Each offseason, MiLB.com goes position by position across each system and honors the players -- regardless of age or prospect status -- who had the best seasons in their organization. Click here to locate your favorite club.The 2019 season ended in all-too-familiar fashion for the Athletics -- heartbreak in the postseason. Falling

Last week, Franklin Barreto was rewarded for his stellar play in the month of June with a promotion to the big leagues. Today, Barreto received another bit of recognition: He was named Pacific Coast League Player of the Month.After struggling for much of April and May, Barreto caught fire when

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Minor League Baseball today announced the Uncle Ray's Player of the Month Award winners for each of the 10 leagues for the month of June. In recognition of the honor, each winner will receive an award from Minor League Baseball and Uncle Ray's, the "Official Potato

The Nashville Sounds scored one run in the ninth and four in the tenth to stun the New Orleans Baby Cakes with a come-from-behind 7-3 win Tuesday night at Shrine on Airline.Trailing 3-2 in the top of the ninth, Anthony García launched a solo homer off Nick Wittgren to even

ROUND ROCK, Texas - The Nashville Sounds' batters hit the ball high while starting pitcher Eric Jokisch kept it low en route to a 4-2 win over the Round Rock Express.The Sounds belted three solo home runs within the first two innings while Jokish induced 11 ground outs on the

After entering the month five games back of the lead in the American League West standings, the A's have had a resurgence fueled by a group of journeyman veterans, as well as a smattering of younger players just beyond prospect status. Now sitting a game behind the defending-champion Astros in

A four-run first inning helped the Round Rock Express top the Nashville Sounds, 7-4, Wednesday night at Dell Diamond. The Sounds have lost six of their last seven games since the 15-game winning streak.The big inning for the Express came just after the Sounds started the game with a three-run

Beau Taylor's clutch base hit in the bottom of the eighth inning lifted the Nashville Sounds to a 5-4 win over the New Orleans Baby Cakes in front of 9,387 fans at First Tennessee Park Sunday night.Taylor's line drive single to left-center scored Anthony García from third to snap a

Franklin Barreto homered and Dustin Fowler added three hits as the Nashville Sounds topped the Round Rock Express, 8-4, Tuesday night at First Tennessee Park to extend their winning streak to 15 games. The 15-game streak matches a franchise record set during the 1999 season.Nashville's winning streak started on July

Anthony García's walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted the Nashville Sounds to a dramatic, come-from-behind, 6-5 win over the Round Rock Express in front of 6,215 fans at First Tennessee Park Monday night. The win extended Nashville's winning streak to 14 games, one shy of matching

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado - Chris Bassitt logged seven strong innings, and Franklin Barreto homered for the second consecutive game and went 3-for-4 to lead the Nashville Sounds to their 11th consecutive victory and a 3-1 triumph over the Colorado Springs Sky Sox on Friday night at Security Service Field. The

COLORADO SPRINGS - The Nashville Sounds got offensive Thursday night to outlast the Colorado Springs Sky Sox 18-9 at Security Service Field. The win extended Nashville's season-best winning streak to 10 games, which is the second longest in the franchise's Pacific Coast League era.Big innings were plentiful as each team

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Ramón Laureano and Franklin Barreto each homered, but the Nashville Sounds never enjoyed a lead and saw a ninth-inning rally fall short in an 8-6 loss to the Salt Lake Bees at Smith's Ballpark on Friday night. The Sounds have dropped three consecutive games and

DES MOINES, Iowa - The Nashville Sounds couldn't hold an early lead Friday night and ultimately lost 5-3 to the Iowa Cubs in Game 2 of a doubleheader at Principal Park. The Sounds had won the first game of the day-night twinbill 8-3 to move their win streak to five.

Ben Bracewell threw six shutout innings and the Nashville Sounds got another home run from Franklin Barreto in a 5-3 win in front of 8,320 fans at First Tennessee Park Sunday night.Bracewell limited the Cubs to just two hits - a single in the first and a single in the

NASHVILLE - The Nashville Sounds powered their way to a 5-3 win over the Iowa Cubs Saturday night in front of a sellout crowd of 10,904 at First Tennessee Park.The Sounds jumped on Iowa's Jen-Ho Tseng early as Ramón Laureano launched a solo home run to lead off the game.

For the third consecutive game, the Nashville Sounds failed to protect an early lead and eventually dropped the series opener to the El Paso Chihuahuas, 7-6, Wednesday night at Southwest University Park.Nashville had a 4-0 lead before El Paso evened the game at 4-4 and eventually took a 6-4 lead.

The Nashville Sounds failed to hang on to a 6-1 lead and dropped the series finale to the Tacoma Rainiers, 8-6, in front of 7,824 fans at First Tennessee Park Monday night.Tacoma scored four runs in the seventh and three in the eighth to erase the deficit. It came after

In April upon his return to Triple-A, Franklin Barreto went 0-for-10 with eight strikeouts. He then broke out with a 3-for-4 game with a home run.On Sunday, the third-ranked Oakland prospect had a similar emergence. Playing in his first game since arriving back in the Minor Leagues -- Barreto tied

Theme of the dayYou get a promotion and you get a promotion and you get a promotion: Some days, the on-the-field action takes a back seat to the news off the diamond. Three of MLB.com's top 100 prospects moved up a level and made their debuts with new clubs Tuesday

Any two-homer game is special, but for Franklin Barreto, it was a particular response that spoke volumes.Following a three-strikeout performance the night before, the No. 64 prospect in baseball surged Sunday with two homers and five RBIs -- matching career highs in a single game -- in Triple A Nashville's

Franklin Barreto hit a pair of home runs and Kendall Graveman put together a solid outing in the Nashville Sounds' 8-2 win over the Memphis Redbirds in front of a sellout crowd of 10,712 Sunday afternoon at First Tennessee Park.Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the third, Barreto lined a

Theme of the dayDon't forget about us: Ronald Acuña Jr.'s Major League debut has been thrilling, but there's more to the Braves system than the young outfielder, as Bryse Wilson and Cristian Pache demonstrated with Class A Advanced Florida on Thursday. Wilson's scoreless outing got a full writeup in Chris

After a tumultuous stretch of games, Franklin Barreto is seemingly settling back in with Nashville. The third-ranked Athletics prospect went 3-for-4 with a solo homer in the Triple-A Sounds' 4-1 loss to the Storm Chasers on Sunday.

The Nashville Sounds got 16 hits from the offense and five shutout innings from starter James Naile in an 11-0 rout over the New Orleans Baby Cakes on Opening Day.  Every member of the starting lineup had at least one hit for Nashville. Dustin Fowler went 3-for-5 to lead six