PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Over the past year, Luisangel Acuña has produced a significant body of work suggesting a need for further development. In nearly 600 plate appearances at Triple-A Syracuse last season, Acuña produced a .654 OPS. He has posted a .500 mark this spring while showing some

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Ryan Lambert loves throwing hard. He relishes the idea of getting to two strikes and blowing hitters away. “Get me in a game,” Lambert said, “cool things will happen.”

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Last year during Spring Breakout, many fans took their first looks at Brandon Sproat, a promising young pitcher who’s now the organization’s top overall prospect; Ryan Clifford, a power-hitting outfielder relatively new to the system; and Nolan McLean, a two-way collegiate player who was only

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Two offseasons ago, Mets catching instructor Glenn Sherlock called Hayden Senger during the offseason, looking to chat. Senger picked up but told his longtime coach he’d need to call back. “Why?” Sherlock asked him. “I’m working,” Senger replied, before returning to the supermarket floor. For

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The last time Juan Soto played in a Minor League game was back in 2018, when in the span of 39 games at age 19 he went from A ball to High-A to Double-A and then to the big leagues with the Nationals and never

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The Mets made it to last year’s National League Championship Series and proceeded to add one of the game’s true superstars in Juan Soto and re-sign 2024 stalwarts Pete Alonso and Sean Manaea, among a slew of offseason moves. Typically, win-now clubs alter their rosters to the detriment of the

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- When Mets pitching prospect Blade Tidwell walked off the mound after his second and final inning Saturday afternoon, he had no idea. He knew he had just struck out three Rays hitters in order, and he was pleased with the way he pitched overall, striking out

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- One scar runs up Matt Allan's right forearm, a reminder of an operation he would rather forget. A second frames his elbow, where two different surgeons cut in to replace his ulnar collateral ligament. A third, on Allan’s hamstring, offers another reminder of his challenging

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- It would have been difficult for anyone on the Clover Park back fields last Friday to harbor concern about the state of Ronny Mauricio. Stepping into the cage for batting practice, Mauricio homered multiple times from the right side of the plate. Minutes later, he

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Last August, when MLB Pipeline released its midseason re-rank of the Mets’ top prospects, right-hander Brandon Sproat sat atop the list. It was an aggressive ranking, considering Sproat’s brief history in pro ball, but one reflective of his season. Up until that point, Sproat was

For the second straight international signing day, the Mets handed out a club-record signing bonus in order to land one of baseball’s premier international prospects. Elian Peña, MLB Pipeline’s No. 3 international prospect, is the club’s headlining signee for the class of 2025. The 17-year-old shortstop is the highest-ranked player

Ever since Roki Sasaki's agent, Joel Wolfe, met with the media at the Winter Meetings, there’s been speculation about which team might be the best fit to land the prized right-hander, who was recently posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines. As one executive put it when asked

Lots of Winter Meetings-related questions (Draft Lottery, trades, Juan Soto signing fallout) arrived in the Pipeline Inbox, so let's get to them. Nice work projecting every team's top pick in the 2025 Draft. But what about choices 28-37? --Jonathan M., Pittsburgh When I did my way-too-early first-round forecast after the

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

In the wake of teams deciding which prospects to add to 40-man rosters, the latest edition of the MLB Pipeline Podcast focuses on those moves.

Now that the Arizona Fall League has crowned a new champion and MLB's awards season is winding down, the baseball world in the United States is preparing to turn its attention to the Hot Stove. But that doesn't mean baseball isn't being played. There are plenty of exciting and talented

Mets No. 2 prospect Jett Williams sprained his right ankle in the Arizona Fall League regular-season finale on Thursday, but he appears to have avoided a major injury. Although there’s been no word on the severity of Williams’ ankle sprain, Mets officials are optimistic it won’t have a significant impact

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