2300 - First Year Player Draft - Top 20 Players
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
1. Ethan Holliday (SS, Col) - Advanced bat, plus hit tool, developing power, solid athlete
2. Kade Anderson (LHP, Sea) - Advanced command, polished pitch mix, competitive edge; mid‑rotation with strikeout upside.
3. Tatsuya Imai (RHP, Hou) - Undersized right-handed hitter with a lower three-quarters delivery. 97 to 99 MPH fastball that flattens out due to his arm swing. Plus slider.
4. Liam Doyle (LHP, STL) - Swing-and-miss lefty with a deceptive splitter. Could be a high-strikeout SP2 if he stays healthy.
5. Kazuma Okamoto (3B, Tor) - Older prospect who demonstrated plus power and a feel to hit in Japan.
6. JoJo Parker (SS, Tor) - Loud tools, clean health, and trending trajectory; potential middle-of-the-order bat.
7. Ike Irish (C, Bal) - Advanced hit tool, emerging power, and catcher eligibility. Impact upside with multi-category juice.
8. Eli Willits (SS, Was) - Speed/OBP shortstop, needs power to unlock fantasy value.
9. Aiva Arquette (SS, Mia) - Strong-bodied infielder with power upside and defensive versatility
10. Seth Hernandez (RHP, Pit) - 100 MPH fastball and starter traits. Long runway, but top-30 SP ceiling if it clicks.
11. Kyson Witherspoon (RHP, Bos) - Premium pitch traits, no pro debut yet.
12. Wehiwa Aloy (SS, Bal) - 2025 Golden Spikes winner with power, athleticism, and SEC pedigree. Could be a fantasy shortstop with pop.
13. Marek Houston (SS, Min) - High-floor bat with zone control and defensive value.
14. Dax Kilby (SS, NYY) - Strong debut with more speed than originally projected; power continues to be a question mark
15. Steele Hall (SS, Cin) - 80-speed and emerging power. Contact risk is real, but the tools are loud and fantasy-relevant.
16. Gavin Fien (SS, Was) - Advanced bat speed, strong plate discipline, above-average power, versatile defender.
17. Gavin Kilen (SS, SF) - High-contact lefty bat, 15+ HR upside, mature plate discipline
18. Billy Carlson (SS, CHW) - Bat-to-ball skills and defensive value. Power projection remains limited, but everyday role possible.
19. Slater De Brun (OF, TB) - A diminutive, toolsy outfielder with a great-looking swing.
20. Jamie Arnold (LHP, ATH) - He has a plus fastball-slider combination but his lower three-quarters delivery might work best in the bullpen.
Transcript
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| 0:01.0 | Good morning. It is rich. It's 1130 on Valentine's Day. Hope everyone is doing well. Hope you are all preparing for your sweethearts this evening and doing something very nice for them. We went off. We actually had a birthday celebration for all of us last night. A lot of my family, kids and their spouses |
| 0:23.9 | all have birthdays within probably 60 days of one another. So we always kind of have a group |
| 0:29.7 | birthday dinner. And we had that last night in Montclair, New Jersey, a couple of towns over |
| 0:35.3 | from where I live. It was very, very nice. |
| 0:38.7 | I have a special podcast for everyone today, kind of an update at 2006 first year player |
| 0:45.0 | draft rankings. My initial cut came out on the 26th of January. I thought that was going to be it, |
| 0:52.9 | and I was going to produce this podcast for everyone to kind of see the top 20 players I had ranked. |
| 1:00.5 | And then I just looked at it. |
| 1:01.9 | I wasn't happy with one placement of a player as I started to prepare for my own first-year player drafts coming up in about a week, week and a half. |
| 1:10.6 | And it had to do with Seth Hernandez. |
| 1:13.4 | We'll talk about him in any few minutes. Just a little bit of an overview of my feeling of this |
| 1:20.0 | year's first year player draft, having spent a lot of time preparing for my own and just |
| 1:25.9 | writing up prospects and looking at the draft and kind of my |
| 1:29.5 | view. This is a tough draft. This is a very weak draft, particularly based on what we had in |
| 1:39.3 | 2020 last season, 2025. I can remember, it's 2006, 2003 was incredibly deep. |
| 1:47.7 | And next year's seems to be, or this coming draft seems to be a very, very strong |
| 1:53.1 | draft. |
| 1:54.1 | It feels like we're more in a tweener year where there was a lot of high school |
| 1:58.7 | short stops that are, were taken in the first round. I mean, a lot of high school short stops that were taken in the first round. |
| 2:04.1 | I mean, a ton of them. |
| 2:05.8 | And when I think at first year player drafts, you know, if there's the Byron Buxons of the world, |
| 2:12.1 | who kind of when he was taking as a high school kid out of Georgia, you thought, |
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