Sam Dykstra

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A year ago, we provided one Rookie of the Year candidate for every team. How'd we do? We nailed the NL top rookie (Paul Skenes) and also picked out two others who received votes (Jackson Chourio and Mason Miller). That's a good enough success rate to try the whole exercise again. We discussed who we thought were the overall favorites on a recent episode of the MLB Pipeline Podcast and you can read about it here. Below is a prospect for each team we think has the chance to bring in next year's ROY hardware, all with the caveat that…

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MLB Pipeline gives our organizational Top 30 prospect rankings complete refreshes twice per calendar year (once in spring, once in-season) and provides other live updates as graduations and other transactions necessitate them. In the latter category, two dates in particular are our busiest for Top 30 updates: the Trade Deadline and the Rule 5 Draft.

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,…

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…

There is no singular established path to farm system improvement. The best organizations do it internally. They take the players already in the pipeline and help them get the most out of their tools or, in a best-case scenario, improve the tools already in their profiles. That takes a good