Team Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Level | ETA
51. Astros RHP Tatsuya Imai | 27 | NPB | 2026
Imai has been dominant in Japan since 2022 when he was 24 years old with a 2.04 ERA and 1.11 WHIP. 2025 was his best season yet. He recorded a 1.92 ERA and 0.89 WHIP, representing a big leap forward in command. His walk rate of 2.5 per nine innings was a full walk better than his previous career-best mark of 3.6. Imai generates these results on the back of a fastball-slider combination against righties with a splitter against lefties. Houston’s still having a lot of success with pitchers, and I’m betting that continues with Imai. You can move him up this list in deeper leagues or win-now windows.
52. Nationals C Harry Ford | 23 | MLB | 2025
Washington acquired this hirsute vehicle from Seattle in exchange for LHP Jose Ferrer. He’s always shown good plate discipline and should have part of the job share right away in the nation’s capital. Nice sleeper pick for redraft leagues.
53. Yankees OF Spencer Jones | 22 | AAA | 2026
At 6’7” 240 pounds from the left side, Jones is a fantasy darling for his combination of power and speed. The 25th overall pick in the 2022 draft, he came just one steal shy of a 30/30 season in 116 games across two levels in 2025, slashing .274/.362/.571 with 35 home runs, 29 stolen bases and a 35.4 percent strikeout rate. That last piece might not matter much given how much impact Jones makes on contact, but it creates enough doubt to keep me skeptical, despite what his ranking here suggests. The upside is just too enticing and near to ignore.
54. Giants SS Josuar Gonzalez | 18 | DSL | 2030
A switch-hitter listed at 6’0” 167 pounds, Gonzalez signed for $2,997,500 in the 2025 J-15 class after demonstrating plus bat speed from both sides of the plate on the amateur circuit and drawing comparisons to Francisco Lindor and Jose Reyes. Let’s hope it’s more the former than the latter, at least behaviorally speaking. In 52 DSL games, Gonzalez slashed .288/.404/.455 with four home runs, 33 stolen bases, 37 walks and 36 strikeouts. In other words, every light is bright green in the early going.
55. Tigers SS Bryce Rainer | 20 | A | 2029
The 11th overall pick in the 2024 draft, Rainer is a left-handed hitting shortstop at 6’3” 195 lbs who has drawn comparisons to Corey Seager with his easy opposite-field flick. Trouble is he’s played just 35 games as a pro, though he did slash .288/.383/.448 with five home runs and nine stolen bases during that Low-A sample. Might be a decent Buy window this winter.
56. Rockies SS Ethan Holliday | 19 | A | 2029
Holliday signed for the biggest contract of any high school draftee in history ($9 million) and then struck out 39.3 percent of the time through 18 games in Low-A. It’s not a big deal. He’s a huge lefty bat at 6’4” 210 pounds, and most of his contemporaries were in the bridge leagues or on the complex. Besides, he still posted an above average 108 wRC+.
57. White Sox OF Braden Montgomery | 22 | AA | 2026
Chicago has seen some of its prospects backslide, so the front office had to be thrilled to see Montgomery post respectable outcomes across three levels in his debut season, slashing .270/.360/.444 with 12 home runs and 14 stolen bases in 121 games. A switch-hitter at 6’2” 220 pounds, Montgomery was Boston’s first-round pick in 2024 (12th overall) but got dealt away in the Garrett Crochet trade before he even played an inning for the Bo Sox. Right field is wide open in Chicago, and while that probably shouldn’t accelerate this guy’s timeline, people have their own jobs to consider, so you never know.
58. Red Sox LHP Payton Tolle | 23 | MLB | 2026
The 50th overall pick in the 2024 draft, Tolle didn’t pitch for Boston that year but made a smooth transition from TCU to pro ball in 2025, opening the year in High-A and pitching his way through three levels and debuting on August 29 with eight strikeouts in 5.1 solid innings. He wasn’t so good in his next two starts and wound up in the bullpen, but he should be back among the starters in spring training. At 6’6” 250 pounds with high-nineties velocity from a three-quarter release, Tolle makes for an intimidating at bat. He’ll be even tougher to hit if he can deepen his arsenal a bit, but for now the fastball is enough to make him a big leaguer.
59. Nationals RHP Jarlin Susana | 22 | AA | 2026
The 6’6” 235 pound Susana was cruising through Double-A when he tore his right lat at the end of August. Prior to that last start when the injury happened, he had a 1.83 ERA and 0.92 WHIP with 38 strikeouts through 19.2 Double-A innings. He has struck out 50 percent of the hitters he’d seen. He was walking too many guys, but that goes with the territory of a large young human learning to command premium stuff.
