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

The 2026 Draft is taking longer to sort itself out than teams hoped. Shortstops Roch Cholowsky (UCLA) and Grady Emerson (Fort Worth Christian HS in Texas) have set themselves apart from the rest of the class. The second tier of prospects consists of catcher Vahn Lackey (Georgia Tech) and right-hander

One of baseball's most polarizing prospects is coming to the big leagues. When Jasson Domínguez entered concussion protocol after slamming into the outfield wall during Thursday's win over the Rangers, the Yankees responded by summoning Spencer Jones from Triple-A. Few players can match Jones' combination of size (6-foot-7, 240 pounds)

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The saying goes that relievers are failed starters. If you believe that, revisit how much the Padres gave up for Mason Miller at last year’s Trade Deadline, and then look at Miller’s dominance to begin his first full season in San Diego. After that, look at the three-year, $69 million

The Giants have made nine playoff appearances and won three World Series and four pennants in the last three decades. They've done a lot of things well during that time but haven't had much success producing sluggers. San Francisco hasn't signed and developed a hitter who provided 30 home runs

A week before making his Major League debut, Travis Bazzana was a guest on the MLB Pipeline Podcast. The Guardians' top prospect had actually come on the show previously, months before Cleveland drafted him first overall in 2024, and he was such a good interview that we had to bring

We just finished our expanded and updated Draft Top 150 Prospects list, so the Draft is very much on my mind, as you'll see from the questions below. Our first in-season mock draft will come out at the end of next week, so be on the lookout for that.

The first month of the Minor League season is in the books, and looking at each system's hottest hitter can be instructive. A year ago at this time, Konnor Griffin (Pirates) was showing why he had the highest ceiling in the 2024 Draft. Roman Anthony (Red Sox) and Moisés Ballesteros

Once upon a time in baseball, picking which pitchers had the best fastball was done solely based on how hard they threw. When the radar gun started being used in the 1970s, it was a quick and easy way to measure who had the best heater. But as the game

To answer a question getting asked a lot, our expanded and updated Draft Top 150 Prospects list will come out on April 30. We'll continue refreshing the rankings with a Top 200 in late May and a Top 250 in late June, leading up to the Draft on July 11-12.

Sometimes, the easiest way a rookie position player can impact the Major League club upon his first callup is by playing high-quality defense, and there’s evidence that prospects are more defensively ready in the bigs than they’ve ever been before. To wit, there have been 19 total rookies who have

There are officially less than three months until the MLB Draft, which is set to take place on July 11-12 in Philadelphia, and while there appears to be a clear-cut favorite to be the No. 1 overall pick in MLB's top Draft prospect Roch Cholowsky, the rest of the board

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