I’m still deep into the article for actually ranking the top hitters in 2026 Bowman but while I work on it I’ve had a ton of people ask me about players to look for since some breaks are already popping up. For that reason I’m going to give you all a link to my cheat sheet that I made with the help from Dahl over at Prospect Pulse.
This sheet includes every hitter getting a 1st Bowman autograph in the new product, their age, team, signing bonus, projected grades, and 2026 stats. Now Dahl was kind enough to pull all of the scout grades, future values, and risk level directly from FanGraphs. Any players that did not have grades on there I look through MLB Pipeline and Baseball America to try and fill in the missing ones but there are still a few names who don’t have them posted anywhere. I’ve also uploaded their 2026 stats as of today and given you a few important categories that I usually look for including wRC+, ISO, SwStr%, etc. Now take the stats portion with a grain of salt because many of these guys have only played a handful of games but I thought some of you might be able to use it to locate sleepers who are hitting well despite not being big targets.
Finally, in order to help you decide who is under/overpriced in PYP breaks I color coded the players based roughly on what tier they’re going to fall in when my chase rank article comes out. These are subject to change because as I write the scouting reports it does slightly change my opinion on players and some will slightly move up and down but the tiers themselves should be pretty safe.
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