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• Better know a draft prospect: Ike Irish

Photo by David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Auburn slugger was one of the SEC’s best hitters this spring. With the draft less than a month away, we continue reviewing prospects that the Royals could target in the first round. Today we will profile a left-handed hitting catcher/outfielder coming off a very strong season in the SEC: Auburn’s Ike Irish. Irish was born in Grand R...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Giant steps

D. Ross Cameron-Imagn Images The Rafael Devers trade shakes up the sport. Shohei Ohtani returns to the mound. A pitching masterpiece at the College World Series. Good morning. I hope you like reading about Rafael Devers, because a good chunk of the news today is about that shocking trade on Sunday. By the way, Devers was 2 for 5 with an RBI double last night. The Giants still lost to the ...2025
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• Better know a draft prospect: Ethan Conrad

Photo by Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images The outfielder has a well-rounded skill set. With the calendar turning to June, we continue evaluating prospects that the Royals could target in the first round of this summer’s draft. Today we look at a position player prospect that burst onto the scene a year ago: Wake Forest’s Ethan Conrad. Conrad was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and grew up in nea...2025
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• Royals Rumblings: Kansas City Royals News for June 4, 2025

Jeff Curry-Imagn Images Jac Caglianone is the best thing to come out of Tampa since the Cuban sandwich. Royals Data Dugout breaks down infielder Maikel Garcia’s adjustments at the plate and how that is helping the Kansas City Royals. His quality hands will always support the high contact rates and ability to put the ball in play, but the young third baseman opened previously untapped ceili...2025
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• Nationals Luke Dickerson: On A Heater or the Real Deal?

Baseball America The Nats’ 3rd selection in the 2025 MLB Draft is looking like a big hit so far in 2025, but can he keep it up? Dickerson’s Pre-Draft Rise Luke Dickerson was a prospect with major helium entering the 2025 MLB Draft, jumping over 250 spots in Baseball America’s draft rankings over the course of his senior season. Dickerson’s elite athleticism and impressive numbers made him ...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 29, 2025

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Back in the win column. Noah Cameron has had a historic start to his career: In four starts, Cameron has posted a 1.05 ERA. He hasn’t allowed more than one run in any of his four starts. He has gone at least 6 1/3 innings in each of them, too. That makes Cameron just the second pitcher since 1893 with 6 1/3-plus innings and one run or less in his first f...2025
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• Better know a draft prospect: Ethan Conrad
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 22, 2025

Photo by Emma Bronsteader/MLB Photos via Getty Images Salvador Perez hadn’t homered in a while. Salvador Perez is climbing the all-time AL catcher home run leaderboard: The list of names ahead of him include Hall of Famers Carlton Fisk (376), Yogi Berra (358) and Ivan Rodriguez (281). Eight-time All-Star Lance Parrish (289) is also on the charts. It’s conceivable, and reasonable, to expec...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 15, 2025

Photo by Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images How much do you trust your starter? Matt Quatraro doesn’t regret leaving Michael Lorenzen in for the eighth inning last night: Much is made of being cautious when a pitcher is going through the order a third time, but Quatraro didn’t hesitate in letting Lorenzen pitch to Dubón, who had doubled in his previous at-bat. Dubón’s s...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 1, 2025

Jonathan Dyer-Imagn Images Happy May Day to all. Noah Cameron’s family was on hand for his spectacular MLB debut in last night’s win: Cameron’s dad, Tracy, is from Pattonsburg, Mo., a small town off Interstate 35 northwest of St. Joseph. His mom, Diane, is from St. Joseph. They’ve been Royals fans for “forever,” Diane said, and raised all five of their kids to be, too. Noah is their young...2025
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• Outside The Confines: When you don’t wish upon a star

Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images Paul Skenes is a superstar and are the Pirates are wasting him? Players off to a hot start. Are hitters catching up to pitching? And other news from around MLB. Good morning. It’s 1:20 on Friday somewhere. Jeff Passan has the story of Pirates ace Paul Skenes’ road to becoming a superstar. R.J. Anderson believes that the Pirates are wasting Skenes’ t...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 15, 2025

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images What can wake these bats up? Anne Rogers writes about the success of Daniel Lynch IV. Lynch has 29 strikeouts during his scoreless streak. The streak is the third-longest scoreless streak ever by a Royals reliever, only trailing Kelvin Herrera (31 innings in 2014) and Wade Davis (31 2/3 innings in ‘14). “It’s really cool to be a part of w...2025
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• Outside The Confines: What’s wrong with the Braves?

