J.J. Cooper

We are likely to go from an era where much of teams’ revenues were pre-determined irrespective of fan interest to one where a team’s success in engaging a fan base could play a much larger role toward the bottom line.

We have now completed one weekend of spring training games. That is obviously not long enough to make any sweeping conclusions about new rules changes, but a couple of days into spring training, there are some very notable early trends.

J.J. Cooper breaks down the similarities and differences between the primary and secondary drafts.

J.J. Cooper explains the function of a draft model, including its benefits and drawbacks.

The Savannah Bananas opened their 2023 season with a trick-pitching rodeo clown, a center fielder who made a back flip while catching a fly ball, a pitching fireball, underwear toss fan giveaways and a surprise appearance by a big leaguer.

We explain how to use a workaround to watch MiLB.tv games on your television.

What this book does better than almost any book of the last decade is to serve as a fly-on-the-wall of a front office as it finds success and then tries to sustain it.

The Rays have proven to be masters of improving pitchers’ control. We look at one of the ways they do it.

The Czech Republic announced its roster for the 2023 World Baseball Classic, the first time the country will be participating after a Cinderella run through the qualifier.

Panama has managed to put together a roster with a healthy smatter of major leaguers and top prospects for the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Ray Chang returns for his fourth World Baseball Classic appearance to headline a rather inexperience Team China roster.

Freddie Freeman gives Team Canada a star to build around, but Team Canada’s pitching staff may be challenged.

Jose Altuve will help lead Team Venezuela at the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Since no pitcher has ranked No. 1 in the most recent half of Top 100 Prospects history, it’s fair to wonder if there will ever again be a pitcher who ranks No. 1 on the Top 100.

Here’s our look at the most likely prospects to top the 2024 Top 100.

When you look at the Top 100 Prospect list, it’s worth thinking that this is the baseball equivalent of zooming in to see an individual house.

Almost exactly one year ago, we rolled out the 2022 Baseball America Top 100 Prospects list. Now that the newest Top 100 has been unveiled, we wanted to check in on what happened to last year’s Top 100 Prospects.

As we welcome 2023, we’re looking at a New Year’s resolutions for all 30 farm systems with looks at how all 30 organizations could improve over the coming year.

 Here are the answers for our 2022 Holidays Prospect Quiz. Just To Get Warmed Up Player A: Aroldis Chapman. Player B: Alex Bregman. OK, we…

At Baseball America we love to as best we can attempt to tell the future. Since 1981, we’ve been ranking and writing up reports on…