Tides Organization to Continue Youth Field Renovation Project
The Norfolk Tides today announced the return of The Youth Field Makeover Project, a contest in which a local youth field will be renovated by Tides groundskeepers and front office staff. This field makeover will include an upgrade to the playing surface, an improvement to existing dugouts, based on need.
Rutschman Earns MiLB Rawlings Gold Glove Award
Minor League Baseball™ and Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., today announced the nine recipients of the 2021 Rawlings Gold Glove Award® for defensive excellence. Adley Rutschman won the award at the catcher position, making him the second player to win the award in Norfolk Tides history. Since the Tides joined
Minor League Baseball names 2021 Rawlings Gold Glove Award® winners
NEW YORK -- Minor League Baseball™ and Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, Inc., today announced the nine recipients of the 2021 Rawlings Gold Glove Award® for defensive excellence. The announcement was made during Thursday night’s MLB Network broadcast of the 2021 Defensive Awards. The winners at each position were selected from
Rutschman, Rodriguez soaring toward Baltimore
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 system. Click here to locate your favorite club. There are some years that clearly confirm a player development staff’s ability to
8/5: Rodriguez Shines, Rutschman Homers in Bowie Win
SOMERSET, NJ -- The Bowie Baysox (47-32) earned their 10th shutout win of the season and their first-ever win against the Somerset Patriots (50-30) with a 4-0 victory on Thursday night at TD Bank Ballpark. Grayson Rodriguez was very strong in his start, recording six strikeouts in the first two
8/3: Somerset Snaps Bowie’s Win Streak in Series Opener
SOMERSET, NJ -- It was a promising start for the Bowie Baysox (46-31) against the Somerset Patriots (49-29) at TD Bank Ballpark, with Adley Rutschman hitting a two-run home run off major league rehabber Luis Severino in the top of the first, but Somerset’s four-run seventh was too much for
Toolshed: Potential pitcher-catcher pairings
Pitchers and catchers. With feeling now. Pitchers and catchers. OK, one more time. Pitchers and catchers! Those words will be on the tips of baseball fans' tongues next week when hurlers and backstops report for their first Spring Training workouts in Arizona and Florida between Feb. 17-19. Several of the
Rays’ Franco repeats as top overall prospect
For the second consecutive year, the Rays reign supreme in the prospect world. Led by consensus No. 1 overall prospect Wander Franco, Tampa Bay boasts a Major League-high eight prospects on MLB.com's Top 100 list, released Thursday night. Following Franco at the top are the No. 1 overall picks in
State of the System: Baltimore Orioles
Starting in October and running through the end of the year, MiLB.com's new State of the System series evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of each Major League organization, highlights prospects who've made the biggest strides in 2020 and offers a peek at 2021. On the surface, the 2020 season was
Prospects in the Orioles' player pool
As part of the new rules for the 2020 Major League season, each of the 30 organizations will maintain a 60-man player pool for the duration of the campaign. Some members of the player pool will feature on the active Major League roster while others will work out at an
The Show Before the Show: Episode 262
Check out the latest episode of The Show Before the Show, MiLB.com's official podcast. A segment rundown is listed below, in case you want to skip to a particular section. Like the podcast? Subscribe, rate and review "Minor League Baseball podcast" on iTunes. The podcast is also available via Spotify,
Toolshed: 2019 Draft retrospective
The 2020 First-Year Player Draft is coming, and without regular-season baseball being played yet due to the coronavirus pandemic, it will be the first big Major League Baseball event of the summer. The 2020 edition will take place June 10-11 and be limited to five rounds this year, but it
The Road to The Show™: Adley Rutschman
Each week, MiLB.com profiles an elite prospect by chronicling the steps he's taken to reach the brink of realizing his Major League dream. Here's a look at Baltimore Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman:
Meet the Nationwide Road to the Show Ambassadors
This season Minor League Baseball introduces a new content series, "The Road to the Show™, Presented by Nationwide,” which will follow five of MiLB’s top prospects during the 2020 season. The series will give baseball fans a behind-the-scenes look at the prospects, learn who they are on and off the
Toolshed dream lineup: The 22-year-olds
There may be no Minor League Baseball games yet, but that's not going to stop us from dreaming about lineups.In the coming weeks, Toolshed will craft the best possible prospect lineups, sorted by age. The opening edition focused on teenagers, the second looked at 20-year-olds and last week's featured 21-year-olds. This time, we
Orioles reassign Rutschman to Minor League camp
Adley Rutschman will now spend the rest of his first Spring Training on the backfields.The Orioles reassigned MLB.com's No. 4 overall prospect to Minor League camp on Friday. Baltimore also optioned No. 9 prospect Dean Kremer and No. 16 Ryan McKenna to Triple-A Norfolk and reassigned pitchers Cristian Alvarado, Marcos
Farm system rankings: Position players, 20-11
With the 2020 season rapidly approaching, MiLB.com is looking at the state of all 30 farm systems over the next month and ranking them in several different ways. The first installment, broken into three parts, focuses on position players and considers the quality and quantity of top talent in each
Toolshed: Non-roster invitees to follow
Saturday means the start of February, which means the start of Spring Training, which means the return of baseball.The storylines will pile up with players descending on Arizona and Florida in the coming weeks. Some of them are not on 40-man rosters but will still participate in Major League camp
Rays take charge of 2020 prospect rankings
In terms of both quantity and quality, no team has prospects like Tampa Bay. The Rays boast six players among MLB.com's Top 100 Prospects, revealed Saturday. That's more than any organization, with shortstop Wander Franco remaining in the No. 1 overall spot. The top prospect reached Class A Advanced Charlotte
Orioles' Rutschman scores spring invite
Last year's No. 1 overall pick is headed to the big leagues -- for the spring, at least.Last Monday, the Orioles extended a Major League Spring Training invitation to Adley Rutschman, according to MLB.com. The club's top prospect and baseball's top-ranked backstop is expected to join 22 other non-roster players
Delmarva named MiLB Team of Year for 2019
As the year winds down, the MiLB.com staff is looking back at the best teams, farm system, games and individual performances from a memorable 2019 Minor League season. For the first installment of the series, we've combed through every domestic level of the Minors to select the top 10 teams
Rutschman, Mountcastle soar for Orioles
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 Orioles entered a rebuild last season with the trade of perennial All-Star Manny
Adley Rutschman Named O's Player of the Month
SALISBURY, MD - The Delmarva Shorebirds, in conjunction with the Baltimore Orioles, are pleased to announce that catcher Adley Rutschman has been named the organization's Minor League Player of the Month for August.Rutschman, a 21-year-old from Portland, Oregon, put up stout numbers in 27 games between short-season Aberdeen and Class-A
Toolshed: The origins of Orioles' Rutschman
LAKEWOOD, New Jersey -- The scouting report on Adley Rutschman is already the stuff of legends: a switch-hitting catcher with a good hit tool, impressive power, solid glove and plus arm.The bonus was legendary: Rutschman signed for $8.1 million after going first overall to the Orioles out of Oregon State
Rutschman backs Fenter's perfect start
Gray Fenter had gone without a double-digit strikeout game over 69 outings in his professional career and he was "kinda chasing" that accomplishment. He finally checked that box off in his 70th appearance.The right-handed Baltimore prospect threw five perfect innings and struck out a career-high 11 to lead Class A