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  • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: Introduction and 21 through 25
    • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: Introduction and 21 through 25
    Brett Bateman | Lauren Witte/Clarion Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs farm system remains strong despite some setbacks due to graduations and trades. The 2025 BCB Top 25 Cubs Prospects list starts today and continues through the rest of the week. Today we will be looking at prospects 21 through 25. But before we get to that, let’s take a quick overview of the Cubs system. The Cubs mino...2025
  • Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 30, Luichi Casilla
    • Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 30, Luichi Casilla
    Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Dominican left-hander was signed by the Rockies in 2022, and had an electric 2024 season 30. Luichi Casilla (75 points, 12 ballots) Casilla was a pop-up arm in 2024 for scouts after signing for $160k back in 2022. The 6’2”, 180-pound Dominican lefty was electric in a seven-start season in 2022 (1.19 ERA, 11.1 K/9 rate, 22 2⁄...2025
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  • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: Nos. 35 to 31
    • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: Nos. 35 to 31
    Katie Stratman-USA TODAY Sports The honorable mentions who didn’t quite make the cut It’s time to reveal the five players who made it the closest to the pre-season 2025 top 30 Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list as voted on by the Purple Row community recently. For each player, I’ll include a link to individual stats and contract status (via Baseball-Reference), as well as notes on their 202...2025
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  • The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
    • The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
    Jim Hickman scores for the Cubs against the Mets on May 23, 1970 | Photo by James Drake /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images It was another failure, in some ways more frustrating than the fabled ‘69 team. Yesterday, I posted this article about how some players who the Cubs let go for almost nothing in the late 1950s and early 1960s might have helped the 1969 team get over the hump and make...2024
  • Elias provides injury updates on Coulombe, Mountcastle, Rodriguez, Urías, Westburg
    • Elias provides injury updates on Coulombe, Mountcastle, Rodriguez, Urías, Westburg
    BALTIMORE—Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias said on Tuesday that first baseman Ryan Mountcastle, who’s been on the 10-day injured list with a sprained left wrist since August 23rd, has been showing marked improvement. “Mounty is doing well. He is in Florida. I was there during Instructional League yesterday and had a chance to […]...2024
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  • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 15-11
    • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 15-11
    Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Now, we get to the top half of this year’s PuRPs list! Now we enter the top half of the mid-season 2024 Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list. Previously we had PuRPs 30-26, 25-21, and 20-16. As a reminder, in this edition of the PuRPs poll, 35 ballots were cast, with 30 points granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc. For each player on the PuRPs li...2024

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Instructional League injury and suspension

  • • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: Introduction and 21 through 25
    2025
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 30, Luichi Casilla
    2025
  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: Nos. 35 to 31
    2025
  • • Elias provides injury updates on Coulombe, Mountcastle, Rodriguez, Urías, Westburg
    2024
  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 15-11
    2024
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  • Royals Rumblings - News for January 30, 2024
    • Royals Rumblings - News for January 30, 2024
    Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Can Hunter Renfroe return to form in Kansas City? David Lesky at Inside the Crown questions the Adam Frazier signing. For $2 million in 2024, it’s easy to see him as a backup. That’s what they gave Garrett Hampson at least, and he’s clearly seen as a depth piece and not someone to play every day. But the fit just doesn’t make sense to me. And it’s most...2024
  • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1969
    • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1969
    Oscar Gamble with the Yankees in 1981 | Photo by Manny Millan /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images The Cubs collapsed on the field. And the front office made some terrible trades, too. Just as the 2023 Cubs did, the 1968 Cubs went from 10 games under .500 (35-45) to finishing with a winning record at 84-78. That meant they went 49-33 from that 10-games-under spot, a .598 winning percentage...2023
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  • The Royals Review Top 30 Prospects List
    • The Royals Review Top 30 Prospects List
    Photo by Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images What’s your opinion on the state of the farm at the end of 2023? The 2023 season for the Kansas City Royals was not a very good one, and with difficulty on the major league stage, some attention turned instead to the shape of the team’s farm system. Unfortunately, the shape of the farm system isn’t leaps and bounds better than ...2023
  • Royals Rumblings - News for August 15, 2023
    • Royals Rumblings - News for August 15, 2023
    Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Walk off wins are fun! Dairon Blanco won it with a walk off bunt. “Just how [Blanco] drew it up,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “[Mariners reliever Matt Brash] is throwing 100 miles per hour. It’s not easy to [bunt].” Brady Singer was dealing, flirting with a no-hitter. Singer threw 106 pitches in 7 1/3 innings. He allowed two hits and two earned runs a...2023
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  • Royals Rumblings - News for August 7, 2023
    • Royals Rumblings - News for August 7, 2023
    Photo by Logan Riely/Getty Images LET ZACK HIT Jaylon Thompson writes about the emergence of Freddy Fermin. “(I’m) learning every day and creating a good plan when (it’s) time to hit,” Fermin said. Perez has long noticed Fermin’s growth at the plate. Fermin was named the MVP of the Venezuelan Winter League this offseason. “It’s good for him,” Perez said. “He is working hard every day. … ...2023

