{"id":634096,"date":"2026-04-27T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634096\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:01:08","slug":"hot-sheet-mlb-prospects-chat-4-27-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/634096\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Sheet MLB Prospects Chat (4\/27\/26)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third-round pick out of Western Kentucky last year, Padres outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/players\/1737599-ryan-wideman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Wideman<\/a> destroyed opposing pitchers this past week, helping to lead Low-A Lake Elsinore to a sweep in a six-game series en route to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/ranking-the-20-hottest-mlb-prospects-hot-sheet-4-27-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">topping this week\u2019s Hot Sheet<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re answering your questions about Wideman and any other prospects beginning at 2 p.m. ET. You can submit yours ahead of time below.<\/p>\n<p>We also broadcast our weekly Hot Sheet show\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@baseballamerica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">live on YouTube<\/a>\u00a0at 3 p.m. ET on Tuesdays.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third-round pick out of Western Kentucky last year, Padres outfielder Ryan Wideman destroyed opposing pitchers this past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,307143,591,85],"class_list":["post-634096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hot-sheet-chat","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}