Eric Hartman

Given how good it was, easy decision to also give him that award.

Breakout Prospect of the Year Was Eric Hartman, uh, who had a 25-50 season, uh, in the Atlanta Braves system.

We knew he was a fast player coming out of Alberta.

He's actually just a 20th round pick in 2024.

2024, not a ton of homers.

In 2025 this year, absolutely broke out in that cord- category, and was the first minor leaguer to finish the year with 25 plus homers and 50 plus steals since Andruw Jones, also of the Braves system, in 1995.

Uh, so Eric Hartman, breakout prospect of the year.

Defensive player of the year, Ethan Salas, catcher for the Padres.

I believe that's where he was to begin the season.

Eric Hartman had overtaken him, uh, but now he's fallen down to three with Tate Southstein in between those two, and then the newly drafted AJ Gracia and John Hill round out the top five.

Many people are probably gonna be asking here, Gorav, why did you put Cam back up at one, and maybe more so, why did you drop Hartman down to three? Was that because of the struggles at double-A?

So I think it had to do a lot more with what we saw out of Cam Caminati to end the season versus the struggles that Eric Hartman had to end the season double-A.

Uh, for Eric, we kind of figured, everyone kind of saw that it was going to be a stepping stone for him in, in terms of the, the development from, uh, or the, the overall quality of pitching he sees from high-A to, to double-A.

And as expected, I think I talked about it on this, on this show itself, was I expected him to struggle at the very beginning before he started to really become more, uh, comfortable.

We started seeing the at bat quality improve over the course, uh, especially towards the end of the season for Eric Hartman as he became more and more, um, comfortable with, with double-A pitching.

The numbers weren't quite there, but you could see the adjustments made throughout the, the final few weeks of the season.

He already has the advanced approach at the plate, draws a lot of walks, and there's more power for him to tap into.

So we had Flewelling and, uh, Eric Hartman out of Alberta kind of breaking out this year.

Uh, all right.

Jim, give us another name.