I’m on hour 10 of “Awaken Your Psychic Abilities” YouTube music and tones video, and the visions of the future have now been revealed to me. I swat away the next big stock risers. Winning Lotto numbers? Who cares. How to avoid WWIII? I’ll figure that out later. I only have future third eyes for what the 2026 Top 50 Dynasty Baseball Prospect Rankings will look like … and it’s beautiful. My regular rankings are where you should look to make your real team decisions, as this list has nothing to do with me. I am just a mere vessel for the baseball gods 😉 Top 8 free here on the Brick Wall. Here is the Predicting the Top 50 2026 Dynasty Baseball Prospects Rankings which doubles as a Bold Predictions article:

1) Leodalis De Vries – SDP, SS, 19.6 – It’s going to be the Chourio, Holliday, Langford conundrum all over again with three legit #1 overall worthy prospects sitting atop the rankings. They will be ordered in every which way possible on all of the different rankings sites out there, and who should be #1 overall will be the dominant off-season debate going into the 2026 season. I will be extremely high on all 3 in my 2026 Top 1,000 Dynasty Rankings, ranking them 23rd, 24th and 25th overall, and will sweat out all off-season if I made the right decision with going De Vries first. I was so far correct about having Chourio first overall out of that above group, so I will stick to my guns with Leo as the top dog, even though most places will have Jenkins or Walcott first. De Vries ability to lift the ball will be the difference maker for me.

2) Walker Jenkins – MIN, OF, 21.1 – Jenkins will continue to be in absolute lock step with Kyle Tucker’s career arc. He actually recently talked about how he viewed 2024 as a down year for him. The only thing he didn’t do in 2024 was hit homers. He will be a man on a mission to hit dingers, and like Tucker, he will hit 20+ homers split between High-A and Double-A. He will rank 1st overall on most mainstream prospect lists.

3) Sebastian Walcott – TEX, SS, 20.1 – I will fight every urge in my body to once again say that I was the first guy on Walcott, and will just bury those feelings deep down as he gets ranked 1st on other lists, while everyone asks me why I hate Walcott so much for only having him 3rd. Such is the life of a prospector. You either die a hero, or live long enough to be the low man on the guy you were actually the high guy on when it mattered. Walcott will continue to show off the charts tools that lap even De Vries and Jenkins, but his game will still be slightly raw compared to theirs, having me leaning him as the 3rd head of the 3 headed monster.

4) Konnor Griffin – PIT, OF, 19.11 – Griffin will have the explosion that everyone who passed on him in first year player drafts feared he would have. The hit tool concerns will be overblown as he maintains an under 25% K% at Single-A, and the power/speed combo will shine with 16 homers and 48 steals in 102 games. He’ll basically be the 2026 version of the 2025 version of Sebastian Walcott. Off the charts tools and a better than expected hit tool.

5) Justin Crawford – PHI, OF, 22.3 – Crawford’s GB% will improve for the 2nd year in a row, coming much closer to the semi reasonable 50% mark, and that will be all he needs for his speed, contact, and raw power to do the rest. He will get a small taste of the majors to close out the season where his groundball rate will spike again, but the raw power, speed, and contact rates will lock in his special talent. It will be Carl Crawford 2.0.

6) Felnin Celesten – SEA, SS, 20.7 – Celesten will finally stay healthy for long enough to establish himself as the truly elite prospect. His explosive athleticism and raw power will dominate the lower minors, which he will combine with a strong plate approach, leading to a 141 wRC+ at Single-A before closing out the season at High-A with a 123 wRC+. The groundball rates will still be high, but they will be closer to the 50% mark than the 60%+ he put in 2024. He’s going to be a hype beast.

7) Roki Sasaki – LAD, RHP, 24.5 – I don’t want to believe it either, but Sasaki will feel elbow soreness in May, hit the IL, and then succumb to Tommy John surgery with an internal brace procedure after throwing 33.2 IP in the majors. He’ll be under the 50 IP threshold, so he’ll be back on prospects lists, even though he shouldn’t have even been on them in the first place. That is just the life of a flamethrowing pitcher. Don’t kill the messenger.

8) Braylon Payne – MIL, OF, 19.7 – Payne will prove his small sample pro debut, and now small sample Spring debut too (140 wRC+ with a 33.3% GB%, 66.7% Pull% and 20%/20% K%/BB% in 5 PA) were not a mirage, and it will become obvious that this is a special talent. The K% and GB% won’t be nearly as bad as feared pre draft, the power will continue to tick up, and the speed will be elite. This will be an unassailable elite prospect.

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