{"id":2100,"date":"2025-07-17T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2100\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:39:10","slug":"2026-top-mlb-draft-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2100\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Top MLB Draft Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/roch_cholowsky_eddiekellyprolook.jpg\" class=\"attachment-baseball-america-md--3:4 size-baseball-america-md--3:4 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img width=\"1280\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1752734350_982_roch_cholowsky_eddiekellyprolook.jpg\" class=\"attachment-baseball-america-xl--21:9 size-baseball-america-xl--21:9 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"page-layout__image-credit\">\n<p>\t\tImage credit:<br \/>\n\tRoch Chowlosky (Photo by Eddie Kelly\/ ProLook Photos)<\/p>\n<p>With the 2025 MLB Draft having come and gone, Baseball America is turning its attention ahead to the next cycle with an update to our ranking of the top 100 prospects for the 2026 draft class.<\/p>\n<p>The new ranking is topped by a player who looks primed to take the college baseball world by storm next season\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/players\/21126-roch-cholowsky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roch Cholowsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old shortstop helped guide UCLA to the College World Series this season, slashed .353\/.480\/.710 with 23 home runs and took home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/roch-cholowsky-named-baseball-americas-2025-college-baseball-player-of-the-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BA\u2019s College Player of the Year Award<\/a>. With an advanced hit tool and plus defensive skills, Cholowsky has all the makings of a potential 1-1 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Below, you\u2019ll find the complete list of draft prospects featuring updated scouting reports for each player and college commitments for prep players. You can find all of our rankings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/rankings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More 2026 Draft Coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: Roch Chowlosky (Photo by Eddie Kelly\/ ProLook Photos) With the 2025 MLB Draft having come and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}