{"id":617621,"date":"2026-03-10T23:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/617621\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:32:23","slug":"world-baseball-classic-prospect-standouts-mlb-mock-draft-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/617621\/","title":{"rendered":"World Baseball Classic Prospect Standouts, MLB Mock Draft &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this week\u2019s Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Geoff Pontes and Carlos Collazo discuss players to know from the World Baseball Classic before breaking down our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/2026-mlb-mock-draft-1-0-first-round-picks-for-every-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first full mock draft of the 2026 cycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hot Sheet Show airs live on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@baseballamerica\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BA YouTube channel<\/a> every week on Tuesday at 3 p.m. Give us a sub, and we\u2019ll see you then!<\/p>\n<p>Time Stamps<\/p>\n<p>(0:00) Introduction<\/p>\n<p>(1:15) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/top-korean-players-the-2026-world-baseball-classic-with-mlb-potential\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KBO<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/top-japanese-players-to-watch-in-the-2026-world-baseball-classic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NPB<\/a> players who have stood out in the WBC<\/p>\n<p>(7:30) HS pitcher Joseph Contreras pitches against the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>(10:00) Why the Angels are a WBC winner<\/p>\n<p>(11:45) Olympic baseball vs. WBC and our tournament picks<\/p>\n<p>(13:50) Breaking down Carlos\u2019 first 2026 mock draft<\/p>\n<p>(17:45) Roch Cholowsky overreactions<\/p>\n<p>(18:50) Thoughts on college pitchers<\/p>\n<p>(20:45) Cade Townsend vs. Joey Volckho\u2014who\u2019s getting better feedback?<\/p>\n<p>(23:25) Vac Veen has bulked up and is performing in spring training<\/p>\n<p>(25:15) A\u2019s prospects who are standing out this spring<\/p>\n<p>Want more podcasts like this one? Subscribe below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/baseball-america\/id201539011?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2o8Ih6zootYEy8XlFAsjCf?si=INR_M2hjTbe4fQ1uSBFWOg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/baseball-america-2150939\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Player FM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Geoff Pontes and Carlos Collazo discuss players to know from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[10264,5,2291,4,1586],"class_list":{"0":"post-617621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-draft","8":"tag-2026-world-baseball-classic","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-draft","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116207494582839604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617621","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=617621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}