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Who sits atop first Hitter Power Rankings of 2025?

Here are baseball's best bats entering the new season
March 11, 2025

Who are the bats who will define the 2025 season? Our first edition of the 2025 Hitter Power Rankings (decided by a panel of MLB.com voters) offers up a wide range of candidates, including two reigning MVP Award winners, the recent recipient of the largest contract in baseball history, two

15 pitchers who could win a Cy Young Award in 2025

39 minutes ago

Who will be the best pitcher in each league in 2025? Last season, there was no question that the Tigers' Tarik Skubal and the Braves' Chris Sale surpassed every other arm. Both claimed a Triple Crown en route to winning their first Cy Young Award. Those two left-handers might have

Seiya taking BP with a samurai sword is exactly as cool as it sounds

@Theo_DeRosa
8:03 PM EDT

Cubs outfielder Seiya Suzuki stepped into the batting cage recently to take some cuts. Literally. Ahead of next week’s Tokyo Series, the native of Japan stepped into the right-handed batter’s box wielding not a baseball bat but a SAMURAI SWORD -- and what came next was exactly what you’d expect

Witt has left forearm contusion after HBP, but avoids fracture

@anne__rogers
8:14 PM EDT

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Bobby Witt Jr. seemed to avoid the worst after being hit by a fastball during the Royals’ 7-6 win over the Mariners on Wednesday afternoon. The Royals' shortstop did not suffer a fracture, the team announced, with X-rays coming back negative. He’s dealing with a left forearm

A bizarre double play and a bird? Rays, Tigers have 'ridiculous half-inning'

5:25 PM EDT

LAKELAND, Fla. -- It started off as a highlight-reel play by one of the best defensive prospects in baseball. Then it turned into … something else entirely. With one out in the first inning and Riley Greene at the plate on Wednesday afternoon, Rays starter Ryan Pepiot fired a fastball

Five straight homers! Kansas pulls off what no MLB team ever has

6:14 PM EDT

It has never been done in Major League Baseball. It may well never be done in Major League Baseball. But the Kansas Jayhawks pulled off an unprecedented feat on Wednesday afternoon, hitting five consecutive home runs in their game against Minnesota. When grad student Jackson Hauge came to the plate

Mookie? Trout? MLB stars name their dream teammates

@Theo_DeRosa
39 minutes ago

During Spring Training, MLB.com beat writers surveyed their clubhouses, asking players for their opinions on a range of topics. Well over 100 players participated, in exchange for anonymity. In the leadup to Opening Day, MLB.com is publishing a series of stories based on the results of that survey. Today’s topic:

From Spring Breakout to MLB? Here are nine players who could soon be in The Show

@benweinrib
9:32 AM EDT

The inaugural Spring Breakout in 2024 provided a platform for fans to meet many of baseball's top prospects before they began standing out in the Majors shortly thereafter. Paul Skenes striking out Jackson Holliday. Jackson Chourio reaching twice and scoring a run. Jace Jung hitting a pair of homers.

J-Rod celebrates slam with emphatic point ... to wrong bullpen

Plus, updates on Brash, Garver
9:40 PM EDT

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Spring Training is all about sorting out kinks in preparation for the long season, and even Julio Rodríguez needed a quick refresher for his home run nods to the Mariners’ bullpen after blasting a grand slam during Wednesday's 7-6 loss against the Royals. That’s because he pointed

'I guess someone had a good offseason': How Baker is turning heads in camp

@JohnDenton555
4:36 PM EDT

JUPITER, Fla. -- When informed that only two MLB players have increased their bat speed more from the 2024 season to a limited sample from this spring, Cardinals first baseman/designated hitter Luken Baker flashed a knowing, but mischievous smile and playfully cracked, “Hmmm, I guess someone had a good offseason.”

How a curious youngster sparked the Wright-Vientos relationship

3:14 PM EDT

JUPITER, Fla. -- Several years ago during Spring Training, Mets leadership asked David Wright to go to Minor League camp and speak to a group of infield prospects. This was around 7 a.m., at a time when Wright figured most young players wouldn’t particularly want to be there. He didn’t

Here's everything you need to know for Year 2 of Spring Breakout

@brendan_samson
4:54 PM EDT

Spring Breakout is here! The second edition of the four-day prospect showcase kicks off Thursday. Last year, we had moments like Paul Skenes and Jackson Holliday going head-to-head (Skenes came out on top), Rays first baseman Xavier Isaac (MLB No. 50) and Yankees outfielder Spencer Jones slugging two homers apiece

Spring Breakout begins tomorrow ... and it's loaded with MLB's top prospects

10:48 AM EDT

Everybody is going to Spring Breakout this year. Well, almost everyone.

