Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival
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.
2. C Alfredo Duno | 20 | A | 2027
Duno generates easy power from a 6’2” frame. He’s listed at 210 pounds, and that might be true, but he looked enormous against Low-A players, especially as this season went along and he started dominating. In 113 games, he slashed .287/.430/.518 with 18 home runs, six stolen bases, and 95 walks against just 91 strikeouts (18.4 percent). Reminds me a bit of Salvador Perez both in the way he moves smoothly and calmly behind the plate and how he weaponizes his strength in the batter’s box, particularly when he hammers something the pull side.
3. SS Steele Hall | 18 | NA | 2029
Bit of a double-edged sword here as Hall doesn’t have any pro reps on the baseball card yet, and I’m always wary of the Arch Manning effect concerning word-of-mouth prospects. On the other hand, Hall has incredible speed along with plus power and plus bat-to-ball skills, so he might’ve made himself quite costly with a month-long run on the complex or wherever. As is, he remains a gamble near the top of an uninspiring First-Year-Player-Draft class, where he represents perhaps the best upside on the board for our game.
4. 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.
5. SS Tyson Lewis | 20 | A | 2029
I’m gonna turn this blurb over to my AI assistant.
Just kidding. Never ever in a million years will I help the robots conquer us. At least not knowingly. Pretty good chance some bots have been trained with my sentences already. Gotta opt out of that now, somehow. The new default is that the companies can take what they want.
Sorry, I’m way off the road. Lewis, Tyson. 6’2” 195 pounds with plus athleticism. 51st overall pick in 2024. Puncher’s chance to be a five-tool player. Hit tool lags behind, but that’s partly because he was a 19-year-old in full-season ball. Even with a 34.5 percent strikeout in 35 games there, he produced a 116 wRC+ and slashed .268/.347/.417 with three home runs and eight stolen bases.
6. 3B Cam Collier | 21 | AA | 2026
They don’t look anything alike, but Collier calls Termarr Johnson to mind for me. Collier’s a half-foot taller, but they’re both left-handed hitters drafted highly out of high school who were supposed to be advanced hitters but so far have underwhelmed even while producing positive metric outcomes. I suppose it’s because they’re just not who we thought they’d be. Johnson was a hit tool guy who has mostly hit around .240 with plus-plus patience, and Collier was a power threat who hit just two home runs in 74 Double-A games this year and just six homers in 111 Low-A games in 2023. It’s weird. The 18th overall pick in 2022, Collier’s got a powerful build and has had stretches that hinted at what he might become if he harnesses that power. In 2024, he popped 20 home runs in 119 games while slashing .248/.355/.443 with a 129 wRC+. In the context of a 19-year-old in High-A, that’s fantastic, even if we could pump the brakes a bit given that he’s more physically developed than most 19-year-olds. Just gotta find his way back to that.
7. 2B OF Tyler Callihan | 25 | MLB | 2025
A third-round pick in 2019, Callihan earned an April debut in 2025 and had a real chance to carve out a role when he ran in the left field wall chasing down a fly ball and wound up with a broken forearm that cost him the season. A left-handed hitter with power and speed, Callihan slashed .303/.410/.528 with four home runs and six stolen bases in 24 games to earn that early-season call-up. Should open 2026 with a chance to make a crowded major league roster.
8. OF Hector Rodriguez | 22 | AAA | 2026
A left-handed hitter at 5’10” 200 lbs, Rodriguez has some thump when he gets into one. He was slashing .298/.357/.481 with 12 home runs, six stolen bases and a 13.9 percent strikeout rate through 82 Double-A games when he made the jump to Triple-A. Things went worse there (.260/.304/.405), but he still struck out just 16.5 percent of the time and added seven homers and nine steals. If he can crack the lineup in Cincinnati, he could be a nice fantasy flier, but he’s not going to be a great defender and is unlikely to carve out his own path because he’s kind of a ho-hum corner outfielder at this stage.
9. SS Ricky Cabrera | 21 | A+ | 2028
Used to be known as “Ricardo” in the baseball world. Pretty good timing on the name change. Cabrera signed for $2.7 million in 2022 and has steadily climbed the system while adding good weight to his six-foot frame. He was solid in Low-A for 105 games (111 wRC+) before losing his groove during a 21-game stint with High-A that saw him slash .187/.276/.240. Smart money suggests he’ll open 2026 back at that level and fare much better this time around.
10. SS Edwin Arroyo | 21 | AA | 2026
I think it’s fair to give Arroyo something of a mulligan on his still-solid 107 wRC+ in 2025. He just couldn’t generate any power after tearing his left labrum in 2024. One full season removed from the surgery, and we might see closer to the 13 home runs he hit in 2023 than the three he managed in 120 Double-A games this season. Perhaps even more disappointing than the disappearing power: Arroyo went 29-for-36 on the basepaths in 2023 but just 12-for-19 in 2025. He was playing against older players and finding his footing, so his .284 batting average, .345 on base percentage and playable defense at shortstop are still enough to float the profile.
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