A new minor league/pro prospect top 50 rankings, as early season rankings updates continue! Includes a full accounting for where the top of the 2025 draft stands right now, with two later-drafted arms rising into the conversation: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Did a refresh/expansion of the draft rankings to 155 players before the final rankings expand to 250+ in about a month. A number of injured pitchers make this one tricky! www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

The first post from our new draft blog! I explain how scouting+development have merged, how that changes draft boards & undervalued demographics. Scout that read it: "This is without question the most accurate description of what a draft process is now." www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

First full Mock Draft! LOTS of intrigue in the top few picks, and the rest of the round is slowly coming into focus. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I was polling sources on Tarik Skubal contract projections when news of his surgery broke. I pivoted to a free agency burning questions, led off by their answers & how his market has changed. Also: the other top FA targets, posting intrigue, Mets, Cubs! www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

The top prospect for the 2027 draft, Oregon State RHP Dax Whitney, is expected to undergo UCL surgery with Dr. Keith Meister, per source. He is anticipated to return well ahead of the draft and has a strong chance to be the #1 overall pick, projecting as a frontline starter.

I updated the top ten prospect lists for all 30 MLB teams. Lots of early season risers, specifically pitchers with velo spikes www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Our baseball writers got together to list the number that fascinated them most in the early season. I went with a former Top 100 prospect with a spike in bat speed: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Top 85 draft rankings + 13-pick mini mock draft! Notes on a GM in to see a potential 1-1 this week and other team connections. After press time, I confirmed prep RHP Coleman Borthwick hit 100 multiple times last night; move him up a bit in your mind. www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Our writers dropped their hottest takes two weeks into the MLB season. Mine was two fallen former top prospects that I think are primed to break out www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I jumped in on a mid-season college roundtable, covering top and surprising teams, players, and prospects www.espn.com/college-spor...

I dove deep to tell you how good Konnor Griffin is, what to expect immediately, what he may struggle with, and if I think he can stay up all year www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I ranked the 11 big league aces (and noted the near misses) and you’ll agree with all of my conclusions www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

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/_/...