Season No. 32 of the Arizona Fall League is in the books, with the Salt River Rafters beating the Surprise Saguaros, 3-2, in the Championship Game on Saturday. It was another fall full of top prospects and top performances. Below is the 2024 MLB Pipeline All-AFL Team. This is based

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SEATTLE -- Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto said in late September that Seattle’s roster won’t see significant turnover this offseason, pointing to the club’s foundation of position players and noting that most among that group are under club control for not just next year, but also 2026. Payroll

On one hand, Colt Emerson’s first full season of pro ball was a big success. A high school shortstop taken in the first round of the 2023 Draft, he made it up to High-A Everett just after his 19th birthday. But he also got hit by the injury bug twice.

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The 32nd season of the Arizona Fall League is a week old, and already, there are top prospects standing out amid the field of, well, top prospects. Here are the top performers from the first week of AFL action:

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Scouts consider Mariners shortstop Colt Emerson one of the best pure hitters in the Minor Leagues. He more than lived up to his reputation in his Arizona Fall League debut. Emerson went 5-for-6 with with four doubles, five RBIs, two runs and a stolen base as his

The Arkansas Travelers came one win away from their first Texas League title in more than a decade in 2023, falling just short when they lost their winner-take-all Game 3. This year, they found themselves in another winner-take-all scenario, and history did not repeat itself. This time, the Travelers got

Having missed out on its first opportunity to clinch a second consecutive championship, the Modesto Nuts made sure the California League crown remained at John Thurman Field on Wednesday night. The Seattle affiliate put on a pitching clinic, edging Lake Elsinore, 2-1, in the winner-take-all Game 3 of the Championship

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Welcome to Crooked Numbers, a monthly column dedicated to Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. The edition, rounding up the month of August, features RBI explosions, epic sweeps, same-named individuals and, of course, much more. Keeping track of this type of thing is a team effort, so get in

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

SEATTLE -- There is a new No. 1 atop the Mariners’ midseason prospect rankings from MLB Pipeline, and perhaps to little surprise given the production and reputation Colt Emerson has developed in a little over one year after being selected by Seattle in the first round of the 2023 MLB

SEATTLE -- MLB Pipeline’s prospect re-rankings are due to come out in the next week. But on Saturday morning, Troy Taylor got an even better sort of promotion. Ahead of the second game of their series against the Mets, the Mariners selected Taylor’s contract, calling up the right-handed reliever --

BOSTON -- The Trade Deadline officially passed on Tuesday, and as the dust settled, a Mariners team that was among the most active buyers in this year’s market believes that it is “meaningfully better than we were a week ago,” in the words of Jerry Dipoto. “The fact that we

BOSTON -- The most active team in this Trade Deadline season was at it again with a little over 24 hours before Tuesday’s 3 p.m. PT cutoff, as the Mariners swung another high-profile deal to acquire veteran corner infielder and designated hitter Justin Turner from the Blue Jays. The 39-year-old

CHICAGO -- Jerry Dipoto has his foot firmly on the gas pedal. The Mariners’ president of baseball operations, along with general manager Justin Hollander, executed the club’s third trade in less than 24 hours and just minutes before the team took the field for its series opener against the White