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After leading Scottsdale to postseason, Pelfrey reflects on 2024 Arizona Fall League

AFL’s Scorpions go from last to playoffs with second-half surge
November 27, 2024

SCOTTSDALE – The Arizona Fall League was hitting the back half of its schedule and Dennis Pelfrey’s Scottsdale Scorpions had won just five of their 17 games.

8 stats to remember from the 2024 Arizona Fall League

@JesseABorek
November 20, 2024

There’s no denying that the 2024 Arizona Fall League season was historic. There was a little bit of everything in the desert, with record books being rewritten during the 32nd year of prospects putting their skills on display. It’s always difficult to gauge just how significant six weeks' worth of

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

Briceño, Rosario earn Week 6 AFL honors

@JoeTrezz
November 19, 2024

The Arizona Fall League concluded with the Salt River Rafters claiming an unlikely title with their win over Surprise in Nov. 16’s AFL championship game, bringing a dramatic close to Week 6, and this year, of AFL play. The players honored for their performances in the season’s final week were

2024 Arizona Fall League award winners

@JoeTrezz
November 16, 2024

For six more weeks again this year, some of the best prospects in baseball shined in the Arizona Fall League, the game’s most elite prospect circuit. Now it’s time to give out some hardware. The Fall League annually awards the Joe Black MVP Award to its top performer, and since

Tigers prospect Briceño takes home Fall League's Joe Black MVP Award

@JesseABorek
November 16, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – You don’t always know that you’re witnessing history when you see it. But anyone who watched Josue Briceño on a daily basis during the 2024 Arizona Fall League campaign knew that he was hitting at a prolific rate unlike anything seen in the circuit’s 32 years. On

Tigers prospect Briceño becomes Fall League's first Triple Crown winner

November 14, 2024

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The Arizona Fall League has been host to a who’s who of baseball royalty that cut their teeth in pro ball early in their careers -- future Rookies of the Year and Most Valuable Players Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and Ronald Acuña Jr., to name a few.

Only 20, Tigers' Briceño making big noise with his bat in Fall League

November 11, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Josue Briceño set the stage for a 2024 breakout by launching 20 extra-base hits in 44 games during his U.S. debut the year before. He got off to a good start in Single-A this season before spraining the posterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in mid-May

Fall League sluggers light up the night in Home Run Derby

@JoeTrezz
November 8, 2024

The 2024 Arizona Fall League Home Run Derby lived up to its billing with a last-second long ball to close things out. Yankees prospect Garrett Martin finished with a flourish in the final round, hitting his 10th tater of the session to inch past Brewers No. 8 prospect Brock Wilken

Arizona Fall League Week 4 top performers

@JoeTrezz
November 3, 2024

Here are the top performers from the fourth week of AFL action:

Arizona Fall League Week 3 top performers

@JoeTrezz
October 27, 2024

Here are the top performers from the third week of AFL action:

Briceño, Santos II earn Fall League Week 2 honors

@JoeTrezz
October 22, 2024

Week 2 of the Arizona Fall League saw teams score in bunches and pitchers light up the radar gun. These strong performances stood out from the pack. Scottsdale third baseman Josue Briceño (DET No. 9) used another huge week at the plate to earn AFL Hitter of the Week honors

Arizona Fall League Week 2 top performers

@JoeTrezz
October 20, 2024

Here are the top performers from the second week of AFL action:

Arizona Fall League Week 1 top performers

@JoeTrezz
October 15, 2024

The 32nd season of the Arizona Fall League is a week old, and already, there are top prospects standing out amid the field of, well, top prospects. Here are the top performers from the first week of AFL action:

Tigers prospect Briceño muscles up with 3-homer game in Fall League

October 12, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Jeff McNeil and Andrew Painter were the star attractions for Saturday's Arizona Fall League game between the Glendale Desert Dogs and Scottsdale Scorpions. Yet Josue Briceño stole the show. Rehabbing a wrist injury in hopes of rejoining the Mets for the National League Championship Series, the two-time