While You and I Were Out: Hamilton’s Switch, Banuelos’ Surgery
I report for MiLB.com four days a week during the offseason, so I am bound to miss out on some significant news. “While You and I Were Out” catches both of us up. And to make the news a little less...
View ArticleLost and Found: Yankees Prospect Jose Ramirez
Editor’s note: Lost and Found is an offseason series in which one underrated prospect from each of the 30 MLB clubs will be discussed in a short, snappy post. Lost: Signed at 17 out of his native...
View ArticleProspect Uniformed: Yankees Catcher Gary Sanchez in Every Minor League Jersey...
Following a career-best season that included games like this one, MLB.com’s No. 36 overall prospect Gary Sanchez will very likely make his Double-A Trenton debut sometime next season. Here are the four...
View ArticleProspect Q&A: Yankees Slugger Tyler Austin Answers Five Questions about...
If you think Tyler Austin — who went from 13th-round pick in 2010 to one of the best Minor League hitters in 2012 — will rest on his laurels in 2013, consider that he’s been in Tampa, Fla. since Jan....
View ArticleInterview Outtakes: Yankees Prospect Mason Williams Answers Seven Questions...
This morning, MiLB.com published the third part of my nine-part series on top-ranked prospects who are also top-rated defenders. The piece (linked here) focuses on Yankees center fielder Mason Williams...
View ArticleFrom The Mets’ d’Arnaud-Wheeler Duo on Down, Projecting The Minors’ Top 10...
Thinking back on the mid-December trade that brought baseball’s No. 6 prospect (catcher Travis d’Arnaud) to a pairing with baseball’s No. 8 prospect (right-hander Zack Wheeler) got me writing. Below I...
View ArticleBeyond The Yankees’ Brett Marshall, Top Pitching Prospects Who Have Undergone...
Will Leitch, one of America’s best sportswriters, has a feature in the current issue of New York Magazine called “The Glass Arm: Inside the art and science (but mostly still art) of keeping pitchers...
View ArticleNotable Quotables: Nimmo’s grand adventure
By Jake Seiner Interviewing for game stories can be a fun process. The thousands of players and coaches spread across the Minor Leagues supply a never-ending chain of unique perspectives on the...
View ArticleCatching up with Under-the-Radar prospects
By Robert Emrich At the start of the season, the staff at MiLB put together their preseason picks for prospects in each Minor League full-season league who were considered under-the-radar. Any player...
View ArticleBiggest hitting surprises in the Minors (so far)
By Sam Dykstra David Rohm was coming off the bench in last year’s Carolina League playoffs but is now producing in bunches. (Ken Inness/MiLB.com) We’ll be the first to admit it. We entered the year...
View ArticleNotable Quotables: Quiet approach makes Brentz’s bat louder
By Jake Seiner Interviewing for game stories can be a fun process. The thousands of players and coaches spread across the Minor Leagues supply a never-ending chain of unique perspectives on the...
View ArticleDraft Retrospective: Best yet to come from 2011
With the 2013 MLB Draft starting Thursday, we thought we’d take the next few days to run down how some of the more intriguing picks out of the top rounds from the last few Drafts have fared. On Monday,...
View ArticleTen first-half climbers: South Atlantic League
By Jonathan Raymond We’re about halfway through the Minor League season, so we’re going to start identifying 10 prospects from each full-season league who significantly improved their stock through the...
View ArticleTen first-half climbers: Florida State League
By Jonathan Raymond We’re about halfway through the Minor League season, so we’re going to start identifying 10 prospects from each full-season league who significantly improved their stock through the...
View ArticleThe Untouchables: Prospects staying put come July 31
By Sam Dykstra We’re in July now (hope you and yours had a happy Fourth), and in baseball, that means two things: the Major League All-Star Game and the Trade Deadline. You could argue that July 31 is...
View ArticleNotable Quotables: Yanks’ Refsnyder on picking pitches
Jake Seiner / MiLB.com Yankees’ Rob Refsnyder on the development of his pitch recognition skills (Refsnyder drives in six for Tampa): “In college, I batted fourth, and at Arizona we always had a pretty...
View ArticleNotable Quotables: Dealin’ in Daytona
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com New Cubs prospect C.J. Edwards on reuniting with pitching coach Storm Davis (Edwards dominates in Cubs’ debut): “This is really my first time working one-on-one with him. Ryan...
View ArticleNotable Quotables — Thoughts on the Top 100: 61-70
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com The Minor League season has come and gone, and sadly, that means Notable Quotables will be heading into hibernation until the games start up against next spring. We’ll still...
View ArticleNotable Quotables — Thoughts on the Top 100: 31-40
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com The Minor League season has come and gone, and sadly, that means Notable Quotables will be heading into hibernation until the games start up against next spring. We’ll still...
View ArticleNotable Quotables: Thoughts on the Top 100 – 21-30
By Jake Seiner / MiLB.com The Minor League season has come and gone, and sadly, that means Notable Quotables will be heading into hibernation until the games start up against next spring. We’ll still...
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