SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Briggs McKenzie thought the dream was over. Growing up as a Braves fan in North Carolina, he got to live out a childhood realization when he put pen to paper and signed with the organization as a fourth-round pick in the 2025 Draft, receiving an over-slot bonus

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The 2026 Rawlings Gold Glove Award finalists were announced on Wednesday, with the winners set to be unveiled on ESPN on Sunday, Nov. 1. Each league has three finalists at each position, including the utility spot, which was awarded for the first time in 2022.

ATLANTA -- One week after the Braves were eliminated by the Dodgers in the NL Division Series, there’s still reason to wonder how things might have been different and how things could be better in 2027. Here are five quick thoughts about what is on my mind: 1. There’s no

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Southisene family business is clearly baseball, with four brothers all playing the game at a high level. It starts with Ty, a 2024 fourth-round pick now part of the Blue Jays system and twin brother Tee, a pitcher at UNLV. The youngest is Troy, about to

The 34th annual Arizona Fall League season is underway, and you can watch top prospects from all 30 MLB organizations throughout October and November as AFL matchups are once again streaming for free on both MLB.com (here and on the AFL site) and MLB.TV. All but five games of the

This page will be updated throughout the offseason to reflect the team’s latest transactions and any injury updates. As a reminder, players can remain on the 60-day IL through the World Series, after which teams must account for those players on their 40-man roster.

The most important thing for prospects is development: learning how to be a professional, acquiring new skills, sharpening tools or pitches. There often can be bumps in the road along the path to the big leagues, and it's important to note that performance and production in the moment isn't necessarily

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ATLANTA -- The Braves battled through an injury-plagued regular season to win the National League East for the seventh time in the past nine seasons. But their perseverance wasn’t enough to dethrone the two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers in the NL Division Series. Braves president of baseball operations Alex

ATLANTA -- The Braves’ mighty offense was subdued by Kerry Wood and Mark Prior in 2003. Atlanta’s 2023 lineup was likened to the 1927 Yankees during the regular season and then looked more like the 1988 Braves. So, this year’s showing wasn’t necessarily the most disappointing or even statistically the

ATLANTA -- In the end, the Braves didn’t have enough healthy pitchers. But even if they had, they wouldn’t have had enough offense to prove successful in the postseason. There were plenty of reasons for the Braves to be proud of the 94-win regular season that netted them their seventh

ATLANTA -- Nearly 30 minutes after the Braves' season ended with a 4-1 loss to the Dodgers in Game 4 of the National League Division Series on Wednesday night, Ronald Acuña Jr. sat at his locker with his head down. “It’s hard because I didn’t do anything for my team

It was 2015, and it was another end to another long day and night at Legends IMAX theater in Sparks, Nev. Raymond Kerr and his brother, Richard, were just finishing cleaning up from their shifts. Richard was sweeping up popcorn and any of the other assorted junk moviegoers leave behind.

Last week, MLB Pipeline revealed its selections for Minor League Hitting Prospect of the Year and Minor League Pitching Prospect of the Year during the 2026 MiLB Awards Show on MLB Network. Brewers corner infielder Andrew Fischer won hitting honors after swatting 48 homers, the most in the Minors since

ATLANTA -- There will be plenty of time to debate whether Chris Sale should have been used as a reliever to close out the Phillies last week. But the current focus should be on a maddening Braves offense that provided yet another reminder that Sale can’t do it alone. “He’s

ATLANTA – Whether at Turner Field or Truist Park, Braves fans cheered for every one of the 134 home runs they saw Freddie Freeman hit in Atlanta over his 12 years with the club. Even the three he’d hit at Truist Park since joining the Dodgers received at least a

ATLANTA – The Dodgers and the Braves both spoke openly about the importance of their pivotal Game 3 matchup in the National League Division Series. Both teams felt they were set up well to seize control of the heavyweight showdown on Tuesday night at Truist Park.

ATLANTA -- Ronald Acuña Jr.'s sore right knee led the Braves to limit him to designated hitter duties for Atlanta's 3-1 loss in Game 3 of the National League Division Series on Tuesday night at Truist Park.

Rookies -- and big names at that -- made their impacts felt in 2026. Eighteen of the first 25 players ranked on MLB Pipeline's preseason Top 100 Prospects list appeared in the big leagues, and many of them had seasons worthy of hardware. There were eye-catching debuts, massive extensions, All-Star

October is a time for baseball’s biggest stars to shine the brightest. In Tuesday’s NLDS Game 3 between the Braves and Dodgers in Atlanta, we’ll be spoiled with what is arguably the best pitching matchup thus far in the 2026 postseason. Reigning World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto will toe the

ATLANTA -- There was a time when it would have been unthinkable for an opposing manager to pitch around anybody to get to Ronald Acuña Jr. But there was also a time when it may have seemed unrealistic to think Acuña would struggle like he has in his past couple

ATLANTA -- Holding Chris Sale for Game 3 of the National League Division Series might have been the right choice even if the veteran hurler hadn’t made the clinching relief appearance in Game 3 of last week’s NL Wild Card Series against the Phillies. When Sale starts Game 3 of