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Milwaukee Brewers Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

October 15, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 4 Comments

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1. SS Jesús Made | 18 | AA | 2027

A 6’1” 187 pound switch-hitter with power and plate skills beyond his years, Made is the top prospect for our game in my opinion and a consensus top-five prospect for any purpose no matter who’s sorting the list. In 115 across three levels, Made slashed .285/.379/.413 with six home runs and 47 stolen bases. He was 2.4 years young for the level in Low-A, 4.2 years young for the level in High-A, and 5.7 years younger than the average age at the level during his five-game debut with Double-A Biloxi to close out the season. He was slow to get settled into full-season pro ball after skipping the complex league but was dominant in High-A, slashing .343/.415/.500 in 27 games, and I suspect we’ll see a lot of that moving forward.

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Cincinnati Reds Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

October 12, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 1 Comment

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1. 3B Sal Stewart | 22 | MLB | 2025

The 32nd overall pick in 2022, Stewart enjoyed a breakout season in 2025, slugging more than .500 for his first time as a professional. At 6’1” 224 lbs with plus plate skills, he’s always had latent power that could make him a force in fantasy baseball. He likes to run and stole 17 bases in 20 attempts across two minor league levels, but he’s not fast: 14th percentile sprint speed according to statcast. Don’t have to be fast to steal some bags these days, and Stewart will probably find a half-dozen or so free bases even early in his career as he did in this year’s postseason. In 138 total games across three levels, he hit 25 home runs and stole 18 bases while hitting .300 with a great strikeout-to-walk rate. Should open next season as a rookie-of-the-year frontrunner.

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Chicago Cubs Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

October 8, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 2 Comments

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1. C Moises Ballesteros | 22 | MLB | 2025

A left-handed hitter listed at 5’8” 215 lbs, Ballesteros puts barrel to ball with the best of them, making contact just about any time he feels like it and minimizing strikeouts every step of his climb to the precipice. In 114 Triple-A games this year, he slashed .316/.385/.473 with 13 home runs and just 67 strikeouts against 49 walks. His bat has outpaced his defensive development, so even though he’s always generated positive outcomes against much older competitors, Ballesteros might have to make a leap behind the plate or wait while the Cubs sort through other options at his position. 

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Washington Nationals Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

October 5, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 1 Comment

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1. SS Eli Willits | 18 | A | 2030

I think I’ve been too low on Willits before digging in for this list. Sure, he looks like a high-floor type more than a high-upside guy, athletically speaking, but baseball is much more than athleticism, and Willits checks every box for getting the most out of his tools. He’s a sparkplug on the diamond and a hard-worker off of it, and as the son of major leaguer Reggie Willits, he’s always had a pretty big edge in terms of learning and working on his game. He’s also a switch hitter at 6’1” 180 pounds, which is not small for a 17-year-old. In 15 Low-A games, he slashed .300/.397/.360 and earned a 128 wRC+. Pretty impressive for him to hold his own jumping into a full-season pro league late in the summer like that. 

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Philadelphia Phillies Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

October 1, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 10 Comments

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Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival 

1. OF Justin Crawford | 22 | AAA | 2026

I’ve been comparatively high on Crawford for a long time because I struggle to imagine a scenario where this guy fails to be valuable in our game. A left-handed hitter at 6’2” 188 lbs, he hasn’t elevated the ball much yet in his career, but that’s coming, and in the meantime he’s hitting well over .300 at every rung of the organizational ladder. In his final 52 games of the season, Crawford slashed .340/.418/.492 with six home runs, 20 stolen bases and a 16.7 percent strikeout rate. The math I’m trying to silence in my brain is of course not how baseball works, but if you multiply that by three, you get a glimpse at Crawford’s potential across 156 games. 

