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3 days ago | 
baseballamerica.com | J.J. Cooper |Josh Norris |Geoff Pontes |J. J. Cooper
On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast, J.J. Cooper and Geoff Pontes dig into the June update to the Baseball America Top 100 Prospects rankings and analyze some of the big movers in a great crop of young shortstop prospects. (00:00) It is a great time for teenage shortstop prospects(04:00) Why Blue Jays SS Arjun Nimmala is moving up(10:00) Comparing Pirates SS Konnor Griffin and Tigers SS Bryce Rainer(16:30) How good can Mariners SS/2B Cole Young be?
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1 week ago | 
baseballamerica.com | J.J. Cooper |Josh Norris |Geoff Pontes |J. J. Cooper
On this week’s episode of the Prospect Podcast, Geoff Pontes, Josh Norris and J.J. Cooper take in-depth looks at Royals 1B/OF Jac Caglianone and Brewers RHP Jacob Misiorowski. The pair of high-profile names have been two of the best prospects in the minors in the first two months of the season. What are their timetables, and what more do they have to work on? We also get on our soapboxes for a trio of prospects to keep an eye on.
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1 week ago | 
baseballamerica.com | J.J. Cooper |J. J. Cooper
When it comes to stolen base success rate, the Marlins are second-best in the minors. The Giants are successful on 81.6% of their steals. The Marlins are successful on 81.3% of their attempts, but then, the Marlins are doing so while stealing a full base more per game than the Giants. The full-season MiLB average is a 78.1% success rate.
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1 week ago | 
baseballamerica.com | J.J. Cooper |J. J. Cooper
Skip to content Is Texas A&M outfielder Jace LaViolette a top 15 MLB Draft pick? As teams get closer to draft day, LaViolette’s 2025 production could make that a very difficult decision. LaViolette’s season officially ended on Monday as Texas A&M was left out of the NCAA Tournament. That finalizes his season line at .258/.427/.576. That .258 batting average would rank among the lowest ever seen for a first-round pick.
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1 week ago | 
baseballamerica.com | Jacob Rudner |Peter Flaherty |J.J. Cooper
The Baseball America College Baseball Podcast is back with a special Selection Monday episode featuring J.J. Cooper, Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty breaking down the newly-released 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket. We discuss this year’s top eight national seeds, the hosting picture, tournament snubs, postseason picks to click and more. (0:50) Initial reactions to the Field of 64(3:45) Did the Big East get snubbed? (9:36) Does Kentucky belong in the field?
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1 week ago | 
baseballamerica.com | J.J. Cooper |J. J. Cooper
We offer a lot of predictions at Baseball America, but we also try to show our work to make sure that our readers can evaluate how well we do. After all, what good are predictions if you can’t see whether they’re worth paying attention to? This year, in our final Field of 64 projection led by college writers Jacob Rudner and Peter Flaherty, we predicted 63 of the 64 teams that made the official NCAA Tournament bracket. Our lone miss?
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1 week ago | 
baseballamerica.com | J.J. Cooper |J. J. Cooper
Skip to content Traditionally, Memorial Day weekend is when MiLB attendance finds another gear. With schools getting out and the weather warming up, the end of May and months of June and July are normally the time when more casual fans come back out to the ballpark. But most MiLB teams will need a bigger-than-normal summer boost this season.
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1 week ago | 
baseballamerica.com | J.J. Cooper |J. J. Cooper
Tarik Skubal threw 103 mph on Sunday. And in doing so, he showed how well he can pace himself. Yes, that is a seemingly an incongruity. There’s been plenty of discussion in recent years about how modern-day pitchers go max-effort too often. The argument is that starters don’t pace themselves like they used to, and instead just try to throw hard from their first to last pitch of their all-too-brief starts.
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2 weeks ago | 
baseballamerica.com | J.J. Cooper |J. J. Cooper
The Orioles dropped to 16-33 with a 19-5 loss to the Red Sox in the first game of a doubleheader on Friday. The Orioles went into the bottom of the eighth inning trailing by three runs, but a 13-run eighth inning with a position player on the mound, Emmanuel Rivera, sent the Orioles to a 14-run loss that is their second-worst loss of the season. The Orioles lost to the Reds 24-2 earlier this year.
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2 weeks ago | 
baseballamerica.com | J.J. Cooper |J. J. Cooper
Image credit: Henry Bolte (Photo by Bill Mitchell) It’s easy to spot which prospects are having standout seasons. And it’s not hard to notice which prospects are really struggling in the early going. But if you were asked which organizations are really performing and which ones are struggling, would you have any idea? Today we’re looking at how all 30 organizations are performing across every player for all four full-season MiLB clubs.
