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• Purple Row After Dark: What are your thoughts on the ABS system?

This season, we will get our first official taste of the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) in Major League Baseball. It has been used in the minors, and was used in the Arizona Fall League the last few years, but will officially be making its MLB debut this year. Here’s the overview: each team has […]...2026
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• SB Nation Reacts: Fans like the All-Star swing-off... but not in the regular season

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images And other results from this week’s survey. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. This week’s survey asked questions related to some changes made in thi...2025
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• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Catcher

Sam Navarro-Imagn Images The catching position looks very different than it did when the season began. The historically bad 2025 Colorado Rockies look very different than they did back on March 28 when the season began in a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. With this in mind, the staff at Purple Row felt it would be useful to revisit the “State of the Position” series that we ...2025
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• MLB will be using the ball/strike challenge system in the All-Star Game

Major League Baseball This is good news. Many of us have been clamoring for the ball/strike challenge system, currently in use in some minor leagues, to be adopted for MLB games. And the league has strongly hinted it will be in effect next year. Now, per Jesse Rogers at ESPN.com, the system will be used in next week’s All-Star Game: MLB officials added the feature to the annual exhibitio...2025
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• A look back at the Royals’ 2020 draft class, five years later

Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images The COVID class has not panned out. https://www.royalsreview.com/2024/7/1/24173811/a-look-back-at-the-royals-2019-draft-class-five-years-later https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/index.fcgi?team_ID=KCR&year_ID=2020&draft_type=junreg&query_type=franch_year&from_type_unk=0&from_type_hs=0&from_type_jc=0&from_type_4y=0 https://www.royalsr...2025
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• Braves 2025 MLB Draft Preview: Looking at recent classes

Spencer Schwellenbach | Michael McLoone-Imagn Images Taking a look at the hits and misses of the Atlanta Braves drafts over the last four years, and what you can read into potential 2025 selections. With the 2025 MLB Draft just a month away it’s time to take a look at how the Atlanta Braves past few drafts have turned out, and what exactly can be taken from them to apply to their potential...2025
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• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Catcher
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• Drake Baldwin hits the ball where he wants

Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images The only complaint on Baldwin coming out of Triple-A was not pulling pitches to right field. Looks like he’s answered that. Coming into 2025, Drake Baldwin appeared to be everything that you would expect a top prospect in the Atlanta Braves organization could be. He hit at every level in 2024, posting a .244/.313/.337 line with a 104 wRC+ in the offense-suppress...2025
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• 8 Braves prospects with an Up Arrow in 2025

Isaiah Drake | Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images Taking a look at some of the Braves prospects who have helped their stock with their performances so far in 2025. With the month of May set to come to a close, we are now two months into the minor league season for the Atlanta Braves farm system. With that in mind it’s time to start to consider some of the prospects who have h...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 9: Grant Taylor

Few players have raised eyebrows for the White Sox this spring like Grant Taylor. | Caitlin O’Hara/MLB Photos via Getty Images Triple-figures on the gun? Check. Otherworldly K-to-BB numbers? Yup. A big future ahead on the South Side? Absolutely Grant TaylorRight-Handed Starting Pitcher6´3´´230 poundsAge: 222024 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 222024 High Level Kannapolis (Low-A)Age re...2025
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• Thursday Rockpile: Gabriel Hughes’ time is close

Photo by Kevin Abele/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, March 6, 2025 Isn’t spring training just the best? Getting to see the boys of summer go through the reps and work of preparing for another grueling Major League Baseball season is an exciting prospect, as hope still permeates through the minds and hearts of fans around the world. The harsh ...2025
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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (20 February 2025)

Colorado Rockies Let’s talk about pitchers and young outfielders. Today, the focus was on pitching and young outfielders. Bud Black Clearly, Scott Alexander, who was signed yesterday by the Colorado Rockies was a primary topic of conversation in Bud Black’s meeting with the press. (Mac Wilcox explains here why this was a good move.) As manager Bud Black told media this morning, Alexander ...2025
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• Monday Rockpile: Where are these former members of the 2024 Rockies?

