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PCL's Ritchey was 'everything a baseball player and American hero should be'

@JoshJacksonMiLB
February 1, 2025

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

Each team's top power hitting prospect for '25

@SamDykstraMiLB
29 minutes ago

The home run is the most efficient event in sports. It’s the maximum outcome a single batter can achieve, and all it takes is one swing. One very powerful, well-timed, well-coordinated swing. It’s why power is such an important tool in prospect development and evaluation. You can put the ball

'Be a buffalo': Brewers Minor League coach back from cancer battle

February 25, 2025

Joe Ayrault is the sort of Minor League manager who likes to have a laugh, so you can imagine the surprise of Brewers prospects who gathered at Double-A Biloxi last season to hear Ayrault tell the parable of the cow and the buffalo. When a cow sees a storm coming,

JJ Wetherholt explains why he journals every day

@JohnDenton555
February 26, 2025

This story was excerpted from John Denton’s Cardinals Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

South Siders unveil their vaunted southpaws

Schultz, Smith each pitch a scoreless inning in Cactus League debut
February 26, 2025

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith walked together from Camelback Ranch’s stadium field to the White Sox facilities in the eighth inning of a 3-1 loss to the Padres on Wednesday afternoon. Schultz, ranked by MLB Pipeline as baseball’s No. 16 prospect overall, threw a scoreless fifth inning

For 1st time in 657 days, Fulton takes hill for Marlins

@cdenicola13
February 26, 2025

JUPITER, Fla. -- Marlins left-hander Dax Fulton had grown so used to watching games over the past 657 days that he got caught napping in Wednesday’s long-awaited return to the mound. When first baseman Jonah Bride bobbled a grounder to open the second inning, Fulton didn’t get over in time

Top prospect De Vries has Padres camp buzzing after impressive at-bat

February 26, 2025

PEORIA, Ariz. -- It was only one at-bat in the ninth inning of a Cactus League game in February. And yet Leo De Vries' opposite-field double against the Angels on Tuesday afternoon set Padres camp abuzz.

One swing makes Teel an international sensation

February 26, 2025

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- From Kyle Teel’s best recollection, his Tuesday schedule for White Sox Spring Training read, “Live at-bats, Dodgers side.” The 23-year-old catcher, ranked by MLB Pipeline as baseball’s No. 32 prospect overall, saw nothing about, “Be ready for international fame.” But that’s exactly what happened when Teel homered

A pair of HRs in 1st spring ABs put Smith on top of the world

February 25, 2025

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- It didn’t take long for Cam Smith, the Astros’ top-ranked prospect by MLB Pipeline (No. 59 overall in '25), to show his stuff in Grapefruit League play on Tuesday. Smith walloped a pair of opposite-field home runs in his only two at-bats in the Astros’

No. 1 Draft pick Bazzana makes his lone swing of the day count in big way

February 25, 2025

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- First he showed patience, then Travis Bazzana showed power. The No. 1 overall pick in last summer's MLB Draft, the 22-year-old Bazzana is working out among the big leaguers in his first Spring Training. A member of the Guardians’ “depth camp” roster, he was just another prospect

Sykora crushed it in '24. Watch what happens when he's healthy

Nats' No. 2 prospect had minor hip surgery in offseason and is already seeing it pay off in '25
@jessicacamerato
February 26, 2025

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The final stats tell of a successful first full season in the pros for 20-year-old right-hander Travis Sykora: a 5-3 record, 2.33 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 13.7 strikeout rate and Carolina League Pitcher of the Year honors.

Prospect Quinn Mathews K's 3 -- including Vlad Jr. -- in spring debut

@JohnDenton555
February 25, 2025

DUNEDIN, Fla. – Whatever nerves Quinn Mathews expected to feel prior to his first start in an MLB Spring Training game got buried under a painfully early wakeup and a torturous commute across the state of Florida on Tuesday morning. As it turns out, those factors proved oddly calming for