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Jonah rising: Mets prospect Tong unhittable again in ascendant season

Tong
@JoeTrezz
June 4, 2025

New York’s hottest pitching prospect is Jonah Tong. Each time the 21-year-old right-hander takes the mound lately, he seems to set the world on fire. Tong (NYM No. 4/MLB No. 99) added another dominant outing Wednesday, firing five no-hit innings in Double-A Binghamton’s 4-3 win over Somerset at Mirabito Stadium.

Royals No. 1 prospect Caglianone rips two more homers for four in three games

@JoeTrezz
May 6, 2025

Jac Caglianone looks like he’s figuring out this Double-A thing and finding his groove at the plate. That's bad news for Texas League hurlers. There has been no pitching lately to the Royals' top prospect and Caglianone (MLB No. 18) showed why Tuesday, homering twice in Northwest Arkansas’ matchup against

Here's everything to know about MiLB Opening Day part 2

@JoeTrezz and @BensBiz and @SamDykstraMiLB
April 3, 2025

With Major League and Triple-A Opening Days in the books, the spotlight can fall on the rest of the Minor Leagues.

Everything you need to know for Triple-A Opening Day

@JoeTrezz and @BensBiz and @SamDykstraMiLB
March 27, 2025

First, there was big league Opening Day. Now it's Triple-A's turn to take the spotlight. The Minor League season opens Friday when the Triple-A International League and Pacific Coast League seasons get underway for the first of MiLB’s two Opening Days. And right out of the gates, several of baseball's

Spring Breakout wraps up with 4 games

@JoeTrezz
March 17, 2025

Spring Breakout has returned for the second season after debuting last year to much fanfare. The weekend began with a bang as the Rays edged the Red Sox on Thursday night with home runs coming from Boston's top three prospects and Tampa Bay's No. 1. Like last year, all 30

Here are the 2025 Spring Breakout rosters

@thevandalorian and @JoeTrezz
March 6, 2025

Spring Breakout is back, and top prospects across all 30 organizations will once again take center stage in Arizona and Florida. The second annual edition of Spring Breakout features hundreds of the top prospects from around the league. The rosters are stacked, highlighted by 72 players on MLB Pipeline's Top

Paying homage to Negro Leagues, this team is MiLB's "hoppinest"

@JoeTrezz
February 27, 2025

Nicknamed “baseball’s most hoppinest team” by the local newspaper coverage at the time, the Fredericksburg Frogs were one of the Chesapeake Bay area’s more successful Negro League teams in the 1920s, standing out amid a long lineage of segregated Black teams that played in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia, between the 1880s

These players could earn teams extra Draft picks in 2025

@JoeTrezz
January 30, 2025

Since the Prospect Promotion Incentive (PPI) was implemented under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, four players have earned their clubs extra Draft picks. The PPI rewards teams for promoting their best prospects to the big leagues at the start of the season, enabling them to earn a Draft pick if

These are MLB’s No. 1 prospects at each position

@JoeTrezz
January 23, 2025

MLB Pipeline's 2025 rankings of the Top 10 prospects at each position are official and the 2025 Top 100 Prospects list will be revealed at 7 p.m. ET on Friday on MLB Network and MLB.com.

What to watch at Winter Meetings: Draft Lottery, Rule 5 and more

@JoeTrezz
December 6, 2024

The baseball world is about to focus its offseason gaze on Dallas, Texas, as the Winter Meetings arrive in the Lone Star State on Sunday ready to set the Hot Stove aflame. While the focus of the Winter Meetings is usually on the Major League happenings, there will be plenty

Here are 8 prospects standing out in winter ball

@JoeTrezz
November 25, 2024

Now that the Arizona Fall League has crowned a new champion and MLB's awards season is winding down, the baseball world in the United States is preparing to turn its attention to the Hot Stove. But that doesn't mean baseball isn't being played. There are plenty of exciting and talented

Here's an early look at the top 2025 Rookie of the Year candidates

@JoeTrezz
November 24, 2024

With Paul Skenes and Luis Gil taking home their leagues' respective 2024 Rookie of the Year Awards, it's time to turn our attention to 2025.

Briceño, Rosario earn Week 6 AFL honors

@JoeTrezz
November 19, 2024

The Arizona Fall League concluded with the Salt River Rafters claiming an unlikely title with their win over Surprise in Nov. 16’s AFL championship game, bringing a dramatic close to Week 6, and this year, of AFL play. The players honored for their performances in the season’s final week were

2024 Arizona Fall League award winners

@JoeTrezz
November 16, 2024

For six more weeks again this year, some of the best prospects in baseball shined in the Arizona Fall League, the game’s most elite prospect circuit. Now it’s time to give out some hardware. The Fall League annually awards the Joe Black MVP Award to its top performer, and since

40-man deadline: Which prospects are getting roster spots?

@JoeTrezz
November 14, 2024

For all 30 Major League teams, some of the biggest decisions of the offseason must be made by the Nov. 19 deadline for setting their 40-man rosters. Any player not added to their organization’s roster by then will become eligible to be selected by another organization in the Rule 5

Cubs' Long, Tigers' Miller earn Fall League Week 5 honors

@JoeTrezz
November 12, 2024

Week 5 in the Arizona Fall League was about spotlighting the best the top prospect circuit had to offer, with Fall Star festivities limiting regular-season AFL play to only four days in the desert. These two players stood out for squeezing exceptional performances into that small sample. Mesa corner outfielder/infielder

Arizona Fall League Week 5 top performers

@JoeTrezz
November 10, 2024

Here are the top performers from the fifth week of AFL action:

Fall League sluggers light up the night in Home Run Derby

@JoeTrezz
November 8, 2024

The 2024 Arizona Fall League Home Run Derby lived up to its billing with a last-second long ball to close things out. Yankees prospect Garrett Martin finished with a flourish in the final round, hitting his 10th tater of the session to inch past Brewers No. 8 prospect Brock Wilken

These are the 2024 Fall Stars Game rosters

@JoeTrezz
November 7, 2024

The All-Star festivities at baseball’s most elite prospect circuit are always a can’t-miss event, and this year’s are no different. The 18th annual Fall Stars Game, set for 8 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. local on Saturday at Sloan Park in Mesa, will bring the Arizona Fall League’s top performers together

Kurtz, Lopez, Stephan earn AFL Week 4 honors

@JoeTrezz
November 5, 2024

Week 4 in the Arizona Fall League was all about big flies and flirting with history. These players separated themselves during what was another excellent week of AFL action. Mesa first baseman Nick Kurtz (ATH No. 2/MLB No. 45) slugged his way to AFL Hitter of the Week honors and

Minor League Gold Glove Award winners

@JoeTrezz
November 4, 2024

There are prospects who can flash the leather, and then there are these guys: the cream of the crop. Now they own some hardware for defensive excellence. Two Top 100 prospects – including baseball's top overall prospect – headlined the nine-player crop of 2024 Minor League Gold Glove Award winners,

Arizona Fall League Week 4 top performers

@JoeTrezz
November 3, 2024

Here are the top performers from the fourth week of AFL action:

Here are the Arizona Fall League's top Statcast performers

@JoeTrezz
October 30, 2024

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

Arizona Fall League Week 3 top performers

@JoeTrezz
October 27, 2024

Here are the top performers from the third week of AFL action:

Here are the Minor Leaguers to follow in winter ball this year

@JoeTrezz
October 25, 2024

The weather is starting to turn in many parts of the United States and Canada, but that doesn't mean baseball goes away after the conclusion of the World Series. It's always baseball season in Latin America. From now through the Caribbean Series in February, winter leagues feature some of the