Because the MLB Draft Lottery won't happen until this winter, we don't know the 2026 Draft order yet. But that doesn't mean we don't have an idea of what the top of the Draft might look like come next summer.

On the latest MLB Pipeline Podcast , Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo put their heads together to try figuring it out, in the form of a way-too-early mock 2026 draft. With the new '26 top 20 college and prep prospects rankings hot off the presses, they project how the first 10 picks might shake out by alternating selections, in knowing acknowledgement that the big night remains 10-odd months away.

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With the caveat that it is still extremely early , this is how Callis and Mayo see Round 1 potentially going down in '26:

1. White Sox: Roch Cholowsky, SS,

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