The final day of July brought not only a Trade Deadline for the ages, but also an exciting night of action around the Minor League landscape. Kaelen Culpepper (MIN) and Walker Jenkins (MIN) rocked a doubleheader at Double-A, Matt Koperniak (STL) flexed for the Redbirds and on the mound, Brandon

CHICAGO -- Adding reinforcements to the pitching staff has been a primary goal for Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer leading up to this year’s Trade Deadline. Chicago’s front office began to address that need on Wednesday night with a deal to land righty Michael Soroka from the Nationals.

The best and brightest of the Minors were out in full force as action also continued behind the scenes in advance of Thursday's Trade Deadline. Kevin Alcántara (CHC) mashed two homers, Carson Benge (NYM) continued his scorching summer and Christian Moore (LAA) looked pretty healthy as he began his rehab

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The first full week of second-half action kicked off with a number of impressive offensive performances. Top 50 prospect Owen Caissie (Cubs) moved within two homers of equaling his career high while Jhostynxon Garcia (Red Sox) left the yard twice. Ben Kudrna (Royals) showed out for pitchers with one of

After focusing exclusively on college players during Day 1 of the 2025 MLB Draft, the Cubs spent two of the first three rounds on Day 2 selecting talent from the high school ranks (with another college outfielder sandwiched in between). They went back to picking from the college ranks for

CHICAGO -- The Cubs’ recent track record in the MLB Draft has been identifying players who have the potential to climb quickly to the big leagues. That is a trend that had outfielder Ethan Conrad excited after he heard Chicago call his name in the first round on Sunday night.

Offense was on display during a busy Friday night around the Minors with Top 100 prospects standing tall. Jett Williams and Jefferson Rojas both cracked a pair of homers, while Blake Mitchell broke through in a big way. Speaking of big, Spencer Jones continued to tear the cover off the

CHICAGO – Dan Kantrovitz, the Cubs’ vice president of scouting, saw an uptick in text messages from scouts when Chicago was facing Houston last month at Daikin Park. For one night, the collective work of the Cubs’ scouting department was in the spotlight. On the mound for the Cubs on

There was no shortage of notable performances around the Minors, especially on the mound. Top 5 prospect Bubba Chandler continued to look like an ace-in-training, while Mick Abel and Brandon Sproat matched each other zero for zero. Offensively, the red-hot Owen Caissie reached the seats yet again, as did Kaelen

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The final week before Minor Leaguers join their Major League counterparts in an All-Star Break reset has already been full of excitement. Owen Caissie's multihomer binge continued while Emmanuel Rodriguez returned to Triple-A with thunder after missing more than a month of action. Not to be outdone were Mets prospects

Summertime is all about the bats. At least that's how it seemed to shake out around the Minor Leagues on Sunday as big performances at the plate took the spotlight to cap the first week of July. Among those were big hits from some of the top shortstop prospects in

The Fourth of July might be over, but there were plenty of Minor League fireworks left over. Everson Pereira checked off the milestone box, hitting for a cycle during the best overall performance of his professional career. Meanwhile, Top 100 prospect Owen Caissie cracked two more long balls, Zyhir Hope

It was a big night for some of the Minors' brightest stars, led by Owen Caissie's first two-homer game of 2025. Fellow Top 100 prospect Carson Williams got in on the long ball action, going deep for a third consecutive game while hurlers Gage Jump and Nolan McLean continued to

Saturday night was one for baseball's top prospects to shine brightest. From a walk-off single by Leo De Vries (Padres) to Max Clark (Tigers) filling up the box score with three hits, there was no lack of eye-catching performances in the Minors. Among other notables was Walker Jenkins (Twins) recording

We hope you like homers because Friday’s Minor League action had a whole lot of ‘em. From coast to coast, some of the game’s premier prospect sluggers brought out the big bats -- but none more than Lazaro Montes, who walloped a 475-foot tater at Double-A. Not to be outdone,

This year, the Top 100 prospect promotions are coming rapid-fire. Last year's No. 2 overall pick, Chase Burns, debuted Tuesday against the Yankees. Top overall prospect Roman Anthony was recently summoned to Boston, as was Jac Caglianone to Kansas City. Since the start of the season, 29 prospects who began

Some of the game's most well-known and talented prospects came through with big-time performances during a busy day of Minor League action. From Lazaro Montes' ongoing power display to Jordan Lawlar's rocket double to Kevin McGonigle's unrelenting hitting prowess, offense was well represented. But Carlos Lagrange made sure pitching prospects

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