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Jeff McNeil joined the Athletics in a trade with the Mets earlier this offseason, bringing eight years of big league experience as the true definition of a “professional hitter” and 2022 batting champion. What you may not know about McNeil is that he has ties to the Sacramento area, where

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2026 Top 100 Prospects list at 8 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 23, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position.

MLB's 2026 international signing period opens on Thursday, and its importance can't be understated. While the vast majority of players are teenagers years away from reaching the big leagues, history tells us that the impact some of them make once they get there will be enormous. In 2025, four players

There is no day on the international baseball calendar quite like Jan. 15 -- it’s the Super Bowl, a Taylor Swift concert and New Year’s celebration all rolled into one. Thursday’s opening of the signing period means amateur international prospects can officially put pen to paper and call themselves professional

The Athletics will not be heading to an arbitration hearing this year after agreeing to terms with catcher Shea Langeliers on a one-year contract for the 2026 season. The deal, which is for $5.25 million, a source told MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand, wraps up what was the final potential arbitration case

This page will be updated throughout this offseason with any Athletics injury updates and transactions. Players listed on the 60-day injured list must be added back onto the 40-man roster at the conclusion of the World Series.

Every January around these parts, I attempt to predict the next 10 World Series winners. You would think this would be impossible -- and it is, of course -- but it should be said that when I did it two years ago, I did pick the Dodgers over the Blue

For the first three installments of the MLB Pipeline Executive Poll, we asked front offices around baseball to focus on players. For our fourth and final report, we asked them to turn the spotlight on each other. As we have since we started this series in 2023, we are wrapping

This story was excerpted from Martin Gallegos's A's Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

If we had a dime for every time we’ve said or used the word “tools” at MLB Pipeline … we’d sure have a lot of dimes. Tools are, of course, the building blocks for prospects, and a lot of time is spent evaluating all of them to try to determine

In Part I of the MLB Pipeline Executive Poll, we took a look at the industry’s picks for Rookie of the Year in each league. This next installment will dig deeper into what front offices think about top prospects. The survey, filled out by more than 40 execs across nearly

Impact rookies certainly left their mark on the 2025 season. Nick Kurtz made history with an iconic four-homer game, on top of one of the best debut seasons we’ve ever seen. Trey Yesavage emerged as a bona fide postseason hero, as did Roki Sasaki and Cam Schlittler. From triple-digit heat

As we enter a new year and inch closer to the 2026 baseball season, there's much to be determined for many clubs as they head to Spring Training. While there has been plenty of offseason activity, many key free agents remain on the board, possible trade candidates haven't been moved

Welcome to the fourth annual MLB Pipeline Executive Poll. Starting before the 2023 season, we surveyed front offices across baseball -- from general managers to scouting directors, farm directors, analysts and beyond -- on a number of questions regarding prospects. As has been our tradition, we’re beginning with who they

Tyler Soderstrom is the latest member of the Athletics to sign a contract that will extend into the scheduled 2028 opening of their new ballpark in Las Vegas. He got a firsthand look of what that future will look like. Before signing a seven-year contract extension worth $86 million, according

The new year is for new starts, the unknown and the to-be-determined. No one can perfectly say what will happen in this 2026 calendar year, but we can certainly take a few highly educated guesses. In the land of Minor League Baseball, there may not be a more sought-after prediction

The calendar has flipped over to 2026, and we already have year-end awards on our minds here at MLB Pipeline. In 2025, we picked two of the three American League Rookie of the Year finalists in the Athletics' Jacob Wilson and Roman Anthony of the Red Sox. And we singled

A brand new year means new possibilities for all 30 teams. Whether it's postseason success, individual awards, statistical records or player development, there's something every club can dream on heading into 2026. With the help of MLB.com's 30 beat writers, here's one key prediction for every team ahead of the

Part of what makes baseball the best are the feats and amazing stats accruing left and right, every single day. We chronicle them throughout the year, but there’s no better time than before the calendar flips to take a look back. It’s hard to pick just one per team, after

A new year brings new opportunities -- to build on the positives from last year, to improve on a disappointing season, or to finally reach expected potential. One or more of those could apply in 2026 for players on the verge of a breakout year. These are players who, for

For Zack Gelof, the premature end to his 2025 campaign was unfortunately somewhat fitting given what he went through all year. After diving for a ground ball during a game against the Pirates at PNC Park on Sept. 19, Gelof writhed in significant pain and was immediately pulled from the

Tyler Soderstrom received a gift on Christmas -- but it was one that he earned. Following a breakout season in 2025, Soderstrom agreed to a seven-year extension with the A's, which was made official on Monday. Terms of the deal were not announced, but a source told MLB.com that it's