Sam Navarro-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Monday, February 17th, 2025 The Colorado Rockies are reporting to their spring training home in Scottsdale, Arizona with a full 40-man roster an 23 non-roster invitees. These 63 players all have the same goal: to prepare for the upcoming 2025 baseball season and to hopefully be one of the 26 men named to the Rockies’ Opening Day ...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 11, Gabriel Hughes

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images The right-hander was the Rockies’ first pick in 2022, but lost half of 2023 and all of 2024 to Tommy John surgery 11. Gabriel Hughes (534 points, 28 ballots) Hughes is another Colorado Rockies pitching prospect who was felled by an arm injury that required Tommy John surgery in July 2023 (along with Jordy Vargas and Jackson Cox). The 6’4” 23-y...2025
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• Woman umpire Jen Pawol will work some MLB Spring Training games

Jen Pawol during an Arizona Fall League game in October 2023 | Photo by Zac BonDurant/MLB Photos We might be getting close to seeing a woman umpire in the major leagues. Today, Major League Baseball announced the names of several umpires who will be working Spring Training games in Arizona and Florida along with the full-time MLB umpiring staff. Among those names was Jen Pawol, who has bee...2024
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• Max Kepler, the German Baseball Player Who Spurned Soccer for MLB Dreams
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"It has been used in the minors, and was used in the Arizona Fall League the last few years, but will officially be making its MLB debut this year."

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"And this Spring Training, he’s making a strong statement that his days in the minors, which consisted of just 29 games for the Quad Cities River Bandits, plus some time in the Arizona Fall League, should be over."

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"Jen Pawol during an Arizona Fall League game in October 2023 | Photo by Zac BonDurant/MLB Photos We might be getting close to seeing a woman umpire in the major leagues."

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"I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Cubs send him to the Arizona Fall League this coming October."

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"Top MLB prospects living up to the hype in the Arizona Fall League"

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"The news comes just a few weeks after the league’s requirement that all players participating in the Arizona Fall League be vaccinated."

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"Amid widespread expectations that the 2020 minor league season will not be played, Major League Baseball is considering an expanded version of the annual Arizona Fall League as a means of recouping some critical game reps for prospects throughout the sport, Josh Norris and J."

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"Major League Baseball is lifting restrictions on which players can be sent to the Arizona Fall League for prospects and moving up the season by nearly a month."

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"Francisco Mejia did not head to the Arizona Fall League to become a third baseman, but he was open to trying his hand at the position."

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"The Braves' Number 1 prospect was named the MVP of the Arizona Fall League after he hit ."

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"WATCH: Tim Tebow finally records his first hit in Arizona Fall League"

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"And then there was the reason they were there in the first place, six weeks of hardball in the Arizona Fall League, a sort of finishing school for elite prospects galloping toward their futures, one swing at a time."

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"1 innings for the Peoria Javelinas in the Arizona Fall League (h/t Derrick Goold of the St."

• State of the Position, Mid-Season 2025: Catcher
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• A look back at the Royals’ 2020 draft class, five years later
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• The Moisés Ballesteros call-up by the numbers

Moisés Ballesteros at bat during Tuesday’s game against the Marlins | Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images The Cubs’ 21-year-old catcher debuted at Wrigley Field this week The Cubs continue to set the pace in the NL Central, but a red hot Cardinals team is right on their heels, just one game back. The difference is pretty clear in both team’s last 10-game record. The Cubs went just 4-6 over...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 9: Grant Taylor
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• Today in White Sox History: March 14

Fielder Jones, in 1905 both center fielder and manager of the White Sox. | Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images A double threat hops defects to the American League 1901 The White Sox welcomed another player as part of the exodus from the National League, center fielder Fielder Jones. Jones left the Brooklyn Superbas, where he was a solid regul...2025
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• Royals Reacts Survey: Should Jac Caglianone make the Opening Day Roster?

Remember his name. | Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images Last year’s first-round pick is having quite the spring. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Kansas City Royals fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Please take our survey During last year’s draft, ...2025
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• Is Jac Caglianone one of Kansas City’s best hitters, like, right now?

