{"id":670697,"date":"2026-04-08T18:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670697\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:10:48","slug":"2026-top-college-mlb-draft-prospects-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/670697\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Top College MLB Draft Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/roch_cholowsky_rictapiagetty-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-baseball-america-md--3:4 size-baseball-america-md--3:4 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img width=\"1280\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775671848_513_roch_cholowsky_rictapiagetty-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-baseball-america-xl--21:9 size-baseball-america-xl--21:9 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"page-layout__image-credit\">\n<p>\t\tImage credit:<br \/>\n\tRoch Cholowsky (Photo by Ric Tapia\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>In concert with our updated overall March draft rankings, we\u2019ve also updated and expanded our list of the top college draft prospects in the country.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/players\/21126-roch-cholowsky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roch Cholowsky<\/a> continues to lead the class and is one of seven Bruins to crack this list. UC Santa Barbara righthander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/players\/784362-jackson-flora\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Flora<\/a> is the top-ranked collegiate pitcher and checks in at No. 2, while the top five is rounded out by Alabama shortstop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/players\/281462-justin-lebron\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Lebron<\/a>, Georgia Tech catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/players\/1712918-vahn-lackey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vahn Lackey<\/a> and Mississippi State third baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/players\/352743-ace-reese\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ace Reese<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BA subscribers can find our latest ranking of the top college prospects in the 2026 draft class with scouting reports on all 150 players below.<\/p>\n<p>More 2026 Draft Coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: Roch Cholowsky (Photo by Ric Tapia\/Getty Images) In concert with our updated overall March draft rankings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,2291,4,1586],"class_list":{"0":"post-670697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-draft","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-draft","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116370439687355563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670697","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=670697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}