40 Years Of Minor League Best Tools: Looking Back At Prescient Picks From The First Installment
In honor of 40 years of minor league Best Tools, we rank top 10 most prescient category winners in the first installment in 1983.
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21 Years Ago, K-Rod And The Angels Clarified Postseason Eligibility Rules
The Francisco Rodriguez rule, the colloquial term used to describe MLB’s postseason roster eligibility loophole, is fitting shorthand for K-Rod’s unforgettable 2002 postseason run.
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Reviewing BA’s ’20 Ideas To Save Baseball’ From 30 Years Ago
Faster games? Interleague play? More international flavor? In 1993, all were still pipe dreams.
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Mets Acquire Righthander Justin Jarvis From Brewers In Deal For Mark Canha
The Brewers and Mets completed a trade that lengthens Milwaukee’s lineup and adds minor league pitching depth to New York.
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The Orioles And Reds Moved Up Their Windows At The 2022 Trade Deadline. The Twins Would Probably Take A Do-Over.
Deals made at the 2022 trade deadline loom large for the Orioles, Reds and Twins in 2023.
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Minor League Players Of The Year For All 30 Organizations At Midseason
The criteria used is simply best performance by a prospect. This is not a listing of best overall prospects in each organization.
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Midseason Players Of The Year, All-Stars For Major And Minor Leagues
Shohei leads the way.
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The Top 50 Prospects In Baseball America History
From A-Rod to Ohtani, the best of the best since 1981
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Paul Skenes Is Next On LSU-To-MLB Rocket
This year, Skenes appears to be next in the line of LSU aces to rocket to the major leagues and make his mark.
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Stolen Bases Are Artificially Boosted This Year—Just As They Were In ’80s Heyday
Stolen bases have received an artificial boost this season with MLB’s new rules. But it’s also true that steals were boosted by artificial means in the heyday of the speedster.
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Two-Year Minor League Park Factors And Team Run Contexts For 2021-22
Park factors are great for placing players’ performance in a league context, but they’re terrible at placing *leagues* in context. To get a handle on that, let’s take a look at team run contexts for all 120 full-season affiliates over the 2021 and 2022 seasons.
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Brett Baty’s Opening Day Assignment Highlights Lesser-Known Option Rule
When the Mets optioned Baty to Triple-A late in spring training, critics of the move concluded that service time manipulation appeared to be alive and well. But in this case, appearances were deceiving.
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Matt’s Prospect Breakout Team For 2023
These are my picks for the young players most likely to break through to Top 100 Prospects status in 2023, one player at each position.
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Seven Ways MLB’s New Rules Changed The Way The Game Was Played In Spring Training
Only time will tell how MLB’s new rules will affect the way the game is played, but spring training may give us a preview of what’s ahead. We highlight seven significant changes—and one constant.
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Complete List Of 2023 Rookies Eligible For Prospect Promotion Incentive Draft Picks
Led by Gunnar Henderson and Corbin Carroll, the top two prospects in baseball, a total of 14 rookies on Opening Day rosters could qualify their clubs for a Prospect Promotion Incentive draft pick in the future.
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Prospect Promotion Incentive: Taking Stock Of Year One & Looking Ahead To 2023
The Mariners added the 29th pick in the 2023 draft simply by rostering their 26 best players on Opening Day last year. Even more teams are poised to add picks in the 2024 draft, thanks to the Prospect Promotion Incentive.
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2023 MLB Season Preview: American League East Division Preview
Breaking down the AL East ahead of the 2023 season.
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2023 MLB Season Preview: National League East Division Preview
Breaking down the NL East ahead of the 2023 season.
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2023 MLB Season Preview: American League Central Division Preview
Breaking down the AL Central ahead of the 2023 season.
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2023 MLB Season Preview: National League Central Division Preview
Breaking down the NL Central ahead of the 2023 season.