Instructional League lifestyle

  • • Respect between NLCS skippers longstanding
    In baseball, paths tend to cross. And crisscross. Then cross again. If not somewhere in the big leagues, then in the Minors. If not in the postseason, then in Spring Training. If not in the Arizona Fall League then the instructional league or winter ball. If not on the field, then in the scout's section or a restaurant or a watering hole somewhere along the way. Even in this insular world, the rel...2015
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  • • Respect between NLCS skippers longstanding
    In baseball, paths tend to cross. And crisscross. Then cross again. If not somewhere in the big leagues, then in the Minors. If not in the postseason, then in Spring Training. If not in the Arizona Fall League then the instructional league or winter ball. If not on the field, then in the scout's section or a restaurant or a watering hole somewhere along the way. Even in this insular world, the rel...2015
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  • • The True Story of Tim Fortugno, the Man Once Traded for a Bucket of Baseballs
    2015
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Timeline

  • 2025
    "5 mph during the regular season, but was 95-98 for me during Instructional League and 94-97 in the Dominican Winter League with Aguilas."

  • 2024
    "” Remember, this was 1969 and the Cubs were still operating like it was the 1940s, so when reports came out that Gamble was dating white women when assigned to the Arizona Instructional League that fall, the Cubs made the trade."

  • 2023
    "The Royals needed a better draft spot than they got, and that’s the problem"

  • 2022
    "Picking apart the limited-pickoffs rule"

  • 2021
    "Join Eric Longenhagen and Kevin Goldstein as they watch Arizona Instructional League footage."

  • 2020
    "Giants’ Prospect Alexander Canario Undergoes Shoulder Surgery"

  • 2018
    "White Sox anticipate success on horizon"

  • 2017
    "Martinez trade return bearing fruit at instructs"

  • 2016
    "Peerless leader: Maddon's style unique, unprecedented"

  • 2015
    "Justine Siegal made MLB history Tuesday, as the Oakland Athletics announced she would serve as a guest instructor for their Instructional League club, making her the first woman coach in big league history."

  • 2014
    "” If that doesn’t do it for you, Verducci writes of the routine a homesick Bumgarner established in 2007 while playing for the Giants’ Instructional League team in Scottsdale, Arizona."

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Instructional League trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: Introduction and 21 through 25
    2025
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: Nos. 35 to 31
    2025
  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 15-11
    2024
  • Weekend Rumblings - News for May 4, 2024
    • Weekend Rumblings - News for May 4, 2024
    Photo by Brian Davidson/Getty Images May the Fourth be with you! David Lesky writes about how Bobby Witt Jr. has stopped pulling the ball for power. My takeaway here is that there isn’t anything wrong with Witt. He’s an elite player in the game today and is putting up monster numbers right now without doing the one thing that most hitters need to do to hit for power. Whether a small sample...2024
  • Storylines to watch for the Royals at the Spring Breakout
    • Storylines to watch for the Royals at the Spring Breakout
    Photo by Aaron Doster/Getty Images The Royals prospects face the Brewers prospects on March 17. This year, MLB will unveil the Spring Breakout Series, pitting prospects of all 30 MLB teams against one another in exhibition games. Last week, the rosters for the game were released, including those for the Royals. Among those will play for the Royals in this year’s Breakout game on March 17 a...2024
  • • Royals Rumblings - News for January 30, 2024
    2024
  • The Royals needed a better draft spot than they got, and that’s the problem
    • The Royals needed a better draft spot than they got, and that’s the problem
    MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred announces Frank Mozzicato as the seventh overall pick for the Kansas City Royals during the 2021 Major Leauge Baseball Draft at Bellco Theater at Colorado Convention Center on Sunday, July 11, 2021 in Denver, Colorado. | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images No talent, poor track record, bad combo In its second year of existence, the MLB Draft Lott...2023
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  • • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1969
    2023
  • • The Royals Review Top 30 Prospects List
    2023
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for August 7, 2023
    2023

