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Twenty Top 100 Prospects and Their Chances of Making Opening Day Rosters at...
Today is Friday, Feb. 15. In baseball terms, it is the “voluntary date on which all non-World Baseball Classic position players may be invited to Spring Training.” But most Major Leaguers, from the...
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Prospect Q&A: Cardinals Outfielder Chris Swauger on Minor League Camp,...
Because Minor League camps are cranking up this week, I thought it appropriate to focus on the kind of farmhand that is not lumped in with those super prospects that receive invites to Major League...
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Interview Outtakes: Marlins Pitching Prospect Andrew Heaney Answers Four...
MiLB.com will publish my Q&A with Andrew Heaney this week or next. In the interim, the No. 5 Marlins prospect — and baseball’s 81st-ranked farmhand (bio, stats here) — shared four throughts (below)...
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Prospect Q&A: Royals Righty Yordano Ventura — MLB.com’s No. 59 Farmhand — on...
Yordano Ventura sat at home in Samana, his town in the baseball-crazy Dominican Republic, and watched every start made by Pedro Martinez, the countryman gone on to fame and Cy Young awards. So it’s no...
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Interview Outtakes: Tigers Prospect, Could-be-closer Bruce Rondon Answers...
MiLB.com will publish our Q&A with Tigers could-be-closer Bruce Rondon in the next week or so. In the interim, the MLB.com’s No. 92 prospect (bio, stats here) shared eight thoughts (below) that...
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Rays’ Right-hander Jake Odorizzi — MLB.com’s No. 45 Prospect — Answers Six...
MiLB.com will publish the sixth part of my nine-part series on top-ranked prospects who are also top-rated defenders this morning (link here). The piece focuses, in part, on the Rays’ Jake Odorizzi...
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Prospect Q&A: Mariners Infielder Stefen Romero on Reading Self-Help Books,...
The timing was cruel. Twenty-four hours after 12th-ranked Mariners prospect Stefen Romero (@stefonson) recorded a seven-RBI effort in a Major League Spring Training game last Thursday, he strained his...
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Cardinals’ Oscar Taveras, Others Discuss His Long-term Position, More
MiLB.com will publish the seventh part of my nine-part series on top-ranked prospects who are also top-rated defenders by next week. The piece focuses on the Cardinals’ Oscar Taveras (bio, stats here),...
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Backfield Blog Day 2: Tampa Bay Rays
By Jake Seiner/MiLB.com Day two of my Grapefruit League swing brings me to Port Charlotte, spring home of the Tampa Bay Rays and their Florida State League affiliate, the Charlotte Stone Crabs. The...
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Kaminsky: Offseason workouts are crucial before Spring Training
By Rob Kaminsky / Special to MiLB.com Indians Minor Leaguer Rob Kaminsky recently wrapped up his third season in professional baseball, one that saw the 2013 first-round Draft pick get traded at the...
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Notes of spring: It ain’t easy being green
By Josh Jackson / MiLB.com PHOENIX, Ariz. — As MLB.com’s No. 32 overall prospect and the No. 2 prospect in the Milwaukee system, Brett Phillips is a big deal as far as Minor Leaguers go. In the...
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