The Yankees and Giants will open the 2026 MLB season on March 25. We’ll be counting down to that date with our annual preview series, with each story looking ahead to the coming season by breaking down a particular topic, division by division. Previously: Each division’s team most likely to

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A Top 100 list is never enough. Every year after we release a Top 100 prospect ranking -- as MLB Pipeline did last Friday -- we always get the simple two-word question from the public: who’s next? Let’s get you started on who could crack future editions of the Top

MLB Pipeline released its Top 100 Prospects list on Friday, putting the spotlight on many of the future stars of baseball. Of course, one of the limits of a Top 100 is having that exact number of players on the list. Many talented players nearly landed in the rankings and

When prospect rankings come out, they are based on long-range projection. The order is based on who is perceived to be the best big leaguers five, 10 years down the road. Over the years at MLB.com, there have been top-ranked prospects with eye-popping tools and scouting grades to match. Each

It’s been an offseason of changes for Braxton Ashcraft. He’s a married man now. His uniform number is no longer 67 but 35 (the TikTok “6-7” trend only had a little to do with the change). And for the first time, he hasn’t been rehabbing this winter. “I got the

The pop of the mitt. The crack of the bat. Players talking about being in the best shape of their lives. Even as many of us work to dig out from beneath the latest snowfall that disrupted the weekend, the sounds of spring will be here before we know it.

As the Pirates move into the offseason, this page will continue to be updated. Players on the 60-day injured list will have to be added back to the 40-man roster after the World Series.

Part of the fun of prospect lists is mentally penciling in which players could be contributors for a club years down the road. For the Pirates, some of their prospects are teenagers years away from the Majors but others should be making an impact very soon. The Pirates have five

The MLB Pipeline Top 100 prospects list is out for another season, and the 2026 edition – released Friday night – is topped by shortstops Konnor Griffin (Pirates), Kevin McGonigle (Tigers) and Jesús Made (Brewers). Twenty-nine of the 30 Major League farm systems have at least one representative on the

PITTSBURGH -- It was a Christmas morning feel for Jared Jones when he got to put his cleats to rubber on Jan. 10. After nearly a year of starting and stopping rehab and an eventual internal brace surgery on his pitching elbow in May, the right-hander finally was throwing a

Every team has weaknesses. The offseason gives front offices multiple avenues to address them. With the current offseason winding down and Spring Training on the horizon, let's take a look at the 10 most substantial upgrades teams made via free agency or trade over the past few months. While not

It’s almost baseball season, which means we are well into projection season. Until we get to see it all play out on the field, we can take a look at how it may go. Sometimes certain projected stat lines really stand out, and get us thinking about how remarkable the

Since 2004, MLB.com has been ranking prospects. Between our preseason rankings, and, more recently, midseason updates, we’ve had 23 different players rank as the No. 1 prospect in baseball. How would the best prospects rank amongst themselves? What would this tournament of champions, so to speak, look like? Measuring them

MLB Pipeline’s preseason Top 100 Prospects list has been unveiled, and out of the 29 clubs represented, the Seattle Mariners once again lead the pack. Just like last January, the reigning AL West champs feature seven players in the Top 100. And it’s not just the same group.

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2026 Top 100 Prospects list at 8 p.m. ET on Friday with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position.

Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones have gone from center field to center stage. Beltrán and Jones were elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in results revealed Tuesday night on MLB Network. The game’s highest individual honor went to Beltrán in his

Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced start times for its entire 2026 calendar of games, including the regular season, Spring Training and the third annual Spring Breakout.

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The Top 100 Players Right Now have been revealed by MLB Network, with the conclusion airing Thursday night. This year, all 30 teams were represented on the Top 100, which starts with a global, two-way phenom and ends with a pitcher who signed a big contract with a new team

Through the ups and downs of the past few decades of Pirates baseball, the franchise has almost always had a reliable closer. Whether it’s Mark Melancon, Mike Williams or Joel Hanrahan, the ninth inning has almost always had a dedicated guy -- usually an All-Star. Is that the best course

In back-to-back years, the Pirates landed Paul Skenes and Konnor Griffin, MLB’s current No. 1 overall prospect, in the first round of the domestic Draft. On the international market, they’ve landed Top 100 prospect Edward Florentino, Esmerlyn Valdez and Tony Blanco Jr., all of whom are high-upside sluggers who look

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Following are the first workout dates, subject to change, for pitchers and catchers as well as full squads of the 30 Major League clubs for 2026 Spring Training.