60. Nationals SS Eli Willits | 18 | A | 2020
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.
61. Diamondbacks OF Ryan Waldschmidt | 23 | AA | 2026
The 31st overall pick in the 2024 draft, Waldschmidt represents the windfall profit from Corbin Carroll’s Rookie of the Year award. At 6’2” 205 pounds from the right side, Waldschmidt features plus contact skills, speed and power, a valuable trio of traits in the fantasy game. In 134 games across High-A and Double-A, he slashed .289/.419/.473 with 18 home runs, 29 stolen bases and a 16-to-17.6 percent walk-to-strikeout ratio. There’s a major league opening in left field while Loudres Gurriel recovers from a torn ACL, and Waldschmidt should make a charge to earn that spot.
62. Blue Jays SS Jojo Parker | 18 | NA | 2029
The Jays selected Parker eighth overall in the 2025 draft, and while they didn’t assign him to an affiliate, he drew rave reviews from the people who offer those sorts of reviews. At 6’2” 200 pounds from the left side, Parker generates plus bat speed and has power to all fields. He reminds me a little of Corey Seager: an outcome that would of course thrill the Blue Jays. If I whisper Konnor Griffin in my mind, I’m sure that’s born from some logical fallacy, and that would only be for the bat and not the speed. The thought comes unbidden and is easy to dismiss, but there’s upside in these hills.
63. Dodgers OF Mike Sirota | 22 | A+ | 2027
Sirota soared up the prospect lists early in 2025, slashing .333/.452/.616 with 13 home runs and five stolen bases in 59 games across two levels. He injured his knee on a slide into second base on July 5th–nobody’s idea of an Independence Day hangover. Had he stayed healthy, who knows where he would’ve wound up. Atop this list? Top ten overall? Foolish to speculate, but the Dodgers identified him young (gross), tracked him throughout his development, and traded for him when they could. Then he was great before he was hurt. Seems logical to be that he’ll be good again when he’s back in action.
64. SS Elian Pena | 18 | DSL | 2030
The season started slowly for Pena, but he heated up throughout his 55 games in the Dominican Summer League and wound up slashing .292/.421/.528 with nine home runs and 21 stolen bases. The top hitter in his class at 5’10” 180 lbs, Pena signed for $5 million and looks like money well spent in the early going.
65. Cubs RHP Jaxon Wiggins | 24 | AAA | 2026
Wiggins, who’s listed 6’6” 225 pounds, turned 24 on October 3. Like a lot of large pitchers, he appears to be really hitting his stride as he enters his mid-20’s, repeating his delivery and maintaining his balance better with each month he spends on a minor league mound. He covered three levels in just 78 innings in 2025, recording 97 strikeouts and allowing a 2.19 ERA and 1.03 WHIP on the strength of a three-pitch mix: fastball, slider, changeup, which gives him weapons against hitters from both sides of the plate. Reports suggested the front office got clingy with Wiggins at the trade deadline this year: likely a good sign for his outlook heading into 2026.
66. RHP Carlos Lagrange | 22 | AA | 2026
The Yankees have been good for a long time, of course, but part of me feels like we’re at the beginning of a pitching wave that could carry them to several division titles. Luis Gil won Rookie of the Year in 2024. Cam Schlittler would’ve been a contender this season if the timing had lined up a bit differently. Clarke Schmidt was reaching a new level when he got injured. Will Warren threw 162.1 innings as a rookie this year. Oh and hey let’s not forget the Juan Soto trade of 2023, paid for by four pitchers (Michael King, Drew Thorpe, Jhony Brito, Randy Vazquez) and Kyle Higashioka. Even so, 2026 could usher in a whole new group of impact rookie arms.
Lagrange is a 6’7” 248 pound metahuman who throws 102 miles per hour. The Yankees signed him for $10,000 in February of 2022. Now he’s on the cusp of the majors after recording a 3.53 ERA with 168 strikeouts in 120 innings between High-A and Double-A. He allowed just 82 hits but also 62 walks. Clearly, he needs to find the strike zone more often, but when he does, the four-pitch mix of that nasty fastball alongside a plus slider and serviceable changeup and cutter will create problems for the AL East.
