The youngest players on Class A rosters
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com There are a lot of ways to analyze baseball prospects. If you’re a Major League team, you have a staff of scouts who scour the country evaluating swings, deliveries, stuff,...
View ArticleNotable quotables: Rob Kaminsky
(Paul R. Gierhart/MiLB.com) By Kelsie Heneghan / MiLB.com The story of Rob Kaminsky’s journey from New Jersey outfields to the mound as the Cardinals top pitching prospect was published today on...
View ArticleHow they got here: The roster constructions of the Giants, Cardinals, Royals,...
By Sam Dykstra/MiLB.com With the League Championship Series slated — and I use that word hesitantly, given the precarious weather forecasts in both Baltimore and St. Louis — to begin Friday, it’s an...
View ArticleProgress report: Evaluating the graduates from MLB’s top 50
By Sam Dykstra / MiLB.com As it does before every season, MLB.com released its 2014 ranking of the top 100 prospects in the game in March. As the season progressed, some of these players “graduated”...
View ArticleProspects who could be moved by the July 31 trade deadline
By Sam Dykstra / MiLB.com Yesterday, we covered which prospects shouldn’t be going anywhere this trade deadline season. Today, we turn our eyes toward which ones could very well be on the move as...
View ArticleProspect Q&A: Cardinals LHP Marco Gonzales
By Sam Dykstra / MiLB.com On Monday, I caught up with Cardinals No. 5 prospect Marco Gonzales, who induced 15 groundouts over eight scoreless innings for Class A Advanced Palm Beach on Sunday. The...
View ArticleRounding the Bases: Top 100 talk, Part II
By Sam Dykstra/MiLB.com How’s everybody doing? Feeling like you’re in the best shape of your life? Optimistic about what’s to come? Are you reconnecting with old friends and making new ones at the same...
View ArticleNotable Quotables — Thoughts on the Top 100: 1-10
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com The Minor League season has come and gone and, sadly, that means Notable Quotables will be heading into hibernation until the games start up again next spring. We’ll still...
View ArticleFive names to watch in the Rule 5 Draft
By Sam Dykstra/MiLB.com Wednesday was a big day in Minor League circles, and that was pretty evident on Twitter alone, as seen by the feeds of Adam Duvall, Stefen Romero and Tucker Barnhart. These were...
View ArticleNotable Quotables: Thoughts on the Top 100 – 11-20
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com The Minor League season has come and gone, and sadly, that means Notable Quotables will be heading into hibernation until the games start up against next spring. We’ll still...
View ArticleNotable Quotables — Thoughts on the Top 100: 41-50
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com The Minor League season has come and gone, and sadly, that means Notable Quotables will be heading into hibernation until the games start up against next spring. We’ll still...
View ArticleA World Series prospect-related primer
By Sam Dykstra/MiLB.com No one gets to the World Series by accident. There are three* rounds of baseball taking up at least seven and at most 13 (counting Wild Card play-ins) combined games where teams...
View ArticlePlaying ‘This or That’ with pitching prospects
By Sam Dykstra / MiLB.com We’re well-past the Trade Deadline — what a dud that was, huh? — but this is a fun thought experiment any time of the year really. Imagine you’re a general manager on the...
View ArticleProspects who could be on the move come July 31
By Sam Dykstra / MiLB.com Earlier this month, I looked at the prospects I believe aren’t going anywhere come the July 31 Trade Deadline. Now that we’re just over one week away from one of the most...
View ArticleThe Untouchables: Prospects staying put come July 31
By Sam Dykstra We’re in July now (hope you and yours had a happy Fourth), and in baseball, that means two things: the Major League All-Star Game and the Trade Deadline. You could argue that July 31 is...
View ArticleTen first-half climbers: Florida State League
By Jonathan Raymond We’re about halfway through the Minor League season, so we’re going to start identifying 10 prospects from each full-season league who significantly improved their stock through the...
View ArticleNotable Quotables: Doing the knuckle shuffle
By Jake Seiner The game story isn’t always the best place for block quotes and expanded thoughts, so once a week, I’m hoping to come here with a look back at some of the more interesting conversations...
View ArticleNotable Quotables: Mighty Miguel goes to Double-A
By Jake Seiner Interviewing for game stories can be a fun process. The thousands of players and coaches spread across the Minor Leagues supply a never-ending chain of unique perspectives on the...
View ArticleNotable Quotables: Getting Gary on board
By Jake Seiner Fresno manager Bob Mariano on Gary Brown’s recent acceptance of his need to make adjustments (Coachable Brown breaks out for Fresno) “It started in Salt Lake City. Our hitting coach,...
View ArticleDraft Retrospective: Best yet to come from 2011
With the 2013 MLB Draft starting Thursday, we thought we’d take the next few days to run down how some of the more intriguing picks out of the top rounds from the last few Drafts have fared. On Monday,...
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