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Staff Draft 2.0: Predicting Top 75 Picks
Plus: New Hot Sheet, NCAA Top 25, Statcast Standouts & more
BA Staff Draft 2.0: Predicting Top 75 Picks
The MLB Draft cycle continues to heat up here at Baseball America, highlighted by Carlos Collazo’s recent 2.0 mock draft and the latest expansion of our 2026 rankings due out later this week.
In the meantime, we’re back with another installment of our BA Staff Draft, which features our writers making decisions for the first 75 selections. Check out the complete staff draft below featuring pick-by-pick explanations for how the board would shake out if our draft team was running the show.
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NEW HOT SHEET
Ryan Wideman Tops The Hot Sheet
Baseball America’s Hot Sheet ranks the hottest prospects from the previous week while also identifying a weekly helium player to keep tabs on.
The latest Hot Sheet is topped by Ryan Wideman, the Padres outfielder who destroyed opposing pitchers this past week to lead Low-A Lake Elsinore to a sweep in a six-game series. The 22-year-old slashed .478/.600/1.000, collecting 11 hits, including a pair of homers and four doubles, while raising his OPS almost 250 points.
Join us at 2 p.m. ET on Monday for our weekly Hot Sheet prospect chat and be sure to watch the Hot Sheet show on Tuesday at 3 p.m. ET on YouTube.
NCAA TOP 25
New Top 25 College Baseball Rankings
The Top 25 held firm in Week 11, with the top eight teams all taking care of business and remaining unchanged entering Week 12.
Five teams—Florida State, Florida, West Virginia, Alabama and Virginia—posted losing weeks, while six others split their games. Virginia and Liberty fell out of the poll and were replaced by returners Cincinnati and Tennessee, both of which were last ranked in Week 7.
Check out Baseball America’s latest Top 25 and each team’s week in review below.
STATCAST STANDOUTS
Joe Mack, Gage Wood Headline 10 Statcast Standouts
Every Monday morning, Eli Ben-Porat highlights 10 players who stood out over the previous week based on underlying Statcast metrics, which often serve as early indicators of breakouts or players who might be ready for MLB roles. Highlights from this week’s list include:
Joe Mack being poised for Miami
Gage Wood’s stuff being even better than last year
Yohendrick Pinango fixing his fatal flaw and earning a callup
An undrafted Phillies slugger who could move quickly
A 99 mph sinkerballer dominating in the low minors
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RoboScout’s Top Fantasy Prospects At Every Level
As April nears its end, there have already been some promotions—most notably Nationals shortstop Ronny Cruz, now at High-A, who homered twice in his first three games at the level—and there will likely be more in the coming week.
Who is doing real-life and fantasy damage? Let’s dig in with RoboScout’s complete set of prospect picks below.
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