PCL's Ritchey was 'everything a baseball player and American hero should be'
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.
Paying homage to Negro Leagues, this team is MiLB's 'hoppinest'
Nicknamed “baseball’s most hoppinest team” by the local newspaper coverage at the time, the Fredericksburg Frogs were one of the Chesapeake Bay area’s more successful Negro League teams in the 1920s, standing out amid a long lineage of segregated Black teams that played in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia, between the 1880s
Hey, fam! Dodgers, Rockies send Karros bros. out to exchange lineup cards
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Might the Karroses have a new family tradition? Jared Karros and Kyle Karros, the sons of former Dodgers first baseman and current SportsNet LA broadcaster Eric Karros, exchanged lineup cards before Thursday afternoon's tilt between the Dodgers and Rockies at Salt River Fields. Last year, it was
Each team's top power hitting prospect for '25
The home run is the most efficient event in sports. It’s the maximum outcome a single batter can achieve, and all it takes is one swing. One very powerful, well-timed, well-coordinated swing. It’s why power is such an important tool in prospect development and evaluation. You can put the ball
'Be a buffalo': Brewers Minor League coach back from cancer battle
Joe Ayrault is the sort of Minor League manager who likes to have a laugh, so you can imagine the surprise of Brewers prospects who gathered at Double-A Biloxi last season to hear Ayrault tell the parable of the cow and the buffalo. When a cow sees a storm coming,
Meet the Carsons: Whisenhunt, Seymour and Ragsdale eager to make their own mark
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – One is a left-hander from North Carolina with a world-class changeup. Another is a hard-throwing right-hander from Southern California whose diet consists almost entirely of meat. The third is a 6-foot-8 Floridian who is known for his knee-buckling curveball and general affability. Meet the Carsons -- Whisenhunt,
JJ Wetherholt explains why he journals every day
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South Siders unveil their vaunted southpaws
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith walked together from Camelback Ranch’s stadium field to the White Sox facilities in the eighth inning of a 3-1 loss to the Padres on Wednesday afternoon. Schultz, ranked by MLB Pipeline as baseball’s No. 16 prospect overall, threw a scoreless fifth inning
For 1st time in 657 days, Fulton takes hill for Marlins
JUPITER, Fla. -- Marlins left-hander Dax Fulton had grown so used to watching games over the past 657 days that he got caught napping in Wednesday’s long-awaited return to the mound. When first baseman Jonah Bride bobbled a grounder to open the second inning, Fulton didn’t get over in time
Top prospect De Vries has Padres camp buzzing after impressive at-bat
PEORIA, Ariz. -- It was only one at-bat in the ninth inning of a Cactus League game in February. And yet Leo De Vries' opposite-field double against the Angels on Tuesday afternoon set Padres camp abuzz.
One swing makes Teel an international sensation
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- From Kyle Teel’s best recollection, his Tuesday schedule for White Sox Spring Training read, “Live at-bats, Dodgers side.” The 23-year-old catcher, ranked by MLB Pipeline as baseball’s No. 32 prospect overall, saw nothing about, “Be ready for international fame.” But that’s exactly what happened when Teel homered