Top 25 Uncommitted High School Players For 2026

Plus: BA Dream Draft ranks 360 prospects & scouting reports for top college arms

February 26, 2025

Top 25 Uncommitted Players For The Class Of 2026

Ben Badler is back with a check-in on the top remaining class of 2026 high schoolers who have yet to make a college commitment.

Headed by Florida shortstop Jacob Lombard, the top 25 ranking features more polished, high-upside players at the top—including three of the top 10 draft prospects in the class—along with several players who are deeper projections or are emerging as priority targets for schools based on more recent development.

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BA Dream Draft: 360 Prospects Ranked By Future Value

Twelve teams. Thirty rounds. Three hundred and sixty prospects. Yes, folks, those numbers mean the return of the Baseball America Dream Draft.

BA staffers recently convened to participate in a fantasy-style snake draft for prospect-eligible players only. The goal was to build the best 30-player team (with a minimum of nine pitchers) for future accumulated WAR totals.

Be sure to check out complete roster breakdowns and manager surveys, as well as Geoff Pontes’ look at the tool grades and advanced data for all 12 rosters.

Early Scouting Reports For 4 Top MLB Draft College Pitching Prospects

With two starts in the books for many pitchers, it’s a prime time to assess the state of this year’s crop of college arms.

Carlos Collazo takes a deep-dive look at four high-profile MLB Draft prospects currently projected as first-round talents: Florida State’s Jamie Arnold, UC Santa Barbara’s Tyler Bremner, Oklahoma’s Kyson Witherspoon and Stanford’s Matt Scott.

We also take a spin around the country to check in on the early-season progress of every other Top 100 pitcher in the 2025 class.

BASEBALL AMERICA’S PROSPECT PROFILES

Scouting Every NL Central No. 1 Prospect For 2025

As part of the ramp up to the start of the season, Baseball America is going deep top prospects around MLB.

Joined by Scott Braun, J.J. Cooper and Geoff Pontes provide Prospect Profile analysis for the NL Central’s top prospects, explaining how each player climbed to No. 1 in their system, running through scouting reports and laying out what you should expect in 2025.

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