As the Pipeline Podcast wraps up 2024, Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo preview the '25 season with a wide range of predictions. The duo breaks down eight categories, from Rookies of the Year in both leagues and the No. 1 overall Draft pick to which organization will finish with the

Welcome to the final MLB Pipeline Inbox of 2024! We’re about to enter into the holiday season and I’m in a giving mood, and clearly you were, too, given the volumes of questions folks sent in. I’m going to give a hat tip to frequent contributor Stevie D., who asked

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MLB Pipeline gives our organizational Top 30 prospect rankings complete refreshes twice per calendar year (once in spring, once in-season) and provides other live updates as graduations and other transactions necessitate them. In the latter category, two dates in particular are our busiest for Top 30 updates: the Trade Deadline

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Let's dive into some questions to go with the leftovers ...

MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers added right-handers Logan Henderson and Chad Patrick to the 40-man roster on Tuesday to protect those players from being plucked away in next month’s Rule 5 Draft. Henderson, MLB Pipeline’s No. 11 Brewers prospect, was a 2021 fourth-round Draft pick whose career got off to a

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Defense is increasingly becoming a young man’s game. From 1957, the year they were first handed out, to 2012, only nine rookies won Rawlings Gold Glove Awards. The same number have captured the game’s top defensive prize since 2013, including six in the past three seasons alone. Red Sox right

PEORIA, Ariz. -- In his first at-bat since being announced as a participant in the 2024 Fall League Home Run Derby, Brock Wilken emphatically proved himself worthy of his inclusion. But when Peoria’s eventual 3-3 tie with Surprise on Tuesday afternoon at the Peoria Sports Complex first started, Wilken’s name

There are prospects who can flash the leather, and then there are these guys: the cream of the crop. Now they own some hardware for defensive excellence. Two Top 100 prospects – including baseball's top overall prospect – headlined the nine-player crop of 2024 Minor League Gold Glove Award winners,

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- As the Arizona Fall League heads toward the midpoint of its season, samples are beginning to widen, hot players are beginning to cool, cold players are beginning to heat up. The cycle of baseball is working its wonders. One constant through all the games has been Juan

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- On an off-day in late April in the High-A Wisconsin schedule, Luis Lara sought out his fellow countryman nearby. He and Jackson Chourio were Venezuela natives and homegrown Brewers outfielders who had been pushed aggressively through the Milwaukee system, both skipping over the Rookie-level Arizona Complex League

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Brock Wilken might already have won the award for Understatement of the Arizona Fall League. On the topic of the plunking that resulted in facial fractures on April 11 with Double-A Biloxi, just the fifth game of his first full season, he said: “The hit-by-pitch didn’t feel great.”

It felt like everywhere you looked in 2023, rookies were making key contributions. Johan Rojas was covering acres of ground for the Phillies. Corbin Carroll and Brandon Pfaadt were speeding around the bases and making clutch starts respectively for the D-backs. And perhaps most famously, Evan Carter was on the

There is definitely more than one way to build a winning Major League team, and the 12 clubs headed to the postseason in 2024 prove that. On one hand, there are the Tigers and Guardians, the AL Central teams leading the way with 16 and 15 homegrown players on their

The Brewers are well on their way to winning the NL Central for the second straight season and third time in the last four years. There has been no shortage of talented players leading the way, whether it’s William Contreras, Willy Adames or Freddy Peralta, but the club’s biggest development

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All farm systems, whether they’re at the top or the bottom of organizational rankings, have differing strengths. We’ve decided to dig deeper into a few of those talent buckets over the next few weeks. This week, we’ll take a look at the top farm systems based on infield prospects. Using

Each week, MiLB.com profiles an elite prospect by chronicling the steps he's taken toward achieving his Major League dream. Here's a look at third-ranked Brewers prospect Jacob Misiorowski. For more stories about players on The Road to The Show, click here. Jacob Misiorowski can provide a boost for the Brewers

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Nashville Sounds outfielder Brewer Hicklen has always felt a tie to his hometown of Huntsville, Ala. The 28-year-old has returned home nearly every offseason since the Royals drafted him in 2017 to hold a youth camp that has reached an attendance of 150. Heading into the 2024

MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers have seen firsthand the impact top prospects can make, with Jackson Chourio and Joey Ortiz carrying the surprise leaders of the National League Central through stretches this season. Both began the year among MLB Pipeline’s top five Milwaukee prospects before graduating early on. The Brewers also