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

1. Brewers SS Jesus Made | 18 | AA | 2027

2. Pirates RHP Seth Hernandez | 19 | A+ | 2027

3. Mariners LHP Kade Anderson | 21 | AA | 2026

4. Red Sox SS Franklin Arias | 20 | AA | 2027

5. Athletics SS Leo De Vries | 19 | AA | 2027

The top group feels much stronger than usual for this time of year, between the exodus of rookies and the incoming draft class. Hernandez is the exciting teenage righty since Jose Fernandez, one of my all-time favorite players. May he rest in peace.

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Graduated from Stash List #3: Lara At The Top Of His Craft: Colt Emerson (#3), Henry Bolte (#4)

1. Dodgers RHP River Ryan (27, AAA)

Destined to pitch for baseball’s best team in the near future. Features a cutter that would’ve stopped the presses a couple decades ago. 27.3 percent strikeout-minus-walk rate and 1.00 WHIP suggest he’ll be effective from the jump.

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Graduated from Stash List #2: Bazzana Republic or Charlie In Charge: Travis Bazzana (#1), Bryce Eldridge (#3), Robby Snelling (#5), Ryan Waldschmidt (#7), Trey Yesavage (#9)

 

1. Mariners LHP Kade Anderson (21, AA) 

I think he’d be in Triple-A by now if they planned to send him there at all. Double-A seems too easy for him though: an 0.60 ERA and 0.67 WHIP through 30 innings with 47 strikeouts against five walks is preposterous. I realize there’s no room in the rotation for him, but life finds a way.

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Twins RHP Mick Abel (24) bullied a lineup built mostly of backup Braves, recording six strikeouts in three scoreless innings. I don’t care much about the lineup, actually, because Abel looked excellent, spotting a 97 mile an hour fastball and sweepy slider time after time. He got taken out into the field a bit in 2025, but it was just 39 innings, and the jump from Triple-A to the major leagues proves difficult for pretty much every prospect these days. 

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I don’t know of a better way to introduce this piece than to lean into the braggadocio right off the bat, even as bragging comes about as naturally as dunking a basketball to me. I’m just not sure why you’d give a shit what I have to say about a 12-team AL Only auction among fantasy analysts except that I won it back-to-back in 2022 and 2023. It’s kind of an odd set-up in that we fill our starting lineups via auction and then draft a seven-man bench. This nudges me towards a stars and scrubs dynamic despite my occasional efforts to distribute the funds evenly throughout my build.

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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. 

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1. 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. 

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1. Dodgers RHP Roki Sasaki 

He’s alone in this year’s class. I saw the 1.1 pick get traded for Logan Gilbert in a 15-team dynasty league. Other pieces were involved, but nothing to make the previous sentence untrue. Seems like a bit much for me. I prefer Gilbert by a long way and struggle to see how Sasaki could get even close to Gilbert’s 208.2 innings from 2024, never mind his 0.89 WHIP. This kind of trade is what makes dynasty leagues go round: sex v. substance. Door number three v. a car you could drive on the autobahn right now. Shop Sasaki if you have the chance to do so, is what I’m suggesting.

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In our 70th episode, Mike Couillard and Jeremy Brewer open by discussing Juan Soto’s $765 million deal with the Mets along with other recent MLB transactions. Then we make PC (personal collection) additions with some great cards of the 2024 MLB Awards Winners and new Hall-of-Fame inductees, Dick Allen and Dave Parker. You can find us on […]

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1. OF Roman Anthony | 20 | AAA | 2025

A left-handed hitter at 6’2” 200 lbs, Anthony slashed .291/.396/.498 with 18 home runs and 21 stolen bases in 119 games across the top two minor league levels in 2024, setting himself up to fight for a spot in spring training. He got just 35 games at Triple-A but slashed .344/.463/.519 there and doesn’t have anything left to prove in the minor leagues. Here’s a bit of what I wrote when I ranked him atop this list last season: 

“I’m just trying to say he’s a player in flux and reminds me a little of Ronald Acuña at this stage in the sense that he’s got more than one path ahead of him as a hitter and could become a total-package type who slashes .300/.400/.500 on the regular.”

So far so good on this one.

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