Even though most prospect followers should already be familiar with Matt Moore's work this season, the Rays lefthander just keeps going out there and putting up amazing numbers every five days. Moore's latest gem for high Class A Charlotte came Tuesday in an 11-strikeout, no-walk performance over six innings against Jupiter. He allowed two runs [...]
See also: Arizona Fall League rosters MLB.com released rosters for the Arizona Fall League on Tuesday. Rather than just give you raw names, here's a look inside the rosters for the premier prospect showcase in professional baseball: MESA SOLAR SOX Pitchers To Watch: Cubs RHP Chris Carpenter, 24, has one of the biggest arms in the AFL, with [...]
Mets righthander Jenrry Mejia made a compelling case that his future ought to be in the rotation. He fired eight one-run innings in his Triple-A debut for Buffalo last night. The diminutive 20-year-old struck out nine Syracuse batters, including seven of the first eight he faced and six in a row at one point, while [...]
Tomorrow is likely Arodis Chapman's last day in Louisville for the 2010 season. With the Sept. 1 roster expansion, the Reds are expected to promote him to give them a power arm out of the bullpen that will provide a nice boost in the middle of a playoff race. But if the Bats' fans may [...]
We're close to announcing our Minor League Player of the Year award. To help get you ready, John Manuel and Matt Eddy analyzed the pluses and minuses of the top candidates Here's a guide to the podcast. Start-2:30: MLB Network talk 2:30-11:20: Minor League POY talk, starting with hitters Brandon Belt, Devin Mesoraco, J.P. Arencibia, Jerry Sands 11:20-17:50: Royals [...]
This time: Aug. 19-25 Quick links: Draft Database • Trade Central • Transactions Glossary Note that all the draft signings here occurred on the Aug. 16 deadline. But at the time of our previous Minor League Transactions installment, many of the last-minute deals had not been approved by MLB or relayed to us from its eBIS transactions database. Arizona [...]
Baseball America's Yankees correspondent, George King of the New York Post, is reporting that MLB is investigating two Yankees pitchers, Ivan Nova and Wilkin de la Rosa, for allegedly injecting each other with B-12 shots last season while they were teammates at Double-A Trenton. Though B-12 isn't on MLB's list of banned substances, only licensed physicians are allowed to [...]
USA Baseball will field a team of pros in the 2010 COPABE Pan American Games/World Cup qualifying tournament, set for Puerto Rico from Oct. 1-10. Ernie Young, the manager of the low Class A Kannapolis Intimidators in the White Sox system and a member of the 2000 gold-medal Team USA club, will manage the American entry [...]
Freddie Freeman can't legally drink, but he sure can rake. The Braves' top position-player prospect has had an absurd August for Triple-A Gwinnett and has pushed his average for the month to .402 with four straight multi-hit games. Still just 20, Freeman now leads the International League in hits (139) and total bases (229), ranks second [...]
The minor league season is a long grind, especially for players who haven't been through it before. The grind looked like it might have been getting the better of Brewers righty Jake Odorizzi. That is, until the 20-year-old fought back in a big way on Tuesday, throwing eight no-hit innings as part of a combined [...]
Two players tested positive for an amphetamine and earned 50-game suspensions. Amphetamines are classified as performance-enhancing substances under the Minor League Baseball's drug prevention and treatment program. • Triple-A Fresno righthander Matt Kinney, a 33-year-old who has pitched in the Giants organization in five of the past six seasons, went 0-3, 9.64 in five starts and [...]
• Triple-A Pawtucket center fielder Josh Reddick launched two solo home runs in a Red Sox loss to Buffalo yesterday, hitting both shots against righthander Dillon Gee. Though Reddick, 23, generally has been undermined by an impatient approach this season, he's been trending up in 36 games since July 7, batting .331/.367/.561 with six homers, [...]
This time: Aug. 11-19 As always, be sure to visit two wonderful Baseball America resources: the Draft Database and Trade Central. An asterisk (*) denotes an instance of a player agreeing to terms on a minor league contract with an organization with which he already had a major league agreement. Arizona Diamondbacks Released: C Zach Varnell Optioned to Triple-A: RHP [...]
This weekend's action featured a couple of lesser-known prospects who are having big Augusts. Here's a look at some of the stars of the weekend. Tyler Moore, 1b, Nationals. Since July 15, the hottest hitter in the minors is a 23-year-old first baseman who you may not have noticed. On July 15, Moore was hitting .196 with [...]
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