MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2026 Prime 100 Prospects record at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, with a one-hour present on MLB Community and MLB.com. Main as much as the discharge of the Prime 100, we’ll study baseball’s high 10 prospects at every place.
We’ve been doing prospect rankings since 2004. In all that point, a place has been shut out of the general record simply twice, with no illustration from second basemen in 2007 and ’09, although it ought to be famous that these lists have been simply Prime 50 general.
So the truth that there isn’t a single third baseman on this 12 months’s record is noteworthy, because it’s the primary time one place hasn’t had a single consultant on MLB Pipeline’s Prime 100. The new nook has cooled off a bit.
Prime 10 prospects by place:• RHP | LHP | C | 1B | 2B• 3B | SS (Wednesday) | OF (Thursday) | Prime 100 (Friday)
That’s typically cyclical, and it wouldn’t shock anybody to see a few of this Prime 10 hit their manner onto the Prime 100. The highest two particularly, Andrew Fischer and Jacob Reimer, aren’t too far off. And this group goes to should hit to get observed. It’s a bat-first group: Many will get at-bats within the huge leagues, and within the close to future, but it surely’s very doable it received’t be at this place.
Hit: Groover (55)For the reason that D-backs took Groover out of North Carolina State within the second spherical of the 2023 Draft, he’s carried out nothing however hit, with a profession .297 common and a .384 on-base proportion after posting a slash line of .309/.399/.434 at Double-A final 12 months. He hardly ever strikes out, with a profession 13.5 p.c Okay price, by no means misses a fastball and had only a 20 p.c general miss price, per Synergy, in 2025.
Energy: Fischer, Reimer, Sanchez, Wilken (60)A 2025 draftee, Fischer has a left-handed swing with loft geared for energy, hitting 45 homers over the previous two years in faculty and an improved strategy. Reimer’s profile has shifted from a hit-over-power kind to the opposite manner round as he’s realized to activate pitches extra and get them within the air. Sanchez hasn’t performed stateside but, but it surely’s exhausting to not be excited after his Dominican Summer season League debut, when he was one in all a handful of qualifying gamers with an ISO over .220 and a strikeout price under 18 p.c. The man who set an ACC file with 71 profession homers at Wake Forest, Wilken acquired again to his energy in 2025, slugging .550 over 65 video games via June 18 earlier than a knee harm sidelined him till late August.
Run: Lee (55)This isn’t a speedy group, with Lee the one one with an not less than common grade. He stole 22 baggage final 12 months and nonetheless will get loads of reps up the center at second base.
Arm: Sanchez, Wilken (60)Sanchez has the arm energy to play shortstop and he’ll nonetheless get reps there, however he’s prone to decelerate sufficient to proceed getting the lion’s share of his taking part in time at third. Wilken wants to remain wholesome to show if he can stick at third, however his arm definitely performs there.
Discipline: Lee (50)There’s some spectacular offensive potential on this group, however the identical can’t be stated on the opposite facet of the ball. It’s unclear what number of of those prospects will likely be huge leaguers on the scorching nook, with Lee the one one getting a median grade for his glove work.
Highest ceiling: SanchezSigned for just below $1 million when the 2025 worldwide signing interval opened, Sanchez raised the joy stage for his United States debut when he completed within the high 10 amongst all DSL hitters in common (.341), slugging (.565) and OPS (1.004) with greater than sufficient really feel for hitting to maintain attending to his energy.
Highest ground: FischerFischer had established energy bona fides early in his faculty profession, and even confirmed he might drive the ball with a wooden bat within the Cape Cod League. He turned a way more well-rounded hitter in 2025, upping his walks and reducing down his chase, main some on the Brewers’ scouting workers to imagine he was the most effective faculty hitter within the Draft Class of ‘25.
Rookie of the Yr candidate: LeeNo one has a transparent path to a full-time job to start out the season, however Lee has spent a full 12 months at every of the higher ranges and is coming off a Triple-A season at age 22 through which he set profession highs in residence runs and stolen bases. He additionally has the additional advantage of discovering at-bats at second base as effectively.
Highest riser/humblest beginnings: HarberA non-drafted free agent who signed with the Yankees in July 2024 and was dealt to the Giants on the 2025 Commerce Deadline deal for Camilo Duval, Harber wasn’t even on San Francisco’s Prime 30 till October. However he opened eyes with a .970 OPS in A ball in 2025 after which led the Arizona Fall League with 12 extra-base hits to place himself on the radar.
Most to show: WhitePerhaps a bit unfair for a man who did make his method to Double-A in his first full professional season and hit decently within the AFL, however that is extra in regards to the expectations of a man named “Tommy Tanks” who hit 75 homers in faculty, by way of attending to that energy as a professional.
Keep watch over: Pedro Ramirez, CubsHe was on the Prime 10 final 12 months and had an honest season at Double-A, with no ton of affect (.280/.346/.386, 28 SB). He may greatest be suited as a utility kind, seeing time at third, second and maybe an outfield nook.