Instructional League stats and results

  • • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: Introduction and 21 through 25
    2025
  • • Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 30, Luichi Casilla
    2025
  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2025: Nos. 35 to 31
    2025
  • • The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
    2024
    Continue with Oscar Gamble statistics
  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 15-11
    2024
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  • • Storylines to watch for the Royals at the Spring Breakout
    2024
  • • The Royals Review Top 30 Prospects List
    2023
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  • • Picking apart the limited-pickoffs rule
    Scenes like this will be rarer in 2023 — and the game is going to get crazier as a result. | Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images Reporting on the new 2023 restrictions has completely buried the lede; stolen base numbers are going to explode When we reported the rules changes approved for 2023 yesterday, we got one aspect wrong. But it wasn’t really a mistake, at least not one you could blame u...2022
  • • Tim Tebow arrives at Mets spring training week before report date
    Tim Tebow took the next step in his so-called baseball career Monday when he reported to New York Mets spring training in Florida.And he did so a week early.The former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback signed with the Mets late last year and hit the diamond for instructional league and winter ball play. The early results weren’t particularly promising.Tebow didn’t get an invite to the Mets...2017
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  • • What the staff of The Outside Corner is thankful for this year
    Happy Thanksgiving to all of our American readers (which is roughly 95% of our reader base, if Google is to be trusted). The staff of The Outside Corner has a lot to be thankful for after completing our fifth (!!!!) season covering Major League Baseball. I polled out staff about what we’re all thankful for this year, and here were the results. (regular content will resume Monday) Joseph Coblitz: I...2015
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  • • BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: Introduction and 21 through 25
    2025
    Visit the page Brett Bateman
  • • Royals Rumblings - News for August 15, 2023
    2023
    See more articles Dairon Blanco
  • • Royals Rumblings - News for March 6, 2023
    Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images What is the Royals’ magic number for the Cactus League title? Hunter Dozier has a new swing, writes Anne Rogers. “Honestly, from the beginning of 2021 to the end of last season, every day, I felt like I was searching,” Dozier said Saturday. “Trying to find something, trying something new. Always searching for answers. Whereas now, I know what it’s s...2023
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  • • Giants’ Prospect Alexander Canario Undergoes Shoulder Surgery
    Giants prospect Alexander Canario dislocated his shoulder in the final week of the instructional league and underwent surgery to repair a torn labrum, per MLB.com’s Maria I. Guardado (via Twitter). The surgery was performed on his left shoulder by Dr. Ken Akizuki, notes Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle (via Twitter). Canario was fifth…...2020
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  • • Breakthrough Series revisits Compton origins
    In 2008, MLB's Compton-based UYA hosted the first-ever Breakthrough Series. It's a four-day event, blending elements of a showcase and an instructional league. Former MLB players and personnel serve as campers' teachers, with separate clinics held for both baseball and softball players. Ten years later, seventy kids from across the country have traveled to Compton, Calif. to participate in the eve...2018
  • • Lopez's turnaround has Brewers' attention
    A voluntary stint in the Brewers' fall instructional league helped prospect Jorge Lopez carry his late-season momentum to Puerto Rico, where the right-hander could be pitching his way back into the picture for 2017....2017
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  • • Tebow drawing crowds to Mets' spring home
    Where most days of instructional league workouts would attract a couple dozen spectators -- mostly family members of the players, plus maybe a scout or two -- the back fields at Tradition Field in Port St. Lucie, Fla. -- at least for the past three days -- have been the place to be. The 200-plus fans lined up around the fields on Wednesday were there to see Tim Tebow, the former Heisman Trophy win...2016
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  • • Halo Headlines: Giavotella nearing return, Smith out indefinitely
    The September 21, 2015 edition of Los Angeles Angels news including Johnny Giavotella beginning a rehab assignment, Joe Smith’s sprained ankle sidelining him indefinitely, and more… The Story: Johnny Giavotella to begin rehab in Arizona MWAH Says: Johnny G successfully cleared the batting-practice hurdle last week, so now he’s off to join the club’s instructional league in Arizona to face live pi...2015
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  • • Mets, Braves wear caps to honor first responders
    Fourteen years ago, David Wright was an 18-year-old ballplayer, newly drafted by the New York Mets, stopping by his parents' home in Chesapeake, Va., on his way to his first instructional league in Florida....2015
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  • • Mets, Braves wear caps to honor first responders
    Fourteen years ago, David Wright was an 18-year-old ballplayer, newly drafted by the New York Mets, stopping by his parents' home in Chesapeake, Va., on his way to his first instructional league in Florida....2015
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Top Instructional League news

