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Equipped with renewed 'killer instinct,' Montgomery leads White Sox in AFL

@JesseABorek
October 24, 2024

There was a period last summer when some evaluators thought: Colson Montgomery, No. 1 prospect in baseball.

After all, 6-foot-3 shortstops with 25+ home run potential don’t come around often. The Corey Seager comps were obvious, even something Montgomery embraced.

Brewers' Pratt celebrates MiLB Gold Glove with family ... and a home run

@JesseABorek
April 25, 2025

It’s not often that in the winding world of Minor League Baseball, you find your way back home again. But for Cooper Pratt, playing for Double-A Biloxi has meant a return to Mississippi -- the state in which he grew up -- in his second full season as

Viva Las Vegas: A's Triple-A affiliate soars to first title since 1988

@JesseABorek
September 25, 2025

“Let the celebration begin at Las Vegas Ballpark!”

Russ Langer is nearing the completion of his 25th season calling Triple-A Las Vegas games but for the first time since he’s donned the headset, and the club's first time since 1988, the Aviators can call themselves league champions.

On the back of home

'I am freaking out': Marlins prospect hits TWO slams in same game

@JesseABorek
May 9, 2025

Intrinsically, hitting a grand slam takes some luck. And not just the garden-variety “hit a 90-plus-mph fastball more than 350 feet” type, either. You need three batters in front of you to all get on base without driving one another in, leaving one man to do the damage.

You could ask

MLB outfielder-turned-pitcher spins scoreless frame in High-A debut

@JesseABorek
July 9, 2025

The Guardians’ High-A affiliate, the Lake County Captains, welcomed a new guy to the bullpen Wednesday night.

At 6-foot-1 and 202 pounds, he features a mid-90s heater and a wicked sharp slider. And he happens to be 34 years old.

Top 100 prospect Arroyo drills walk-off homer -- complete with EPIC bat flip

@JesseABorek
April 24, 2025

The Mariners' High-A affiliate hosted Education Day at Funko Field on Thursday afternoon, packing the Everett AquaSox park with youngsters. While classroom subjects got much love, those in attendance also got to experience a one-of-a-kind tutorial in Bat Flip 101 with Seattle prospect Michael Arroyo serving

Polly want a comeback? Did this parrot spark Biloxi's 11-run rally?

@JesseABorek
August 15, 2025

There’s just something about animals at the ballpark and the subsequent rallies that follow them, isn’t there?

You remember the famous Rally Monkey that was almost single-handedly responsible for the 2002 Angels’ run to the World Series. The Rally Squirrel spurred on the entire Cardinals Nation during

Popular MiLB jersey takes center stage in All Elite Wrestling ring

@JesseABorek
December 3, 2025

Getting ready to talk trash to your opponent before a title fight? Rock a Trash Pandas jersey, naturally.

Eddie Kingston has never been one to mince his words. But ahead of his AEW Men’s World Championship match against Samoa Joe next Wednesday night on All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite on TBS and

Friendly foes, 2024 first-rounders Moore and Caglianone trade first Triple-A homers

@JesseABorek
May 23, 2025

For years, Christian Moore and Jac Caglianone laced up their cleats against one another in the SEC. A rivalry that spanned Florida, Tennessee and other landmarks across the South moved to Salt Lake City this week as the Royals and Angels' top prospects got simultaneous Triple-A

MLB's No. 35 prospect homers to same spot -- over batter's eye! -- on consecutive nights

@JesseABorek
May 22, 2025

Much of the baseball world has been fascinated with the Mariners' High-A affiliate this spring because of switch-pitching sensation Jurrangelo Cijntje, but the Everett AquaSox also hold the unique distinction of having four Top 100 overall prospects among their everyday starting nine.

And no one among that group has

A leadoff AND a walk-off homer? Cubs top prospect Shaw sizzles at Triple-A

@JesseABorek
May 15, 2025

Wrigley Field sat dormant on Thursday, a windy day whipping across the diamond, the calm before a crosstown Chicago weekend set. But over in Des Moines, Iowa, it was a raucous day, due in large part to the bat of Matt Shaw.

Mr. Cub himself, Ernie Banks, once decreed

'Your name is all you have': How mom shaped D-backs' top prospect on and off the field

@JesseABorek
May 11, 2025

This is the story of the woman behind baseball's No. 4 prospect.

Because the story of Jordan Lawlar can’t be told without understanding he is the son of Hope Lawlar, a single mother who raised him to make as much of an impact off the field as

3 Opening Days in one?! Double-A, High-A, Single-A are underway

@JesseABorek
April 5, 2024

Major League Opening Day? Check. Triple-A Opening Day? Check. Next up? The rest of the Minors.

Baseball fans get a three-for-one eruption of action on the diamond Friday when the Double-A, High-A and Single-A seasons get underway, signaling the official green light of an exhilarating summer ahead.

While the players about to

8 stats to remember from the 2024 Arizona Fall League

@JesseABorek
November 20, 2024

There’s no denying that the 2024 Arizona Fall League season was historic. There was a little bit of everything in the desert, with record books being rewritten during the 32nd year of prospects putting their skills on display.

It’s always difficult to gauge just how significant six weeks' worth of statistical

'Great year of baseball' for Caglianone includes stamp of approval from Witt Jr.

@JesseABorek
November 19, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- When the Royals selected Jac Caglianone with the sixth overall pick in July, fans and the front office alike saw the vision: a power-hitting middle-of-the-order bat with prolific collegiate slugging exploits teaming with Bobby Witt Jr. at the heart of the lineup for years to

8 prospects who stood out in the AFL Championship Game

@JesseABorek
November 17, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- And just like that, the curtain has fallen on the 2024 Fall League campaign.

The Salt River Rafters thwarted the Surprise Saguaros’ attempt at a three-peat in unconventional fashion as the road club in their home park (by virtue of Surprise finishing with the regular season’s best record)

Tigers prospect Briceño takes home Fall League's Joe Black MVP Award

@JesseABorek
November 16, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – You don’t always know that you’re witnessing history when you see it. But anyone who watched Josue Briceño on a daily basis during the 2024 Arizona Fall League campaign knew that he was hitting at a prolific rate unlike anything seen in the circuit’s 32

A master of deception, Rockies prospect Justice makes Fall League history

@JesseABorek
November 14, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- When the Arizona Fall League season got underway on Oct. 7, it offered participants a chance to hit reset on their Minor League statistics. For Evan Justice, that was a welcome reprieve on a year where not much went right on the hill.

But nearly everything

Witt's wedding party is in the cards for Angels' Britt

@JesseABorek
November 14, 2024

MESA, Ariz. -- Three years into his Major League career, Bobby Witt Jr. has already had 2,035 regular-season plate appearances. That’s a lot of chances to make an impression.

But when it comes to your wedding, you only get one chance to hit it out of the park.

Braves' Maier showcases elite spin rates in Fall League

@JesseABorek
November 12, 2024

PEORIA, Ariz. – When the Braves selected Adam Maier in the seventh round of the 2022 Draft out of the University of Oregon, they handed a hurler with just 34 2/3 collegiate innings under his belt a massive overslot amount of $1.2 million to forego his remaining eligibility

Once cut from college club team, Boston's Uberstine defying odds in AFL

@JesseABorek
November 10, 2024

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- At 5-foot-5 and 120 pounds, you wouldn’t recognize Tyler Uberstine in his high school days. Cut twice from Chaminade Prep in Los Angeles as a teen, he didn’t exactly scream prospect or future pro ballplayer.

Uberstine made the varsity team his senior year -- and barely