BALTIMORE – Zach Eflin didn’t go that far to get back to the starting line. So when he felt his elbow lock up and his extension disappear less than four innings into his 2026 season, what came next hit him even harder. “Really,” he says, “I felt like my heart had been ripped out of…
Previous winner Brayden Taylor, 2B/3B24 | Left/Right | 6’0” | 180AA | .173/.289/.286 (77 wRC+) 437 PA, 8 HR, 17 SB, 14% BB, 27.7% KAFL | .264/.400/.472 (.384 wOBA) 65 PA, 1 HR, 5 SB, 12 BB, 19 K Taylor entered 2025 as a top-100 prospect after demolishing High-A (154 wRC+), and left 2025 as…
The 2025-26 offseason has had moments where it moved quickly, like the domino effect we saw early on with the high-leverage reliever market. But we have also seen it drag, and that is how things have gone in recent weeks. With just a few days into the new year, it is the starting pitching market…
