On behalf of baseball writers everywhere, I need to apologize. Reading about pitching prospects has become a miserable slog.

I know because I just had to do a bunch of it to put together this list, and I nearly went cross-eyed in the process.

2026 Prospects: C | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | OF | P

So what's changed? Our understanding of pitch design has come so far that it's now the end-all, be-all of pitching analysis. And yes, in instances where it describes what makes a pitcher so good or explains what brought about such different results, it can be illuminating. But otherwise, it reads like this:

This pitcher throws this pitch at this velocity with this movement. He also throws this pitch at this velocity with this movement and just added this pitch at

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