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.
Jim Callis predicts how the 2016 season should play out.
Looking four prospects on the Top 100 Prospects list who were bargains to sign.
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.
Here are 11 players who have bright futures despite being left off our latest batch of NL Top 10s:
It has been a good year for current and former minor league ballparks in the movies, with several playing prominent roles in major theatrical releases.
One of my favorite tasks is putting together my personal Top 50 list for our annual Prospect Handbook. Doing so means that our signature book is nearing completion. And it also forces me to make tough calls stacking up similar prospects against one another. Here are some of the more difficult decisions from this year:
Sorry, fantasy players. Your secret is no longer safe. We know that the best fantasy baseball competitors read Baseball America. They tell us so, and it makes sense. To win in fantasy, you have to get to good players before your opponents, and one of the best ways to do that is to find out about them before they get to the major leagues.
Before the Royals sent Wil Myers to the Rays, none of Baseball America's Minor League Players of the Year ever had been traded before making their major league debuts.
The logo changes—pardon me, brand identity paradigm shifts—have been coming fast and furious this offseason, so much so that my capacity for outrage is nearly tapped out.
The best players who could quite make our AL Top 10 lists.
For all the debate over whether Miguel Cabrera's Triple Crown or Mike Trout's all-around brilliance constituted the better season, there's no doubt about baseball's most valuable player. It's Buster Posey.
Three cities faced weighty questions about building new minor league ballparks this fall, and all three came to very different conclusions.
While the details of baseball's documents aren't salacious, they can illuminating. For example, I remember finding the provision in the Professional Baseball Agreement (the contract between Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball) that provided the framework for the Futures Game. Exciting stuff! There are plenty of gems in the new CBA as well.<br/>
Baseball America's Battle of the Ballparks, a Facebook promotion that we're running that lets you the fans vote on which parks make it into our Great Parks Calendar, has me in a ballpark state of mind.
Manny Machado should have figured prominently in our Orioles prospect list, and perhaps been the cover boy for our American League East Top 10 Prospects lists. Instead he leads a list of 10 propsects who just missed qualifying for Top 10 lists.
Chipper Jones' career didn't end the way he hoped, with an infield hit in five at-bats and a crucial error in a wild-card loss to the Cardinals, but his next stop is Cooperstown. For a No. 1 overall draft pick, that's a rare accomplishment indeed.
It's the end of the minor league season, and the regular season in the major leagues, which means things are heating up at Baseball America.
Putting together a prospect list involves parsing through statistics and scouting reports, balancing performance and potential. What makes that process fun and exasperating at the same time is that there are few clear-cut answers.
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