The holiday weekend kicked off with barbecues, fireworks and plenty of action around the Minors. Top 100 talent Bubba Chandler (Pirates), Walker Jenkins (Twins) and more lived up their lofty billing as baseball's brightest up-and-comers. However, they weren't alone in showing off on our nation's birthday, which was highlighted by

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The first day of July featured some early holiday fireworks, including a pair of Top 100 prospects tallying multihomer games at Triple-A. Carter Jensen and Joe Mack represented their catching brethren well, but they weren't the only heavy hitters. Midwest League sluggers Zyhir Hope and Josue Briceño tried to one-up

DENVER -- The Rockies went young -- again -- by calling up their No. 5 prospect, left-handed-hitting Yanquiel Fernández, from Triple-A Albuquerque on Tuesday in a flurry of moves. With the Astros starting left-handed pitcher Colton Gordon, manager Warren Schaeffer elected not to start Fernández, who has slashed .284/.347/.502 with

We hope you like homers because Friday’s Minor League action had a whole lot of ‘em. From coast to coast, some of the game’s premier prospect sluggers brought out the big bats -- but none more than Lazaro Montes, who walloped a 475-foot tater at Double-A. Not to be outdone,

The day began with fireworks as one of the sport's top international prospects had himself a game that will be hard to top. The Mets' Elian Peña did a few games' worth of damage in just seven innings, launching a trio of homers and driving in eight runs. But the

DENVER -- If your name is Ryan, there’s at least a slight chance you were at Coors Field on Friday night. Ryan McMahon and Ryan Ritter certainly were, and they didn’t disappoint the many others who share their first name in attendance. Ryan Meetup, a non-profit organization dedicated to simply

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Summer is near and with it comes some sizzling performances from the Minors' best prospects. Last year’s No. 3 overall Draft pick matched a career high at the plate. A trio of Top 100 teenagers put up big numbers at High-A -- including two who made excellent first impressions with

As the baseball season's halfway point approaches, the sample sizes for prospects continue to expand. The MLB Pipeline crew is taking the opportunity to dig a little deeper to highlight players who are balling out, but might still be flying under-the-radar. On the latest MLB Pipeline Podcast, Jim Callis and

It's summer time and the weather is warm in the Minor Leagues. Maybe that's why Sunday was marked by big swings and big performances with hitters around the Minors standing out for what they did at the dish.

DENVER -- Ryan Ritter celebrated his Major League debut by adding some history to what has been quite exciting Rockies baseball of late. Ritter, called up from Triple-A Albuquerque to replace injured shortstop Ezequiel Tovar, became the first player in club history to triple for his first Major League hit.

A busy day and night of offense was led by a grand performance from a Giant slugger, a monstrous clout by an Angel in Salt Lake and sustained excellence across a doubleheader by a 19-year-old Pirate. Of course, it wouldn't be a complete day of Minor League action without a

Baseball's best prospects are labeled as such for a reason, and a number of them showed why again Tuesday. Offense was on display as the first week of June baseball got underway with Roman Anthony coming up clutch, Josue Briceño continuing his staggering power surge and Will Robertson launching three

MIAMI -- Rockies rookie Chase Dollander said he will come off the 15-day injured list on Tuesday night to face the Marlins, and the right-hander will try to apply the lesson he derived from the right forearm tightness that caused him to miss time. Dollander felt cramping in the forearm

This story was excerpted from Thomas Harding’s Rockies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. MIAMI -- Zac Veen’s feelings of excitement worked against him at the start of the season. Veen, the Rockies’ first-round Draft pick (ninth overall)

NEW YORK -- It appeared that something was clicking on the mound with left-hander Carson Palmquist, the Rockies’ No. 8 prospect according to MLB Pipeline. He was dominating the Mets for three innings on Sunday afternoon, eventually striking out a career-high eight, but the gopher ball proved costly in a

There must be something in the air because the ball was flying on Friday night, with top prospects homering from coast to coast. Jac Caglianone continued his demolition derby at Triple-A, while Rangers top prospect Sebastian Walcott lassoed the first multihomer game of his young pro career at Double-A. That

Roman Anthony, MLB's top overall prospect, got things going early in the night with a leadoff homer, but he wasn't the only talented phenom to deliver a standout performance. From Alex Freeland's two-homer game to Ryan Ritter's monstrous power surge, there was plenty of action to go around as Minor

CHICAGO -- In the bottom of the fifth, with the Rockies down a run, two outs, a runner on base and a dangerous batter in Cubs designated hitter Seiya Suzuki at the plate, interim manager Warren Schaeffer let left-hander Carson Palmquist take on the challenge. Palmquist, 24, didn’t complete the

The top performers roundup is always about big games, but to crack Sunday's list, they had to be real big, and a lot of them came courtesy of really big prospects. Three-homer game? Yep. Record strikeouts for your first seven outs of the game? Yep. Make Triple-A look easy? Another

PHOENIX -- You can’t just tell someone they’re going to the big leagues. You have to make a whole thing of it. The call into the manager’s office is a special moment for a Minor Leaguer with big league dreams, and telling a young man his dream is about to

The weekend kicked off with a bang, led by baseball's top overall prospect Roman Anthony, who reached base five times. Fellow Top 100 denizens Matt Shaw, Bryce Eldridge, Aidan Miller and Cole Young all produced huge offensive performances, while a Rockies prospect rapped out five hits in a wild extra-inning