The festivities of the MLB All-Star Week begin on Saturday with the MLB futures game in Atlanta. This showcase of young players of all sport is a great place for more casual fans to see the best prospects in baseball. Academics, and those who work in the industry, use it as a record to see if they have lost any elevator or fault in the first half of the minor leagues season.
If you are looking for special attention to this year, these are the dozens of perspectives that I am most excited to see in this year's game.
Arrow-Up 2024 Drafts
Konnor Griffin, SS, Pittsburgh Pirates
Gage Jump, LHP, Athletics
Trey Yesavage, RHP, Toronto Blue Jays
These three are among the largest draft elevators last year. Griffin has some of the best raw tools in minors. I compared it to Fernando Tatis Jr. before the draft last year, due to its explosive power/speed combo in a defensive adjustment of Campocorto/Garden. Jump's Velo uploads some ticks, and tickles at the top of the Strike area with a heater that has a good way to get blessed there: now he feels 93-96, hitting 98 mph.
Yesavage has unique forms of tone and deception of its high arm slot, which makes its fast ball and change of change more than the average, but it is so vertically oriented that it cannot obtain much horizontal movement in anything, which makes all its throws group in the same area of a plot of movement. The batters are expelled by the unexpected movement of a unique arm slot, so I expect some strange batters that will not prepare with an exploration report.
Rocketing Up The Top 100
Jesus made, SS, Milwaukee Cerveceros
Zyhir Hope, Of, Los Angeles Dodgers
Jonah Tong, RHP, New York Mets
Fact was 46 in my pre -season top 100, then the fifth in the update two months ago. Upon entering the season, all we had was his historically good performance in the Dominican Summer League, but its average frame apparently limited its advantage. It could be another batter with more power on both sides of the plate that can stay in the box in the box, if not the campocorto, and is burning low-a while simply turns 18. Hope moved from 70 to 21, and also addressed a big problem, such as a batter with great power but some contact-based questions after 54 games in Low-A. It is still a more beaten type of power, but it has more gross power and is reaching it in the games in high-a.
Tong moved from 147 in the preseason to 50 in the May update and would now be even higher. His veil has risen 1.6 MPH since last year, and his change added five inches more of sink and two inches more of the race, so he is throwing him much more frequently and receiving more smell. It continues to evolve and looks like a load train to the rotation of the major leagues.
Unique pitchers
Noah Schultz, LHP, Chicago White Sox
Jurangelo Cijntje, RHP/LHP, Seattle Mariners
The Schultz walk rate has increased this year in triple-A, but it still has 6 feet 10 inches with more raw things in a low arm slot, so it will be a fun watch, especially in a shorter period. Cijntje is fun, because it was good enough to go in the first round last year and be in the conversation for the top 100 now, and could throw from both sides on any game.
Candidates will be MLB number 1 perspective for 2026
Leo de Vries, SS, San Diego Padres
Sebastian Walcott, SS, Texas Rangers
Max Clark, CF, Detroit Tigers
Kevin McGonigle, SS, Detroit Tigers
Together with Made, these are not only the players in the futures game that are in operation for the best prospects, but they are also probably all The main candidates once Bubba Chandler is promoted and the graduates at some point in this season. De VRies has the advantage at this time as a campocorto that hits the switch with Power that acts in high-a at age 18. Walcott has a higher roof, with an opportunity to hit 40 home runs one day, but it has been promoted so aggressive (he is 19 years old at this time) that he has not been able to demonstrate the domain out of what suggests that his suggestion is possible.
Clark is more basically everything in the field, but it is simply average when it comes to gross power: his case would be that he could become a Corbin Carroll -type star. McGonigle is the longest shot, since its raw physical tools are far behind this group, but it is easily the best batter and has the best approach, while it is a left -handed hitter who plays a solid defensive campocort.