67. Yankees RHP Elmer Rodriguez | 22 | AAA | 2026
Rodriguez came over from Boston in the Carlos Narvaez trade over the winter and steadily pitched his way through High-A and Double-A, culminating in a five-inning Triple-A start to close out the season. In 150 innings across the three levels, he recorded a 2.58 ERA and 1.07 WHIP with 176 strikeouts. Pretty comfortable Top 100 prospect at this point on the strength of a high-90’s heater and well-rounded pitch mix he can command.
68. Reds 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.
69. Pirates OF Jhostnyxon Garcia | 23 | MLB | 2025
A right-handed hitter listed at 6’0” 163 pounds, Garcia looks bigger than that to the eye. In 114 games across Double and Triple-A, the Password slashed .267/.340/.470 with 21 home runs and seven stolen bases, earning a five-game cup of coffee in August. He struck out 55.6 percent of the time and quickly wound up back in Pawtucket, and he’s still mostly blocked in that outfield, but life finds a way, as the dinosaurs say. His chance may not come in Boston, but they’re reportedly shopping Jarren Duran this winter, so who knows?
70. Rays SS Carson Williams | 22 | MLB | 2025
Featuring double-plus defense and easy power from the right side, Williams figures to open the season as the everyday shortstop for Tampa. I’ve always been low on him compared to the places he’s been ranked in most public facing places because he’s always struck out enough that I feel compelled to pump the brakes. In 32 MLB games, he slashed .179/.219/.354 after slashing .213/.318/.447 in 111 Triple-A games. Wait, should he even be atop this team’s list? Yeah, I think the proximity and power-speed upside warrants the spot. Plus there’s really nobody here to knock him off the top. I just don’t really want him on my teams.
71. Mariners RHP Ryan Sloan | 20 | A+ | 2027
At 6’5” 220 pounds, Sloan is a power pitcher who flushes hitters with a triple-flow of splitter, slider and fastball. The 55th overall pick in the 2024 draft, he recorded a 3.73 ERA and 1.16 WHIP with 92 strikeouts against just 15 walks in 82 innings across two levels. His upside is perhaps the highest on this list relative to cost considering the skillset and the setting.
72. Yankees SS Dax Kilby | 19 | A | 2030
The 39th overall pick in the 2025 draft, Kilby signed for $2,797,500 then thrived for 18 games in Low-A, slashing .353/.457/.441 with 11 strikeouts and 13 walks. It’s tough to fake a hit tool like that against pro pitchers, even for three weeks. At 6’2” 190 pounds from the left side, he’s got the frame to add strength and would be an ideal fit in that ballpark.
73. Brewers RHP Logan Henderson | 24 | MLB | 2025
In five major league starts, Henderson won three games with a 1.78 ERA and 0.99 WHIP. Even so, he spent most of the season in the minor leagues, winning ten of his 15 starts with a 3.59 ERA and 1.11 WHIP. In at least two dozen other organizations, he would’ve been a major league pitcher all year, but this is the strength of the Brewers, who can’t even guarantee Henderson a spot on next year’s club. He might need more than the fastball, changeup combo that powers him now, but he’s proven, as have other Brewers, that command of a small arsenal is effective. Maybe more effective than scattershot control of six pitches.
74. Brewers RHP Brandon Sproat | 24 | MLB | 2025
All the cool kids loved Sproat heading into the season, but the skeptical among us wound up more accurate than the enthusiastic, as is so often the case in life. He’s still a solid prospect of course. At 6’3” 215 lbs, he’s strong and balanced throughout his delivery, which has helped him to develop command of his impressive arsenal, highlighted by a mid-90’s fastball that plays well up in the zone and pairs well with his cutter, slider and changeup, all solid pitches in their own right. He pitched 20.2 MLB innings this season and recorded a 4.79 ERA and 1.21 WHIP, so his season turned out alright even if it took him a while to bounce back from a tough start. And now that we know Milwaukee likes him, I like him a little more, too.
75. Red Sox RHP Kyson Witherspoon | 21 | NCAA | 2027
The 15th overall pick out of Oklahoma this year, Witherspoon dominated during his season at Oklahoma, striking out 124 batters against 23 walks in 95 innings while recording a 1.01 WHIP and 2.65 ERA against mostly SEC opponents. He features truly incredible stuff for a college arm: four easy plus pitches in a high-90’s fastball, a low-90’s slider, a high-80’s cutter, and a low-80’s curveball. He even mixes in a developing changeup, and all the pitches come from the same quick release point and an athletic delivery he repeats well. The command and arsenal led to the best K/BB rate in the conference. I think he could follow the Tolle path and wind up in Boston by September.
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