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Some trends are emerging to start the season, like the Braves struggling and the Padres’ strong pitching. The minor league parks are looking a little bush league. And other news from MLB. Good morning. After winning their first eight games, the Dodgers are 3-6 and in third place in the National League West. I still wouldn’t bet against them winning 100 g...2025
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"ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel first reported the Grissom move."

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"Right-hander Gerrit Cole has triggered the opt-out in his deal with the Yankees, per Kiley McDaniel and Jeff Passan of ESPN on X."

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"Kiley McDaniel of ESPN first reported Wall’s…"

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"Turner recently told Kiley McDaniel of ESPN that Long, who was Washington’s hitting coach from 2018 to 2021, played a key role in his development as a hitter."

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"The Brewers are finalizing a deal to acquire lefty reliever Daniel Norris from the Tigers, tweet Jeff Passan and Kiley McDaniel of ESPN."

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"The Braves are set to promote top outfield prospect Cristian Pache, Kiley McDaniel of ESPN reports."

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"He currently ranks 36th among all MLB prospects on the latest rankings from Eric Longenhagen and Kiley McDaniel of Fangraphs."

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"According to Kiley McDaniel of Fangraphs, there was at least one team with its President, GM and Director of Scouting all in attendance, with “about as many scouts as I’ve ever seen at UF”."

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"Prior to that 2015, former FanGraphs prospect analyst Kiley McDaniel ranked Simmons as the Braves’ Number 15 prospect and was given a “poor man’s Craig Kimbrel” comp on Simmons."

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"In a report by Kiley McDaniel of Fangraphs, Vientos was compared to Manny Machado of the Baltimore Orioles."

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"from the Atlanta Braves on Sunday night, Kiley McDaniel of FanGraphs reported."

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"” Scouting Baseball’s Kiley McDaniel also noted Tomas’s sound right-handed swing when discussing his power: “Tomas' power is mostly to his pull side and he'll swing out of his shoes at times, showing some attributes of a 4A slugger."

• Better know a draft prospect: Ike Irish
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• Nationals Luke Dickerson: On A Heater or the Real Deal?
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• Better know a draft prospect: Wehiwa Aloy

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images The shortstop is an SEC Player of the Year candidate. With the MLB draft just ten weeks and change away, it’s time to start evaluating some prospects that the Royals could target in the first round. For a more holistic look at this summer’s draft, check out my primer from a couple of weeks ago. Today, we will begin our more in-depth coverage of specific pr...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Here comes the Judge

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Aaron Judge is doing things no one has seen before. So are the Rockies, only that’s bad stuff. Trends over the first month and other news from around MLB. Good morning. Mike Axisa argues that over the last calendar year, no one has ever been as good at the plate as Aaron Judge and that includes Barry Bonds. Bryan Hoch notes that Judge ...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Vandalizing history

Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Department of Defense dishonors a hero before reversing course. The pitching injuries are stacking up. The Orioles set a record and no one noticed. A high school baseball powerhouse. Good morning. No comments today. I know most of you would be respectful, but better safe than sorry. The Department of Defense temporarily removed a article praising...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 1, Chase Dollander

Photo by Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images The right-hander is in the top 25 MLB prospects, and could be one of the best pitching prospects the Rockies have ever had 1. Chase Dollander (838 points, 28 ballots) Dollander is once again the clear top pick for the Purple Row Prospects list. The 23-year-old clearly separated himself as one of the best pitching prospects the Rockies have ever had w...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 2, Charlie Condon

Photo by Jeff Moreland/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Condon was drafted third-overall in 2024, and has drawn comparisons to (pre-Rockies) Kris Bryant 2. Charlie Condon (789 points, 28 ballots) Condon’s 2024 professional debut was a bit of a dud, but let’s not forget why he was so highly regarded as a prospect. The 21-year-old righty slugger received a MLB record-tying $9.25 million bonu...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 3, Adael Amador

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images The middle infielder made his MLB debut in 2024, but had a mixed season overall 3. Adael Amador (736 points, 28 ballots) Amador had a better 2024 than you likely remember, but it wasn’t a smooth season for him. After a torrid two-year span that lifted the switch-hitting 21-year-old second baseman from top 10 in the system to top 30 in MLB...2025
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 13, Jordy Vargas

Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK The right-hander was a headlining international prospect, but was sidelined by Tommy John surgery in 2023 and 2024 13. Jordy Vargas (438 points, 27 ballots) Vargas boasts a pitch mix that includes a mid-90s fastball, a potential plus curveball, a promising change, and the ability to throw them for strikes consistently. At least, he did before...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Here comes the Judge
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 17, 2025

Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The offensive struggles continue. The Royals lamented their inability to put together a big inning after last night’s loss: Four innings later with one out, Drew Waters scored all the way from first on a triple by Kyle Isbel to make it 3-2 in favor of New York. Although Isbel scored the tying run on a groundout by Jonathan India, th...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 11, 2025

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images The farm system shows improvement in rankings. Anne Rogers has her latest roster projection. If Bubic is in the rotation, it doesn’t mean that Lynch is automatically starting in Triple-A, because the club feels good about its depth there. Lynch embraced helping the Royals in a relief role at the end of last year, throwing 20 2/3 scor...2025
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• Phillies sign Trea Turner to 11-year, $300M deal

Turner will be reunited with former Nationals teammate Bryce Harper, along with Kevin Long, who is the hitting coach in Philadelphia. Turner recently told Kiley McDaniel of ESPN that Long, who was Washington’s hitting coach from 2018 to 2021, played a key role in his development as a hitter....2022
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• Melvin Upton, Craig Kimbrel to Padres: Latest Trade Details, Comments, Reaction
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• Source: Phils, Turner reach 11-year, $300M deal

The Phillies and shortstop Trea Turner have agreed to an 11-year, $300 million contract, a source told ESPN's Kiley McDaniel....2022
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• Marlon Byrd to Giants: Latest Trade Details, Comments and Reaction
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• Vlad Guerrero Jr. Ready to Write His Own Pro Legacy—and Blow Away His Dad's
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• Phillies To Sign Trea Turner To 11-Year Deal
The Phillies and shortstop Trea Turner have agreed on a contract, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN. Turner will make $300MM over 11 years with a full no-trade clause, according to Kiley McDaniel of ESPN. More to come....2022
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• Braves To Promote Cristian Pache
The Braves are set to promote top outfield prospect Cristian Pache, Kiley McDaniel of ESPN reports. Pache is already on the Braves’ 40-man roster, so they won’t need to make a corresponding move in that regard. More to come....2020
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• Kris Bryant Poised to Be MLB's Best Young Phenom in 2015
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• Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 2, Zac Veen
Photo by Kyle Cooper/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images The ninth-overall pick could see Coors Field by the end of the season if he continues to play as he has been 2. Zac Veen (697 points, 24 ballots) If Zac Veen can manage the swing-and-miss in his profile while converting more of his raw power into game power, he’s going to be both a fantasy and real-life star when (not if) he makes it to th...2023
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• Who Is Cuban Free Agent Yasmany Tomas and Is He Worth Big-Money Risk?
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• Better know a draft prospect: Ike Irish
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• The state of the Colorado Rockies farm system, March 2025

Photo by Rachel O’Driscoll/Colorado Rockies/Getty Images How do things look to start 2025? In the process of writing about every player who received votes in our biannual Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) list — this edition it was 69 players across 28 ballots — I learned a bit about trends and system strengths and weaknesses. So for anyone who missed a few write-ups or even who has a more casu...2025
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• BCB 2025 Top 25 Cubs Prospects: The top 5

Matt Shaw | Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images Our countdown of the Cubs top prospects finishes with the top five prospects in the Cubs system. We finish up our look at the top prospects in the Cubs system today with the top five prospects in the system. While I’ve written that the Cubs system is down from its heights last year, it’s still a top 10 farm system in my mind and that’s mostly b...2025
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• Twins draft pick cut for tipping pitches because he ‘wanted season to be over’

Photo by Isaiah Vazquez/Getty Images A Twins minor league catcher wanted his offseason to start immediately, so he began tipping pitches to opposing batters. Derek Bender showed off an elite bat for a college catcher during his three-year career at Coastal Carolina, putting up averages of .326/.408/.571 with 32 homers and 153 RBIs in 144 games. The Minnesota Twins saw enough to select Bend...2024
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• Outside The Confines: We have a problem

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports A major gambling scandal breaks out with Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter. A recap of the Seoul Series. A revolt in the MLBPA. And other news from MLB. I’m going to assume that you’ve already heard about the gambling scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. I’m going to try to give you some links that will allow you to do some furth...2024
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• Cub Tracks’ 18 days til Spring Training

Photo by David Durochik/Diamond Images via Getty Images Typically acerbic #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news and notes, links and discussion, plus more or less scientific food for thought. Trade speculation and ST news. Still no Cody. Real baseball looms. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #C...2024
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• Outside The Confines: The Tigers claim the voice of the White Sox

Photo by Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images This might be the best offseason move yet. Well, one of the biggest moves of the offseason has nothing to do with players, or even with the shuffle of managers. The Detroit Tigers announced today that after Bally Sports Detroit parted ways with Matt Shepard the new play-by-play announcer for the season will be none other than White Sox great ...2023
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