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Kevin Cron set the Arizona high school records for career and season home runs. When he finished at Phoenix’s Mountain Pointe High he had a plan, one that did not include going to college. Most high schoolers aren’t well-versed on the realities of pr

Everything about the completely revamped Louisville Slugger Prime wood bat line, which launched April 17, focuses on making the bat harder. To get there, it required the team to reimagine the manufacturing process, borrow finishing concepts from the

An annual tradition at Baseball America is to build a team of projected breakout prospects ahead of minor league Opening Day. To qualify for inclusion, a player must not have appeared on our preseason Top 100 Prospects ranking. This year, Matt Eddy,

Baseball America follows the money to find out how a confluence of recent events, including the unionization of minor league players, the 2022 Collective Bargaining Agreement and MLB’s takeover of the minor leagues, has altered the economic realities

When negotiating the 2022 Collective Bargaining Agreement, the MLB Players Association prioritized the earning power of young major league players, especially young stars. In a press release, the players’ union praised the new CBA by saying that it “

Four years ago, the Rookie-level Appalachian League was on the chopping block. From the moment that news broke about Major League Baseball’s plan to reduce the number of minor league teams to the day when MLB officially took over the affiliated minor

Fresno is more than 2,000 miles from Nashville, but the California community is a country music hotbed. As much as that may be true, Fresno doesn’t always manage to convince Nashville of its bonafides. For years, the Fresno Grizzlies have tried to br

The buzziest term in college sports in recent years is NIL, which stands for name, image and likeness. It’s nearly impossible to watch any game on TV, regardless of the sport, without hearing about NIL. But what does it really mean and how is it affe

Through the years, Baseball America has evaluated the potential for thousands of young players and graded their scouting tools. Until now we had never carried that exercise through to major league players. This year, we sorted all MLB players by thei

PAGE 35 Six-foot-seven Henry Lalane has upside to match his height. Now, the Yankees lefthander will learn the finer points of pitching. A dominating—but unexpected—spring training appearance has the Tigers’ Jackson Jobe positioned for what could be

PAGE 40 Mets secondrounder Brandon Sproat shined in a dominant Spring Breakout inning. New York thinks it can get that version more consistently. The Marlins love the upside potential of lefty Thomas White, who looked sharp in spring training. PAGE 3

For the fourth straight year we asked MLB scouting departments to grade the quality of the draft on a 20-80 scale. We asked scouting directors how they view the strength of each year’s draft class in an attempt to quantify the expert opinions of the

When we performed our first in-season update of our draft rankings we noticed something missing. There were just five high school prospects ranked inside the top 30. For some time, the expectation for the 2024 draft class has been that this year’s hi

At the midpoint of the season, there was only one program in the country that ranked in the top 15 nationally in run scoring, ERA and fielding percentage. That program wasn’t Arkansas or Texas A&M or Wake Forest, the three teams this year to rank No