TJStats has released a post-draft update to its MLB Top 100 Prospects for the 2026 MLB season, and the new list is built around the kind of detail readers usually have to dig for: reports, graphics, biographical data, MiLB statistics and scouting grades. The evaluations use the traditional 20-80 scale and are based on statistical and video analysis, which makes the update more than a simple reorder of names.
That is why Franklin Arias is drawing attention inside the updated board. The 20-years-old infielder reached AA in 2025 and turned that season into a stronger case for his rise, posting a 105.0 mph EV90, running a hard-hit rate north of 50% and more than doubling his 2025 home run total in a fraction of the games. What makes the line stand out is that he did it without giving up the bat-to-ball skills that made him such a difficult out in the first place.
Arias also fits the profile TJStats appears to value in this kind of ranking: a player whose numbers and video line up. He showed one of the best hit tools in MiLB and an exceptional glove, then began his first full season at AA with a more patient approach and an outburst of power. In a post-draft ranking cycle, that combination matters because it suggests the performance jump was not a one-week spike or a lucky stretch, but part of a broader skill set moving forward.
Jesus Made and Ryan Sloan are part of the same update, and their notes show how differently prospects can climb. Made posted a 167 wRC+ in the DSL in 2024 at 17 years old, then moved by the Brewers to full-season ball a year later and finished in AA, while standing 6’1" with the tools to defend the left side of the infield and enough speed to steal bases at every level. Sloan, meanwhile, was a 2nd round pick by the Mariners in the 2024 draft and is now 19, with an upper-90s fastball that carried the same cut-ride action that had already troubled low-minors hitters after rising from 2025.
The only part that does not read as finished is the note on Sloan’s slider, which cuts off just as the evaluation reaches that pitch. Even so, the outline is clear enough: TJStats is not ranking on reputation alone, and the post-draft update is rewarding players whose tools, performance and movement through the minors all point in the same direction. The missing line on Sloan’s breaking ball leaves one question hanging, though, and it is the one readers will keep checking back for — where the full Top 100 places Arias, Made and Sloan once the complete list is published.
