Overview
- MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 list places Marlins lefty Thomas White at No. 1 and Red Sox rookie Payton Tolle at No. 2, with Boston’s Connelly Early at No. 8.
- Three clubs land two entrants apiece: the Marlins (White, Robby Snelling at No. 5), the Red Sox (Tolle, Early), and the A’s (Jamie Arnold at No. 6, Gage Jump at No. 9).
- Pipeline projects six of the ten southpaws to impact MLB in 2026, and both Tolle and Early already debuted in 2025, saw postseason action, and drew votes in an executives’ AL Rookie of the Year survey.
- White is tagged with the highest ceiling thanks to frontline stuff and a 14.6 K/9 in 2025, with command flagged as the hurdle after a 5.1 BB/9.
- Early is cited as the biggest riser after boosting his fastball to an average 93.6 mph and touching 97, while Tolle’s heater averaged just under 96 and touched 101 with a 39% miss rate.