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'Hit another for Theo': Tigers prospect meets cancer patient before game, swats 3 homers

@WeintraubCole
an hour ago

Before Josue Briceño even stepped into the batter’s box Thursday night, his performance had already taken on deeper meaning.

Here are Thursday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@MavalloneMiLB
18 minutes ago

Roundtrippers were flying out of ballparks all across the Minor League landscape, highlighted by a pair of three-homer games. Top 100 prospect and Tigers slugger Josue Briceño kicked things off in the High-A Midwest League with his trio of jacks before Dodgers thumper Ryan Ward did the same for Triple-A

Vote NOW to decide which of these four lids wins New Era Clash of the Caps

May 27, 2025

New Era Clash of the Caps -- in which fan voting will select one winner from 120 unique and creative Minor League Baseball team caps -- is headed for home.

  • VOTE NOW » Winners from each full-season level of the Minors were crowned in Round 2 last week, and

Rocker untouchable in rehab start for Round Rock

@Theo_DeRosa
May 29, 2025

Kumar Rocker was unhittable in his latest Minor League rehab start as he nears a return to the Rangers. Rocker pitched four hitless innings for the Express on Thursday against visiting Reno, allowing just one walk and recording five strikeouts. He retired the first 12 hitters he faced before Trey

Watch FREE as MLB's top pitching prospect Chandler takes hill Friday night

@brendan_samson
May 29, 2025

All season long, baseball fans will be able to watch Minor League Baseball games across all of MLB's digital platforms. MLB.TV and MLB app subscribers can watch their favorite team's Minor League affiliates in the app at no additional cost, while all MiLB games are available on MiLB.TV, on the

May's hottest pitching prospects -- one for each organization

@SamDykstraMiLB
May 28, 2025

At the end of April, we named the hottest hitter in each farm system to celebrate the prospect bats off to terrific starts. But pitching can take a little longer to evaluate given the distance between starts and early-season innings caps/pitch counts, among other issues. Now that we’re closing in

Inside-the-parker for 1st career HR? HOU prospect joins strange company

May 29, 2025

Every first career professional home run is memorable. But Astros prospect Justin Trimble’s came in unforgettable fashion.

5 intriguing prospects from the NL East, 1 from each team

May 28, 2025

As the second month of the baseball season nears its end, the sample sizes for prospects continue to expand. The MLB Pipeline crew is taking the opportunity to dig a little deeper to highlight players who are balling out, but might still be flying under-the-radar. On the latest MLB Pipeline

Toledo's Hicklen uses batting gloves for gender reveal

May 27, 2025

It’s a boy! Brewer Hicklen -- an outfielder with the Toledo Mud Hens, the Tigers’ Triple-A affiliate -- walked to the plate in the second inning of Tuesday’s game without batting gloves. With his expecting wife and first child watching on from the stands, Hicklen pulled out a pair of

See famous and historic Texas spots with this Minor League road trip

@JoshJacksonMiLB
May 27, 2025

As you may be aware, Texas is big. Huge, in fact. A fan could easily spend a whole season road tripping back and forth and up and down throughout the state, taking in competitive baseball at every level of the pro and amateur ranks. In addition to its two Major

Caglianone arrives in Triple-A, promptly brings the boom

@anne__rogers
May 26, 2025

This story was excerpted from Anne Rogers’ Royals Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. MINNEAPOLIS -- To describe the home run tear that Jac Caglianone is on right now, let’s just list out the numbers: • Thursday: 113.6

The Omaha Storm Chasers' 'Take Meow-t' cat night included a Litter Box Sundae

@BensBiz
May 23, 2025

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here.

Here are Wednesday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@MavalloneMiLB
May 29, 2025

There were plenty of eye-opening performances during a mid-week slate, including three hits from the Royals' Jac Caglianone and a big game from Giants slugger Bryce Eldridge. Seattle's Top 100 duo of Cole Young and Harry Ford combined for eight hits -- including three extra-base knocks -- while Houston's Shay

Josh Adamczewski highlights

May 28, 2025

Here are Tuesday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@MavalloneMiLB
May 28, 2025

Roman Anthony, MLB's top overall prospect, got things going early in the night with a leadoff homer, but he wasn't the only talented phenom to deliver a standout performance. From Alex Freeland's two-homer game to Ryan Ritter's monstrous power surge, there was plenty of action to go around as Minor

Four teammates in Minor Leagues opening eyes

@sonjamchen
May 27, 2025

This story was excerpted from Sonja Chen's Dodgers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

5 intriguing O's prospects who could debut this season

May 27, 2025

This story was excerpted from Jake Rill’s Orioles Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

Tigers No. 3 prospect Rainer showing skills beyond his years

May 27, 2025

This story was excerpted from Jason Beck's Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

Chia-Shi Shen highlights

May 26, 2025

How Cubs No. 13 prospect became lethal at the plate

@benweinrib
May 26, 2025

This story was excerpted from Jordan Bastian’s Cubs Beat newsletter. With Jordan off this week, MLB.com’s Ben Weinrib handled this edition. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

'Everybody has their eyes on him': Lombard seamlessly acclimating to Double-A

May 26, 2025

This story was excerpted from Bryan Hoch’s Yankees Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

Here are Sunday's top prospect performances from the Minors

May 25, 2025

The top performers roundup is always about big games, but to crack Sunday's list, they had to be real big, and a lot of them came courtesy of really big prospects. Three-homer game? Yep. Record strikeouts for your first seven outs of the game? Yep. Make Triple-A look easy? Another

Reds top prospect Burns racks up double digits in strikeouts for first time in career

@WeintraubCole
May 25, 2025

Making the jump to Double-A is difficult for any prospect and that can particularly apply to pitchers. But Chase Burns has made it look easy. The latest outing for MLB’s No. 11 prospect backed up that premise as Burns racked up a career-high 10 strikeouts over five innings in Chattanooga's