Jonathan Mayo
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Flexing: Each team's top power-hitting prospect
Last week, we covered the best pure-hitting prospect in each system, noting that it’s almost impossible to be a Major League regular if you can’t hit. Do you know what’s another way to put yourself over the top? Hit the ball hard. Power can make a .250 hitter into a → Read More
Here are the Top 10 3B prospects for 2023
MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2023 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jan. 26, 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. There are a lot of → Read More
Here are the Top 10 catching prospects for 2023
MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2023 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jan. 26, 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. Even with some big graduations, → Read More
Best farm systems in baseball? MLB execs weigh in
In the first three parts of the 2023 MLB Pipeline Poll, executives looked at individual players and what the industry as a whole thought of them. In this final part of the series, we’ll switch our focus to farm systems as a whole. This last set of questions gives us → Read More
Who will win Rookie of the Year in '23? We polled baseball execs
While it might have surprised some people when Julio Rodríguez made the Opening Day lineup for the Mariners in 2022, once he did, he immediately became a strong contender for American League Rookie of the Year honors, which he won handily. Over in the National League, no one could have → Read More
Here's Pipeline's first full 2023 mock draft
The new Draft Top 100 Prospects list is out, so now we should be ready to project the first round of the 2023 Draft, right? Sure, why not. Jim Callis has broken down the Draft class and now it’s time to see who is going to go where in the → Read More
Here are the results of the inaugural MLB Draft Lottery
SAN DIEGO -- Major League Baseball conducted its first Draft Lottery on Tuesday at the Winter Meetings, and the Pirates walked away with the biggest prize: the No. 1 pick in the 2023 Draft. The Nationals secured the second pick, the Tigers will select third and the Rangers fourth. The → Read More
Here's each team's top 2023 ROY candidate
MLB witnessed an unusually strong rookie class in 2022. Julio Rodríguez became the quickest player ever to reach 25 homers and 25 steals while Michael Harris II posted the third-highest WAR (5.3, per Baseball-Reference) of any rookie age 21 or younger in the last 40 years. And that's just the → Read More
Mock: Is the best overall prospect a lock for No. 1 pick?
Welcome to our penultimate mock draft of 2022. And yes, we look forward to this edition every year just to use the word "penultimate." Jim Callis and I will have one more projection of the first 39 picks coming to you in the hours before the start of the first → Read More
Here are the 2022 Futures Game rosters
If you want to see the future of Major League Baseball on one field at one time, you won’t want to miss the 2022 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game. The seven-inning American vs. National League game will take place at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, July 16 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. → Read More
NEW: 2022 Top 100 Prospects list unveiled
At long last, we are ready to unveil MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 prospects list. And with a full Minor League season in 2021, there are sure to be plenty of changes in this year’s list compared to a year ago. With graduations, performances and an influx of new talent via → Read More
These 8 players shined in the AFL title game
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The 2021 Arizona Fall League season is in the books, with the Mesa Solar Sox winning Saturday’s championship game, 6-0. It was a night where the developmental focus of the league could be put aside and winning a ring became tantamount. A number of players stood out → Read More
40-man deadline: Which prospects made it?
It was decision time for Major League front offices today. All 30 teams had until 6 p.m. ET to make decisions about their 40-man rosters. Some prospects earned a coveted spot, some did not and will thus be eligible to be picked up by another team in the Rule 5 → Read More
Draft Day 1: Pick-by-pick rundown, analysis
Day 1 of the 2021 MLB Draft is in the books, with analysis of all 36 selections below. Day 2 of the Draft kicks off on Monday at 1 p.m. ET with the start of the second round and will continue through the completion of Round 10, exclusively on MLB.com, → Read More
Here are the Top 100 prospects in
The annual unveiling of MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects list is typically a sign that spring, or at least Spring Training, is right around the corner. And while that was true in 2020, no one could have predicted what would have transpired, or not transpired, in the season to come. → Read More
Every club's 2020 farm system, ranked
Since MLB Pipeline began ranking prospect talent before the 2015 season, the top-rated systems have sparked big league success. The Cubs (pre-2015) and Red Sox (mid-'15) won World Series, the Dodgers (pre-2016) advanced to consecutive World Series, and the Brewers (mid-'16) and Braves (pre-'17) have made multiple playoff appearances. The → Read More
Predicting 2019 Rookie of the Year candidates
The 2018 season's top rookies were announced on Monday, and both Rookies of the Year were mentioned in last year's ROY radar story. Predicting who will win Rookie of the Year honors a year in advance is tough. Evidence comes from last year's group of 10 candidates. None of the five American League names received a vote (though Gleyber Torres, who finished third in the AL, was on the "others to… → Read More
Mock draft: Jonathan Mayo predicts 1st round
Only days away from the start of the Draft, it would be great to report that the first round is taking definitive shape, but we're not quite there yet. :: 2018 Draft coverage :: → Read More
Top 10 farm systems ranking by MLB Pipeline
What makes an organization rank as one of the top farm systems in baseball? Simply put, it's a combination of quality and quantity. The MLB Pipeline staff ranked the Top 10 systems in the game by considering which organizations have an abundance of elite-level prospect talent as well as depth, in terms of future big leaguers up and down the system. :: Top 10 Farm Systems :: → Read More
12 prospects who will make an impact in '18
MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list and all of its other rankings are about long-term potential. They are lined up based on who will be the best big leaguers five, 10 years down the road. But for many on the list, that future is going to start right now, or at least at some point during the upcoming season. Just who is primed to make an impact in the big leagues in 2018? Here are six players… → Read More