{"id":550002,"date":"2026-02-02T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/550002\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:04:13","slug":"yankees-news-what-prospects-could-make-waves-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/550002\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees news: What prospects could make waves in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"

MLB.com | Joe Trezza<\/a>: This time of year is one where you\u2019ll see a lot of prospect rankings released by the various outlets that track and profile the future stars of the sport. According to MLB.com, the Yankees ended up with four players in the Top 100 prospects across baseball, led by George Lombard Jr. at #32. However, here\u2019s a look at some of the prospects who could crack future Top 100 lists with a good year or two, including former first round draft pick Ben Hess.<\/p>\n

New York Post | Greg Joyce<\/a>: One of the earliest moves of the Yankees\u2019 offseason was outfielder Trent Grisham accepting the qualifying offer to remain with the Yankees in 2026. While the $22+ million that the qualifying offer was worth felt like a big number when he accepted, GM Brian Cashman believes the price may end up a bargain considering how the free agent market has played out since.<\/p>\n

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MassLive | Christopher Smith<\/a>: The Red Sox made a deal on Sunday, trading pitcher Jordan Hicks to the White Sox. In return, they got pitching prospect Gage Ziehl, which is a name that might sound somewhat familiar. If it does, that\u2019s because Ziehl is a former Yankees\u2019 prospect that they sent to Chicago as part as the Austin Slater trade last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB.com | Joe Trezza: This time of year is one where you\u2019ll see a lot of prospect rankings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4155,5,24054,3936,138,15558,72513,2107,72514,204,4,1586,62,89,26952,122,396],"class_list":["post-550002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-austin-slater","tag-baseball","tag-ben-hess","tag-brian-cashman","tag-chicago","tag-christopher-smith","tag-cowtown-coliseum","tag-george-lombard-jr","tag-joe-trezza","tag-jordan-hicks","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-red-sox","tag-top-100-prospects","tag-trent-grisham","tag-white-sox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115999294433486736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}