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Positional rankings have kicked off over at Baseball America, as Lead Fantasy Analyst James Anderson released his Top 40 Catchers for 2027 Dynasty Baseball. Hosts James Anderson and Geoff Pontes breakdown some key discussion points and tier breaks throughout the rankings. They dive into some players to avoid as well as some sleeper names to know.

(1:00) Drake Baldwin not a traditional No. 1 of a positional group.
(8:00) Rainiel Rodriguez: Future No. 1 catcher?
(13:00) Carter Jensen: Is there any downside?
(18:00) Samuel Basallo and Joe Mack: Potential breakouts at the position?
(24:00) Cal Raleigh: Is it time to buy or sell?
(29:00) Buy or sell? Hunter Goodman, William Contreras and Dillon Dingler
(38:00) What is a fully healthy Kyle Teel season like?
(44:00) Leo Bernal's expectations for 2027 and beyond.
(50:00) Detroit's Mystery Man

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Baseball America delivers the most comprehensive preview of the 2026 World Series on the market. BA's staff covers every detail, narrative, X-factor and more ahead of this year's Fall Classic between the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays!
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On this week's Prospect Podcast, JJ Cooper, Geoff Pontes, Josh Norris and Ian Cundall look back at our pre-season 2026 rankings to see where we missed, as well as some reports we nailed.
(00:00) Intro
(01:35) Prospect Miss: Moises Ballesteros
(08:15) Prospect Hit: Arjun Nimmala
(12:15) Prospect Miss: Carson Williams
(20:50) Prospect Hit: Kevin McGonigle
(28:30) Prospect Miss: Spencer Jones
(34:00) Prospect Hit: Caden Bodine
(41:30) Prospect Miss: Marek Houston
(50:20) Prospect Hit: Enddy Azocar
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On this week's Hot Sheet Show, Jacob Rudner, J.J. Cooper and Geoff Pontes welcome a pair of promising prospects—one from each of the teams in this year's World Series—in the Brewers' Jett Williams and the Rays' Nathan Flewelling.
The Hot Sheet Show airs live on the BA YouTube channel every Tuesday at 3 p.m. Give us a sub, and we'll see you then!
Time Stamps
(0:00) Introduction
(0:45) Brewers shortstop prospect Jett Williams joins the show
(16:00) World Series: AL's Best vs. NL's Best
(17:15) How the Rays built their WS roster
(21:20) Rays catcher prospect Nathan Flewelling joins the show
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Ahead of our next big rankings update for the 2027 draft class, JJ, Carlos and Jacob try to make the case for three of the favorites to be the first overall pick. Unlike a year ago with Roch Cholowsky, there’s not a slam dunk 1-1 favorite—but which player has the most compelling, iron-clad case to be the first pick? And whose minds are changed after the cases are made?
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Time stamps:
(0:00) What our next draft update is capturing
(7:00) Explaining our case for 1-1 exercise
(10:00) The case for Dylan Seward
(25:00) The case for Tomas Valincius
(38:00) The case for Brendan Lawson
(50:00) The Dax Whitney factor
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