Next week just might be the busiest on the MLB Pipeline calendar. It starts with our latest update to the Top 100 Prospects list, continues with Futures Game roster announcements and scouting reports and concludes with an updated and expanded Draft Top 250 plus our later projections for the first

The NCAA national champions have been crowned -- congrats Oklahoma. The Draft Combine is underway in Arizona. And it's time for another mock draft. Throughout the past two months, in preparation for the MLB Draft on July 11 and 12, MLB Pipeline's Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo have alternated weekly

PHOENIX -- Pro-style workouts highlighted Day 2 of the MLB Draft Combine on Wednesday. Sixty-three position players took batting practice and took part in defensive drills at Chase Field, while 23 pitchers threw off the mound. The two biggest names to participate were a pair of college right-handers with health

We last took a look at standout pitching prospects who were performing well about a month ago, so we figured it was time to check in on the Minor League’s hottest hurlers again. There are actually only two repeats from last go-round, with a pair of lefties – Kade Anderson

On the four episodes of the MLB Pipeline Podcast preceding the 2026 Draft, Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo are analyzing each demographic in the class: College pitchers, college hitters, high school pitchers and high school hitters. Here's a look at the top high school bats available in July.

It's the calm before the storm with the Draft, which is 23 days away. There were so many upsets in the NCAA Tournament that many top college talents' seasons ended earlier than expected. It's possible that only one first-rounder played in the Men's College World Series, and Alabama shortstop Justin

It’s moving season in the Minor Leagues. It’s around this time of the season that sample sizes are big enough and organizations can recognize without much doubt which of their prospects deserve new challenges at higher levels, like the Nationals did last week with Eli Willits’ move to High-A at

On the four episodes of the MLB Pipeline Podcast preceding the 2026 Draft, Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo are analyzing each demographic in the class: College pitchers, college hitters, high school pitchers and high school hitters. Here's a look at the top college pitchers available in July.

This story was excerpted from MLB Pipeline's newsletter. Subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. OMAHA -- I'm attending my favorite baseball event, the College World Series. It's my 33rd trip to Omaha, where I've enjoyed 300 or so games, but my first since 2019. The pandemic and then

I'm not sure which is greater, my College World Series fever or my Draft fever. And I couldn't be more excited about the Guardians promoting Daniel Espino to the big leagues, so I have Espino fever too. Let's try to abate at least one of those things by answering some

Several members of the 2025 Draft class are wasting no time tearing up pro ball. No. 1 overall pick Eli Willits (Nationals) already has hit his way to High-A at age 18. No. 3 selection Kade Anderson (Mariners) leads the Minor Leagues with a 43 percent strikeout rate and a

The most exciting event of the college baseball calendar is upon us as eight teams will face off in Omaha this weekend in their quest to be crowned the best in the nation at the Men's College World Series. The action begins on Friday with West Virginia vs. Troy at

Braden Montgomery earning a promotion to the big leagues in mid-2026 is no surprise. The White Sox calling him up to bolster their postseason chances while holding a two-game lead on a Wild Card berth two months into the season? Now that's a shocker.

Teams will have a little less time than expected to scout several of the top college players in the 2026 Draft. A rash of upsets in NCAA regional play last weekend eliminated seven of the 16 top national seeds, including No. 1 UCLA and No. 2 Georgia Tech. No Bruins

Another month of the 2026 season is in the books, and as the weather has warmed up, so have the bats in the Minor Leagues. The 30 hitters below, our selection for hottest hitter in May for each organization, have been swinging the bat better than most. There are a

If you haven't caught your breath yet from the excitement of the NCAA Regionals, take a moment now. This NCAA Tournament is off to a exhilarating start with walkoff thrillers, unfathomable upsets and unlikely heroes donning their capes when their clubs needed it most. With powerhouses UCLA (No. 1 overall

Baseball's best rookie in May turned pro for $140,000 out of the Dominican Republic and ranked just 19th on MLB Pipeline's preseason Angels Top 30 Prospects list. The second-best went No. 1 overall in the 2024 Draft and signed for $8.95 million. Successful rookies come from a wide variety of

MLB Pipeline released its expanded and updated Draft Top 200 last night, but we're already collecting intel for our next first-round projection and starting work on the Draft Top 250. We'll take a break, however, to answer your Draft questions.

We say it every year, and it bears repeating again: the Draft is hard. Front offices spend years scouting and analyzing a particular Draft class, but even the best baseball minds can’t predict what will happen with absolute certainty in the years after. Take the 2021 class ahead of its

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Pedro Ramírez's breakout season just keeps getting better and better. After tearing up Triple-A and needing just 37 games to set a new career high for home runs, he got called to the big leagues for the first time today. After the Cubs placed Matt Shaw on the 10-day injured

This is the time of year when we like to look at pleasant developments in the early part of the Minor League schedule. When we did so a year ago, we spotlighted several prospects who were steaming toward MLB Pipeline's Top 100 list: A.J. Ewing, Carlos Lagrange, Joe Mack, Rainiel

Though most of my attention is focused on the Draft these days, there's a lot else going on at MLB Pipeline. Most notably, we refreshed our Top 100 Prospects list after Konnor Griffin officially graduated to the Majors on Wednesday. Sam Dykstra has all the details here. As for the

A couple of weeks ago, we took a look at the hottest hitting prospect in each organization. Now it’s time to check in on the pitchers. While many of the game’s top young arms are still building up and expanding their pitch counts and innings, there have been more than

The White Sox have the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 Draft, which comes with an assigned value of $11,350,600, the largest since the bonus-pool era began in 2012. Yet it's the Pirates who possess the largest overall pool at $19,130,700, another record. The pick values increased by 2.5