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MLB Prospects Update: Hottest, Coldest Pitchers at Every Minor League Level
Selected by the Red Sox with the 39th overall pick in the 2011 draft, Anthony Ranaudo was expected to make a quick ascent to the major leagues...
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Each MLB Team's 'Hidden Gem' Prospect Fans May Not Know About
Due to the amount of attention paid to each organization's top prospects and early-round draft picks, many of the game's underrated prospects are perpetually obscured...
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Stock Up, Stock Down on MLB's Top 10 Prospects After Week 11
In the wake of the 2013 First-Year Player Draft in early June, I re-worked my preseason top 50 prospects rankings to include several of the top draft picks...
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Full Predictions for the 2014 MLB Rookie Class
Major League Baseball’s 2012 rookie class was easily the best in recent memory, as well as one of the best in the history of the sport...
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Predicting the 2013 All-Star Futures Game Rosters 1 Month out
The SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game will never generate as much excitement as the All-Star Game, but it absolutely should. Each year the event gives fans a preview of the sport’s top prospects, as 25 players are selected to play for the U...
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MLB Prospects Update: Hottest, Coldest Hitters at Every Minor League Level
Mastering the High-A Florida State League is usually a challenge for young hitters due to its pitcher-friendly parks and environment. However, somebody forgot to pass along that information to Miguel Sano ...
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Scouting the Top 10 Prospects Playing in the College World Series
North Carolina clinched a College World Series berth on Tuesday afternoon, as it defeated South Carolina, 5-4...
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Predicting the 10 MLB Draftees Who Will Snag the Largest Signing Bonuses
While it’s only been a few days since the conclusion of the 2013 First-Year Player draft, some teams have already announced the signing of their early-round selections...
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Is Top Prospect Javier Baez's 4-Home Run Game a Sign of Superstar MLB Future?
The Chicago Cubs , currently sitting in last place in the National League Central at 25-36, are enduring yet another bad season at the big league level...
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Mike Rosenbaum's Updated Top 50 MLB Prospects After the 2013 MLB Draft
With the 2013 MLB First-Year Player Draft now in the books and countless prospects having already reached the major leagues, the top 50 overall prospect rankings has a much different look than it did just a few months ago...
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2013 MLB Draft: Re-Ranking All 30 MLB Farm Systems Post-Draft
With the Major League Baseball draft now in the rear-view mirror, it is as good a time as any to take a look at the state of the farm system of all 30 teams...
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2013 MLB Draft Results: Biggest Winners and Losers of the Entire Draft
After three grueling days covering 40 rounds and 1,216 picks, the 2013 first-year player draft has finally come to an end. While some teams employed a consistent draft strategy across all three days, others were seemingly all over the place...
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2013 MLB Draft Grades: Final Report Cards for All 30 Teams
After 40 rounds and over 1,200 players, it is time to reflect on what happened during the past three days in the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft...
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2013 MLB Draft Grades: Full Day 2 Report Card
As we head into the final day of the 2013 MLB first-year player draft—which once again begins at 1 p.m. ET and will be streamed live on MLB.com —it’s only appropriate that we reflect on Friday’s results...
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2013 MLB Draft: Top Day 1 Picks Answer Draft-Day Questions
The opening night of the 2013 first-year player draft was full of surprises. While everyone expected Mark Appel , Jonathan Gray and Kris Bryant to be the first three players ...
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MLB Draft 2013: Predicting the MLB ETA for Every 1st-Round Pick
After the first day of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft, we can start to make sense of the things we saw from the 28 teams that made a pick in the first round on Thursday night...
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MLB Draft 2013: 7 Best Players Still on the Board After Day 1
Even though the first two rounds and 73 picks are in the books, a number of highly-touted players remain in the 2013 Major League Baseball draft who figure to hear their names called at some point on Day 2...
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2013 MLB Draft Projections: Big League Comparisons for Top 25 Prospects
In prospect evaluation, it's often necessary to compare a young player to a past or present major leaguer as a means of projecting his overall future potential...
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MLB Mock Draft 2013: Mike Rosenbaum's Final 1st-Round Projections
With the 2013 MLB Rule 4 draft set to commence on Thursday night, it’s time to take one final stab at predicting how the first round will unfold. For the second consecutive year, the Houston Astros have the No...
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MLB Draft 2013: Ranking the Top 10 Prospects at Every Position
The 2013 Major League Baseball draft is upon us, with several questions at the top and many more to follow after the Houston Astros make the first pick...
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2013 MLB Draft: 8 Buzzworthy Prospects to Watch on Draft Day
As the final preparations are being made for the 2013 Major League Baseball draft, one of the most common terms that you will hear in mock drafts and predictions is "helium...
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Top 2013 MLB Draft Prospects Who Are Relatives of Former Superstars
In the 2012 MLB first-year players draft, the Baltimore Orioles selected local prep standout Ryan Ripken, otherwise known as the son of Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr...
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Why Mark Appel Is Worth the No. 1 Pick and Huge Bonus Demands
Mark Appel , the Stanford right-handed pitcher who passed up a $3.8 million bonus from the Pittsburgh Pirates as the No. 8 pick in last year's draft, appears to have made a smart business decision to return to school for his senior season in 2013...
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2013 MLB Draft Predictions: Which Prospects Have Highest Ceiling?
The operative word in any Major League Baseball draft is ceiling. Players with a high ceiling, and some track record of performance, are going to be taken very early...
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Mike Rosenbaum vs. Jonathan Mayo: Draft Experts Answer 2013's Burning Questions
The 2013 MLB Rule IV Draft is set to begin Thursday night, but the ongoing uncertainty about who will be the No. 1 pick has led to widespread speculation as to how the first round will unfold...