Prospect ranking season never ends around these parts. MLB Pipeline released its Top 100 Prospects list and positional Top 10 lists in January, and our team Top 30 Prospects lists are rolling out this week. The release kicked off with the American League and National League East teams on Monday,

Minor League Baseball™ (MiLB™) today announced that the 2026 Triple-A National Championship Game, which will feature the winners of the International League and Pacific Coast League meeting in a single-game format, will be played on Saturday, September 26th in Las Vegas. The Triple-A National Championship Game, which will follow the

Major League Baseball introduced Spring Breakout in 2024 and the prospect showcase games in Florida and Arizona were an immediate hit. Fans and front offices alike loved seeing all those future MLB stars on the field at one time. Now the concept is getting even better. Starting in 2027, the

The first two years of Spring Breakout have provided several memorable matchups. Baseball's best hitting prospect (Jackson Holliday) faced baseball's best pitching prospect (Paul Skenes) in 2024, resulting in a 102-mph fastball and a strikeout on a 92-mph slider. Four of the game's dozen top-rated prospects faced off in a

Konnor Griffin is focusing on “hammering down” this spring. And it shows. Griffin, the No. 1 prospect in baseball per MLB Pipeline, is only 19 years old, and yet he’s making a strong early case to head north with the Pirates as a member of their Opening Day roster when

By now, you’ve heard the news. The Spring Breakout series is headed to a tournament format in 2027 and 2028. In its first two years, Spring Breakout has brought us memorable moments featuring baseball’s top prospects, like Paul Skenes’ strikeout of Jackson Holliday in 2024 or Roman Anthony’s long homer

SCOTTSDALE - The Colorado Rockies announced on Monday that infielder/outfielder Roldy Brito has been named the 2025 Doug Million Minor League Player of the Year. Additionally, left-handed pitcher Konner Eaton has been named the Rockies’ Rick Matthews Minor League Pitcher of the Year, while Physical Performance Manager Trevor Swartz has

DUNEDIN, Fla. -- A couple of hours before Monday’s Grapefruit League game against the Blue Jays, the man rated No. 6 for the Red Sox in the freshly updated MLB Pipeline prospect rankings was easy to spot. As the team stood in the outfield prior to the pregame stretch, Justin

PEORIA, Ariz. -- During his daily pregame chat with media on Monday morning, Athletics manager Mark Kotsay paused mid-session when he spotted Leo De Vries as he was walking out to the field at Hohokam Stadium to warm up and yelled out to the 19-year-old shortstop in Spanish. “Leo! Listo

Be yourself, unless you feel like being something else. This is now an established Minor League Baseball promotional strategy, as teams across the country regularly assume alternate identities in lieu of their day-to-day primary identities. These alternate identities often have a local connection, with teams celebrating their region's culinary specialties,

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The Guardians got a taste of the future when they rostered Chase DeLauter for their 2025 Wild Card Series, making him just the sixth player to see his first MLB action in the playoffs. The 2022 first-rounder delivered a single -- and fellow Top 30 prospect George Valera hit a

The White Sox improved from 41 wins in 2024 to 60 last season while graduating Top 100 prospects Colson Montgomery, Kyle Teel and Edgar Quero to their big league club. Sean Burke, Brandon Eisert, Wikelman González, Chase Meidroth, Shane Smith, Grant Taylor and Mike Vasil also played key roles as

Some things change, and some things stay the same. When the Twins went into "sell" mode at last year's Trade Deadline, the goal was to restock the system as much as they could. This year's Top 30 prospects list for the organization certainly reflects that. There are five members of

LAKELAND, Fla. -- The next wave of young Tigers talent is about to knock on Detroit's doorstep. It's not just top prospect Kevin McGonigle, who continues to make a case for Detroit's Opening Day roster as a starting stortstop. It's not just Max Clark, who could make a push to

The 2025 Royals debuted two of their top hitters in the system last year with Jac Caglianone and Carter Jensen, and now the two homegrown sluggers are going to get the opportunity to establish themselves in '26 as a crucial part of this core that the Royals want to win

With a busy offseason on the trade market and some nice swings in last year's Draft, the Cardinals have built their farm system into something approaching the ideal talent-rich pipeline rebuilding organizations crave. But that's only one part of the job done. Now they have to develop this group into

Did arguably the deepest farm system in baseball need to add more top prospect talent this offseason? Not necessarily. Is that how the Brewers operate anyway? You betcha. After adding middle infielder/outfielder Jett Williams and right-hander Brandon Sproat as part of the Freddy Peralta trade with the Mets in January,

If you like young hitters, then the Reds farm system might be the one for you. It’s not a shocking new development: Since team rankings began on this site in 2011, making this the 16th edition of a Reds top prospect list, a hitter has now been at No. 1

After tying the Mariners for the most Top 100 prospects (seven) a year ago at this time, the Cubs are down to just two. Matt Shaw and Cade Horton are established big leaguers, Owen Caissie went to the Marlins in a trade for Edward Cabrera, while James Triantos, Kevin Alcántara

You might not have noticed, but Konnor Griffin is creating some buzz this spring. Whether he breaks camp with the big league team or joins it later this year, it's been fun to see his tools on display right out of the gate in Grapefruit League play. If the Pirates'

The point of prospecting is to gaze into our collective crystal ball and predict who will be the best and most productive Major Leaguers years down the line. But every winter, we also take another tack: We gaze into that same crystal ball and predict who will be the best