With Nick Kurtz and Drake Baldwin taking home their leagues' respective 2025 Rookie of the Year Awards , it's time to turn our attention to 2026.

On a recent edition of the MLB Pipeline Podcast , Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo filled out their hypothetical ballots for the year ahead, selecting the players they believe could take home the hardware next season. In the 2022 version of this exercise, the experts correctly predicted Gunnar Henderson and Corbin Carroll, then the game's top two prospects, would take the honors the following year. But the next year in a mock draft format, Paul Skenes wasn't selected until Round 4 and nobody tabbed Luis Gil as a serious American League contender.

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In 2024, neither predicted this year's two winners, Kurtz and Baldwin,

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