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DETROIT—Double-A Erie manager Chris Cron faced a pleasant dilemma to start the season: He needed to find playing time for two catchers considered among the Tigers’ better prospects, James McCann [...]
CHICAGO—Many times last January while training in Tampa, Fla., Courtney Hawkins had to be told by fellow White Sox prospect Jared Mitchell to work at a normal pace instead of [...]
Major League Baseball continued rolling out more details on its draft broadcast on June 6-8, with three Hall of Famers (George Brett, Jim Bunning and Tommy Lasorda) among the club [...]
Brewers Double-A lefthander Alan Williams ran afoul of the minor league drug program and received a 50-game suspension without pay. He earned his penalty following a second positive test for [...]
The Mariners have signed Daniel Missaki, a 17-year-old Brazilian righthander who pitched for Brazil’s 2013 World Baseball Classic team in March. Missaki, who is 6 feet, 170 pounds, was the [...]
Andrew Heaney, lhp, Marlins: A strained lat muscle kept Heaney out of action until yesterday, when the ninth overall pick in last year’s draft made his 2013 debut with high [...]
Upsets wreaked havoc across the high school baseball landscape the last two weeks, bringing a lot of movement in the latest Baseball America/National High School Baseball Coaches Association Top 25. [...]
The Cubs have the second-highest bonus pool and they have made it clear that they will do whatever it takes to land Dominican outfielder Eloy Jimenez and Venezuelan shortstop Gleyber [...]
Cal Quantrill is a righthander from Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ont. His father, Paul, spent 14 years in the big leagues. Cal is committed to Stanford and, aside [...]
This time of year, a hefty majority of all questions submitted in our weekly college chat, as well as those sent via e-mail or Twitter, center around the battle for [...]
Neither Jonathan Gray (Oklahoma) nor Mark Appel (Stanford) had one of their best outings of the spring over the weekend, but they remain the leading candidates to go to the [...]
North Carolina’s run as college baseball’s No. 1 team ended (at least temporarily) this week. The Tar Heels lost a weekend series at Georgia Tech and have dropped four of [...]
CHICAGO–Until a few minutes before the 2012 draft began, Mark Appel looked certain to go to the Astros as the No. 1 overall pick. Multiple sources say Houston was willing [...]
We’re putting the finishing touches on our first of our two Draft Preview issues, which means that our steady flow of draft information will become an avalanche by week’s end, [...]
CHICAGO–Jurickson Profar-for-Oscar Taveras trade talks are like Jason Voorhees in the “Friday The 13th” movie series. They don’t really exist, yet they refuse to die. The Rangers and Cardinals haven’t [...]
It’s no surprise that the beginning of the minor league season delivered plenty of action. What would be shocking is if it didn’t. No, what was surprising was that the [...]
Welcome to the new BaseballAmerica.com! We like to give the site a fresh look every seven years or so, whether it needs it or not. This redesign has been in [...]
The World Baseball Classic has always been right in Baseball America's wheelhouse. No one covers the game around the globe like we do, and we always viewed a world cup-style tournament for baseball as a great engine for the game's growth.
You know, we will never figure out a perfect way to do the Top 100 Prospects list, because there's no way for us to know with certainty which players are going to fall by the wayside due to poor performance or misfortune. But I like to think we have become significantly better over the years at building our list, which is why it continues to be regarded as the best ranking of its kind in the industry.
It's college baseball season again, which means it's time for the annual wave of college marketers gone wild.
DENVER–Miguel Cabrera has established himself as one of the premiere players in the game, and he can build on his impressive resume this year. The American League MVP of 2012, [...]
PEORIA, Ariz.—As far back as he can remember, Mike Zunino was hanging around ballparks, tagging along with his father Greg, a scout with the Marlins back then. “He was always [...]
Twenty-four players were picked in the first round of the 2009 draft before the Angels selected Mike Trout. Randal Grichuk was one of the 24. Not only was Grichuk one pick ahead of Trout, but he, like Trout, was selected by the Angels and is also an outfielder. The two became friends as teammates in the Rookie-level Arizona League in 2009.
Tracy Ringolsby checks in after the BBWAA failed to elect a player to the Hall of Fame for just the eighth time ever, the first time since 1996 and second time since 1971. It's a shame, because the ballot was full of qualified candidates this year and will only get more crowded. One of the players whose candidacy will be harmed the most figures to be Jack Morris.
After 27 years of planning for the future, the Royals finally decided the future is now.
Dick Cooke had just hired three new assistant coaches for his Davidson program in September. He hadn’t had the chance to go over details of how his first fall practice [...]
Most teams do not want the pressure that can come with ranking No. 1 in Baseball America’s Top 25 college rankings. If it’s feeling any pressure, North Carolina has a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—The Dominican Republic won the third World Baseball Classic, but there’s more to the WBC than just who was wearing gold medals and plantains when the tournament ended. I [...]
Towson isn’t a big-name baseball program. It plays in the Colonial Athletic Association, the fourth conference it has competed in since Mike Gottlieb became head coach in 1988. Gottlieb, a [...]
What do you do when you stay home from work? If you're Scott Goode, you come up with a ranking system for international baseball.
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