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Aha! This time I have done it, working ahead deep into the night with a box of Slim Jims and Sunny D to power through. Alas, Mamma Hobbs need not call down to the basement from the kitchen for the college prospect rankings this week, for Hobbsy is done! I hit send and promptly notify Truss, then wait for her to call down (accompanied by the usual smell of freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies). As 11 a.m. becomes 12 p.m. and the morning turns into the afternoon, I begin to wonder if she has forgotten about my bi-weekly column. It then dawns on me that it is Thursday, March 19, and we were supposed to leave for our family trip to Minsk at 8 a.m. I rushed upstairs and was quickly welcomed with the disbelief that I had been Kevin McCallister’ed. Alas, the price of being a hard-working fantasy baseball writer in this day and age. See you never, Minsk.

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Three weeks into the 2026 college baseball season, and no pre-draft rankings yet, Hobbs!? Again, my mother, calling down to the basement from the kitchen as I watch a third rerun of Breaking Bad Season 3, Episode 12 (Half Measures) while eating a fourth meatball Hot Pocket. As I burn my chin on steamy marinara, I turn my visage to my laptop screen and realize I have been finished for six weeks but forgot to hit send, and now have compiled seven missed text messages from Truss. So, away we go, unveiling the top-five college prospects for the 2026 MLB Draft, without bias, and without groupthink to give you an idea of who you really should be looking at for first-year player drafts despite all the hullabaloo out there.

Please, blog, may I have some more?