Projecting the whole playoffs and the award winners, featuring all of our baseball experts www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

CF Justin Crawford has been told he’s made the Phillies Opening Day roster, per source. Crawford is the 69th-ranked prospect in the sport on my latest top 100: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I projected a big league breakout player (and some other solid candidates) for all 30 teams: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

RHP Zack Littell and the Washington Nationals are in agreement on a contact, sources tell me and Jeff Passan. Littell threw 186.2 innings last season with a 3.81 ERA for the Rays and Reds.

Kentucky SS Tyler Bell has been cleared to hit and run the bases for this weekend's games against the Citadel, per source. The next step would be clearance to play the field. Bell was 27th on my most recent draft rankings www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I wrote a deep breakdown of every relevant rookie through a fantasy lens www.espn.com/fantasy/base...

There are a ton of prospects on WBC rosters, including a slew of players on my recent top 100, a possible first round pick in July, and a number of posting/FA targets. I break them all down: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Every year I do a draft top 50 rankings after the opening weekend of college baseball. Today, I did a top 64 rankings for some reason, with a full rundown of what scouts think about this draft class and key prospects www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

As others have reported, California prep LHP Jared Grindlinger reclassified from the 2027 draft class into the 2026 draft class today. This comes over a month after the deadline, but Grindlinger got a waiver from MLB. My draft rankings are going up tomorrow; more on him to come.

Coastal Carolina RHP Cameron Flukey will not make his scheduled start this weekend, per sources. It is a precautionary measure and the issue is not with his arm. Flukey is a projected top 10 overall pick for the 2026 MLB Draft.

Forgot to post this, but on Friday before the season started, our college baseball crew teamed up for this roundtable season preview www.espn.com/college-spor...

Kentucky SS Tyler Bell injured his left shoulder last night diving for a ball on defense. He’s out indefinitely, per source. Bell is a projected 2026 first round pick. He went unsigned out of high school as the 66th overall pick in the 2024 draft by the Rays.

They’ll be hearing from his father

South Carolina LHP Jake McCoy underwent successful Tommy John surgery yesterday in New York City with Dr. Christopher Ahmad, per source. Last season, McCoy struck out 77 batters in 60 innings over 14 starts as a sophomore. He was up to 97 mph last season and hit 98 in the fall.

and here's my ranking of each farm system 1 through 30 with dollar values so you can see how quickly your team can rise www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

And today, prospects ranked 101-200, with superlatives from this group in lieu of 100 more scouting reports. Tomorrow: farm rankings! www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

It's Top 100 Day! The article is stuffed with 25,000 words of tool grades, scouting reports, and notes on the metas that teams are using to find value in scouting and development www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Over 25,000 words in the form of this year's Top 100 prospect list have been handed to the editors.

I'm sure Mets fans don't care much about this right now, but... I'm finalizing the Top 100 and farm rankings and it works out that, by a tiny margin (i.e. subject to change), this trade takes the Mets farm system from #1 ranked to #6...and also moves the Brewers from #6 to #1.

The Rockies hired Chad MacDonald as Special Assistant/Senior Director of Player Personnel, per source. He ran draft rooms that selected Trea Turner, Max Fried, Brandon Nimmo, Zach Eflin, Seth Lugo, Hunter Renfroe & Michael Fulmer and has worked with Paul DePodesta & Josh Byrnes.

IF Andy Ibanez has agreed to terms on a one-year big league deal with the Dodgers pending physical, per source. Ibanez, 32, was non-tendered by the Tigers in November.

One of my favorite articles of the year: ranking the top players by birth year! Also a stealth preview of the upcoming draft (and the two after it) along with the upcoming int'l signing period (and next year's). www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Will we see the hot stove heat up this week? I ranked the top 10 moves from the week of Christmas since 1990. A great way to remember some guys, like Ryan Klesko! www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Jesse Rogers covered the shifting top of the position player market; I weighed in with updated contract projections www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Forgot to post this: we did a roundtable in the wake of the Diaz/Alonso FA losses for the Mets. What is ahead? Why did this happen? www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

A five pick mock for the 2026 MLB Draft right after the draft lottery ended! A strong draft that’s rich with position players at the top www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Now for three years in a row, I have given you three free agents I'd sign and three I wouldn't, given what I projected their contracts to be. This year I gave you two bonus players! www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Our writers each proposed a trade for one of the players in the top 25 trade candidates article, 12 trades in total. Mine was a 4-for-1 www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Spend the holidays with your family and/or reading what I wrote about the best of this winter’s NPB imports www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I talked to 11 industry sources and used their insights to break down what Detroit could and should do with Tarik Skubal www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Top 50 Free Agent Rankings w/projected contracts! Over 10,000 words chock full of industry intel and advanced analysis on the top free agents plus another 150 free agents organized by position. Also: recapped last winter's total spending + projected this year's total www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I ranked the top 20 players in the World Series and handed out some superlatives for best tools/skills www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Have you wondered how the Dodgers rotation is dominating in the postseason at a time when starting pitchers are less impactful? I explain what each of them have done to find another gear when the stakes are the highest www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I teamed up with 12 of our writers to publish our hot takes for the rest of the playoffs. I wrote mine before yesterday's game and thankfully it's still possible: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Aaron Judge is hitting, but not hitting for power this postseason. Why? He was 2nd-best in baseball against a certain type of pitch in the regular season. He's seen that sort of pitch more often in the postseason and hasn't put one of them in play yet: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I joined 24 other experts and predicted the whole playoffs. Luckily we didn’t have any 25-0 results but there were two series at 24-1 www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I ranked the 14 possible playoff teams by how good their projected playoff rotations are. there was (obviously) lots of hair splitting, so be sure to ignore the intro and the blurbs and be mad online thanks www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Two of the more intriguing free agents this winter are named Kyle. I polled 20 industry insiders on what they think Schwarber and Tucker will get, broke down the comps, and the rumored landing spots: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

My annual ranking of the best core of talent for every team in baseball, ranked 1-30: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Dylan Moore’s contract has been selected by the Rangers, per source. Moore was released by the Mariners and signed a minor league deal with the Rangers a few days ago. Corey Seager is having an appendectomy.

After updating the top 100 and team top 10's, I wrapped up the refresh with fresh farm system rankings. Every farm rankings I've done at ESPN has had either the Orioles, Rays, or Dodgers at #1. A new team takes the top spot today: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

An updated Top 100 Prospects List with a new #1 overall prospect: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Just published a final update to the team top ten prospects lists. (whispers) updated Top 100 and farm rankings coming soon www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

97 prospects were traded in the last few days. I have a sickness and the only prescription was to rank them all www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

We're still updating three stories around the clock that are linked in my previous posts: - ranking the prospects traded at the deadline - top 50 trade candidates - trade buzz/rumors/intel and today we added a new one: trades we'd make if we were GM of a team: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Trade deadline content szn continues with a ranking of the top prospects dealt thus far, with full reports and FV grades. This will be updated as trades come in, so if you're anything like me, it can be one of 300 tabs you leave open this week. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

If you're looking for more granular notes on the latest from all 30 teams as the deadline approaches, all of our reporters are pitching in nuggets here, along with links to previews, completed deals, and analysis: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Teamed up with Jeff Passan to do a complete update of the Top 58 candidates to be dealt at the Trade Deadline and it just published. We've got odds to be dealt, likely landing spots, and scouting reports on the top 30 players. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Updated team top 10s are up, with all draft picks included! www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

10,000 words worth of draft reviews for all 30 teams are now up www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...