MiLB Top 10 Prospects - Week Six
Tim Kanak brings MLB DW members 15 prospects to watch from all of the minor league action in Week Six
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Good day friends, welcome to my weekly prospect report, now only found with an MLB Data Warehouse subscription! The goal of this column is to give you the most fantasy-relevant prospect information throughout the last week, all in one place. The format of this weekly prospect report will be a run-through of my top 15-20 prospects of the week, with a goal to get at least three prospects at each level (DSL - AAA).
I will try my best to highlight new prospects every week, rather than repeat names, unless the repeat is so warranted I just can’t help myself.
This should not be seen as a weekly stash rankings, but as a ranking of top performers each week through all levels. My updated top 150 rankings can currently be found on MLB Data Warehouse and thanks to Jon, we will now have regularly updated fScores throughout the year.
IMPORTANT: Following next week, I may take a week or two off the weekly updates as I work on the updated Top 150 position rankings (so the end of May might not have the weekly articles… but I’ll do my best!)
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NOTE: Rookie status is determined by 130 ABs, or 50 IPs at the Major League level.
NOTE: All stats from Sunday, May 3 - Saturday, May 9 2026
T-10 Prospects
1 | SP Aidan Cremarosa (Rays) - A
ETA: 2028
Comp: Zack Greinke
Prime Skills: Aidan Cremarosa is a very interesting pitcher picked out of Fresno State in the eighth round in 2025 who pitches with deception, command and a five pitch - kitchen sink like approach that is unlikely to generate a ton of strikeouts, but he does have back-end rotation upside. He’s a smart pitcher that uses the fastball as a setup pitch and his breakers for swing and miss at the edge of the zone. While the fastball lacks velocity, it does have ride to it that plays up high in the zone and gets hitters to swing under it more often than not. Cremarosa has good extension for his height that helps provide additional deception from a ¾ arm-slot. The cutter tunnels well with the fastball and he paints with both pitches, while the curve ball has a crazy ephus feel with a super slow, loopy movement you don’t see often. The sweeper has good horizontal break, sweeping across the zone much differently and quicker than the curve, which leads to a many of his strikeouts. Cremarosa pitched a no-hitter on Friday night and has 49 strikeouts to 5 walks in 34 innings this year. I watched the full replay and his ability to get to all parts of the zone with all different shapes and speeds of pitches is incredibly impressive.
Arsenal Grades:
FA (90-92 mph): 40/45
CH (81-85 mph): 55/60
CU (68-76 mph): 55/60
FC (85-89 mph): 40/40
ST (83-85 mph): 50/60
Command: 60/65
Prospect Rank: Top 300
2 | OF Henry Bolte (Athletics) - AAA
Comp: Lane Thomas & Righty Charlie Blackmon mash
Prime Skills: Bolte put up a decent steals total and some solid power numbers last year, but a high BABIP and high K rate made him look like a small ball version of Nolan Jones. Bolte has a bad hit tool and strikes out way too much, but he can take a walk and due to his speed is really good at nabbing extra bases when he does make contact with a 150 XBH+. His high batting averages are all based on his speed and BABIP luck, rather than his hit tool or approach ala Billy Hamilton. The interesting thing is he hits the ball hard and can run into barrels despite terrible angles and bad contact. Bolte barely stuck into my Top 150 in the pre-season; mostly because of the tools and though it was all against righties, Bolte managed 9 extra base hits, 5 homers and 4 steals this week for the best offensive week anyone in the MILB has put up all season (too bad for him we had a no hitter this week too). Bolte has a 74% contact rate on the season and 81.9% Z-Contact on the year vs. a 68% contact rate last season. The hit tool is on the rise - and so will Bolte in my next rankings update. He has 12 homers and 16 steals on the season already, though he still hits the ball on the ground way too much.
Hitter Tool Grades:
Hit: 35/40
Plate Approach: 40/45
Power: 40/50
Speed: 75/75
Prospect Rank: 150
3 | 2B/SS Edwin Arroyo (Reds) - AAA
ETA: Late 2026
Comp: Ozzie Albies
Prime Skills: Arroyo was a top 150 guy for me all the way back in 2022 when he was still with the Mariners up until 2024 where he was still hanging on in the pre-season before an injury kept him out for the entire 2024 season. Last year was a bit of a struggle for Arroyo as he was returning from injury, but this year he is re-breaking out and is still only 22-years-old! He had 8 extras base hits with 4 homers and a .581 average over the last week and now has 7 bombs and 5 steals on the season after only hitting 3 homers all of last season, while rocking an 81.1% contact rate and 90.9% Z-Contact% on the season with only a 15% K rate. He’s an aggressive swinger, like Albies, but I think that will play for high batting averages earlier in his career and the average EVs are higher than what you would expect based on the 90th and Max EV numbers, so he holds a higher hard hit rate than you might think leading to possibly unexpected homer totals, especially in Great American. The ability to hit liners and get to the sweet spot this season is extremely impressive.
Hitter Tool Grades:
Hit: 50/55
Plate Approach: 45/50
Power: 45/50
Speed: 55/55
Prospect Rank: Top 250
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