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We’re now more than a month removed from the 2026 Rule 4 Draft, generally known as just the MLB Draft. While the success of the teams involved will be measured on a scale of years, we’ve got enough remove now that we can at least get a sense of what each front office’s overall strategy was this year, as well as introduce readers to some of the names who might start popping up in prospect reports across the remainder of this season and into the next. Today’s survey focuses on the NL East.