Volpe is ranked fifth on MLB Pipeline’s 2023 Top 100 prospects list, trailing only Baltimore’s Gunnar Henderson, Arizona’s Corbin Carroll, the Mets’ Francisco Álvarez and St. Louis’ Jordan Walker. Volpe, the Yankees’ top prospect, also ranked fifth on MLB Pipeline’s list in 2022. The 21-year-old spent most of 2022 at Double-A Somerset before earning a... Read more
Yankees No. 1 prospect Anthony Volpe’s stats dipped last year from his sensational 2021 in Low-A and High-A ball. Playing most of last season with Double-A Somerset and the tail end for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the do-it-all shortstop’s batting average was way down, dropping from .294 to .249. His homers fell from 27 to 21, his... Read more
Over the past two years, Gunnar Henderson quickly climbed each full-season level of the Orioles’ Minor League system. That culminated with the 2019 second-round Draft pick getting his first taste of the Majors during an impressive 34-game stint with the Orioles at the end of the ’22 season. Now, Henderson is the clear front-runner for... Read more
Welcome back to Battery Power’s top 25 Atlanta Braves preseason prospect list, as we now enter the home stretch of this series. We’ve already put together four articles of prospects which you can catch up with below and we’re now entering the top 10 of the system. This is the first list that hints at... Read more
Welcome back to the third installment of the top 25 prospects in the Atlanta Braves system, presented by Battery Power. As always we’ve been receiving a lot of support for the list, and we appreciate your comments and attention. If you haven’t been following along the links below will give you a chance to catch... Read more
The hot corner has historically had a high bar for National Baseball Hall of Fame entry. But in 2023, Scott Rolen made the cut and completed a meteoric rise in support in his time on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ballot. Rolen was the only one of the 28 candidates on the BBWAA Hall... Read more
Hello, and welcome to today’s episode of Twins Trade Talk. I’m your host, Ben Clemens, ostensibly a writer at FanGraphs but now an exclusive chronicler of Twin City swaps. Last week, Minnesota traded AL batting champion Luis Arraez in a deal I absolutely loved. If that’s the main course, Monday’s move was dessert: Let’s start... Read more
The Red Sox have acquired infielder Adalberto Mondesí and a player to be named from the Royals, the team announced Tuesday. Pitcher Josh Taylor is headed to Kansas City. Although Mondesí is a switch hitter, he is better against lefties, similar to Arroyo and Duvall. The Sox could use Arroyo, Mondesí , and Duvall for... Read more
It’s the second major trade in two days for the Royals, who dealt Gold Glove center fielder Michael A. Taylor to the Minnesota Twins on Monday for a pair of pitching prospects. Mondesi is the son of former All-Star outfielder Raul Mondesi, who played 13 seasons in the majors with seven different teams – primarily... Read more
BOSTON — Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom continued his quest to make his team stronger up the middle by acquiring talented but oft-injured infielder Adalberto Mondesi in a trade with the Royals on Tuesday. In exchange, the Red Sox sent lefty reliever Josh Taylor — also a player with a history of injury... Read more
