2026 TCN Community Top 50 Prospect Voting Thread

a ball hit the exact same as last year would travel 8-10% further. For guys like Honeyman, that makes me question even his modest 8 HR total more

I guess it would be interesting to know if HR totals are running ahead of last year in the affected leagues. I assume exit velocities would be higher as well.

Here is my updated list. I feel good not great about it. I started by just putting players into groups and then trying to arrange within those group. Position players for each tier get the advantage in my book due to more realistic odds of them reaching their upside. The individual number isn’t as important as the tier and within a tier the guys could be shifted around.

+------+------------------------+----------+------+
| Rank | Player                 | Position | Tier |
+------+------------------------+----------+------+
|    1 | Rainiel Rodriguez      | C        |    1 |
+------+------------------------+----------+------+
|    2 | Liam Doyle             | LH SP    |    2 |
|    3 | Quinn Mathews          | LH SP    |    2 |
+------+------------------------+----------+------+
|    4 | Joshua Baez            | COF      |    3 |
|    5 | Yhoiker Fajardo        | RH SP    |    3 |
|    6 | Mason Molina           | LH SP    |    3 |
+------+------------------------+----------+------+
|    7 | Leonardo Bernal        | C        |    4 |
|    8 | Yairo Padilla          | SS       |    4 |
|    9 | Trevor Condon          | CF       |    4 |
|   10 | Jurrangelo Cjintje     | RH SP    |    4 |
|   11 | Tegan Kuhns            | RH SP    |    4 |
|   12 | Tanner Franklin        | RH SP    |    4 |
|   13 | Brandon Clarke         | LH SP    |    4 |
|   14 | Tekoah Roby            | RH SP    |    4 |
|   15 | Cooper Hjerpe          | LH SP    |    4 |
|   16 | Jacob Odle             | RH SP    |    4 |
+------+------------------------+----------+------+
|   17 | Won-Bin Cho            | COF      |    5 |
|   18 | Sebastian Dos Santos   | SS       |    5 |
|   19 | Rocco Maniscalco       | SS       |    5 |
|   20 | Tai Peete              | CF       |    5 |
|   21 | Emmanuel Luna          | CF       |    5 |
|   22 | Jack Gurevitch         | 1B       |    5 |
|   23 | Deniel Ortiz           | 3B       |    5 |
|   24 | Jesus Baez             | SS       |    5 |
|   25 | Braden Davis           | LH SP    |    5 |
|   26 | Chen-Wei Lin           | RH SP    |    5 |
|   27 | Cade Crossland         | LH SP    |    5 |
|   28 | Brycen Mautz           | LH SP    |    5 |
|   29 | Ixan Henderson         | LH SP    |    5 |
+------+------------------------+----------+------+
|   30 | Andrew Williamson      | CF       |    6 |
|   31 | Dee Kennedy            | SS       |    6 |
|   32 | Miguel Hernandez       | SS       |    6 |
|   33 | Ryan Mitchell          | CF       |    6 |
|   34 | Luis Gastelum          | RH RP    |    6 |
|   35 | Xavier Cruz            | RH SP    |    6 |
|   36 | Blake Aita             | RH SP    |    6 |
|   37 | Jack Martinez          | RH SP    |    6 |
+------+------------------------+----------+------+
|   38 | Caden Ferraro          | 1B       |    7 |
|   39 | Travis Honeyman        | COF      |    7 |
|   40 | Jalin Flores           | SS       |    7 |
|   41 | Sebastian Rojas        | C        |    7 |
|   42 | Chase Davis            | CF       |    7 |
|   43 | Ian Petrutz            | COF      |    7 |
|   44 | Dawson Montesa         | RH SP    |    7 |
|   45 | Andrew Dutkanych       | RH SP    |    7 |
|   46 | Cade Winquest          | RH RP    |    7 |
|   47 | Cal Randall            | RH RP    |    7 |
|   48 | Hancel Rincon          | RH RP    |    7 |
|   49 | Max Rajcic             | RH RP    |    7 |
|   50 | Mason Burns            | RH RP    |    7 |
|   51 | Austin Love            | RH RP    |    7 |
+------+------------------------+----------+------+

Rainiel is a tier above every one else for me. The combo of great power and a good hit tool with a chance to stick at C makes him a likely above average regular down the line.

