You're about to see the most exciting prospects in baseball take the field during Spring Breakout this week -- but a lot of those prospects have already been putting on a showcase this spring.
And with Statcast tracking now available for all 30 teams' Spring Training ballparks, it's easier than ever to highlight those young players' tools. Let's take a look at some standouts entering the 2026 season. You might see some of these future stars play in the Spring Breakout games, too.
Here are 14 prospects with noteworthy Spring Training Statcast data -- seven hitters and seven pitchers.
HITTERS
1) Samuel Basallo, Orioles
The O's hope the breakout is coming for Basallo in 2026 after a hot spring. The 21-year-old doesn't just have a great stat line, he has great quality of contact numbers behind it. Basallo has an average exit velocity of 96.5 mph, a 56% hard-hit rate and a 31% barrel rate -- that's how often he hits the ball with both ideal exit velocity and ideal launch angle to produce extra-base hits. All of those numbers are good signs for MLB's No. 8 overall prospect.
2) Emmanuel Rodriguez, Twins
Rodriguez was sent to Minor League camp last week, but MLB's No. 74 prospect was raking up to that point, with a 94 mph average exit velocity and 60% hard-hit rate in his spring games for the Twins. That includes a max exit velocity of 114 mph on a double the 23-year-old lefty ripped on March 9, which would've been tied for the Twins' hardest-hit ball of the entire 2025 season. (Byron Buxton hit a 114 mph double in August against the Yankees.)
3) Chase DeLauter, Guardians
MLB's No. 46 prospect has combined great hard-hit numbers with great contact numbers at Guardians Spring Training, a skill set that could make the 24-year-old a dangerous all-around hitter in the big leagues. DeLauter has both a 95 mph average exit velocity and 64% hard-hit rate this spring, and a very low 15% swing-and-miss rate and 7% strikeout rate. That's a winning formula.
4) Justin Gonzales, Red Sox
Gonzales is only 19 years old, but Boston's No. 6 prospect turned heads at Red Sox camp when he ripped a 117.3 mph line-drive base hit on March 2. That's still the third-hardest-hit ball for all of Spring Training 2026, and it would put Gonzales in the top tier of max exit velocity even for a Major League hitter. Among all players 20 or younger at Spring Training this year, Gonzales has the top individual exit velocity by nearly 5 full mph -- and the highest on a base hit by over 6 mph, with the next-hardest one being No. 1 overall prospect Konnor Griffin's 111.2 mph home run for the Pirates.
5) Kendall George, Dodgers
George has truly blazing speed, which should be obvious when you see that the 21-year-old had a 100-steal season in the Minors last year. But the Statcast numbers back it up, too. Statcast's threshold for elite MLB sprint speed is 30 feet per second, and the Dodgers' No. 14 prospect has eclipsed that on eight different runs at Spring Training. Those include five different plays in which George, as the batter, went home-to-first in under four seconds flat … which is just really, really fast.
6) Jose Fernandez, D-backs
Fernandez is one of three players this spring with an average exit velocity over 100 mph on at least 10 batted balls, and the other two are Giancarlo Stanton and Junior Caminero. He's back in Minor League camp now, but Fernandez was averaging 100.1 mph at big league Spring Training, and 15 of his 18 batted balls were hard-hit (95-plus mph off the bat). That's pretty impressive for a 22-year-old shortstop who's only ranked as the D-backs' No. 27 prospect.
7) William Bergolla Jr., White Sox
Bergolla has the Steven Kwan/Luis Arraez skill set. He doesn't hit the ball hard, but he always hits the ball. Bergolla's bat-to-ball skills have been exceptional this spring. The 21-year-old middle infielder has played 14 Spring Training games, stepped to the plate 33 times and seen 89 pitches … and he just swung and missed for the very first time on Sunday, when Royals ace Cole Ragans struck him out with a nasty slider in a lefty-lefty matchup. Even with that strikeout, one K in 33 plate appearances is absurd. The White Sox's No. 11 prospect has made contact on 37 of his 38 swings.
