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Here's the 2024 All-Arizona Fall League Team

November 19, 2024

Season No. 32 of the Arizona Fall League is in the books, with the Salt River Rafters beating the Surprise Saguaros, 3-2, in the Championship Game on Saturday. It was another fall full of top prospects and top performances. Below is the 2024 MLB Pipeline All-AFL Team. This is based

A's Clarke showing out on both sides of the ball in the Fall League

November 12, 2024

MESA, Ariz. -- The Denzel Clarke Arizona Fall League showcase continues. With three more hits for Mesa in the Solar Sox’s 7-3 loss to the Desert Dogs on Monday, the A’s No. 10 prospect ranks second on the circuit with a .506 on-base percentage -- and he added to his

These Arizona Fall League prospects are vying for 40-man roster spots

@SamDykstraMiLB
November 11, 2024

Call it a last-chance saloon in the middle of the desert. The Arizona Fall League provides more than just an opportunity to see some of the game’s top prospects in one spot. It’s also the final place certain Minor Leaguers can prove they are deserving of a 40-man roster spot

'Never satisfied,' A's No. 10 prospect off to the races in Arizona Fall League

October 8, 2024

MESA, Ariz. -- Denzel Clarke features some of the best all-around tools in the Arizona Fall League, and he put several of them on display on Opening Night. Clarke went 2-for-4, stole two bases and made a nice running catch in the right-center gap to rob Creed Willems (Orioles) of

Try and catch up: Langeliers, Soderstrom star for A's

Power-packed backstops, pitching depth highlight club's All-Stars
@JesseABorek
December 3, 2022

Each offseason, MiLB.com goes position by position across each organization and honors the players -- regardless of age or prospect status -- who had the best seasons in each farm system. Next up in our 2022 Organization All-Stars series are the Oakland Athletics.

Fall Ballers: Nine Nuts ticketed for Arizona Fall League

September 23, 2022

The 29th Arizona Fall League (AFL) season opens October 3, reuniting the Glendale Desert Dogs, Mesa Solar Sox, Peoria Javelinas, Salt River Rafters, Scottsdale Scorpions and Surprise Saguaros for a 31-game regular season schedule, with the Fall Stars Game scheduled for November 6th and a brief post-season championship series pitting

Prospect Q&A: A’s outfielder Clarke

Oakland’s No. 11 prospect discusses search for consistency
@Gerard_Gilberto
August 26, 2022

In just a short time in professional baseball, Denzel Clarke has done incredible things to make his name jump off the page. Earlier this month, the A’s No. 11 prospect became the first player in professional baseball history to hit an inside-the-park homer in consecutive games for High-A Lansing. This

Keith, Loons launch past Lugnuts, 12-3

August 18, 2022

LANSING, Mich. – Damon Keith hit two of the Great Lakes Loons’ (27-18, 67-44) four home runs in a 12-3 rout of the Lansing Lugnuts (20-25, 45-66) in front of a Thursday night crowd of 6,270 at Jackson® Field™. The game featured six home runs in all, with the Lugnuts

Nuts win 4th straight, clinch series victory at Dayton

August 13, 2022

DAYTON, OH – The Dayton Dragons (12-27, 51-54) wore their special Gem City jerseys, but it was the Lansing Lugnuts (18-23, 43-64) who supplied the gem on their way to a fourth straight victory, 3-1 over the Dragons on Saturday night at Day Air Ballpark. The Lugnuts’ four-game winning streak

Crouch, Caps surpass Lugnuts late, 8-6

August 6, 2022

LANSING, Mich. – Josh Crouch lined a three-run go-ahead double in a four-run seventh inning, helping the West Michigan Whitecaps (25-10, 56-45) rally past the Lansing Lugnuts (13-22, 38-63), 8-6, in front of 7,353 on Saturday night at Jackson® Field™. The Lugnuts had led the game since a four-run second

Whitecaps outdrive Lugs, 11-9

August 5, 2022

LANSING, Mich. – Max Muncy belted his second leadoff homer and Denzel Clarke crushed an outside-the-park home run, but the West Michigan Whitecaps (24-10, 55-45) used a seven-run sixth inning to outslug the Lansing Lugnuts (13-21, 38-62) in front of 7,776 on Friday night at Jackson® Field™. The game appeared

Clarke goes inside the park again in rain-shortened win

August 3, 2022

LANSING, Mich. – Denzel Clarke hit an inside-the-park home run for the second consecutive game and the Lansing Lugnuts (13-19, 38-60) beat the West Michigan Whitecaps (22-10, 53-45), 8-1, in a rain-shortened Wednesday matinee at Jackson® Field™. With the heat index above 100 degrees to begin the game, rehabbing Detroit

Clarke’s inside-the-parker, Bowman’s stellar debut highlight Nuts’ 15-8 loss

August 2, 2022

LANSING, Mich. – Denzel Clarke dashed around the bases with an inside-the-park home run and Cooper Bowman made his Oakland Athletics organizational debut with the traditional outside-the-park home run, but the Lansing Lugnuts (12-19, 37-60) fell in a 15-8 slugfest to the West Michigan Whitecaps (22-9, 53-44) on Tuesday night

Clarke and Soderstrom homer, but ‘Caps walk off

July 13, 2022

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Denzel Clarke and Tyler Soderstrom mashed no-doubt home runs, but the Fort Wayne TinCaps (7-10, 34-49) rallied back to walk off the Lansing Lugnuts (7-10, 32-51), 8-7, on Anthony Vilar’s RBI single in the bottom of the ninth on Wednesday afternoon at Parkview Field. The Lugnuts

Nuts OF Denzel Clarke to play in 2022 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game

July 7, 2022

LANSING, Mich. – Lansing Lugnuts outfielder Denzel Clarke is among the top prospects selected for the 2022 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, July 16, Major League Baseball announced today. The 22-year-old Clarke, MLB Pipeline’s No. 14 Athletics prospect and No. 3 Athletics outfield prospect, becomes the

Halpin inside-the-parker helps Caps past Lugs

June 28, 2022

EASTLAKE, OH – Petey Halpin broke a fourth-inning scoreless tie with a three-run inside-the-park home run, and the Lake County Captains (2-2, 37-33) went on to top the Lansing Lugnuts (0-4, 25-45), 4-2, on Tuesday night at Classic Park. Starting pitcher Jake Walkinshaw looked impressive in a limited debut and

Sky Carp score 12 unanswered to rout Lugnuts, 14-5

June 25, 2022

LANSING, Mich. – Entering the sixth inning trailing 5-2, the Beloit Sky Carp (2-0, 33-34) scored 12 unanswered runs in their final four at-bats and eased past the Lansing Lugnuts (0-2, 25-43), 14-5, on Saturday night at Jackson® Field™. Denzel Clarke slugged a 452-foot home run for the Nuts, who

Lugs enjoy 10-0 laugher behind Lardner

June 21, 2022

LANSING, Mich. – Mac Lardner tossed six scoreless innings and Denzel Clarke flexed his muscles with his first High-A extra-base hits, leading the Lansing Lugnuts (25-39) to a thorough 10-0 thrashing of the Beloit Sky Carp (29-34) on Tuesday night at Jackson® Field™. Two days earlier, the Nuts had lost