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New York Mets Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

September 28, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 2 Comments

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1. RHP Nolan McLean | 24 | MLB | 2025

McLean might actually be a little closer to Lincecum than Tong in terms of stuff and approach to the game. His is more or less a “let’s see if you can hit this” style of pitching, featuring nasty stuff that moves all over the zone. He throws six different pitches at least nine percent of the time, and his sweeper is the only one that’s gotten hit this season. He’s throwing it 26 percent of the time even though batters are hitting .361 with a .528 slugging percentage against it. If he can back off on that pitch and maintain the results from the others, he’s going to be a monster for a long time. At 6’2” 212 lbs with another life as a position player, he’s got a lot of upside that the Mets are quickly unearthing. To even call it upside feels ludicrous looking at his 2.08 ERA through 48 major league innings. Reading these last few sentences back to myself made me bump McLean ahead of Tong, for what that’s worth.

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Miami Marlins Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

September 24, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 6 Comments

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1. LHP Thomas White | 21 | AAA | 2026

At 6’5” 210 lbs., White wields the kind of stuff that would work against anybody: a mid-90’s fastball, a picturesque curve and disappearing changeup. It’s especially perilous for left-handed hitters, and as Blake Snell has proven, if you can eliminate lefties, you’re way ahead before the game begins. He dominated High-A and Double-A, and while he’s lost the strike zone a bit through two Triple-A starts, he still has 17 strikeouts in 9.1 innings against much older players. Miami is back in a familiar spot for the franchise, looking forward to the development of an extremely promising pitching staff while fielding a lineup peppered with question marks. 

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Atlanta Braves Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball 

September 21, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 14 Comments

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Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival 

1. 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 lbs. 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.  

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Prospect News: Top 100 Update For Mid-September 2025

September 17, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 15 Comments

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Team Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Level | ETA

Here’s a link to the Top 50 Update For Mid-September 2025 

51. Twins SS Kaelen Culpepper | 23 | AA | 2026

52. Red Sox LHP Connelly Early | 23 | MLB | 2025

Early looks great in the nascent stages of his Boston tenure, and Culpepper looks like the six of the near future in Minneapolis. Proximity matters a lot to me in dynasty leagues. 

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Prospect News: Top 50 Update For Mid-September 2025

September 14, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 14 Comments

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Format = Team Position Player | Age | Level | ETA 

1. Brewers SS Jesus Made | 18 | AA | 2026

2. Pirates SS Konnor Griffin | 19 | AA | 2026

My guess is that every single other list will have Konnor Griffin at the top, and that’s totally understandable. I’ve said before that he’s a pull-heavy hitter headed to a poor park for that skill set in a poor organization when it comes to helping hitters reach their potential. Love the player. Love Made just a little bit more, given all the variables. 

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Prospect News: Bazzana On The Brink or Early Bird Gets The Win

September 10, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 11 Comments

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Red Sox LHP Connelly Early recorded a 2.60 ERA and 1.11 WHIP in 100.1 innings pitched across two levels of minor league play this year to earn his Tuesday night debut. His 31.9 percent strikeout rate and 22.2 strikeout-minus-walk rates were right in line with career norms for the 2023 fifth round pick out of Virginia. His debut was a thing of beauty: five shutout innings with 11 strikeouts. He’s probably not that good, but Boston has been on fire for a while now when it comes to player development, and I’m in no hurry to bet against them. 

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Prospect News: Alderman Seeks Office or Sproat Springs Eternal

September 7, 2025 | Fantasy Baseball Prospects, Featured | 4 Comments

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The Mets are set to recall RHP Brandon Sproat for his big league debut today. He had a rough start to his season in Triple-A but found his rhythm eventually. His season-long line still includes a 4.24 ERA and 1.24 WHIP through 25 starts, and he’s turned in a couple stinkers among his last four outings, but he had a dominant stretch from June 26 through August 7th, going 4-and-0 with a 2.49 ERA and 1.04 WHIP through 43.1 innings across nine starts. The Mets are a top-five organization when it comes to pitching, so I’d be betting we see more of good Sproat than struggling Sproat in his spot starts from here forward. 

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