Jonathan Mayo

The news that Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki was officially posted for Major League teams to negotiate with created a seismic shift on the international prospect landscape. It's being reflected on not one, but two prospect rankings.

DALLAS – In the 2009 and ‘10 MLB Drafts, the Washington Nationals had the No. 1 pick and turned those selections into a pair of franchise-changing players, Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper.

DALLAS – Arms were on the menu during Wednesday afternoon’s Rule 5 Draft at the Winter Meetings. A total of 15 players were taken in the Major League phase of this year’s Rule 5 and 11 of them were pitchers. It started when the White Sox took right-hander Shane Smith

Ever since Roki Sasaki's agent, Joel Wolfe, met with the media at the Winter Meetings, there’s been speculation about which team might be the best fit to land the prized right-hander, who was recently posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines.

We don’t only deal in tools around here. Performance (i.e. what players do with those tools) matters, too.

We don't only deal in tools around here. Performance (i.e. what players do with those tools) matters, too. Stats form much of baseball's vocabulary. It's part of how we tell the stories of the game. Look no further than the 2024 Major League season, when Shohei Ohtani recorded the first 50-50 campaign in MLB history. Everyone who saw the three-time MVP play this summer knows how dominant he can be, but attaching those numbers next to his name in the record books illustrates the point all the more. Although there weren't any 50-50 seasons in the Minor Leagues in ‘24,…

Welcome to the final MLB Pipeline Inbox of 2024! We’re about to enter into the holiday season and I’m in a giving mood, and clearly you were, too, given the volumes of questions folks sent in. I’m going to give a hat tip to frequent contributor Stevie D., who asked

Kristian Campbell entered 2024 as a supplemental fourth-round pick the previous July who had fashioned a nice pro debut. He ended it as the No. 10 prospect on MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list, not to mention its Hitting Prospect of the Year and the MiLB Breakout Player of the

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While no prospect boosted his stock more than Campbell last season, seven others on the list below improved enough to join him on the season-ending Top 100 after missing the preseason list. We highlight the players who have raised their profiles the most in each system during the last 12 months: Blue Jays: Jake Bloss, RHP (No. 3) Ranked No. 11 in the Astros system to begin 2024, the 2023 third-rounder out of Georgetown climbed from High-A Asheville all the way to the Majors in his first full season by showcasing three above-average pitches out of the gate. Sure, his…