  • • 'Sports Illustrated' Story Reveals Absurd Details About Madison Bumgarner's Life
    2014
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  • • Justine Siegal Hired by Athletics, Becomes 1st Female MLB Coach
    2015
  • • A's hire first female coach in MLB history
    The A's announced on Tuesday that Justine Siegal, who a few years ago became the first woman to throw batting practice for a Major League team, will serve as a guest instructor for the club's 2015 Instructional League. Siegal will work with players Oct. 4-17 at the Lew Wolff Training Complex in Mesa, Ariz....2015
  • • The True Story of Tim Fortugno, the Man Once Traded for a Bucket of Baseballs
    2015
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  • • Martinez trade return bearing fruit at instructs
    The Tigers were impressed after seeing the three players they received in the deal, Dawel Lugo, Sergio Alcantara and Jose King, participate in instructional league play....2017
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  • • Fire ravages Cossins' California community
    Tim Cossins was supposed to be in the Dominican Republic this week to start the Cubs' Instructional League. Instead, he's trying to save his home in Northern California from burning....2017
  • • Prospects use instructs as springboard to AFL
    For most of the Tigers prospects currently participating in instructional league play, action runs through Saturday in Lakeland. A trio of pitchers, however, used their time as a springboard to more fall baseball....2017
  • • Matz hopes to pitch in Florida on Wednesday
    Mets pitcher Steven Matz received an injection Friday to relax the muscles in his upper back, according to manager Terry Collins, with an eye toward throwing 90-100 pitches in an instructional league game Wednesday in Port St. Lucie, Fla....2015
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Instructional League fantasy rankings and news

  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 15-11
    2024
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Instructional League schedule, game

  • • Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 30, Luichi Casilla
    2025
  • • The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
    2024
    Visit the page Oscar Gamble
  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2024: numbers 15-11
    2024
    Continue with Colorado Rockies
  • • A look at Cubs trades in the expansion era: 1969
    2023
    Check it out Oscar Gamble
  • • The Royals Review Top 30 Prospects List
    2023
    Visit the page Kansas City Royals
  • • Royals Rumblings - News for August 15, 2023
    2023
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for March 6, 2023
    2023
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  • • White Sox Minor League Player of the Week (August 16-22): José Rodríguez
    Chris Getz might get the true MVP this week, with his Project Birmingham brainstorm. | Ron Vesely/Getty Images Another MVP comes out of Birmingham, as a new development idea there gets underway Birmingham Barons José Rodríguez: .444/.524/.944 — 3 HR, 3 BB, 1 K, 6 R, 9 RBI, 1 SB **Weekly MVP**Yoelqui Céspedes: .227/.320/.273 — 2 BB, 10 K, 3 R, 4 RBI Oscar Colás: .167/.231/.333 — 1 HR, 2 BB,...2022
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  • • Braves' top prospects on display at instructs
    Instructional League play has traditionally been largely for players just starting their pro careers. It's long been a way for player development staffs to get more time with players, work on specific skills and make offseason conditioning plans and programs each fall....2018
  • • Tigers instructional league roster, schedule
    At the end of each season, Major League clubs hold instructional league play, commonly known as instructs, an extended mini-camp that allows Minor Leaguers -- particularly those just starting their pro careers at the lower levels of their team's system -- to get some work in before calling it a year....2018

Instructional League rumors, scandals

  • • The 1970 Cubs were better than the 1969 Cubs. Why didn’t they win?
    2024
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  • • White Sox anticipate success on horizon
    A buzz existed around the rebuilding White Sox crew since instructional league action last September and October. It's a championship-type buzz, but not for the 2018 season....2018
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  • • Red Sox Have All the Buying Power on the Upcoming MLB Trade Market
    2015
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  • • The True Story of Tim Fortugno, the Man Once Traded for a Bucket of Baseballs
    2015

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