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On Sunday night, an impressive group of amateur players will make the leap from talented prospects to actual MLB Draft picks. So start getting to know them now ... before they become a key part of your favorite team's future.

The MLB.com research team dug into MLB Pipeline's top

Just like every year, the 2025 MLB Draft will feature some very recognizable last names. That was the case again in 2024, with the sons of such MLB stars as Kevin Brown and Manny Ramirez hearing their names called.

Who could be the next draftee to cause a little

This story originally ran previously, before Slater de Brun was drafted with the No. 37 pick by the Orioles.

This story originally ran previously, before Alex Lodise was drafted with the No. 60 pick by the Braves and Kyle Lodise was drafted with the No. 76 pick by the White Sox.

This story originally ran previously, before Talon Haley was drafted with the No. 349 pick by the Angels.

It’s the spirit of competition that has kept Talon Haley going.

That’s how it is for this 6-foot-2 left-hander when a batter steps in the box and he goes into his delivery. And that’s

This story originally ran previously, before Liam Doyle was drafted with the No. 5 pick by the Cardinals.

The Draft signing deadline came and went at 5 p.m. ET on Thursday with very little drama.

The final two unsigned first-rounders came to terms in the morning. East Carolina right-hander Trey Yesavage (No. 20 overall) agreed to a $4,177,500 deal with the Blue Jays and North Carolina outfielder Vance Honeycutt

Below is a list of every player drafted in the first round of the 2024 MLB Draft.

Each club had until 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, Aug. 1, to come to terms with its Draft selections. If a player has exhausted his collegiate eligibility, he can sign at any time up

After 315 players were selected over the first two days of the 2024 MLB Draft, 300 more players heard their names on Tuesday as the Draft concluded with Rounds 11-20.

As a reminder, the late rounds can be more than just opportunities to fill out a farm system. This

The 2023 Draft class wasted no time getting players to the Majors.

Nolan Schanuel joined the Angels last August, just 37 days after turning pro. Wyatt Langford became the third-fastest drafted position player to make an Opening Day roster, claiming a starting role with the defending World Series champion

BOSTON -- Could you imagine?

It’s the question Baseball Hall of Famer and Boston legend David Ortiz asked three years ago when presented with the idea that one day his son D’Angelo might also end up wearing a Red Sox uniform.

That once seemingly far-fetched dream took a big step closer to

BURKE, Va. -- When Stephanie Miller saw the baby boy, her heart melted.

In an instant, all the pain and frustration Stephanie and her husband, Richard Green, had endured in their inability to conceive a child went away. Because there, on a VHS cassette sent along by an adoption agency, was

FORT WORTH, Texas -- At the Stockyards historic district, where the 2024 MLB Draft took place Sunday night, you could test your rodeo skills and ride a mechanical bull. And odds are, you would have had much better luck staying on that bucking, spinning, twisting steer for a full minute

SEATTLE -- The Mariners went bold with the first-round selection in the 2024 MLB Draft on Sunday, taking switch-pitcher Jurrangelo Cijntje out of Mississippi State University with their top pick at No. 15 overall.

Yes, you read that right.

And with their second-round pick, they selected high-school right-hander Ryan Sloan, at No.

Much about the 2026 UCLA Bruins baseball team and No. 1 Draft prospect Roch Cholowsky feels inevitable.

Twenty-three wins in a row entering play Tuesday night. The presumptive top pick in the 2026 Draft enjoying a hitting barrage. Toss in that Cholowsky was celebrating his 21st birthday, and the

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Crossing home plate against Jackson Flora is becoming as rare as ... a nine-inning shutout.

MLB Pipeline's No. 14 Draft prospect extended his scoreless streak in emphatic fashion with the second shutout of his collegiate career for UC Santa Barbara in a 6-0 victory over Cal Poly on Thursday

On Thursday, the amateur baseball world took another step toward finding the 2026 Golden Spikes Award winner as USA Baseball announced the award’s Midseason Watch List.

As usual, MLB Pipeline's top Draft prospects are heavily represented. In all, 19 of the 45 players are on the Draft Top 100

The White Sox have the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 Draft, which comes with an assigned value of $11,350,600, the largest since the bonus-pool era began in 2012. Yet it's the Pirates who possess the largest overall pool at $19,130,700, another record.

MLB informed the teams of the updated

Another weekend of college baseball brought a fresh round of looks at some of the top talent in the country, with several high-profile arms in the 2026 MLB Draft class navigating adversity, a notable injury that impacts the class and at least one red-hot 2027 prospect who should already be

The third annual Spring Breakout is going to provide a first look at some of the biggest names in the 2025 Draft. A number of them have seen limited action during Spring Training while others will be making their unofficial debuts in the prospect showcase.

Fans will get to scout these

There’s a tradition in Minor League Baseball that resurfaces annually during the final games of the season. It’s commonly referred to as “playing all nine.”

The accomplishment consists of players bouncing around the diamond on the mission of playing all nine positions in the span of nine innings. In Georgia Tech’s

It’s early days in the college baseball season, but consider the proverbial dust knocked off the BBCOR bats. We’re not talking about just any hitters either -- some of the top names from across the country who are expected to hear their names called early in this July’s Draft have

The best all-around college shortstop prospect since Troy Tulowitzki? The most clear-cut No. 1 Draft prospect since Adley Rutschman?

Roch Cholowsky garnered some lofty expectations heading into his junior campaign at UCLA. On Tuesday afternoon, he gave a glimpse into why, posting his first multihomer performance of the season