Here are the best moments in Spring Breakout history

Before big league debuts, All-Star appearances and Cy Young Awards, the newer faces of Major League Baseball starred in Spring Breakout.

The prospect event started in March 2024 and is heading into its third iteration, with a tournament format already announced for 2027 and '28. While more memories will be made in the coming matchups, here's a look back at some of the showcase's top moments to date.

Paul Skenes vs. Jackson Holliday (March 14, 2024)
Before making their big league debuts and becoming catalysts for their respective clubs, MLB's former top prospects dueled in Spring Breakout. Skenes -- now the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner -- fired three offerings of 100+ mph in a six-pitch strikeout.

Holliday's swinging punchout marked the second meeting between the former No. 1 Draft picks. The two had faced off two weeks earlier, with the Pirates ace getting the Orioles second baseman to ground out on the second pitch. Read more »

The Big 3 (March 13, 2025)
Not even a full year before slugging a home run for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic, Roman Anthony was headlining Boston's next vaunted trio. Infielder/outfielder Kristian Campbell and shortstop Marcelo Mayer smacked back-to-back third-inning homers for the Red Sox against a bevy of top Rays prospects, with Anthony following them two frames later with his own long ball. Read more »

Here comes Bubba Chandler (March 14, 2025)
One year to the day Skenes sat down Holliday, the next top Pirates hurler took center stage. After closing out the inaugural Spring Breakout game, Chandler got the nod in Year 2, delivering two perfect innings with four strikeouts and two ground-ball outs. The moxie-driven right-hander fired 11 fastballs at 98.5 mph or faster. Read more »

Trey Yesavage's unofficial pro debut (March 14, 2025)
Just eight months after being selected in the first round by the Blue Jays, the former East Carolina hurler made the right first impression in his long journey to pitching in the World Series later in the year. Yesavage worked around traffic in the first inning before pumping gas in the second -- striking out the side with a cutter, a fastball and a changeup. Toronto's top prospect continued that across four levels before his big league debut in September. Read more »

The revival of the switch-pitcher (March 15, 2025)
A first-round pick by the Mariners, Jurrangelo Cijntje garnered looks from both sides of the rubber. The ambidextrous hurler came out throwing from the left side before switching to his right hand -- even against seven left-handed hitters. But fate brought the perfect final test of the night as 2024's first overall pick, Travis Bazzana, stepped into the box. Cijntje kept throwing from the right side against the Guardians' lefty, powering a 97 mph four-seamer to secure the five-pitch strikeout. Read more »

Two-homer games galore (March 16, 2024)
The inaugural weekend featured multihomer games from a trio of then-Top 100 prospects. The Rays' Xavier Isaac sent one of his two roundtrippers 419 feet at 110 mph off the bat. Towering Yankees slugger Spencer Jones one upped himself on his second homer at 427 feet, while Tigers infielder Jace Jung got a nod of respect from Hall of Famer Alan Trammell: "He's all in." Read more on: Isaac | Jones | Jung

But it's not Sunday, Carson Williams (March 14, 2025)
Before going on a late-season streak of going yard on eight consecutive Sundays, Carson Williams highlighted his spring with a two-homer performance in a win in which Boston's top three prospects also went yard. Williams ended up debuting for the Rays by the end of the season. Read more »

Watch this bird fly (March 17, 2024)
Joshua Baez added an explanation point to the inaugural Spring Breakout weekend. The Cardinals prospect set a record with a 455-foot homer, careening over the wall in left-center field at 110.1 mph off the bat. Read more »

Big homers to the Big Apple (March 16, 2025)
Ryan Clifford -- whom the Mets acquired from the Astros in the Justin Verlander deal in 2023 -- flashed his power during his second Spring Training with New York. The lefty smashed a 449-foot homer, the longest tater in the second rendition of Spring Breakout. Read more »

Little League Breakout (March 15, 2025)
Before going yard over four straight at-bats in the 2026 Grapefruit League, Vance Honeycutt put the power to the side to show off his wheels. The Orioles' 2024 first-rounder sprinted for an inside-the-park home run against the rival Yankees. Read more »

A spring breakout for Didier Fuentes (March 16, 2025)
Part 1 of his ascent through the Braves' system, Fuentes introduced himself with a game-high seven strikeouts across three scoreless innings. A late addition to the Spring Breakout roster, the then-19-year-old righty brought an upper-90s fastball to his dominant relief appearance. Read more »

'Brock Star' gets the nod (March 16, 2024)
The no-doubt option to start for the Yankees, Brock Selvidge took words of wisdom from pinstripe legend Andy Pettitte to the mound en route to four scoreless innings of one-hit ball. The righty also notched eight strikeouts and only one walk against the Blue Jays. Read more »

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Meet the Miz (March 17, 2024)
A year before Jacob Misiorowski pitched in the All-Star Game, the flame-throwing righty tallied five strikeouts over 2 2/3 hitless innings for the Brewers. Misiorowski -- who worked through command issues -- gave a glimpse of his heater, which touched 98 mph. Read more »

'Electric' Rangers prospect (March 16, 2025)
Winston Santos absolutely cruised in his Spring Breakout start, piling up six strikeouts in three perfect innings. The righty generated 12 whiffs on the 26 strikes fired against the Giants. Read more »