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There is no singular established path to farm system improvement. The best organizations do it internally. They take the players already in the pipeline and help them get the most out of their tools or, in a best-case scenario, improve the tools already in their profiles. That takes a good

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

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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

Braden Montgomery, MLB Pipeline's No. 54 overall prospect, joined MLB Network's "Hot Stove" on Thursday to talk about being traded to the White Sox in the Garrett Crochet blockbuster. The 21-year-old outfielder, who was the Red Sox's first-round Draft pick last July, was sent to Chicago on Wednesday as part

The Red Sox and White Sox provided the biggest blockbuster of the offseason so far on Wednesday night when Boston acquired All-Star left-hander Garrett Crochet from Chicago in exchange for a significant prospect haul. TRADE DETAILS Red Sox get: LHP Garrett Crochet White Sox get: C Kyle Teel (No. 25

DALLAS -- Chris Getz hit only three home runs over the course of his seven-year career, with two of them coming while playing for the White Sox. So comparing the excitement of clearing the fences to the excitement of finishing off a five-player deal sending Garrett Crochet to Boston hours

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This article -- which he reported on from Winston-Salem, N.C., on July 31 -- is one of those stories. Subscribe to his newsletter here.

Minor League Baseball is coming back to America's oldest professional ballpark in 2025. The Birmingham Barons, Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, will host the Rocket City Trash Pandas (Angels) at Rickwood Field in a tribute to the Negro Leagues on June 4, 2025, the team announced on Thursday.

CHICAGO -- Colson Montgomery currently is working out in Tennessee at the Bledsoe Agency, coming off strong showings in the Arizona Fall League and from the end of the 2024 season with Triple-A Charlotte. But Montgomery, whom MLB Pipeline ranks as the No. 3 White Sox prospect and No. 37

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Call it a last-chance saloon in the middle of the desert. The Arizona Fall League provides more than just an opportunity to see some of the game’s top prospects in one spot. It’s also the final place certain Minor Leaguers can prove they are deserving of a 40-man roster spot

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This fall, for the first time, the majority of Arizona Fall League stadiums are outfitted with Statcast technology. That enables us to peek under the hood and get a better sense of how some of the game’s best prospects are performing on the annual elite prospect circuit. With that in

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- While the Yankees and Dodgers were busy tagging home runs that carried significant weight during Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday night, Brooks Brannon and DJ Gladney were sending their own prodigious wallops toward the Dodgers complex located just beyond the left-field wall at Camelback

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Colson Montgomery put the final word on his second turn in the Arizona Fall League, and that word was boom. The White Sox No. 3 prospect homered on Friday in Glendale’s 7-6 loss to Salt River at Camelback Ranch in what he confirmed would be his final

There was a period last summer when some evaluators thought: Colson Montgomery, No. 1 prospect in baseball. After all, 6-foot-3 shortstops with 25+ home run potential don’t come around often. The Corey Seager comps were obvious, even something Montgomery embraced.

MESA, Ariz. – When LSU spilled out onto Omaha’s Charles Schwab Field to celebrate the 2023 national championship, Grant Taylor and Tre' Morgan were part of the dog pile, teammates jubilant about their club’s success. Fast forward to Wednesday afternoon at Sloan Park during Arizona Fall League action and the

CHICAGO -- The future might not exactly be now for the White Sox. But as their rebuild progresses, it certainly will come much sooner than later. This team could have a decidedly younger makeup in 2025, following a ’24 campaign in which it set a single-season Modern Era record (since

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