PITCHERS
1) Carlos Lagrange, Yankees
Lagrange's numbers jumped off the page at the start of Spring Training, and nothing has changed. The Yankees' top pitching prospect, and MLB's No. 79 prospect overall, rivals the hardest throwers in the big leagues. Lagrange, Mason Miller and Jhoan Duran are the only three pitchers averaging 100-plus mph on their fastballs this spring. Lagrange's heater is averaging 100.5 mph, and with Miller away at the World Baseball Classic, the 22-year-old is the only pitcher to break the 103 mph mark at Spring Training. Lagrange also has the two fastest strikeout pitches at 102.8 mph and 102.0 mph.
2) Didier Fuentes, Braves
The Braves' No. 3 prospect is just 20 years old, but the young righty hasn't allowed a hit in his two Spring Training outings, and his stuff has even been overpowering former MVPs. Fuentes' fastball is averaging 97.2 mph with a 40% whiff rate induced (10 whiffs on 25 swings against it) and a 67% strikeout rate (six K's in nine plate appearances ending on it). And his slider is averaging 87 mph -- a completely different pitch than the low-80s version he was throwing in the Minors last year -- while inducing a 50% whiff rate and 60% strikeout rate so far.
3) Blade Tidwell, Giants
The Giants got Tidwell from the Mets in the Tyler Rogers trade last summer, and his stuff has looked very sharp entering 2026. The 24-year-old right-hander, who's ranked San Francisco's No. 10 prospect, has been throwing six different pitches at Spring Training (four-seamer, sinker, cutter, slider, sweeper and changeup), but Tidwell's fastball-sweeper combo has been particularly good. His fastball is averaging 96.4 mph and generating a 41% whiff rate, and his sweeper, which is sitting at 83.5 mph with an excellent 2,820 rpm spin rate, has induced a 52% whiff rate (13 whiffs on 25 swings) and 43% strikeout rate (six K's in 13 plate appearances).
4) Dennis Colleran, Royals
Colleran is a funky pitcher to watch. The 22-year-old righty throws hard, sure -- he has a 98.2 mph average fastball velo this spring and has touched triple digits (for a strikeout, no less). But he also delivers that heat with a big Bronson Arroyo-like leg kick and low release angle that make him deceptive to hit against. Colleran also has a nice sharp sweeper, which is averaging 85.4 mph with a foot of glove-side break. Both Colleran's four-seamer and sweeper were generating a 50% whiff rate at big league camp. Kansas City's No. 25 prospect was assigned back to Minor League camp over the weekend, but Colleran is a reliever to keep an eye on.
5) Ryan Lambert, Mets
You know about Lambert for his raw egg eating habits, but the 23-year-old very simply has one of the best fastballs in all of Spring Training. Lambert's heater is averaging 97.5 mph with an excellent 2,574 rpm spin rate and an elite 20 inches of induced "rising" movement. That makes it the top rising four-seamer of anyone who's thrown as many heaters as he has this spring, and it's why the Mets' No. 18 prospect is running a 37% swing-and-miss rate with that fastball. Lambert pairs that explosive four-seamer with an 84.6 mph slider that gets a ton of depth and is getting whiffs on half the swings against it. Lambert struck out eight of the 12 batters he faced in three outings (five on fastballs, three on sliders) before being reassigned to Minor League camp.
6) Bradgley Rodriguez, Padres
The Padres' No. 6 prospect debuted last season and looked electric in September. He looks electric again at Spring Training. Rodriguez throws 99 mph fastballs and has touched 100-plus in spring games, for one thing, but we're really here for the changeup. The 22-year-old throws that changeup 90 mph -- still almost 10 mph slower than his heaters -- and with over 14 inches of horizontal movement. Rodriguez's changeup is running a 48% whiff rate at Padres camp.
7) Leandro Lopez, Rangers
Lopez throws a 95-plus mph four-seamer and sinker, but his secondary pitches have been the standouts at Spring Training. His changeup, slider and curveball have racked up 10 strikeouts in 17 plate appearances across his three outings, with a 59% strikeout rate on his breaking and offspeed pitches. The slider is particularly nasty for the Rangers' No. 14 prospect, inducing 11 whiffs on 16 swings.