This installment collects all transactions involving minor league players, i.e. those not on 40-man rosters, for the period Oct. 1–14. As always, transactions are conveyed by Major League Baseball.

As mentioned in our 2025 Hit+ leaderboard, Baseball America has measured performance throughout the 2025 season based on underlying metrics via Hawk-Eye data gathered across the minor leagues. The ...

College baseball’s reach didn’t stop when the regular season ended—it followed players straight into October. After 293 schools produced at least one big leaguer during the 2025 regular season, 118 of ...

When studying how starting pitcher velocity corresponds to MLB success and longevity, we found a clear correlation between between pitchers who throw harder and those who have longer careers. But this ...

Editor’s Note: The story has been updated to correct that the bottom of the zone is 27% of a batter’s height and to incorporate information about the mid-point of the plate requiring a pitch plot ...

Just because some players didn’t make their pro debut this season doesn’t mean they weren’t putting in meaningful work behind the scenes. The instructional league provides a key developmental setting, ...

The never-ending rise of MLB velocity keeps forcing us to recalibrate what is considered top-tier velocity. Broadcasts uses to use flame graphics to highlight pitches that were in the upper 90s. Now, ...

Whitney passed on early-round draft money in 2024 to attend Oregon State and immediately looked like a pro-ready arm as a freshman. He posted a 3.40 ERA with 120 strikeouts against 37 walks in 76.2 ...

This week, we’ve been examining a variety of pitch types across the minor leagues, ranking the best fastballs and breaking balls according to Stuff+ grades. Today, we’ll be taking a closer look at ...

Yesterday, we examined the top fastballs in the minor leagues per Stuff+, ranking the top four- and two-seam fastballs as graded based on their unique pitch characteristics. Today, we’ll be continuing ...

Welcome back to our offseason scouting series for the 2026 draft class. In this series, we’ll be examining some of the top players in the class by getting into the weeds with video, data and reporting ...

In this week’s Prospect Podcast, Jesús Cano and J.J. Cooper talk about the bridge and instructional leagues, where MLB draft picks and top international prospects get intense instruction in a more ...