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The All-Star Futures Game annually puts more of baseball's top prospects on one field than any other event, and this year's edition is no exception. The 25th annual showcase -- along with the inaugural Futures Skills Showcase -- will feature 39 members of MLB Pipeline's recently updated Top 100 Prospects

We’ve saved the riskiest demographic for last in our run of top 10 Draft prospects: the high school pitchers. While there don't appear to be any prep arms slated to go at the very top of the Draft, there is some depth in this group this year. How many actually

It's a long season, and things can change in a hurry. That baseball truism has doled out reminders many times already in 2024, and our latest Rookie of the Year poll is yet another example. At the season's halfway point, a panel of 39 MLB.com experts has identified clear front-runners

Since its inception in 1999, the All-Star Futures Game has provided a stage for the next generation of big league stars to show off their tools. Over the years, we’ve seen exciting displays of hitting prowess. But given the nature of the exhibition, it always seemed like the spotlight on

The All-Star Futures Game is less than two weeks away on July 13 and the First-Year Player Draft will follow shortly behind. One day behind, in fact. It’s about to get very busy in the world of prospects. So as the Major and Minor League seasons pivot toward their second

Once again in 2024, baseball fans can watch Minor League Baseball games across all of MLB's digital platforms. MLB.TV and At Bat subscribers can watch their favorite team's Minor League affiliates in the app at no additional cost, while all MiLB games will be available on MiLB.TV, on the web

ATLANTA -- Rowdy Tellez went to bat looking for a splitter up, but didn't strike when he got it the first time in his fifth-inning at-bat against Spencer Schwellenbach. Schwellenbach couldn’t get away with a pitch there twice, though. He went up again with the split, and Tellez wasn’t gonna

ATLANTA -- Perhaps opposing teams should stop hitting leadoff homers against Paul Skenes. It usually doesn’t bode well for them the rest of Skenes’ afternoon. Skenes overcame his first-inning mistake to Jarred Kelenic -- and some general wildness early -- to toss six innings of one-run ball. It was the

ATLANTA -- Aroldis Chapman ran to Truist Park’s pitcher’s mound Saturday knowing that he had a chance at history. He just had to do something he had done 1,195 times before: Strike out a batter. Needing to post a zero to force extra innings, Chapman delivered a scoreless frame with

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ATLANTA -- Friday was supposed to be Jared Jones’ turn in the rotation, but the Pirates opted to skip it for two reasons. The first was to manage his workload. He’s already only about 40 innings off of his career high and the team would prefer for him to pitch

Seventeen days before the Guardians will exercise the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 Draft, they've let little slip out regarding their intentions. Their top four candidates appear to be, coincidentally, the top four players on MLB Pipeline's new Draft Top 250 list. Cleveland not only is mulling over

CINCINNATI -- Rowdy Tellez tried to temper expectations as he and Xander Brown walked into Great American Ball Park’s visitors' dugout before the game Wednesday. Two years ago, Brown saw Tellez, his favorite player, homer twice for his fifth birthday. He came up short last year, though, having to settle

It's time for our second installment of each team's hottest-hitting Top 30 prospect over the last month. Our list includes eight Top 100 prospects, though the player with the best numbers over the last 30 days occupies the bottom spot on our Top 30 for his organization.

We’ve tweaked and expanded our 2024 Draft rankings for the last time, running the list out to the Top 250. Now less than three weeks away from the start of the Draft, we're getting a clearer picture of how the scouting industry is stacking up the talent in this class.

This story was excerpted from Alex Stumpf’s Pirates Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. CINCINNATI -- The perks of being a Major League Baseball player are numerous, but one of the few drawbacks is players don’t get a

CINCINNATI -- The key, as Oneil Cruz would explain, is to take short steps toward home, just in case an opportunity presents itself. Cruz was stationed on second with the bases full of Bucs in the top of the third Tuesday at Great American Ball Park when Edward Olivares lifted

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Arkansas' Hagen Smith and Wake Forest's Chase Burns headline the 2024 college pitching crop after breaking the NCAA Division I record for strikeout rate. Both project as easy top-10 picks and potential frontline starters. Yet the college pitching class isn't as deep as once hoped. East Carolina's Trey Yesavage is

CINCINNATI -- Bailey Falter's first turn through the Reds’ order Monday at Great American Ball Park was perfection. Nine up, nine down, with no hard contact and a strikeout to boot. The second time through the order was anything but perfect. The Reds piled five runs against him, and the

Have you made plans for the Fourth yet? If not, we're here to help. If so, change 'em! There's no better way to celebrate America's Independence Day than taking in a baseball game amid your compatriots.