The 2026 season could be the most successful season for the Prospect Promotion Incentive. There could potentially be three eligible prospects to net their team draft pick rewards, which shows how successful it's been since its implementation.

In 2026, the fifth and final year of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, we could see as many as three teams get a pick at the end of the first round. In 2026, there were 97 prospects who satisfied the prospect list requirement. 15 of them have retained eligibility through the 2026 season, per Baseball America's Matt Eddy .

When the Prospect Promotion Incentive was introduced in the 2022 Collective Bargaining Agreement, it created sweeping changes.…