Sleepers, 2026
Mar 2 2026
This column will help you target batters who may be undervalued heading into draft day and have the potential to take a significant step forward in 2026. In many leagues, they can be considered breakout targets.
Let's try to find the most appealing breakout targets by looking at highly-skilled bats who earned modest value in 2025. Last year, this exercise recommended speculative breakouts on Andrew Vaughn (1B, MIL), Pete Crow-Armstrong (CF, CHC), Geraldo Perdomo (SS, ARI), and James Wood (LF/DH, WAS), all of whom took big steps forward.
These bats have the best projected skills among those who generated less than $15 last season:
| 2026 Projected | |||||||||
| Player | Lg | Pos | ADP | bb% | ct% | Eye | PX | Spd | BPX |
| Sanoja, Javier | NL | 3B LF 2B | 648 | 5% | 89% | 0.59 | 88 | 171 | 310 |
| Alvarez,... | |||||||||
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