MLB Rank 2026: Ranking Baseball\u2019s Top 100 Players,<\/a>\u00a0and multiple\u00a0Phillies\u00a0made the cut.<\/p>\nBreaking Down the Phillies in the Top 100<\/p>\n
From the lowest-ranked to the highest, here\u2019s a look at which\u00a0Philadelphia Phillies players were included among the best 100 talents in baseball.<\/p>\n
First up, coming in at No. 91 on the list is Phillies starting pitcher Zack Wheeler, who made the list despite missing much of last season after\u00a0undergoing\u00a0thoracic outlet decompression surgery.<\/p>\n
A ramp-up in effectiveness. Not that Wheeler will get crushed early in the season, but if all goes well, he’ll be at his best by October, giving us the postseason we expected him to have in 2025.<\/p>\n
Next at No. 90 is Phillies closer Johan Duran, who came over in a trade deadline deal with the Minnesota Twins.\u00a0 He had a\u00a02.06 ERA and 32 saves for the Twins and Phillies last season.<\/p>\n
The Phillies have made four straight trips to the postseason, but they’ll finally have a lockdown closer for an entire season. Duran’s strikeout rate ticked way up after the trade. Look for 40-something saves as he becomes the first Phillies closer to lead the NL in that category since Steve Bedrosian in 1987.<\/p>\n
At No. 87 on the list is Phillies lefty\u00a0Jes\u00fas Luzardo, who came over last offseason in a trade with the Marlins, and had a tremendous season with a\u00a03.92 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, and 216 strikeouts in 183 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
A free agent next offseason, Luzardo has an opportunity to squash any injury questions and put himself in position for a significant payday.<\/p>\n
Breaking into the Top 50, coming in at No. 42 on the list, is Phillies first baseman, Bryce Harper. After an interesting offseason, which questioned if Harper was still an elite player, he finds himself ranked just inside the Top 50.<\/p>\n
A hungry Harper is a terrifying prospect for opposing pitchers, who know that he’s still an all-fields hitter with plenty of power and that his willingness to work walks hasn’t abated. Anger can be a gift, and as long as he stays on the field, a classic Harper season is in the offing.<\/p>\n
At No. 26 overall, just outside the Top 25, is shortstop Trea Turner. Turner had a fine season last year, winning the National League batting title with a .304 average.<\/p>\n
Once a paragon of durability, Turner has averaged 131 games over the past two seasons. His 141 games in 2025 were enough to get him 5.4 bWAR, his second batting title and a fifth-place finish in the NL MVP race. Expect the quality of Turner’s play to continue even as the quantity begins to wane a bit.<\/p>\n
Inside the Top 25, Kyle Schwarber was ranked No. 21 after a season where he finished No. 2 in the NL MVP voting.<\/p>\n
He is one of three hitters with at least 180 home runs, 420 RBIs and 420 runs in the past four seasons combined (Judge and Ohtani are the others). He led the NL in home runs (56) and the majors in RBIs (132) last season, and he also posted the third-best barrel rate (20.8%) in the sport.<\/p>\n
And the top-ranked player on the Phillies entering the 2026 season?\u00a0 Coming in at No. 19 overall is pitcher\u00a0Cristopher S\u00e1nchez, who finished No. 2 in the NL Cy Young race after going\u00a013-5 with a 2.50 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, and 212 strikeouts in 202 innings.<\/p>\n
Sanchez continues to befuddle hitters on both sides of the plate with his sinker\/changeup combination, and he went unbeaten in 15 home starts (6-0, 1.94 ERA, .90 WHIP) in Philly’s bandbox.<\/p>\n
Spring Training continues from now until Monday, March 23rd, with Opening Day on Thursday, March 2,6 in Philadelphia against the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n
The Best Philly Athletes Age 25 or Younger<\/p>\n
Philadelphia has some great young athletes right now, from All-Star Tyrese Maxey to two first-round draft picks on the Eagles Defensive Line (Jordan Davis and Jalen Carter).\u00a0In honor of the Philly Sports Youth Movement, here is my ranking of the Top Ten Philadelphia Professional Athletes who are 25 years old or younger:<\/p>\n
Gallery Credit: Josh Hennig\/Townsquare Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As spring training rolls on and we inch closer to Opening Day, the\u00a0Philadelphia Phillies are\u00a0missing 12 players with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[4753,5,4,144,25,4216,40],"class_list":["post-608201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-articles","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116178030892155090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608201","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=608201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}