PEORIA, Ariz. -- The Cactus League season is officially underway for the Mariners, who opened their Spring Training slate of exhibitions on Friday afternoon with a 5-2 loss to the Padres. With that in mind, here are three things to watch in the early weeks now that games have begun.

As the sounds of bats cracking and gloves popping echo across the diamonds of Florida and Arizona, baseball's top prospects will be digging in to push for spots on Major League Opening Day rosters. Although most of these prospects will begin the season in the Minors, there are a handful

The Mariners have been known for their robust pitching development, including current big league rotation members Logan Gilbert, George Kirby and Bryce Miller. In a fun twist, when MLB Pipeline dropped its newest Top 100 prospects re-rank on Friday, the Mariners landed seven prospects on the list, none of whom

Julio Rodríguez in 2017. Noelvi Marte in 2018. Lazaro Montes in 2022. Felnin Celesten in 2023. The Mariners are back at it again, having landed a potential aircraft carrier signee on the first day of the international signing period. Yorger Bautista, a left-handed-hitting Venezuelan outfielder nicknamed “La Bestia” (The Beast),

There is no singular established path to farm system improvement. The best organizations do it internally. They take the players already in the pipeline and help them get the most out of their tools or, in a best-case scenario, improve the tools already in their profiles. That takes a good

Welcome to the final MLB Pipeline Inbox of 2024! We’re about to enter into the holiday season and I’m in a giving mood, and clearly you were, too, given the volumes of questions folks sent in. I’m going to give a hat tip to frequent contributor Stevie D., who asked

Ever since Roki Sasaki's agent, Joel Wolfe, met with the media at the Winter Meetings, there’s been speculation about which team might be the best fit to land the prized right-hander, who was recently posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines. As one executive put it when asked

Forgive us if we have an early case of MLB Draft fever. We just put out our new Draft Top 100 and it’s a class full of a ton of talent, as always. With the list fresh in everyone’s minds, I asked if people had Draft-related queries for this week’s

The Winter Meetings begin Sunday in Dallas, and prospects will certainly be on some teams' shopping lists. Who will get the best holiday-season deal, and which clubs have the juice to make that kind of deal happen?

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

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SEATTLE -- Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto said in late September that Seattle’s roster won’t see significant turnover this offseason, pointing to the club’s foundation of position players and noting that most among that group are under club control for not just next year, but also 2026. Payroll

On one hand, Colt Emerson’s first full season of pro ball was a big success. A high school shortstop taken in the first round of the 2023 Draft, he made it up to High-A Everett just after his 19th birthday. But he also got hit by the injury bug twice.

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The 32nd season of the Arizona Fall League is a week old, and already, there are top prospects standing out amid the field of, well, top prospects. Here are the top performers from the first week of AFL action:

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Scouts consider Mariners shortstop Colt Emerson one of the best pure hitters in the Minor Leagues. He more than lived up to his reputation in his Arizona Fall League debut. Emerson went 5-for-6 with with four doubles, five RBIs, two runs and a stolen base as his

The Arkansas Travelers came one win away from their first Texas League title in more than a decade in 2023, falling just short when they lost their winner-take-all Game 3. This year, they found themselves in another winner-take-all scenario, and history did not repeat itself. This time, the Travelers got

Having missed out on its first opportunity to clinch a second consecutive championship, the Modesto Nuts made sure the California League crown remained at John Thurman Field on Wednesday night. The Seattle affiliate put on a pitching clinic, edging Lake Elsinore, 2-1, in the winner-take-all Game 3 of the Championship

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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