PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- It didn’t take long for Danny Jansen to make some noise with his new club this spring. In the second inning of Saturday’s 6-4 loss to the Red Sox, the Rays’ backstop hit a line-drive home run over the left-center-field fence at Charlotte Sports Park in

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We’re just a few weeks into the 2025 international signing period and there have already been lots of pens put to paper. Yes, a vast majority of these players are several years away from the big leagues if all goes according to plan, but it’s Step 1 on the journey

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Rays will get a glimpse of their future in Spring Training. And that future may not be far away. The Rays announced on Thursday that 30 players on Minor League contracts have been invited to Major League camp. That group is headlined by top prospects Carson

TAMPA, Fla. -- The Rays have earned their reputation for being among the game’s best at identifying and acquiring young talent from other organizations. They quickly turned Randy Arozarena from an outfielder buried on the Cardinals’ roster into a postseason hero. They landed Junior Caminero in an under-the-radar trade and

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MLB Pipeline's 2025 rankings of the Top 10 prospects at each position are official and the 2025 Top 100 Prospects list is about to be revealed.

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Last summer, the Rays made a series of trades to further strengthen the game’s deepest (and arguably the best) Minor League system. They added another wave of talent on Wednesday, marking the opening of the 2025 international signing period by adding three of MLB Pipeline’s Top 50

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

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TAMPA, Fla. -- With starting pitching to spare, the Rays swung a trade Saturday that brought their rotation into clearer focus and further fortified their highly regarded Minor League system. The Rays dealt starter Jeffrey Springs and left-hander Jacob Lopez to the Athletics for high-ceiling/MLB-ready starter Joe Boyle, first base

TOKYO -- During USA Baseball's bronze medal run at the WBSC Premier12, there was one name permanently etched at the top of manager Mike Scioscia's lineup: Chandler Simpson. The No. 18 prospect in the Tampa Bay Rays organization isn't just fast: Simpson has the kind of speed that makes you

The Arizona Fall League is over, with tremendous prospects shutting things down for the offseason. All 30 teams have made their 40-man roster decisions, adding big-name prospects and some sleepers to keep an eye on. So what’s a prospect hound to do? Answer your questions, of course! We answered a

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

TAMPA -- The Rays added left-handers Ian Seymour and Joe Rock to their 40-man roster on Monday, protecting two of their top pitching prospects from the upcoming Rule 5 Draft. Seymour is the Rays’ No. 17 prospect and Rock is No. 22, according to MLB Pipeline. Both pitched for Triple-A

With the World Series over and the Arizona Fall League wrapping up, now is a good time to take stock of an exciting year in prospectdom. In October, MLB Pipeline released its updated Top 100 Prospects list, which featured several big changes at the top, but we're going to take

There are plenty of names for prospect hounds to get excited about on USA Baseball's roster for the Premier12, a tournament which pits the top 12 ranked baseball nations against each other. Four top 100 prospects dot the squad, including No. 22 overall prospect Matt Shaw, Phillies outfield prospect Justin

Defense is increasingly becoming a young man’s game. From 1957, the year they were first handed out, to 2012, only nine rookies won Rawlings Gold Glove Awards. The same number have captured the game’s top defensive prize since 2013, including six in the past three seasons alone. Red Sox right

MESA, Ariz. – When LSU spilled out onto Omaha’s Charles Schwab Field to celebrate the 2023 national championship, Grant Taylor and Tre' Morgan were part of the dog pile, teammates jubilant about their club’s success. Fast forward to Wednesday afternoon at Sloan Park during Arizona Fall League action and the

ST. PETERSBURG -- Reflecting on the Rays’ disappointing season less than a week after it ended, president of baseball operations Erik Neander referenced the three standout traits of the organization: promising pitching, “great prospects” and not enough offense. Indeed, after parting with a handful of veteran contributors in July, the

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

MESA, Ariz. – Tre' Morgan wanted the heater. His Mesa Solar Sox had faced the Scottsdale Scorpions already on Oct. 9, the date of Morgan’s first four-hit game of the Arizona Fall League. Their pitchers had thrown the Rays’ No. 10 prospect early fastballs then, so Morgan knew what to