Don't sleep on these prospects at Spring Breakout -- 1 from each team

@SamDykstraMiLB
8:00 PM EDT

The second edition of Spring Breakout is bursting with high-profile prospects. Seventy members of MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 are slated to participate, including Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony (No. 2), Tigers outfielder Max Clark (No. 6), Red Sox infielder Kristian Campbell (No. 7), Rays shortstop Carson Williams (No. 9) and

Everything you need to know about the Tokyo Series

Dodgers and Cubs set to open 2025 season in Japan on March 18-19
@HarriganMLB
March 11, 2025

The MLB season will get underway when the Dodgers and Cubs square off in the 2025 Tokyo Series in Japan on March 18-19.

Padres top prospect De Vries has ability to be team's 'spark plug'

Young shortstop set to lead San Diego's Spring Breakout squad on Friday
8:53 PM EDT

PEORIA, Ariz. -- Late last August, after Padres prospect Leo De Vries suffered the right shoulder injury that would eventually end his first professional season, vice president of player development Ryley Westman briefly raised the possibility of sending him to the team's Spring Training complex in Peoria. There, San Diego's

Netflix drops official trailer for 'The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox'

@Spokes_Murphy
10:00 AM EDT

The official trailer for “The Clubhouse: A Year with the Red Sox” is here. There have been a couple of sneak peeks thus far of the eight-part docuseries about the 2024 Boston Red Sox. But on Wednesday, the series’ first full trailer was released. “The Clubhouse: A Year with the

8 prospects with the best tools in Spring Breakout

March 10, 2025

The inaugural edition of Spring Breakout was a rousing success last year. Sixteen games showcased not only many of baseball's best prospects but also some of the most jaw-dropping tools in the Minors. Of the 10 best individual attributes we highlighted a year ago, nine belonged to players who reached

One step from MLB, Anthony leads Sox prospects into Spring Breakout

7:22 PM EDT

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Roman Anthony, all of 20 years old, towers around the Red Sox Spring Training complex at 6-foot-3 and roughly 220 pounds. He carries himself with confidence, but not cockiness. The left-handed-hitting outfielder knows he belongs on a baseball field, because that’s where he’s always felt at

Meet the 14 women who run Minor League Baseball teams

@JoshJacksonMiLB
12:26 PM EDT

From California to Massachusetts, from Arkansas to Iowa, leadership in professional baseball is evolving. Coming into the 2025 season, there are 14 women in general manager positions across Minor League Baseball. When most fans think of the GMs in baseball, they likely assume the job is all about building a

MLB announces 2025 Trade Deadline date (July 31, 6 p.m. ET)

@Spokes_Murphy
11:55 AM EDT

Major League Baseball has announced that the 2025 Trade Deadline is Thursday, July 31, at 6 p.m. ET.

Profar back in camp, confident he'll be ready for Opening Day

10:36 AM EDT

NORTH PORT, Fla. -- When Jurickson Profar returned to Braves camp on Wednesday, there was really only one question that mattered. Is he confident he’ll be in Atlanta’s lineup on Opening Day? “I’m very confident,” Profar said. “I’m very, very confident.”

'I've never seen that': Elly does something Tito can't believe

March 11, 2025

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Elly De La Cruz opened the bottom of the fourth inning Tuesday by effortlessly legging out an infield single with a burst of speed that wowed the crowd. That was nothing compared to what was coming.

'The ball finds you': Greene gets first CF start this spring

6:23 PM EDT

LAKELAND, Fla. -- The first ball in play off of Casey Mize on Wednesday was a Christopher Morel fly ball to medium-depth center field. It was hit right at Riley Greene, who read the depth, hastily backtracked a few steps, then camped under it for the first out of Detroit’s

Angels 'stunned' by magician who wows club with 'mind-blowing' tricks

8:48 PM EDT

TEMPE, Ariz. -- What’s baseball without a little bit of magic? The Angels found out in a fun way on Wednesday when magician Shlomo Levinger visited the clubhouse to perform a set that wowed players and coaches alike. It was a way to escape the grind of Spring Training, and