2026 Prospects Thread

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ESPN's Top 100 prospect list released Tuesday includes five Seattle prospects although Lazaro Montes, Jonny Farmelo and Felnin Celestern fail to make the cut:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/476 ... jesus-made

[D-train]

Any top 100 that doesn't have Laz is a joke.

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Keith Law of The Athletic ranks the Seattle farm system third behind those of the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers:

The No. 1 system last year fell off a little bit in 2025 due to some departures (Cole Young and Logan Evans graduated; they traded Harry Ford, Jeter Martinez and Ashton Izzi) and a couple of disappointing years from top prospects, notably Felnin Celesten and Jurrangelo Cijntje. They had another very strong draft — they are clearly among the best-drafting teams in baseball right now, and they haven’t missed on a first-round pick since at least 2020 — and have a good balance of position players and pitchers. The real distinction between the Mariners’ system and the two above it is that they don’t have the same kind of depth after their top group. Somewhere around prospect 11 or 12, the system falls off quickly, and if you wanted to argue they should be in tier 2 rather than just over the line in tier 1, well, we can settle this in Temecula.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/699828 ... dailyemail

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The Mariners' AL West rivals account for four of the bottom seven farm systems.

[Donn Beach]

Believe Law gives a lot of weight to depth as opposed to top prospects. And here he down grades the mariners depth a bit.

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[GL_Storm]

The Mariners love to rush their position prospects. We should probably just get used to it. I really hope Colt can handle it.

If Laz strings together a few weeks of high batting average and low strikeouts, look for him to suddenly get moved to the front of the line. They'll say something like "he turned the corner" or maybe the tried and true "you don't learn how to hit major league pitching in the minor leagues" - something like that, probably.

[D-train]

The Mariners love to rush their position prospects. We should probably just get used to it. I really hope Colt can handle it.

If Laz strings together a few weeks of high batting average and low strikeouts, look for him to suddenly get moved to the front of the line. They'll say something like "he turned the corner" or maybe the tried and true "you don't learn how to hit major league pitching in the minor leagues" - something like that, probably.

Imagine what Laz would do in the PCL for a full season.

[GL_Storm]

The Mariners love to rush their position prospects. We should probably just get used to it. I really hope Colt can handle it.

If Laz strings together a few weeks of high batting average and low strikeouts, look for him to suddenly get moved to the front of the line. They'll say something like "he turned the corner" or maybe the tried and true "you don't learn how to hit major league pitching in the minor leagues" - something like that, probably.

Imagine what Laz would do in the PCL for a full season.

To be honest, I'm not really looking forward to that.

[Donn Beach]

I think Laz handles AAA, the question is going to be if he's AAAA, that's going to be the leap

[D-train]

I think Laz handles AAA, the question is going to be if he's AAAA, that's going to be the leap

Yep. He really struggled in AA but he was only 20 yo. Praying he figures it out this season.