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Season No. 32 of the Arizona Fall League is in the books, with the Salt River Rafters beating the Surprise Saguaros, 3-2, in the Championship Game on Saturday. It was another fall full of top prospects and top performances. Below is the 2024 MLB Pipeline All-AFL Team. This is based

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. --Nick Kurtz's bat got him selected by the A’s fourth overall this year, and his bat has the first baseman ranked No. 45 overall by MLB Pipeline. Where will he land on the other side of the ball? Well, at the very least, he's broadened his horizons in

MESA, Ariz. -- The Denzel Clarke Arizona Fall League showcase continues. With three more hits for Mesa in the Solar Sox’s 7-3 loss to the Desert Dogs on Monday, the A’s No. 10 prospect ranks second on the circuit with a .506 on-base percentage -- and he added to his

Call it a last-chance saloon in the middle of the desert. The Arizona Fall League provides more than just an opportunity to see some of the game’s top prospects in one spot. It’s also the final place certain Minor Leaguers can prove they are deserving of a 40-man roster spot

Week 4 in the Arizona Fall League was all about big flies and flirting with history. These players separated themselves during what was another excellent week of AFL action. Mesa first baseman Nick Kurtz (ATH No. 2/MLB No. 45) slugged his way to AFL Hitter of the Week honors and

Each week, MiLB.com profiles an elite prospect by chronicling the steps he's taken toward achieving his Major League dream. Here's a look at third-ranked A’s prospect Luis Morales. For more stories about players on The Road to The Show, click here. After an aggressive debut last year, Luis Morales moved

Here are the top performers from the fourth week of AFL action:

PEORIA, Ariz. -- The similarities between Nick Kurtz and Jac Caglianone are almost too numerous to recount. Both are left-handed-hitting first basemen with a ton of power. Both played for a big-time Division I program: Kurtz at Wake Forest, Caglianone at Florida. Both made it to the 2023 College World

MESA, Ariz. – Nick Kurtz's first official home run of the 2024 season came on Feb. 17. More than eight months later, much has changed, but one thing has remained consistent: the 21-year-old can still hammer the baseball. Kurtz teed off on Arizona Fall League homer No. 1 on Wednesday

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Things are looking up for an A’s team that appears to have identified a core that could help them return to playoff contention in 2025. The A’s finished this season with a 69-93 record -- a 19-win improvement from 2023 -- on the strengths of breakout seasons by young players

Henry Bolte starred at Palo Alto High School, just across the bay from Oakland, before the team he grew up idolizing took him in the second round of the 2022 Draft. “It was kind of a surreal moment at the Draft," said the A's No. 5 prospect, who is currently

This story was excerpted from Martín Gallegos' A's Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Over the past two years, the A’s farm system has seen young talent such as Lawrence Butler, Mason Miller, Zack Gelof, Shea Langeliers and

MESA, Ariz. -- Denzel Clarke features some of the best all-around tools in the Arizona Fall League, and he put several of them on display on Opening Night. Clarke went 2-for-4, stole two bases and made a nice running catch in the right-center gap to rob Creed Willems (Orioles) of

OAKLAND -- With only a few days left in their 57-year tenure in Oakland, the A’s entered their final series at the Coliseum looking to provide fans who are saying their goodbyes to their home team with some lasting memories. Those in the building on Tuesday were treated to one

CHICAGO -- A’s shortstop Jacob Wilson was well aware of the numbers that Shota Imanaga has recorded this season, as well as the lefty’s arsenal that has given hitters trouble time and time again. So when Wilson stepped into the batter’s box to leadoff Monday’s series opener at Wrigley Field,

CHICAGO -- Brady Basso threw a sharp curveball to Lenyn Sosa in the first inning on Friday, a 1-2 offering that dove below the strike zone. Sosa whiffed on the pitch, which landed in the dirt just behind home plate. That strikeout got Basso out of a two-on, two-out jam,

Welcome to Crooked Numbers, a monthly column dedicated to Minor League Baseball on-field oddities and absurdities. The edition, rounding up the month of August, features RBI explosions, epic sweeps, same-named individuals and, of course, much more. Keeping track of this type of thing is a team effort, so get in

OAKLAND -- As Friday night's thriller between the A's and the Tigers went back and forth deep into the night, Brady Basso was one of the last arms standing in the home bullpen. After the A's had used eight pitchers to cover 13 innings, Basso and Ross Stripling -- who

All farm systems, whether they’re at the top or the bottom of organizational rankings, have differing strengths. We’ve decided to dig deeper into a few of those talent buckets over the next few weeks. This week, we’ll take a look at the top farm systems based on infield prospects. Using

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Nick Kurtz tormented college pitchers earlier this year. As it turns out, California League pitching can’t evade the A’s 2024 first-round Draft pick’s 65-grade power either. Oakland’s newly minted No. 2 prospect hasn’t shown any signs of cooling off. The Wake Forest product smashed a three-run homer in Saturday’s 11-1

OAKLAND -- Manager Mark Kotsay wanted to provide a soft landing spot for Grant Holman when the A’s No. 21 prospect made his Major League debut. Instead, a depleted bullpen forced him to put Holman in with two on and two outs with the A’s leading 2-0 in the seventh

Professional baseball has finally achieved Maximum Muncy. At long last, the sport's two infielders named Max Muncy -- improbably born exactly 12 years apart and completely unrelated -- finally met and played in the same game, an eventual 10-8 victory by rehabbing Muncy's Triple-A Oklahoma City over prospect Muncy's Las