Jac Caglianone #14 of the Kansas City Royals runs out a fly ball during the eighth inning of a spring training game against the Texas Rangers at Surprise Stadium on February 21, 2025 in Surprise, Arizona. | Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images The tools are delightful Quick! Who are the Royals’ best hitters? If you got that question, you’d probably answer first with Bob...2025
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• Rockies spring training after dark: Notes from Salt River Fields (20 February 2025)
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• SB Nation Reacts: Fans like the All-Star swing-off... but not in the regular season
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• 8 Braves prospects with an Up Arrow in 2025
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• The Moisés Ballesteros call-up by the numbers
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• Thursday Rockpile: Gabriel Hughes’ time is close
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• FanGraphs paints a bleak outlook for Royals prospects

Carter Jensen #4 of the Suprise Saguaros bats during the 2024 Arizona Fall League Home Run Derby | Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Honestly, it’s not looking much better for anyone else, either. Last week, FanGraphs kicked off their Prospect Week for 2025. It’s a week of numerous articles providing excellent insight into FanGraphs and their view of prospects. The very first ...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 11, Gabriel Hughes
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• Braves 2025 MLB Draft Preview: Looking at recent classes
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• Is Jac Caglianone one of Kansas City’s best hitters, like, right now?
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• FanGraphs paints a bleak outlook for Royals prospects
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• Four reasons Rockies fans should be excited for the 2025 season

Photo by Isaiah Downing/MLB Photos via Getty Images Despite the lack of expectations, there are still plenty of reason for excitement around the 2025 Rockies Spring training is rapidly approaching with pitchers and catchers reporting on Thursday and the remainder of the squad joining on the 18th. Like every year, spring training brings excitement to baseball fans and the potential that co...2025
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• 2025 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 39: Tim Elko

Tim Elko brings monster power to the plate, so don’t be surprised if you see him admiring a shot in a pose like this when summer comes. | Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images The White Sox keep throwing challenges at him, and the big fella swats them away Tim Elko First Baseman6´4´´250 poundsAge: 262023 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 812024 South Side Sox Top Prospect Ranking 392024 ...2025
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20

Pedro Ramirez | MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK The second installment of series features four infielders and a pitcher. Let’s continue with our countdown of the Top 25 prospects in the Cubs system with prospects 16 through 20 today. Just as a reminder, to be eligible for this list, you need to still have rookie eligibility, which means 130 or fewer at bats or 50 or f...2025
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• The Cubs will have the fewest games with the ball and strike challenge system this spring

Plate umpire Nelson Fraley wears an earpiece that gets signals from a radar that call the ball and strikes during a Tampa Tarpons vs. Bradenton Marauders game in 2022 | THOMAS BENDER/HERALD-TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK MLB has revealed some details on how this challenge system test will work. Last fall, MLB tested the ball-and-strike challenge system in the Arizona Fall League and announced...2025
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• Nationals prospects: What to make of Robert Hassell going into 2025

Sam Navarro-Imagn Images What can Nationals fans expect from the former top 50 prospect who has fallen on hard times When the Nationals traded Juan Soto in 2022, Robert Hassell III was one of the big pieces coming to DC. However, the last couple of years have not gone according to plan for the young left handed outfielder. Between injury, and ineffectiveness, Hassell’s stock has dipped a l...2025
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• Ronald Acuña Jr’s comeback can cement his Braves legacy

Ronald Acuña Jr is one of the most dynamic players in the majors but has been limited due to injury. Earlier this offseason, Ronald Acuña, Jr. posted photos on one of his social media accounts of the opening of a car wash of which he is an owner. Located in suburban Atlanta, north of the stadium that sits approximately one mile outside of the Atlanta city limits, Acuña, Jr.’s latest business vent...2024
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• Cubs 9, Rangers 6: Seven in a row!
Edwin Rios | Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs have been on a winning tear in the Cactus League. Adrian Sampson and the Cubs did not start this game well, trailing 6-2 after just three innings. But a few of the sub Cubs had nice days at the plate and that resulted in a 9-6 Cubs win over the Rangers, the team’s seventh straight victory. Wins and losses, obviously, mean nothing in Sp...2023
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• Top MLB prospects living up to the hype in the Arizona Fall League

