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Format = Position Player | Age on 4/1/2027 | Highest Level Played | Estimated Time of Arrival 

1. OF Eric Hartman | 20 | AA | 2028

A 2024 20th-round pick as a high-school draftee out of Alberta, Canada, Hartman was the talk of the prospect universe early this summer as a 19-year-old laying waste to High-A pitching. Things haven’t gone as well since his promotion to Double-A, where he’s slashing .217/.336/.321 with two home runs and 34 strikeouts (27.2 percent) through 27 games. It’s still good for a newly minted 20-year-old, honestly, but it speaks to some hit-tool concerns that will linger perhaps even if/when Hartman has some success at the major league level. Everything else about the 6’1” 185 pound lefty bat is pretty exciting. He’s stolen 52 bases in 61 attempts and hit 26 home runs in 121 games across two levels.

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Mariners LHP Kade Anderson making his major league debut is obviously the headline news of This Week In Prospects, but it feels a little less than fun. Seattle went to the American League Championship Series last year. Them having the number two overall pick was kind of a fluke, and they landed a piece that can help them immediately, the rarest kind of draft prospect in this particular sport. Instead of including him in their season-long planning, they stashed him at Triple-A to (and this is admittedly just speculation from the outside looking in) control his contractual terms at the lowest rate for as long as legally possible. What other reason could there be? I realize they’re deep in starting pitching, but is protecting that luxury worth tanking an elite prospect’s season because you can’t decide what to do with your seven starters? Nevermind the fact that their entire rotation was right-handed all season. What are we doing? What’s going on? 

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