This week on the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast host Geoff Pontes is joined by Ian Cundall. They dive into ten names you need to be targeting in your dynasty leagues over the opening weeks of the season.

(2:00) Connelly Early

(4:00) Colt Emerson

(7:00) Jose Fernandez

(10:00) Tanner Franklin

(14:00) Ike Irish

(17:00) Juan Sanchez

(21:00) James Tibbs

(29:00) Fenwick Trimble

(31:00) James Ellwanger

(34:00) Anthony Eyanson

On this week's Draft Podcast, JJ Cooper and Carlos Collazo cover a lot of ground. Konnor Griffin is a big leaguer less than two years after he was drafted out of high school. We saw a lot of draft prospects at the National High School Invitational and we look at the lack of top-tier SEC draft arms.

Time Stamps

(0:30) Anticipating Konnor Griffin’s debut

(6:20) Bonus pools are out

(13:25) NHSI talk

(22:00) Where are the SEC arms?

Baseball America national college reporter Jacob Rudner is joined by prospect analyst Geoff Pontes to discuss BA's latest Field of 64 projection, Week 8 matchups that have their attention and mid-major teams making early cases for at-large consideration.

(1:59) Resumes starting to take shape

(16:11) How important is Georgia-Mississippi State?

(22:31) No. 7 North Carolina hosts No. 21 Boston College

(25:36) What we might learn from Vanderbilt at No. 23 Texas A&M

(32:06) Clarifying our thoughts on the Florida Gators

(37:36) Mid-majors we love

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As the MiLB season near Opening Day, we have a look at prospects who caught our eye on the back fields in Arizona. Jesús Cano and Josh Norris join JJ Cooper to talk about some of the best prospects they saw this month.

(01:45) Why the Mariners Ryan Sloan could be the best pitching prospect in the game

(07:20) Comparing Sloan and Pirates RHP Seth Hernandez

(09:25) Angels RHP Nate Sneed throws really hard

(11:15) Red Sox RHP Marcus Phillips is another former Vol pitcher to know

(11:40) Dodgers OF James Tibbs is hitting the ball harder in the air

(13:15) Brewers and Guardians sleepers to know

(16:30) The Angels farm system improvement caught Josh's eye. The pitching is impressive

(18:00) The White Sox have a loaded Triple-A club

(25:40) Royals RHP Kendry Chourio Throws Hard Strikes

(30:25) Rockies OF Roldy Brito can really hit

(35:00) The A's Breyson Guedez is a fast mover

(37:15) The Giants system is improving

(42:30) We have some good news/bad news as Jesús Cano is leaving us

On this week's Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Geoff Pontes, Josh Norris and Jesús Cano get together to preview the 2026 MiLB season, which gets underway across all levels beginning this week, big-time prospect contract extensions and more.

The Hot Sheet Show airs live on the BA YouTube channel every week on Tuesday at 3 p.m. Give us a sub, and we'll see you then!

• (0:00) Introduction
• (0:50) Colt Emerson's contract & profile
• (4:45) Cooper Pratt's contract & profile
• (8:10) Previewing the 2026 MiLB season
• (9:09) Ryan Sloan taking a step forward
• (10:20) Seth Hernandez
• (11:50) Anthony Eyanson
• (13:40) Luis Hernandez & Josuar Gonzalez
• (18:50) Optimism for the Nationals
• (22:30) Angels pitching prospects
• (24:15) ABS challenge system thoughts

We're going deep on each of the top prospects in the NL Central. We explain how each respective player climbed to No. 1 in their system, run through their scouting reports and lay out what you should expect in 2026.

Time Stamps

(0:00) — Moises Ballesteros, Cubs

(8:25) — Sal Stewart, Reds

(16:55) — JJ Wetherholt, Cardinals

(25:55) — Jesús Made, Brewers

(34:50) — Konnor Griffin, Pirates

The final week before the full slate of minor league games is upon us and we celebrate on the Baseball America Fantasy Podcast with an NL West prospects preview. This is our final of the divisional prospect previews and with the loaded Giants and Dodgers systems in tow there's plenty to discuss as Geoff Pontes is joined by Ian Cundall.

Los Angeles Dodgers

(2:00) River Ryan

(3:00) Alex Freeland

(5:00) Eduardo Quintero, Josue De Paula, Zyhir Hope and Mike Sirota

(8:00) Zach Root

(10:00) Adam Serwinowski

Arizona Diamondbacks

(11:00) Ryan Waldschmidt

(13:00) Jose Fernandez

(15:00) David Hagaman

(16:00) JD Dix

San Diego Padres

(19:00) Miguel Mendez and Bradgley Rodriguez

(21:00) Kruz Schoolcraft

(22:00) Kash Mayfield

(24:00) Kale Fountain

(27:00) Tucker Musgrove

San Francisco Giants

(29:00) Bryce Eldridge

(31:00) Carson Whisenhunt

(33:00) Josuar Gonzalez

(35:00) Luis Hernandez

(37:00) Luis De La Torre

(38:00) Argenis Cayama

Colorado Rockies

(39:00) Charlie Condon

(40:00) TJ Rumfield

(43:00) Ethan Holliday

(46:00) Roldy Brito

(48:00) Jackson Cox

We just rolled out an update of our MLB Draft rankings as we expanded them to the Top 300 prospects. On this week's Draft Podcast, Carlos Collazo and JJ Cooper take a look at some of the players who moved up and down the most.

(0:00) What’s the current perception of the class?

(7:30) Vahn Lackey

(10:30) Ace Reese & Chris Hacopian

(13:20) Derek Curiel & Eric Becker

(18:30) Kevin Roberts Jr. & Brady Harris

(23:00) More polarizing profiles

(33:30) In the weeds of the 200 range