Twins prospect Edouard Julien is among the players who have been impressing as of late....2022
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• Acuna caps sensational year with AFL MVP
As the 2017 season comes to a close, Ronald Acuna has one more piece of hardware to add to his trophy case. The Braves' No. 1 prospect was named the MVP of the Arizona Fall League after he hit .325/.414/.639 and led the league with seven homers in 23 games for the Peoria Javelinas....2017
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• Acuna caps sensational year with AFL MVP
As the 2017 season comes to a close, Ronald Acuna has one more piece of hardware to add to his trophy case. The Braves' No. 1 prospect was named the MVP of the Arizona Fall League after he hit .325/.414/.639 and led the league with seven homers in 23 games for the Peoria Javelinas....2017
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• Jason Heyward to Cardinals: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Starling gaining steam after solid AFL season
Outfielder Bubba Starling, the fifth overall pick of the 2011 Draft and considered a disappointment until recently, keeps inching closer to the big leagues. Starling, the Royals' No. 5 prospect, recently completed a solid season in the Arizona Fall League, posting a .759 OPS with four homers and 10 RBIs to go along with his defense that general manager Dayton Moore has described as "Major League r...2015
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• Today in Cubs history: David Bote hits an ultimate grand slam

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports I’m pretty sure you can never get enough of this one. David Bote’s ultimate grand slam on August 12, 2018, bringing the Cubs from a two-out, two-strike, 3-0 deficit to a 4-3 win in an instant, was hit in just his 34th big-league game. Bote had a solid 2017 in Double-A and hit well in the Arizona Fall League, putting him on the Cubs prospect radar after fi...2023
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• Friday Rockpile: The Rockies need a new source of revenue

Brad Penner-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, November 15, 2024 Another Rockies offseason once again offers the perennial playbook of articles and podcasts: Free agent fantasy wish lists, dreams trades, front office frustrations, prospect projections, stat analysis, and, eventually, roster projections. Rockies fans are used to winters filled with inaction. With the t...2024
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• Fall League puts six players on fantasy watch
Plenty of under-the-radar prospects were able to raise their stock a bit in the Arizona Fall League. Here are six such players that could make an impact in fantasy leagues in 2015 or beyond....2014
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: 16 through 20
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• 2025 Atlanta Braves Preseason Top 30 Prospects: 25-30

Photo by Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images 2025 will be a “prove it” season for many of the player on the opening installment of a fresh top 30 It’s finally February, and we are merely days away from pitchers and catchers reporting. The buzz for the future is growing louder, and what represents the future more than a top 30 propsects list. Once again we are happy to present you, the Ba...2025
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• Should the Colorado Rockies explore signing Paul Goldschmidt?

Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Since the Colorado Rockies have not yet revealed the team’s manager for the 2025 season, let’s turn our attention to some roster speculation Katie Woo broke the news during the last week of the season: The St. Louis Cardinals would not attempt to bring back former 2022 National League Most Valuable Player ...2024
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• BCB 2024 Top 25 Cubs prospect countdown: 6 to 10

James Triantos | Photo by Chris Coduto/MLB Photos via Getty Images There are some high ceilings on the players in the bottom half of the top 10. Now we are getting into the really special prospects today. All five of these prospects would be in the Cubs’ top five in other years. I really went back and forth on whether to rank Owen Caissie or Kevin Alcántara higher. Honestly, I am still n...2024
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• Braves prospects weekly spring training recap
Photo Credit: Mills Fitzner Dylan Dodd has impressed in two fantastic performances this spring My front garden is starting to stir and that means it must be spring training time, and that means it’s almost my favorite time of the year: Minor League baseball season. We are a few weeks away from minor league opening day, but many of the Atlanta Braves’s top prospects have been active so far ...2023
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• Ball-and-strike challenges could be coming to MLB in 2023
David Richard-USA TODAY Sports There’s more testing going on in the Arizona Fall League. Back in September, I wrote this article here about a ball-and-strike challenge system that was being tested in some minor leagues. Now, MLB is continuing testing this system in the Arizona Fall League. Per this article by Zach Buchanan in The Athletic, and to refresh your memory from my September artic...2022
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• Cub Tracks’ older, wiser, sadder day
Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Recent #Cubs,#MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Happy birthday to me. Welcome to today’s edition of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. Pity about Alexand...2022
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• Brennen Davis, Matt Mervis among 7 Cubs going to the Arizona Fall League
Brennen Davis bats during a 2022 Spring Training game | Diamond Images/Getty Images Some top Cubs prospects will play baseball in October and November. There’s been lots of speculation as to which Cubs prospects would go to this year’s Arizona Fall League, and today, we know their names: Cubs prospects who are expected to play in the Arizona Fall League include outfielder Brennen Davis, ...2022
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