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Here are the top 10 prospects at each position

@benweinrib
August 17, 2025

August is a busy time around MLB Pipeline. Now that dozens of new Draft picks have joined every organization, we've redone our Top 100 Prospects list and updated all 30 teams' Top 30 lists. This also gives us an opportunity to revisit each of the eight positional Top 10 lists.

Basallo (MLB's No. 8 prospect) debuts for O's -- after his dad broke the news

August 17, 2025

HOUSTON -- When Triple-A Norfolk manager Tim Federowicz invited Samuel Basallo to breakfast on Saturday morning, the Orioles’ top prospect didn’t think anything of it. The two cultivated a strong relationship this year, so it wasn’t abnormal to get together.

MLB's top prospect Griffin heads to Pirates' Double-A affiliate

@AlexJStumpf
August 17, 2025

CHICAGO -- The top prospect in baseball is one step closer to reaching Pittsburgh. Konnor Griffin -- the No. 1 prospect in the game, according to MLB Pipeline -- is being promoted to Double-A Altoona, sources tell MLB.com. It’s his second promotion up the Pirates’ farm system this year in

Here are Sunday's top prospect performances from the Minors

1:02 AM EDT

It's mid-August, the dog days of summer. But players are acting like the season just began, still motivated and energized. On Sunday, the best performances from across the Minor Leagues came from familiar faces excelling at higher levels, both at the plate and on the mound. Here is a sampling

A's sending top prospect De Vries, 18, to Double-A

August 17, 2025

Here is the latest on injuries and roster moves involving MLB Pipeline's Top 100 prospects:

What to expect from O's top prospect Basallo in big leagues

August 17, 2025

The signing of Samuel Basallo for $1.3 million in January 2021 might not seem like that big of an event, just another of many acquisitions by a Major League team on the international amateur market. But prior to that point, the Orioles had largely ignored that pool of potential big

'El Mutante' breaks out with first two homers for A's since Deadline blockbuster

@WeintraubCole
August 16, 2025

It was only a matter of time before Leo De Vries announced himself at High-A Lansing.

Inbox: Which 2026 ROY picks might net teams extra Draft picks?

August 15, 2025

It was a busy week in MLB Pipeline Country, with a new Top 100 Prospects list, updated organization Top 30s and farm system rankings, a pair of Top 100 callups in Cubs outfielder Owen Caissie and Mets right-hander Nolan McLean, not to mention a sneak preview of the 2026 Draft

The 10 biggest breakouts on the new Top 100 Prospects list

@SamDykstraMiLB
August 13, 2025

MLB Pipeline unveiled our annual in-season rerank this week, and the Top 100 Prospects list looks significantly different. Forty-one players who weren't on the preseason Top 100 are now on the list, including 12 from the 2025 Draft class. We have a brand-new top 10 and No. 1 prospect Konnor

Ranking every MLB farm system, 1-30

@SamDykstraMiLB
August 13, 2025

It’s no secret that the Los Angeles Dodgers have a successful franchise. They bring in talent in every manageable way, from free agency to trades to acquisition of prospects via the Draft and the amateur international market. But until now, they had only landed in the No. 1 spot on

Rerank time! NEW Top 100 and Top 30 Prospects lists

@SamDykstraMiLB
August 12, 2025

We’ve had a Draft, a Trade Deadline and more than half a season of Major and Minor League Baseball games. It’s time to update the prospect rankings. MLB Pipeline has released a brand-new Top 100 Prospects list, fresh with 2025 Draft picks and updated spots for some of baseball’s best

LIVE: Watch MLB's No. 4 prospect Walcott dig in at Double-A

August 17, 2025

All season long, baseball fans will be able to watch Minor League Baseball games across all of MLB's digital platforms. MLB.TV and MLB app subscribers can watch their favorite team's Minor League affiliates in the app at no additional cost, while all MiLB games are available on MiLB.TV, on the

Dillon Lewis highlights

August 17, 2025

Dylan Ross highlights

August 17, 2025

Kendry Chourio highlights

August 17, 2025

Ben Shields highlights

August 17, 2025

Cards place Scott (ankle) on IL, call up No. 14 prospect Church

@JohnDenton555
August 17, 2025

ST. LOUIS -- With Willson Contreras (right foot contusion) and Brendan Donovan (left foot/groin soreness) already out for days, the short-handed Cardinals had no choice other than to make a roster move when speedy center fielder Victor Scott II sprained his left ankle. When Scott was placed on the 10-day

Morales settles in at home to earn first big league win

@MartinJGallegos
August 17, 2025

WEST SACRAMENTO -- Asked what to make of the perplexing final line turned in by Luis Morales in his first Major League start last week in Baltimore -- no hits, no runs, five walks and four strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings -- Athletics manager Mark Kotsay essentially gave the rookie

Here are Saturday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@JesseABorek
August 17, 2025

Minor League teams love to play night games on Saturdays so that fans can watch the sky be lit up with fireworks afterwards, weather permitting. But there were plenty of proverbial fireworks during game action as well on this Saturday. Nine members of the Top 100 Prospects list combined for

O's No. 3 prospect Beavers records 1st big league hit in debut

August 17, 2025

HOUSTON -- The wait finally ended for Dylan Beavers on Friday night, when Triple-A Norfolk manager Tim Federowicz gathered his team inside of the visitors’ clubhouse at VyStar Ballpark in Jacksonville. “Real quick, got a lot of questions about this the last couple of weeks, so I’m just going to

Three years after MLB debut, Cavalli twirls gem for first career win

August 16, 2025

WASHINGTON -- Right-hander Cade Cavalli had never faced the Phillies.

Scoreless ball, dazzling 'D' and a 'W': McLean's debut is just what Mets need

August 16, 2025

NEW YORK -- Nolan McLean did not arrive in Queens with much experience in the art of being a savior. Prior to McLean’s debut Saturday, Mets officials had all but thrown up bright yellow caution signs, begging fans not to place him on too high of a pedestal. Before this

With Heaney to 'pen, Bucs turn to youth to fill rotation

@AlexJStumpf
August 16, 2025

CHICAGO -- The Pirates are moving Andrew Heaney to the bullpen, opening up a spot in their rotation that is certainly cause for intrigue. Manager Don Kelly told reporters at Wrigley Field that Heaney will be available out of the bullpen for the remainder of the season, starting Saturday.

New Marlins Draftees get right to work, notching 1st pro HRs in same game

August 16, 2025

“Swing at strikes and hit it hard.” It’s a simple enough message from the Marlins to their players throughout the organization, and one that their 2025 MLB Draft picks already have adhered to.

More impressive for JJ Wetherholt: His big bat or his adaptability?

@JohnDenton555
August 16, 2025

ST. LOUIS – Cardinals top prospect JJ Wetherholt has had plenty of success starting games with a bang since his promotion to Triple-A Memphis, but he says his swing is better suited to keeping pitchers and defenses guessing with his ability to spray the ball to all fields. Wetherholt, MLB