// // After promoting so many former top prospects--Strasburg, Storen, Espinosa--to the big club, and trading away plenty of others over the past few years, the Nationals system has thinned considerably. Still, their prospect crop continues to rank as one of the...
// // 2012's edition of BaseballNewsHound.com's Minor League Baseball Awards is here. Throughout the next few weeks, BaseballNewsHound.com will be recognizing the best players in the Minor League's for their performance. First up, Ryan Kelley awards the best hitting...
Red Sox pitching prospect Matt Barnes is off to a running start to his professional baseball career. Selected with Boston's first pick in last June's MLB Amateur Draft, Barnes was sent to the Greenville Drive of the class-A South Atlantic League to open the season. He made...
Click here for a full scouting report on Orioles prospect Jonathan Schoop. On Monday, the Baltimore Orioles announced their 2011 player development awards and handed top middle infield prospect Jonathan Schoop the most prestigious of them, the organization's Brooks Robinson...
The Los Angeles Angels have called-up centerfielder Mike Trout from Double-A Arkansas to replace the injured Peter Bourjos. The nineteen-year-old phenom is poised to make his big league debut tonight when the Angels take on the Seattle Mariners. Ranked by Baseball America as...
This week's edition of Prospect Buzz features a relatively equal mix of young toolsy athletes and game-savvy polished guys. Exciting young guns like Nolan Arenado and Anthony Gose are propelling their stock into the top-tier while even more toolsy Donavan Tate and Andrew...
Selected 10th overall out of Indian River State College by the San Diego Padres during the recent MLB Amateur Draft that took place early in June, second baseman Cory Spangenberg is off to a hot start to his professional career. Spangenberg was seen as a "stretch" pick by many...
Seattle Mariners top prospect, second baseman Dustin Ackley, will make his highly anticipated major league debut tonight at Safeco Field in a 7:05pm (EST) game against the Phillies. Drafted second overall in 2009, directly behind all-world baseball prospect Stephen Strasburg,...
Now about 20 games into most full-season leagues, this year's crop of breakout players, top prospects and disappointments is beginning to take shape. While some young players have charged out of the gate with electrifying debuts to their professional career-- Bryce Harper fits...
Through the first eleven (or so) games of the minor league season, many of the games' top prospects are off to a hot start, while others have started their 2011 campaigns on ice-cold streaks. Many "sleepers" and less-heralded ballplayers are busy making a name for themselves...
