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

MLB.com is keeping track of the latest news and rumors surrounding Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki, who is seeking an MLB opportunity via the posting system. At 23 years old, Sasaki is subject to international bonus pool money restrictions, which are placed on foreign-born players unless they are at least 25

We don’t only deal in tools around here. Performance (i.e. what players do with those tools) matters, too. Stats form much of baseball's vocabulary. It’s part of how we tell the stories of the game. Look no further than the 2024 Major League season, when Shohei Ohtani recorded the first

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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

As the world begins to prepare for another turn around the sun, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff put a bow on a busy 2024 and peek into their crystal ball to see surprises baseball might have in store in the new year.

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The 2025 Draft may still be seven months away but it's also in the news. MLB Pipeline released its initial Draft Top 100 late last week and MLB staged the Draft Lottery on Tuesday evening at the Winter Meetings.

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The news that Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki was officially posted for Major League teams to negotiate with created a seismic shift on the international prospect landscape. It’s being reflected on not one, but two prospect rankings. Now that he is eligible to sign with an MLB team, Sasaki is taking

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

DALLAS – In the 2009 and ‘10 MLB Drafts, the Washington Nationals had the No. 1 pick and turned those selections into a pair of franchise-changing players, Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper. At Tuesday’s Draft Lottery during the 2024 Winter Meetings, Washington earned another shot at the very top of

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The White Sox introduced infielder Chase Meidroth and right-hander Wikelman Gonzalez to the local media on Tuesday afternoon. The duo was part of the trade package Chicago acquired when it sent left-hander Garrett Crochet to the Red Sox last week. Meidroth, the 13th-best prospect in the organization, according to MLB

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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 top White Sox prospect Noah Schultz. For more stories about players on The Road to The Show, click here. Noah Schultz reigns as the jewel of a

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TAMPA, Fla. -- With starting pitching to spare, the Rays swung a trade Saturday that brought their rotation into clearer focus and further fortified their highly regarded Minor League system. The Rays dealt starter Jeffrey Springs and left-hander Jacob Lopez to the Athletics for high-ceiling/MLB-ready starter Joe Boyle, first base

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HOUSTON -- When the Astros lost star outfielder George Springer in free agency to the Blue Jays after the 2020 season, they had Kyle Tucker set to emerge as a star. When Houston lost star shortstop Carlos Correa to the Twins in free agency a year later, it had shortstop