The weather in Baton Rouge was hot but Paul Skenes was downright blistering. The Louisiana State right-hander, ranked No. 4 on MLB Pipeline’s Draft Top 100, continued his dominant start to the 2023 college baseball season with a seven-inning, 12-strikeout performance against Arkansas on Friday. • MLB Pipeline | Top...

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On Wednesday night, college baseball got its first look at a pitcher the likes of which we have never seen before. Mississippi State true freshman -- and switch-pitcher -- Jurrangelo Cijntje (pronounced SAIN-ja) struck out seven Louisiana-Monroe hitters in four scoreless innings during his first collegiate start. He permitted just...

The 2023 college season baseball kicked off this past weekend with the MLB Desert Invitational and Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff highlight some of the event's top performers, including a host of Top 100 Draft prospects, on the MLB Pipeline Podcast. Jim sits down with one of them,...

Opening weekend of college baseball featured seven top teams and seven of the Top 100 2023 Draft prospects in the MLB Desert Invitational in the Phoenix metro area, and you can watch lots of the showcase's action on MLB.com.

• Davis flexes muscles | Wilson does Jeter impression | Dollander...

Rajai Davis is excited to see the positive impact the MLB Draft Combine has on the future generation of players and the game itself

Jim Callis joins MLB Tonight to talk about the Draft Combine, as well as some notable former participants in the Combine

Luis Gonzalez joins Hot Stove to discuss the 2023 Draft Combine being hosted at Chase Field and the talent they will be seeing this year

Harold Reynolds joins Luther Ellis to discuss his baseball role models, athleticism and playing defense at shortstop, having a quick bat

Harold Reynolds, Chris Young, and Mike Scioscia join George Baker and Zion Rose to discuss their catching skills as young adults

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The 2023 MLB Desert Invitational has afforded numerous unique opportunities to its participants, including the ability to take hacks at big league Spring Training parks. For the University of Arizona’s Chase Davis, Salt River Fields at Talking Stick became his own personal launching pad Sunday night. Davis,...

We've seen some weird home run celebrations before. Whether it's carrying the player who just launched one over the fence in a laundry cart down the length of the dugout or having him don the ceremonial home run jacket emblazoned with the team's logo and the names of the countries...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Chase Dollander enters the 2023 season with about as much pomp and circumstance as a college pitcher can have, drawing superlatives that have put him in a class with Gerrit Cole and Stephen Strasburg as it pertains to his skill at the collegiate level....

While excitement has begun to percolate across the baseball landscape with the sweet sounds of pitchers and catchers reporting, Arizona will be getting into game mode as soon as Friday afternoon when the MLB Desert Invitational gets underway. The 2023 college baseball season kicks off all across the country Friday,...

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Jonathan Mayo discusses the top high school pitchers to watch ahead of the 2023 MLB Draft

Jonathan Mayo dishes out his top high school hitters to watch ahead of the 2023 MLB Draft

Jonathan Mayo joins Hot Stove to talk about draft prospects who come from an MLB family

Jonathan Mayo talks about which three players could potentially go in the top 3 in the 2023 MLB Draft

Jonathan Mayo joins Hot Stove to talk about the top high school players to watch ahead of the 2023 Draft

The 2023 college baseball season starts this weekend and Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff are all about it on this episode of the MLB Pipeline Podcast. The trio previews the start of the season by looking at Major League Baseball's Desert Invitational, which is stacked with Top 100...

Major League Baseball announced Thursday details for the third annual MLB Draft Combine, which will be held June 20-25 at Chase Field in Phoenix, home of the D-backs. The top 300 Draft prospects, as determined by MLB teams, will be invited to the Combine, as will up to 50 additional...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- The 2023 DREAM Series wrapped on a rainy Monday morning here in Arizona and the approximately 80 high schoolers returned home, ready to use the wisdom and lessons imparted to them by former big leaguers in their soon-to-start spring seasons. While this is an atypical showcase --...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- In a lot of places and showcases Zion Rose attends, he stands out for a host of reasons. He’s one of the best high school catchers in the Draft Class of 2023, after all, with plus athleticism on both sides of the ball. But he’s very aware...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Kevari Thunderbird and Brandon Stinson are teammates in high school and with the Chicago Youth Academy Aces travel ball team. This Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, the two of them, along with three other Youth Academy teammates -- Sir Jamison Jones, Justyn Hart and Dillon Head...

TEMPE, Ariz. – Much of Dillon Head’s batting practice session Friday must have felt surreal. The 18-year-old took hacks against former big leaguer Howie Kendrick inside of a big league Spring Training park, set to the backdrop of Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech pumping from...

In honor of the release of our inaugural 2023 Top 100 Draft Prospects list last week, we took the time to look back at all of the players who made up those lists over the years. We began ranking the top amateurs in each class back in 2011, which featured...

In the final MLB Pipeline Podcast episode of the year, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff have a conversation with Max Clark, who is the top high school player in the 2023 Draft class. For the rest of the podcast, Mayo and Ratliff remain focused on the Draft -- past, present...

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Paul Wilson (Lakeridge HS, OR) sports a heater with good riding and tailing life that climbed to 94-97 mph and touched the upper 90s in 2022

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With a clean delivery and arm action, Parker Detmers (Glenwood HS, IL) throws a variety of pitches with devastating movement for strikes

With his plus-plus speed, Dillon Head (Homewood-Flossmoor HS, IL) can chase down balls in center field and is dangerous on the basepaths

Cameron Johnson (IMG Academy, FL) stands 6-foot-5, has pure stuff and is a left-hander with a high-spin fastball and two offspeed pitches

Nazzan Zanetello (Christian Brothers HS, MO) excelled on the 2022 showcase circuit, beginning with MVP honors at June's Breakthrough Series

Brandon Winokur (Edison HS, CA), who displayed his five-tool potential on the showcase circuit, has a strong arm and plus raw power

Steven Echavarria (Millburn HS, NJ) has a potential four-pitch mix with a "sneaky" fastball, a sweeping slider, a curveball and a changeup

Along with a high baseball IQ, 6-foot-6 Will Gasparino (Harvard-Westlake, CA) possesses a plethora of tools including raw power and speed

Righty Dylan Questad (Waterford HS, WI) has impressed with a mid-90s fastball while fine-tuning his upper-70s curve and low-80s slider