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Minor League Baseball Players of the Week for July 12, 2022
Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers As minor league baseball heads into draft week, with a host of new players coming into the fold from the draft, those who are currently on rosters did their level best to impress. Let’s check out who took home top honors for the first full week of July: Hitter of the WeekA 2018 signee by the Reds out of the Dominican, Elly De La Cruz began drawing plenty of prospect attention last season when he made his stateside debut and simply crushed the ball, tallying 35 extra-base hits in just 61 games between complex ball and the Florida State League. The Reds promoted the…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for May 24, 2022
Minor League Baseball Weekly Top Performers For minor league baseball fans of teams whose major league clubs are not doing well, seeing success from the team’s minor league players at least brings some excitement to what would be an otherwise rough year of baseball fandom. This week, Pirates and Orioles fans get to enjoy a player being noted as the player of the week. Let’s dig in! Hitter of the WeekThe Pirates drafted Matt Gorski in the second round of the 2019 draft out of the University of Indiana as a toolsy center fielder with plenty of growth left for a college draftee. He struggled his first two seasons with…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for May 14, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers While the pitching performances across minor league baseball were excellent, a relief performance ended up taking the top spot, and a utility infielder’s performance at the plate ended up being the best hitting performance of Friday as well. Let’s take a look at the top dogs around the minors! Hitter of the DayOriginally a seventh-round selection from Oregon, Mitchell Tolman worked his way up the Pirates system through 2019 before the pandemic. He was a minor league free agent in 2021 and played in the Giants system. He then signed with the Guardians system this offseason and has played with Columbus this year, posting an…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for May 12, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers Another day, another minor league baseball no-hitter! Of course, there were many other incredible performances across the minors, and more impressively, all games were played, meaning a more “normal” schedule for players and teams this weekend! Hitter of the DayNorfolk’s Ryan McKenna was originally drafted out of New Hampshire high school by the Orioles in the fourth round of the 2015 draft. For context, 54 players and three managers have been major leaguers from New Hampshire, one of the managers (Frank Selee) has been a Hall of Famer. McKenna had a breakout season in 2018 followed up with a big Arizona Fall League performance that…
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Minor league baseball top performers for April 16, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers Some impressive hitting performances across the minor leagues made selecting a top hitter a tough choice from Friday’s games. Let’s take a look at the top performers: Hitter of the DayOutfielder Kyle Stowers was drafted by the Orioles out of Stanford with a reputation for big power and solid corner defense. The lefty-swinging Stowers has long levers that lead to plenty of swing and miss in his game, but he also generates plenty of oomph when he connects. This year, he’s only struck out once on the season, which has been impressive, and Friday, he had a huge game, blasting out four extra-base hits for…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for April 11, 2022
Minor League Baseball Top Performers The first weekend of the minor league baseball season is complete, and with that comes the first Monday off day for nearly every team in the minor leagues today. With no performances to review tomorrow, look for a “top performers of the week” post on Tuesday, something we’ll do each week throughout the season! Hitter of the DayThe Orioles drafted Hudson Haskin out of Tulane in the second round of the 2020 draft. The outfielder showed excellent plate discipline and flashed double-plus speed despite battling a thumb fracture in 2021. The real test for a college bat is hitting upper level pitching, however, and Haskin…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for February 20th, 2020
Happy Thursday! The Prospects Live crew does not have any more full divisions done on top 30 prospect lists, though they'll be done soon. I'm going to take the top 30 lists that are done by date of completion, however, and continue our stroll through camp invitees!
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for September 27th, 2019
Rain eliminated all but one game on Thursday night in the Arizona Fall League, leaving just one game to showcase minor league baseball talent on the evening.
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Baltimore Orioles Top 50 Prospects
Baltimore Orioles top 50 prospects Last Updated: 9/15/19 The Baltimore Orioles are under new management, and they have already seen a significant overhaul within their development system – and they’re doing even more this offseason. The top teams are consistently innovating in their development, which is how a team like Baltimore went from a playoff contender to bottom of the barrel so quickly – sticking to old, long-passed adages. Now with a new regime, hopefully, this list will begin to take shape with even more depth and talent throughout! Preface: each list is done at the time of the update, and each list is fluid, so players could be adjusted…
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Minor League Baseball Daily Thread for September 22nd, 2019
Pitching again dominated the night in Arizona Fall League play on Saturday night. After struggling through the 2019 minor league baseball season, Houston's top prospect had the biggest eye-catching night
