued that excellence in the pros, climbing the levels to the majors in a single season and starting his MLB career with a 1.17 ERA through 30.2 innings, during which he didn’t allow a single home run. Sure, there’s a red flag or two, like the strikeout and walk rates, 17.2 percent and 10.9 percent, respectively, but it’s definitely nitpicking to quibble with the results from a guy wielding solid command of four plus pitches (slider 27.3%, 4-seam 27.3%, sinker 25.9, changeup 19.5) he deploys in almost equal measure.
86/ Nationals 1B/OF Abimelec Ortiz | 24 | AAA | 2026
At 5’10” 230 pounds from the left side, Ortiz is more athletic and loose than he might look at a glance, and I’ve long thought he’s underrated in dynasty circles partly because a lot of public lists put a heavy emphasis on defense. In 130 games across Double and Triple-A, Ortiz hit 25 home runs and slashed .257/.356/.479 with a 22.1 percent strikeout rate. Now that he’s in Washington, I have to fight the urge to rush him up the list because if he plays enough to settle in at the level, I think he’ll hit enough to stay. Trouble is I don’t think he trades for the value of a top 75 prospect.
87. Mariners SS Michael Arroyo | 21 | AA | 2026
Listed at 5’10” 160 pounds, Arroyo doesn’t make many jaws drop when he steps off the bus, but he’s always impressed plenty between the white lines. His 56-game stretch in Double-A wasn’t the stuff that fantasy dreams are made of, but his slash line of .255/.376/.341 with two home runs was good for a 123 wRC+ in a depressed setting for offense. In 121 games across two levels, he struck out 18.7 percent of the time with a 12.4 walk rate and a 139 wRC+. His ETA is listed at 2027 here, but he could push that pretty easily into this season if the need arises.
88. Braves LHP Cam Caminiti | 19 | A | 2027
The 24th overall pick in the 2024 draft, Caminiti dominated Low-A this year with premium velocity at 6’2” 195 pounds. I bumped his timeline up a year from last year’s Atlanta list because this org tends to slam the gas when they deem a guy ready to contribute. He’s allowed just one home run in 56.1 Low-A innings across 13 starts, recording a 2.08 ERA, 1.22 WHIP and 75 strikeouts against 28 walks. Easy to root for this guy.
89. Blue Jays SS Arjun Nimmala | 20 | A+ | 2027
The 20th overall pick in 2023, Nimmala is a 6’1” 190 pound right handed hitter with big power and a big swing that tends to miss in a fashion that’s at times reminiscent of Javy Baez. Scary sentence, that, but Baez had some monster years at the peak of his athleticism, and the Jays would be thrilled if Nimmala lands somewhere near that on the spectrum of his potential outcomes. In 120 High-A games against mostly older players, he hit 13 home runs, stole 17 bases, and struck out 21.4 percent of the time, slashing .224/.313/.381 with a 91 wRC+. The numbers don’t jump off the page, but he cut his K rate by about ten points, which makes me think he took that organizational mandate and reconstructed his approach around it. Pretty high level stuff for such a young guy.
90. Marlins C Joe Mack | AAA | 2026
He’s a little bit blocked by the major league team’s second-best bat, which isn’t ideal, but it’s not an emergency. They can split the catching job and play a fair bit of designated hitter or first base. Plus, Mack didn’t exactly force the issue in Triple-A, slashing .250/.320/.459 with 18 home runs and eight stolen bases. That’d be nice for a fantasy catcher, of course, and Mack’s a good defender, so I don’t think the team will drag its feet waiting for him to hit .300 or something.
91. Rays 1B Xavier Isaac | 21 | AA | 2027
A big lefty bat at 6’3” 240 pounds, Isaac had a weird year in 2025, slashing .201/.366/.446 with nine home runs in 41 Double-A games through June 25. He missed the rest of the season with an undisclosed injury. We can easily pick at the batting average and 29.7 percent strikeout rate, but he still produced a 144 wRC+, and he actually batted .218 if you drop the first week of the season. Not sure why you’d do that, except that Isaac got two hits in his first 25 at bats, and we didn’t get to see how the numbers might look across 120 or so games.
92. Guardians SS Angel Genao | 21 | AA | 2026
Listed at 5’9” 150 pounds, Genao fits the Cleveland prototype of a smallish switch-hitting infielder with plate skills and excellent hands, both in the field and the batter’s box. 2025 brought the first real hurdle in his development, as he slashed .259/.323/.359 with two home runs and six stolen bases in 72 Double-A games. His 103 wRC+ was still better than league average, which is pretty solid considering his age, but most prospectors had him on a more aggressive trajectory than that, and I’m not convinced he’s tracking to be much more than pretty solid for at least the near future.
93. Brewers OF Braylon Payne | 19 | A | 2029
The 17th overall pick in the 2024 draft, Payne is among the fastest (and youngest) players in his class and could be an 80 runner at peak. At 6’2” 186 lbs from the left side, he’s a prototype center fielder with a slashing swing that opens up just a tick early, so he can get exposed by pitchers who change speeds. And pitchers who can spot velocity up and away. He’s a work in progress, but the tools are loud, and he produced a 113 wRC+ despite striking out 30.1 percent of the time in 77 games. He also hit eight home runs and stole 31 bases: numbers that would map out pretty nicely for us across a fantasy season.