Tier 2 I see Doyle and Mathews as being big league SP most likely and 3-4 types as a likely outcome but odds of being better than that.

Tier 3 is where I likely vary. Baez the more I dig in, the more concerned I get as he struggles much more against breaking and offspeed pitches and I fear MLB pitchers will exploit him and he needs to address it otherwise he may be Gorman 2.0. Fajardo and Molina are missing bats at a very high rate and both (particulary Fajardo) have good command.

Tier 4 on the hitting side has two guys with great bat control that can play up the middle positions in Padilla and Condon. If Padilla were in this draft, based off his hitting tool, athleticism, and projectable frame would be a top 10ish pick. I think people who like a good hitting tool will really grow to like Padilla and Condon. For pitchers, it is a grab bag of guys with the change to be impact SP, but each with some high risk whether staying healthy or developing more consistent offspeed pitches.

Tier 5 for hitters are guys with every day starter upside, but each player has a pretty major flaw at the moment that needs to be improve. Most of them it is hit tool as they all in this group have good power upside. The pitchers I have Mautz and Henderson much lower than other people, but the data just shows they don’t miss bats that much and I think both can contribute at the MLB level, but more as #4/#5 type upside with likely pen futures.

Tier 6 I have some of the college draftees as I just don’t know as much and would rank them simlarly to Hernandez (has good upside) and Mitchell as all these guys seem to need to prove themselves going forard. The pitchers are some guys I like some of the traits they have and could see them being back end bullpen types.

Tier 7 are hitters with more chance of being role players rather than being MLB starters. The pitchers are in 2 sub groups with Montesa and Dutkanych having SP upside, but with what I would label extreme risk. The remaining guys are all RP who many of these will likely get a chance to pitch in a big league pen and provide some middle relief value. I actually went to 51 as Love is the bottom of that tier for me, but he does have some stuff to work with to pitch in the bigs as a middle relief guy.

• This reply was modified 3 days, 3 hours ago by AlbertTheMachine. Reason: Formatting

I took a shot at my post-draft Top 50. I mostly focus on the four full season affiliates and the top recent draftees.

1. Rainiel Rodriguez
2. Quinn Mathews
3. Joshua Baez
4. Leo Bernal
5. Liam Doyle
6. Jurrangelo Cjntje
7. Mason Molina
8. Brycen Mautz
9. Tanner Franklin
10. Trevor Condon

11. Yhoiker Fajardo
12. Jesus Baez
13. Won-Bin Cho
14. Jacob Odle
15. Ty Van Dyke
16. Brandon Clarke
17. Ixan Henderson
18. Tre Richardson
19. Jack Gurevitch
20. Tai Peete

21. Tegan Kuhns
22. Sammy Hernandez
23. Luis Gastelum
24. Max Rajcic
25. Hancel Rincon
26. Cooper Hjerpe
27. Blaze Jordan
28. Pete Hansen
29. Ryan Campos
30. Rocco Maniscalo

31. Tink Hence
32. Tekoah Roby
33. Blake Aita
34. Braden Davis
35. Chen-Wei Lin
36. Deniel Ortiz
37. Chase Davis
38. Travis Honeyman
39. Dawson MOntesa
40. Brayden Smith

41. Ryan Mitchell
42. Andrew Williamson
43. Yairo Padilla
44. Jalin Flores
45. Jose Suarez
46. Josh Kross
47. Caden Ferraro
48. Cade Crossland
49. Dee Kennedy
50. Cal Randall

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