Bill Mitchell

Shortstop Keon Johnson, the No. 6 player in the 2026 class, has committed to Vanderbilt, adding another potential impact player to a formidable recruiting class for the Commodores.

Today is a bit of a national holiday in college baseball, as it is National Signing Day for the 2025 class. Thousands of recruits will put pen to paper and make commitments to their respective schools official, providing plenty of excitement—and sometimes relief—for the coaching staffs and fan bases for their future programs.

Just two games remain in the 2024 Arizona Fall League: the play-in game and the championship. After that, the season is in the books and ballfields from Glendale to Scottsdale will go dark until the spring.

Now that we’re officially into the offseason, Carlos Collazo and Peter Flaherty are conducting a six-part series on the Baseball America Draft Podcast looking back at 2024 draft classes. You can find previous installments here:

For the first time since 2019, the Salt River Rafters are champions of the Arizona Fall League.

Statcast Standouts is back with a special Arizona Fall League edition to rank 10 batters with exciting public Statcast data. The AFL can have highly-variable quality of competition, especially for pitchers, so we must temper our enthusiasm somewhat. However, certain data, such as exit velocities and contact rates are pretty sticky. These are primarily the metrics we’ll be looking at today.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., — The Yankees are a team that rarely hands an everyday position to a prospect. Outfielder Jasson Dominguez, one of the team’s top prospects in years, is not guaranteed a regular job for next season.

Baseball America’s initial 2024 MLB Rule Draft preview is here.

Geoff Pontes and Dylan White sift through their C/1B/3B rankings to find highlight value picks and players to stay away from in 2025.

On this week’s Future Projection, Ben Badler and Carlos Collazo talk about Jac Caglianone’s return to the mound in the 2025 season. They discuss how they view him as a two-way player moving forward, as well as why people should stop referencing Shohei Ohtani as a comp for him—or any other player.