94. Athletics LHP Jamie Arnold | 22 | NCAA | 2027
The Vegas park is likely to be comfortably climate controlled more days than not, so while the present looks bleak for Sacramento pitchers who’ll be pitching in a minor league park half the time in 2026, there might be a buying opportunity for the long-term investor. Lotta talented arms in this org that you might be able to buy on the cheap. The 11th overall pick out of Florida State in the 2025 draft, Arnold features plus command of a dynamic fastball-slider-changeup arsenal.
95. Nationals RHP Travis Sykora | 21 | AA | 2027
At 6’6” 232 pounds, has dominated in the minor leagues with fastballs, sliders and splitters, all easy plus pitches. He had a UCL reconstruction surgery in August this year and will likely miss all of the 2027 season. Last year in the space, I wrote: “Why was he left at the level to record 100 strikeouts and 18 walks with a 0.77 WHIP and 1.67 ERA over his final 14 starts covering 64.2 innings? I dunno. Travel budget stuff. Seems pretty clear he wasn’t being challenged there, but maybe that’s overrated for arms at that level, who primarily need to refine their ability to repeat the mechanism 90-some times a night once per week.”
He wound up throwing 125.2 spotless innings in the lower minors and then blew out his elbow during his second Double-A start. Probably would have happened that way no matter what they did, I guess. Just weird to have him cover one level last year and four levels this year while getting the same results all along.
96. Marlins OF Kemp Alderman | 23 | AAA | 2026
Here’s what I wrote a couple weeks ago in Prospect News: Alderman Seeks Office or Sproat Springs Eternal: “Alderman has made the most of his first six games in Triple-A, blasting five home runs to bring his season line to 20 homers and 20 steals in 116 games across two levels. He’s also striking out a perfectly manageable 22.3 percent of the time. Intriguing redraft sleeper for deep leagues in 2026.” The Marlins are full of such “sleepers,” so that might complicate the playing-time picture. Alderman cooled off after that early burst but is still slashing .288/.327/.538 with two home runs and two steals in 13 games since the day that article was posted (September 7). Easy plus power gives him a long runway to figure out how to get by against the best.
97. Tigers 2B Max Anderson | 24 | AAA | 2026
Here’s what I wrote about Anderson in Prospect News: Johnny Levels Up or Marconi’s Cooking: “With the trade deadline around the corner and Detroit 13 games up in the AL Central, Tigers 2B Max Anderson (23, AA) should bring some scouts to the stands. He’s slashing .341/.391/.562 with 11 home runs and just 43 strikeouts (14.2%) in 67 games, and while he’s not exactly an extra piece to the team’s long-term plans, they’ve got a lot of pieces in place already and even have some big pieces yet to sort. On the other hand, their best infield in two years might have McGonigle at shortstop and Anderson at second base. I love these situations for some reason. Been tracking this Tigers thing for a while in this space, and it’s fun to see them become something close to what people expected to see from Baltimore.”
Well that didn’t pan out. At least not yet. And now the Tigers are considering trading Tarik Skubal. Might’ve been wise to hold onto Anderson considering he trashed the AFL, slashing .447/.609/.809 with four home runs in 14 games. The line itself illustrates why I take fall league outcomes with a million grains of salt, but you can’t exactly erase what happens on the showcase circuit just because of the sample size considering nobody else will be doing that.
98. Angels OF Nelson Rada | 20 | AAA | 2026
The plusses here are obvious: a legitimate center fielder with solid plate skills from the left side, Rada swiped 54 bases in 135 games across Double-A and Triple-A in 2025, slashing .292/.398/.360 and making huge plate-skills gains when he reached Triple-A. He walked 30 times against 35 strikeouts in his 42 games with Salt Lake, slashing .323/.433/.416 in the cozy hitting environment. He’s always been extremely young for the level – 7.8 years younger than average in Triple-A – and that tends to work out in the aggregate, especially if a teenager like Rada arrives to camp some spring wearing new muscle after a Rocky IV type winter. Rada actually filled out a little bit last offseason and could be quite the fantasy sleeper this year with just a touch more man-strength.
99. Twins OF Emmanuel Rodriguez | 22 | AAA | 2026
Dynasty players have held a candle for Rodriguez since he signed for $2.5 million in July 2019, but he’s struggled to stay healthy throughout his professional career. 99 is the most games he’s played in a season. That was in 2023. He played 47 games in 2024 and 65 games in 2025. The games he missed due to covid shouldn’t really be counted against him, the result is that he’s been a professional baseball player for almost seven years and has played a total of 295 games. When he’s on the field, he features extreme patience from a left-handed power bat. He slashed .269/.431/.409 in his 65 games this year. He also struck out 31.8 percent of the time, and that’s been the main bugaboo for Rodriguez. Hopefully he gets a little more aggressive early in counts as he gets more reps against high-end arms.
100. Angels RHP Tyler Bremner | 21 | NCAA | 2028
A surprise selection at 2nd overall in the 2025 draft, Bremner has a lot to prove as a professional, but he’s certainly got the profile to fly through the minors and make the club look smart for snagging him early. Minor league hitters tend to struggle with the mix of plus fastball, plus changeup and plus command, and Bremmer even mixes in a solid breaking ball. He hasn’t pitched yet for Los Angeles of Anaheim, but he did strike out 295 batters with 1.07 WHIP in 221.1 innings pitched for UC Santa Barbara, so that’s something. Pretty tough to make a case that he was the best player they could’ve had at that spot, but so it goes.
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Feel like baez gonna launch up these rankings
Thanks for the Hundo Itch! Had my 1st FYP draft this past weekend 16 team 6×6 felt good!