Southpaw Spring Breakout: White Sox future on display with Schultz, Smith
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- If all goes as planned for the White Sox, left-handers Hagen Smith and Noah Schultz won’t spend much time following each other to the mound in a single game. Schultz, the No. 1 White Sox prospect and No. 16 overall, per MLB Pipeline, and Smith, who is
From Spring Breakout to MLB? Here are nine players who could soon be in The Show
The inaugural Spring Breakout in 2024 provided a platform for fans to meet many of baseball's top prospects before they began standing out in the Majors shortly thereafter. Paul Skenes striking out Jackson Holliday. Jackson Chourio reaching twice and scoring a run. Jace Jung hitting a pair of homers.
Here are the prospects with the best tools in Spring Breakout
The inaugural edition of Spring Breakout was a rousing success last year. Sixteen games showcased not only many of baseball's best prospects but also some of the most jaw-dropping tools in the Minors. Of the 10 best individual attributes we highlighted a year ago, nine belonged to players who reached
Here are the 10 best potential prospect matchups at Spring Breakout
Spring Breakout will soon offer the opportunity for the majority of baseball's top prospects to face off against each other for the second straight year. Fearsome sluggers against hard-throwing pitchers. Speedy baserunners against cannon-armed catchers. Well-rounded shortstops battling to prove who should be ranked higher. Full rosters for all 30
These are MLB’s No. 1 prospects at each position
MLB Pipeline's 2025 rankings of the Top 10 prospects at each position are official and the 2025 Top 100 Prospects list will be revealed at 7 p.m. ET on Friday on MLB Network and MLB.com.
Here are the Top 10 LHP prospects for 2025
MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2025 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 24, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position. MLB.com has produced top 10
Barons score first Southern League crown since 2013
There was nothing supernatural about it, but the metropolis known as Magic City lived up to its billing on Tuesday night. DJ Gladney ripped a liner into center field in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift Double-A Birmingham to its first Southern League championship since 2013 with a
Here are the 2024 Double-A All-Stars and award winners
Double-A is widely considered to be a litmus test in professional baseball, the level at which raw talent tends to reveal itself as actual ability. As a result, success there is often -- although, of course, not always -- an indicator of a prospect's trajectory. For a precious few, the
Noah Schultz enters the MLB Pipeline Pitching Lab
It’s hard to imagine Noah Schultz looking up to anyone. Standing at 6-foot-9, he’s shorter than only one Major Leaguer this season, and that’s 6-foot-11 Sean Hjelle, the tallest pitcher on record in AL/NL history. But if you ask the White Sox southpaw who he admired most as a lanky
Top 2 pitching prospects give White Sox glimpse of future
CHICAGO -- Noah Schultz took the mound for Double-A Birmingham Saturday night, with the No. 1 White Sox prospect and No. 14 overall, per MLB Pipeline, striking out seven over four scoreless innings in his 21st start of the season and 14th for the Barons. Somewhere around 370 miles away,
Ranking the best tools in the Futures Game
Since its 1999 debut at Fenway Park, the All-Star Futures Game has showcased baseball's best prospects. Joe Mauer will become the first Futures Gamer inducted into the Hall of Fame in a couple of weeks. Mookie Betts, Miguel Cabrera, Zack Greinke, Clayton Kershaw, Mike Trout, Justin Verlander and many others