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Gipson-Long's 615-day journey finally brings him back to big leagues

@ryan_a_herrera
June 5, 2025

CHICAGO -- After a long road to recovery from two separate surgeries last year, Sawyer Gipson-Long is back in the big leagues. The Tigers activated Gipson-Long from the 60-day injured list and tabbed him to start Wednesday night’s matchup with the White Sox at Rate Field. To make room on

Here are Tuesday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@MavalloneMiLB
June 4, 2025

Baseball's best prospects are labeled as such for a reason, and a number of them showed why again Tuesday. Offense was on display as the first week of June baseball got underway with Roman Anthony coming up clutch, Josue Briceño continuing his staggering power surge and Will Robertson launching three

Tigers prospect eager for fresh start after long road back

June 3, 2025

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Here are Saturday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@MavalloneMiLB
June 1, 2025

It was a grand Saturday for one of baseball's Top 100 prospects, who ended the month on a home run heater ... but he wasn't alone. A teenager cycled in the desert, another continued tearing things up in Florida and a quartet of hurlers were in total command on the

Here are Friday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@allisonmast13 and @brendan_samson
May 31, 2025

There must be something in the air because the ball was flying on Friday night, with top prospects homering from coast to coast. Jac Caglianone continued his demolition derby at Triple-A, while Rangers top prospect Sebastian Walcott lassoed the first multihomer game of his young pro career at Double-A. That

Here are Thursday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@MavalloneMiLB
May 30, 2025

Roundtrippers were flying out of ballparks all across the Minor League landscape, highlighted by a pair of three-homer games. Top 100 prospect and Tigers slugger Josue Briceño kicked things off in the High-A Midwest League with his trio of jacks before Dodgers thumper Ryan Ward did the same for Triple-A

'Hit another for Theo': Tigers prospect meets cancer patient before game, swats 3 homers

Briceño, MLB's No. 81 prospect, achieves mark not done in Majors since at least 1901
@WeintraubCole
May 30, 2025

Before Josue Briceño even stepped into the batter’s box Thursday night, his performance had already taken on deeper meaning.

Tigers No. 3 prospect Rainer showing skills beyond his years

May 27, 2025

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Here are Sunday's top prospect performances from the Minors

May 25, 2025

The top performers roundup is always about big games, but to crack Sunday's list, they had to be real big, and a lot of them came courtesy of really big prospects. Three-homer game? Yep. Record strikeouts for your first seven outs of the game? Yep. Make Triple-A look easy? Another

Here are Thursday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@MavalloneMiLB
May 23, 2025

Lovers of the long ball had a lot to feast upon in Thursday's Minor League action. Angels 2024 first-rounder Christian Moore continued his torrid start at Triple-A while a pair of catchers -- the O's Samuel Basallo and the Kyle Teel of the White Sox -- both cleared the fences

These are some of the most interesting pitches in Triple-A

@SamDykstraMiLB
May 21, 2025

When a pitcher throws 103 mph, you’re likely to shoot up in your chair. Even in this era of elevated velocity, that isn’t a reading you see very often, especially in the Minor Leagues. Only 15 Major Leaguers have touched such a number in the Statcast era (since 2015), and

5 intriguing prospects from the AL Central, 1 from each team

May 15, 2025

With more than six weeks of the Minor League season in the books, the sample sizes are swelling, and trends are beginning to emerge. It's time to start taking stock, which is what MLB Pipeline's recent market-corrected Top 100 Prospects list shakeup is all about. With that in mind, the

Here are Wednesday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@MavalloneMiLB
May 15, 2025

A pair of Top 100 heavyweights led the charge on Wednesday, with Max Clark and Chase Burns lighting up the High-A Midwest League. But the star-studded performances didn't stop there. A pair of Texas prospects -- one an Astro, the other a Ranger -- enjoyed huge offensive afternoons before ending

'A group project': Lee's journey to the big leagues forged by family

May 10, 2025

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Here are Friday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@colebradley01 and @MavalloneMiLB
May 10, 2025

There were offensive outbursts galore around the Minors on Friday night, but some of the best individual performances came on the mound. A trio of Top 100 pitchers proved virtually unhittable, while another prospect turned in a spotless debut at Triple-A. All that and more on a busy lead-in to

Here are Wednesday's top prospect performances from the Minors

@MavalloneMiLB
May 8, 2025

Wednesday's Minor League action had a little bit of everything. Multihomer games, walk-offs, continued dominance on the mound from the Blue Jays' 2024 first-round pick and other rookies who have made a seamless transitions to the pro ranks. To top it all off, a Rangers southpaw in the Double-A Texas

Yosber Sanchez highlights

May 5, 2025

Pitching stars live up to billing atop Thursday's top prospect performers

@MavalloneMiLB
May 2, 2025

Two of the game's best young pitchers played the part with dominant starts while stealing some of the spotlight from their offensive counterparts. There were more multihomer games -- including a trio of jacks from a Clingstone -- among plenty of action from another day in the Minors:

Sanchez takes the next step with promotion to Double-A

April 29, 2025

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Jobe's 'great adjustment' helps rookie outlast Royals' All-Star lefty

Jobe strikes out five across five frames of one-run ball in 2nd MLB win
April 18, 2025

DETROIT -- The 10th pitch of Friday night from Jackson Jobe registered at 99.1 miles per hour to Royals slugger Vinnie Pasquantino, according to Statcast. It was the kind of power fastball Tigers fans have come to anticipate from Detroit’s top prospect ever since he hit triple digits in his

Q&A with Tigers' Clark: What does he need to do to earn a promotion to Double-A?

April 15, 2025

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RJ Petit highlights

April 7, 2025

Clark sparks late rally at High-A with first '25 homer

@thevandalorian
April 6, 2025

It wouldn't be Max Clark's first homer of the year without fireworks. MLB's No. 5 prospect went the opposite way for his first long ball of the season Sunday at High-A West Michigan. With a full count, two outs and two runners on base in the eighth inning, the lefty

Here's where Tigers' top prospects will play to start 2025

@SamDykstraMiLB
April 3, 2025

With the Minor League season opening this week, here's where Detroit’s Top 30 Prospects are projected to start: 1. Jackson Jobe (MLB No. 4), RHP -- Detroit (MLB) 2. Max Clark (MLB No. 5), OF -- West Michigan (High-A) 3. Kevin McGonigle (MLB No. 27), SS/2B -- West Michigan (High-A)

Tigers' offense helps top prospect Jobe in first MLB start

April 1, 2025

SEATTLE -- The Detroit offense did its part to make sure Jackson Jobe had an easy landing spot for his first career start. Maybe too good a job.