The Prospect Promotion Incentive (PPI) was implemented in the 2022 Collective Bargaining Agreement as a way to encourage teams to promote their best young players to the big leagues as early as possible, and it's added an interesting new wrinkle, not only to the Draft, but to the way teams

The 2025 Draft saw 615 picks made across 20 rounds over just two days earlier this week.

As we at MLB Pipeline have taken some time to let the dust settle, some picks continue to stand out more than others. It could be that an organization got the best possible talent

It's all but impossible to reach the postseason, let alone win a World Series, without identifying and signing future stars via the Draft.

This year's Draft begins Sunday in Atlanta, with the Nationals holding the No. 1 overall pick. That makes this a great time to review each team's biggest Draft

Below is a list of every player drafted through the first 43 picks (up to the second round) of the 2025 MLB Draft.

Each club has until 5 p.m. ET on Monday, July 28, to come to terms with its Draft selections. If a player has exhausted his collegiate eligibility, he

The top of the 2025 Draft won’t be set until Tuesday’s MLB Draft Lottery presented by Nike. But the overall Draft order is beginning to take shape, now that the Competitive Balance rounds are set.

Jim Callis officially ushered in mock draft season a little over a week ago. Now it’s my turn to take the wheel for the first time this spring.

While we still have a long way to go and there’s a ton of uncertainty from top to bottom of this

We are just days away from the start of the 2025 Draft, and I’d love nothing more than to say that the picture has become crystal clear in the first round, but it hasn’t.

This is the time ahead of each Draft when check-ins with teams up and down the opening

The fact that 2025 is drawing to a close can only mean one thing: baseball is coming back sooner than you know it! Although the 2026 baseball season is only just beginning to peer over the horizon, there is still much to reminisce upon from the Threshers' 2025 campaign. Philadelphia's

Every baseball season brings something new to the diamond between the first pitch of Spring Training and the final out of the postseason. Whether it's a new favorite player, a new stadium visited, or a new milestone seen at the ballpark, there will always be a new development in any

As has become the custom in the bonus-pool era, the team with the No. 1 overall selection isn't tipping its hand and giving up any negotiating leverage. With nine days to go before the Draft begins during All-Star Week in Atlanta, the Nationals still are weighing the merits of as

The Nationals still are evaluating 7-8 players for the No. 1 overall pick, a group that consists of most of the consensus upper-tier of talent: two high school shortstops (Ethan Holliday and Eli Willits), the best of the college arms (lefties Kade Anderson of Louisiana State, Jamie Arnold of Florida

The college and high school seasons are starting to wind down, yet there's still not much clarity in a muddled Draft.

The Nationals own the No. 1 pick and are considering a pool of 7-8 candidates. That group is believed to include the top two high school position players (shortstops Ethan

The 2025 Draft class is more volatile than usual, so there's not much certainty with a little more than two months before the Nationals exercise the No. 1 overall pick July 13 during the All-Star Game festivities in Atlanta.

Two high schoolers -- shortstop Ethan Holliday and right-hander Seth

Since the Prospect Promotion Incentive (PPI) was implemented under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement, four players have earned their clubs extra Draft picks.

The PPI rewards teams for promoting their best prospects to the big leagues at the start of the season, enabling them to earn a Draft pick if said

DALLAS – In the 2009 and ‘10 MLB Drafts, the Washington Nationals had the No. 1 pick and turned those selections into a pair of franchise-changing players, Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper.

At Tuesday’s Draft Lottery during the 2024 Winter Meetings, Washington earned another shot at the very top of the

The baseball world is about to focus its offseason gaze on Dallas, Texas, as the Winter Meetings arrive in the Lone Star State on Sunday ready to set the Hot Stove aflame.

While the focus of the Winter Meetings is usually on the Major League happenings, there will be plenty for

Baseball is unique among the major sports in terms of how common it is for players to be drafted more than once, often including players who are chosen both out of high school and college. Since the inaugural Draft in 1965, 30 players have been picked in the first round

Owen Murphy walked off the mound at Carilion Clinic Field in Salem, Virginia with a smile on his face. Four days later, the smile would return as the Carolina League named him as their Player of the Week, Murphy’s first league-wide honor. The first full professional season for Atlanta’s 2022

SAN DIEGO -- Major League Baseball conducted its first Draft Lottery on Tuesday at the Winter Meetings, and the Pirates walked away with the biggest prize: the No. 1 pick in the 2023 Draft.

The Nationals secured the second pick, the Tigers will select third and the Rangers fourth. The Twins

The First-Year Player Draft will have a different look in 2021. As of Monday, so will the leadup to the annual event.

On Monday, MLB and USA Baseball announced the inaugural MLB Draft Combine will take place June 20-26 at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina.

Eric Orze has made a habit of snapping off hellacious curveballs. Having some thrown his way? That’s another story.

At an age when most worry what type of fun will be had on the weekends, Orze faced two of the nastiest curves life can offer. But instead of

Following the five-round 2020 MLB First-Year Player Draft, MiLB.com takes an organization-by-organization look at each pick with help from team scouting executives.

The Tigers went into the Draft knowing they were going to add an offensive centerpiece in Spencer Torkelson. And they left it with even more firepower.

Detroit selected hitters with

Following the five-round 2020 MLB First-Year Player Draft, MiLB.com takes an organization-by-organization look at each pick with help from team scouting executives.

Part of the beauty of sports drafts is that if you’re not performing so well on the field, there’s hope in the future.

And for the second year in a row, the Orioles found optimism in an early Draft pick. After selecting catcher Adley Rutschman No. 1 overall in 2019, Baltimore

Following the five-round 2020 MLB First-Year Player Draft, MiLB.com takes an organization-by-organization look at each pick with help from team scouting executives.