{"id":503977,"date":"2026-01-09T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:08:09","slug":"mlb-draft-sleepers-who-could-rise-in-the-2026-class-a-farewell-to-peter-flaherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503977\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Draft Sleepers Who Could Rise In The 2026 Class &#038; A Farewell To Peter Flaherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"page-layout__image-credit\">\n\t<strong><br \/>\n\t\tImage credit:\t<\/strong><br \/>\n\tLucas Moore (Tracy Proffitt\/Four Seam Images)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bittersweet episode of the Baseball America Draft Oodcast, as Peter Flaherty is bidding farewell to BA and embarking on a new journey as a scout with the Nationals. <\/p>\n<p>Carlos and Peter reminisce on their time together covering the draft over the last few years, talking about what they\u2019ve learned and how their processes have changed.<\/p>\n<p>As always on the draft pod, there is still player talk. We express our excitement about the strength of the upcoming 2026 MLB Draft class and highlight a few names who could move up draft boards this spring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time Stamps<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>(0:00) Peter ditches the scribes and joins the scouts<\/li>\n<li>(7:00) Our outlook on the 2026 class<\/li>\n<li>(14:00) The variety inherent in amateur coverage<\/li>\n<li>(17:00) Potential sleepers who could rise<\/li>\n<li>(24:00) Lessons we\u2019ve learned from previous drafts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want more podcasts like this one? Subscribe below!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/baseball-america\/id201539011?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2o8Ih6zootYEy8XlFAsjCf?si=INR_M2hjTbe4fQ1uSBFWOg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/baseball-america-2150939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Player FM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image credit: Lucas Moore (Tracy Proffitt\/Four Seam Images) It\u2019s a bittersweet episode of the Baseball America Draft Oodcast,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":503978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-503977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115865773899425273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}