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The 2026 Draft is taking longer to sort itself out than teams hoped. Shortstops Roch Cholowsky (UCLA) and Grady Emerson (Fort Worth Christian HS in Texas) have set themselves apart from the rest of the class. The second tier of prospects consists of catcher Vahn Lackey (Georgia Tech) and right-hander Jackson Flora (UC Santa Barbara), with some clubs regarding shortstops Jacob Lombard (Gulliver Prep, Miami) and Justin Lebron (Alabama) and outfielder Eric Booth Jr. (Oak Grove HS, Hattiesburg, Miss.) at or close to the same level After that, there's no consensus. High school hitters fall off fast after Emerson, Lombard…

One of baseball's most polarizing prospects is coming to the big leagues. When Jasson Domínguez entered concussion protocol after slamming into the outfield wall during Thursday's win over the Rangers, the Yankees responded by summoning Spencer Jones from Triple-A. Few players can match Jones' combination of size (6-foot-7, 240 pounds)

A couple of weeks ago, we took a look at the hottest hitting prospect in each organization. Now it’s time to check in on the pitchers. While many of the game’s top young arms are still building up and expanding their pitch counts and innings, there have been more than

Though most of my attention is focused on the Draft these days, there's a lot else going on at MLB Pipeline. Most notably, we refreshed our Top 100 Prospects list after Konnor Griffin officially graduated to the Majors on Wednesday. Sam Dykstra has all the details here. As for the

This is the time of year when we like to look at pleasant developments in the early part of the Minor League schedule. When we did so a year ago, we spotlighted several prospects who were steaming toward MLB Pipeline's Top 100 list: A.J. Ewing, Carlos Lagrange, Joe Mack, Rainiel

Pedro Ramírez's breakout season just keeps getting better and better. After tearing up Triple-A and needing just 37 games to set a new career high for home runs, he got called to the big leagues for the first time today. After the Cubs placed Matt Shaw on the 10-day injured

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We say it every year, and it bears repeating again: the Draft is hard. Front offices spend years scouting and analyzing a particular Draft class, but even the best baseball minds can’t predict what will happen with absolute certainty in the years after. Take the 2021 class ahead of its

MLB Pipeline released its expanded and updated Draft Top 200 last night, but we're already collecting intel for our next first-round projection and starting work on the Draft Top 250. We'll take a break, however, to answer your Draft questions.

Baseball's best rookie in May turned pro for $140,000 out of the Dominican Republic and ranked just 19th on MLB Pipeline's preseason Angels Top 30 Prospects list. The second-best went No. 1 overall in the 2024 Draft and signed for $8.95 million. Successful rookies come from a wide variety of