Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2026 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival
1. SS Leo De Vries | 19 | AA | 2027
We don’t often see a prospect like De Vries get traded before his 20th birthday, if at all, so it was kind of shocking to see him moved for a reliever, even one as dominant as Mason Miller. Sacramento pushed the switch hitter to Double-A at age 18, where he slashed .281/.359/.551 with five home runs and two stolen bases in 21 games. He even showed plus plate skills: 9.7% walks against 19.4% strikeouts. It’ll be interesting to see how they time this out because he’s got a legitimate case to open the season in Triple-A at 19, an age he’ll stay until October 11th this year. Seems probably we’ll see him in the majors before he turns 20, and that’s a pretty consistent predictor of sustained stardom. Incredible work on the trade market by Sacramento in my opinion.
2. RHP Luis Morales | 23 | MLB | 2025
A plus athlete at 6’3” 190 pounds, Morales features a whippy three-quarters delivery with a nasty fastball-curveball combo that can make any lineup look inept, at least the first time through. When he’s landing his changeup, there goes the second time through. Beyond that, his career’s success will come down to durability and command, both of which he should age into, given the exceptional talent level. He pitched 48.2 innings in 2025, so he’s just under the 50-inning line we use here to replicate dynasty leagues, but you won’t see Morales on many real-baseball lists because he graduated on time-served for MLB purposes.
3. 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.
4. LHP Gage Jump | 22 | AA | 2026
Listed at six-feet, 200 pounds, Jump makes the most of his frame by repeating his delivery well and spotting his fastball all over the zone. He combines that with a plus slider and rounds out the arsenal with a solid curveball and changeup. The 73rd overall pick in the 2024 draft, Jump debuted in 2025 and bounced through High-A in 31 innings before posting a 3.64 ERA and 1.20 WHIP in 81.2 Double-A innings. He figures to play a role for the major league team in 2026.
5. OF Henry Bolte | 22 | AAA | 2026
A 6’3” 195 pound right-handed hitter, Bolte can move like lightning on a ball field. He swiped 44 bases in 46 attempts in 114 games across two levels in 2025 after snagging 46 the season before. He also struck out 28.9 percent of the time, and that’s the main storm cloud darkening his otherwise bright outlook. He’s a decent defender who should only get better, and he’s got power now and should only add more. If the hit tool develops, he’ll be a difference maker in the stolen bases category and contribute across the board.
6. OF Devin Taylor | 22 | A | 2027
Taylor dominated at Indiana, posting wRC+ scores of 143, 150 and 169 during his freshman, sophomore and junior seasons. He drew 52 walks against 30 strikeouts in 55 games as a junior, adding 18 home runs and 12 stolen bases. At 6’1” 215 pounds, Taylor hits left-handed and throws with his right. He’s not much of a defender or he probably wouldn’t have fallen to 48th overall or signed for $2.5 million. In that sense, he’s kind of a perfect sleeper prospect for our purposes. The bat played in his 28 Low-A games (135 wRC+) and there’s not much reason to doubt it will continue to carry the profile.
7. SS Edgar Montero | 19 | DSL | 2030
A switch hitter listed at 6’2” 190 pounds, Montero signed for $1.2 million in 2024 and looked okay in the Dominican Summer League, slashing .239/.398/.375 with three home runs. You can see in the numbers that employs a patient approach, and that DSL pitchers tend to be all over the place. The club sent him back to the DSL in 2025, and Montero looked much more comfortable, slashing .313/.484/.580 with nine home runs and 11 stolen bases. He drew 60 walks (24.6%) against 54 strikeouts (22.1%) in 55 games.
8. SS Joshua Kuroda-Grauer | 23 | AA | 2026
The 75th overall pick out of Rutgers in 2024, Kuroda-Grauer looks a little like Luis Arraez, at least on the back of his baseball card. In 121 games across two levels, he struck out just 49 times (8.9%) and slashed .296/.359/.372 with two home runs and 27 stolen bases. A right-handed hitter at six-foot and 205 pounds, he’s always controlled the zone this way, and while the upside isn’t tremendous, I like his chances to carve out a long term role for himself. More of a deep-league play than anything but a high-probability one at that.
9. 3B Tommy White | 23 | AA | 2027
A right-handed bat at 6’1” 220 pounds, White appeared to trade some power for contact this season. He slashed .260/.326/.461 with 11 home runs in 66 High-A games and then .311/.354/.387 with one home run in 27 Double-A games. He struck out just 54 times (13.7%) in 93 games across the two levels. It’s an interesting series of outcomes. Development’s not linear, so I’m thinking he’ll find some power after he settles in at each level and might generate his best lines as a big leaguer.
10. OF Colby Thomas | 25 | MLB | 2025
Like a lot of prospects in this system, Thomas brings his fair share of power, speed and strikeouts. A right-handed hitter at 5’10” 190 pounds, he slashed .291/.366/.529 with 18 home runs and six stolen bases in 82 Triple-A games but struggled to replicate that stretch during his 120 at bat debut with the Athletics. He graduated on time-served and actually played in 49 games, but he’ll have to improve the 37.1 percent strikeout rate to earn his keep on an org chart that’s getting kind of crowded.
Thanks for reading!
Hi Itch!
Thanks for the A’s update.
Been watching the progress or the lack of progress in the Los Vegas stadium for the A’s. It will be interesting to see how construction goes it was projected at 1.5B and is now projected to be over 2B. Hopefully the stadium is ready sometime in 2028.
What do you think of Tatsuya Imai?
What do you think of Jack Perkins?
a 30’er with 40 prospect slots dynasty starting it’s 6 round yearly draft (only those that qualify as under 150/50 can be drafted in this) i got the overall top 100 from fall and the 1st year player top 30 from july, going over the team by team updates (hey yr getting further ahead by jan 4th i think slowly every year, which is nice for me, OAK/SAC are done already, we’re near the end already) and like usual i got little to no idea how to co-rank the internationals that didn’t make these lists from when you wrote them. before getting to the team lists i got about 20ish players that can be drafted total.
just watched
murakami and imai go 2nd and 3rd overall (and 2 more by pick 18) but not on the WSOX or HOU team pages. generally there aren’t a whole lot of these guys that i should be knowing where to stick but
(1) is that at all normal for them to go that high (e.holliday 1.1, mura 1.2, imai 1.3)
(2) any others that should be at least top 5 on their team’s list but lists written earlier?
mlb.com’s 26 internationals rankings are out now but theirs ignore the asians entirely (also it’s hard to listen to their tools evaluations compared to the non internationals, if we went by these only, they’re so much higher than almost anybody they’d all be 1st rounders a lot of the time, but clearly aren’t). it’s almost (and might be) like the guys that go over the internationals don’t even talk to those that do the evals for the non internationals.
just one example: their 1st guy: l.hernandez SS, hit:65, power: 60, speed: 60, overall: 65
that’s severely better than say what they stick on say e.holliday: 50/65/50 O: 60, it gets worse when we get to lower guys. only for sure good news on this is mostly there’s always somebody to pay more on these guys than me anyway, sometimes from just their age.
yeah and agreed, unless SD uses m.miller for real value (SP) it’s str up goofy to trade the tippy top guy for a 1-2 inning pitcher (RP) as noted. preller’s real elite at kicking that can down the road of course (ho ho the soto tenure on SD for what given away there oh my).