Brewers Option Brice Turang, Reinstate Willy Adames
2023/06/brewers-option-brice-turang-reinstate-willy-adames.htmlBaseball America gave him the #88 slot going into 2021 but didn't have him on their list in the past two years.
Tigers’ Freddy Pacheco Undergoes Elbow Surgery
2023/06/tigers-freddy-pacheco-undergoes-elbow-surgery.htmlBaseball America ranked him 23rd among St.
Reds Promote Elly De La Cruz
2023/06/reds-promote-elly-de-la-cruz-top-prospect.htmlDe La Cruz has arguably the highest ceiling of the entire group, and his first call to the Major will continue the efforts to usher in a new era of baseball at Great American Ball Park.
Braves Outright Lucas Luetge
2023/06/braves-outright-lucas-luetge-clears-waivers-promote-roddery-munoz.htmlBaseball America and MLB.com ranked him 22nd and 21st among Atlanta farmhands, respectively, both touting a potentially plus slider and mid-90s heater.
Red Sox Expected To Promote Chris Murphy
2023/06/red-sox-expected-to-promote-chris-murphy.htmlBaseball America has slotted him between 12th and 15th among Sox prospects four years running.
Rangers Transfer Jacob deGrom To 60-Day Injured List
2023/06/rangers-transfer-jacob-degrom-to-60-day-injured-list.htmlHoward had the #27 slot on Baseball America's top 100 list in both 2020 and 2021 while with the Phillies.
Best Deadline Rental Returns In Recent History, #10: Mets Get A Bullpen Fixture For Duda
2023/06/mlb-trade-deadline-rental-best-returns-mets-drew-smith-lucas-duda-rays.htmlBaseball America ranked him 24th among Tigers farmhands entering that season, praising a fastball that could reach 97 mph and an impressive 12-to-6 curveball.
Astros Select Grae Kessinger
2023/06/astros-expected-to-select-grae-kessinger.htmlHe made some appearances in Low-A and Single-A that year and was ranked the club's #10 prospect by Baseball America going into 2020.
Dodgers’ Prospect Andy Pages Undergoes Shoulder Surgery
2023/06/dodgers-prospect-andy-pages-undergoes-shoulder-surgery.htmlEach of FanGraphs, MLB Pipeline and Keith Law of The Athletic have him between #59 and #67 on their respective lists, though Pages isn't in the top 100 at Baseball America or ESPN.
Dodgers To Place Trayce Thompson On 10-Day Injured List
2023/06/dodgers-to-place-trayce-thompson-on-10-day-il.htmlBaseball America (17th) and MLB Pipeline (20th) each rank the 24-year-old DeLuca within the top 20 prospects of the Dodgers' deep farm system, with BA seeing him as "a platoon or reserve outfielder who bashes lefties and plays all three outfield spots." DeLuca is a solid-to-decent defender, with his plus speed helping both his glovework and his base-stealing (58 swipes in 63 tries over his minor league career).
Forrest Whitley Out 3-4 Months With Lat Strain
2023/06/forrest-whitley-out-3-4-months-with-lat-strain.htmlBaseball America ranked the 6'7" hurler among the sport's ten most promising minor leaguers in both 2018 and '19.
Mariners To Promote Bryan Woo
2023/06/mariners-to-promote-bryan-woo.htmlBaseball America slotted Woo seventh among M's prospects over the offseason, praising his three-pitch arsenal and athleticism.
Dodgers Acquire Ricky Vanasco From Rangers
2023/06/dodgers-acquire-ricky-vanasco-from-rangers.htmlBaseball America ranked him between 12th and 21st on the Rangers' prospect list each season between 2020-22.
Best Deadline Rental Returns In Recent History: Honorable Mentions
2023/06/mlb-trade-deadline-rental-returns-reese-olson-dillon-tate-honorable-mentions.htmlScouting reports at Baseball America, FanGraphs, The Athletic and MLB.com praise Olson's secondary pitches, particularly his changeup, which he's begun using effectively even in right-on-right situations.
Tigers To Promote Reese Olson
2023/05/tigers-promote-reese-olson-pitching-prospect.htmlHe entered the season ranked 11th among Detroit farmhands at Baseball America and 12th on Keith Law's list over at The Athletic.
Rockies Recall Blair Calvo
2023/05/rockies-recall-blair-calvo.htmlHe's never appeared on an organizational prospects ranking at Baseball America, though Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs praised his plus slider and called him a potential middle reliever this spring.
Braves Select AJ Smith-Shawver, Designate Lucas Luetge
2023/05/braves-select-aj-smith-shawver-designate-lucas-luetge.htmlHe made his professional debut with four Complex League appearances that year and then jumped onto Baseball America's list of the top 30 prospect in the organization, getting the #18 spot going into 2022.
Angels, Carson Fulmer Agree To Minor League Deal
2023/05/angels-sign-carson-fulmer-minors.htmlBaseball America called him the "surest big leaguer on the board" in the spring of his draft season, and virtually every ranking of that year's draft class had Fulmer at least within the top 50 prospects of the class -- if not the top 10.
Diamondbacks Reinstate Kristian Robinson, Designate Peter Solomon
2023/05/diamondbacks-reinstate-kristian-robinson-designate-peter-solomon.htmlRobinson appeared among Baseball America's top 100 prospects entering both the 2020 and ’21 seasons and was regarded as a potential franchise building block.
Rangers Select Grant Anderson, Designate Ricky Vanasco
2023/05/rangers-select-grant-anderson-designate-ricky-vanasco.htmlVanasco appeared among Baseball America's top 25 minor league talents in a quality farm system each year from 2020-22.
Rays Select Joe LaSorsa
2023/05/rays-to-select-joe-lasorsa.htmlHis 8.4% walk rate and especially his low 13.7% strikeout rate don't stand out, and neither Baseball America or MLB Pipeline rank the left-hander amongst Tampa Bay's top 30 prospects.
Braves Notes: Tonkin, Fried, Ritchie
2023/05/braves-notes-tonkin-fried-ritchie.htmlIn other pitching injury news from deeper within Atlanta's organization, Baseball America's Geoff Pontes (Twitter link) reports that JR Ritchie will undergo Tommy John surgery.
Yankees To Promote Randy Vásquez
2023/05/yankees-to-promote-randy-vasquez.htmlThat showing caused Baseball America to rank him the #12 Yankee prospect going into 2022.
Angels To Promote Sam Bachman
2023/05/angels-to-promote-sam-bachman.htmlThe 23-year-old Bachman ranks seventh in the Angels' system at Baseball America, fifth at MLB.com and fourth at FanGraphs.
Reds Select Eduardo Salazar, Designate Silvino Bracho
2023/05/reds-select-eduardo-salazar-dfa-silvino-bracho.htmlHe'd never cracked the organization's top 30 at Baseball America and only drew a cursory mention as a potential multi-inning reliever in Eric Longenhagen's 2022 overview of the Reds' system over at FanGraphs -- due largely to a velocity spike and improvement on his breaking ball.
