MLB Pipeline started handing out the Hitting Prospect of the Year award in 2013, and since then, winners have gone on to be All-Stars 26 times over and have won a combined 10 Silver Sluggers, three Rookie of the Year awards and two league MVPs. And those are just the

Double-A Reading spent the majority of the 2026 season proving that a championship-caliber club doesn’t have to rely on just one star. The Fightin Phils finished off a perfect postseason with a 13-4 win over Erie on Tuesday night at FirstEnergy Stadium to claim their first outright Eastern League championship

Tyler Bremner has only been in pro ball for one season. He's been at Double-A for less than two months. But on Tuesday, he pitched in the playoffs like a seasoned veteran. MLB’s No. 43 prospect posted five zeros for Double-A Rocket City, striking out seven while allowing just two

The Rookie-level Astros kicked off Minor League ring season by securing the Florida Complex League title in late July. Since then, dozens of affiliates have clinched the postseason, vied for their own trophies and, in some cases, been crowned champions.

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It's the biggest sign that the 2026 Minor League season is nearing its conclusion: The annual MiLB Awards show is coming! The fourth edition of the program will air on MLB Network on Monday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m. ET, as the best performers in the Minor Leagues are awarded

When Carlos Virahonda began the 2026 season, he was with Single-A Visalia, with whom he had finished the previous year. Viewed as an athletic and strong-armed backstop who had yet to see his power emerge during game action, the 20-year-old was literally half a country away from the upper Minors

The release of the Arizona Fall League rosters always acts as a wonderful balm for prospect fans. The Minor League season is winding down with the postseason and the fear of not being able to track future stars until next season is assuaged with the knowledge that some of the

Bishop Letson has established himself as one of the Brewers' top pitching prospects -- and he saved his best professional start for his highest-stakes game yet. Pitching with Double-A Biloxi's title hopes on the line in Game 2 of the Southern League Finals, the Brewers' No. 8 prospect struck out

There were a lot of monumental numbers posted in the Minor Leagues in 2026, highlighted by Andrew Fischer's 48-homer season, the highest total in nearly 50 years. A whopping 59 players had 20-20 seasons, one less than the previous two highest single-season marks on record combined, including the first two

The curtain draws on the Minor League regular season Sunday -- and the High-A and Single-A campaigns are complete -- but the prospect action is far from finished. The Triple-A and Double-A levels are beginning their championship series with some of the game's brightest up-and-coming stars vying for titles.

WEST SACRAMENTO – When Joshua Kuroda-Grauer underwent emergency surgery to repair a ruptured testicle on July 20, there truly was no sense of when, or if, he might play again this season. This just wasn’t an injury you see very often. The only example that the Athletics could really go

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Shortly after earning his first big league callup on Monday, outfielder Bo Davidson laid out what he hoped to achieve in his first week with the Giants. “Just showing them what I can do and giving them the best I can every game until the season's over,”

CHICAGO – River Ryan talked last week about the opportunity that the Tarik Skubal trade has given him. That opportunity is now. The Tigers recalled the right-hander from Triple-A Toledo to make his Tigers debut on Monday night, starting in the series opener against the Nationals at Comerica Park. Ryan’s

When the Cardinals acquired Tai Peete as part of the Brendan Donovan trade in February, the hope was that they could unlock a special power-speed skill set in the tantelizing prospect. In that sense, 2026 has been a major success for the Georgia prep star who went 30th overall in

Double-A is often the Minor League level that is most stocked with top prospect talent, and 2026 was no different. The top six prospects in baseball -- and eight of the top nine -- spent time there, and two in particular -- the Mariners' Kade Anderson and Dodgers' Josue De

As a California kid, Anthony Huezo grew up a Dodgers fan. He hung the franchise's flag in his childhood bedroom. He grew up around Brady and Trey Ebel, the sons of longtime Los Angeles third base coach Dino Ebel and now up-and-coming prospects for the Brewers. But one of the

Charlie Condon heated up throughout the summer in his second full season as a professional and slugged his way around the highest level of the Minors. MLB’s No. 55 prospect closed out his campaign in typical style -- with his 27th homer of the season in Triple-A Albuquerque's 14-7 loss

A number of former junior college players have navigated to the big leagues over the years -- Albert Pujols and Mike Piazza are two of the most famous examples. While Cale Wetwiska has a ways to go before he can be mentioned in the same breath as that duo, the

LOS ANGELES -- Matt “Tugboat” Wilkinson had already endeared himself to Giants fans by virtue of his fun nickname. But the 23-year-old left-hander likely won over even more hearts with a dominant start against the Dodgers on Sunday. Wilkinson struck out a career-high six over five scoreless innings in his

No Oriole has stolen more bases with Norfolk since it became the club's Triple-A affiliate in 2007 than Enrique Bradfield Jr.

SAN DIEGO -- It’s starting to feel and sound a lot like the postseason at Petco Park. You could hear it when Fernando Tatis Jr. clobbered a game-tying home run to center field in the fourth inning against the Marlins on Saturday night, swaggering around the bases to a chorus

When you excel at your craft, opportunities will always be available to you. For evidence of this, look no further than Mike Sirota, who made his Triple-A debut on Saturday, officially traversing three Minor League levels in one season. Although it was the penultimate game of the regular-season slate, the