Here's a look at a list that includes All-Stars, MVP Award winners, Cy Young Award winners and Hall of Famers who began their professional journey when they heard their name called in the first round of the MLB Draft. To be clear, in cases when a team had multiple first-round picks ...
Astros first-round pick Walker Janek, from their 2024 MLB Draft class, discusses signing with the team and heading to West Palm Video Luke Dickerson on signing with the Nationals Nationals' second-round Draft pick Luke Dickerson joins the booth to discuss signing with Washington, winning two stat...
Astros first-round pick Walker Janek, from their 2024 MLB Draft class, discusses signing with the team and heading to West Palm Video Luke Dickerson on signing with the Nationals Nationals' second-round Draft pick Luke Dickerson joins the booth to discuss signing with Washington, winning two stat...
The 2024 MLB Draft featured drafting two HBCUbaseballplayers, Randy Flores (Alabama State) and Canyon Brow (North Carolina A&T). Their drafting underscores the increasing recognition of talent emerging from HBCU baseball programs. Randy Floreswas the first HBCU student-athlete chosen by ...
Birmingham was also home to a Negro League team, the Black Barons, who operated between 1920 and 1960. Prominent Black Barons included Satchel Paige, Mule Suttles and, perhaps most notably, Willie Mays. A native of nearby Fairfield, Mays suited up for the Black Barons in 1948 at the age ...
Jack’s dad accomplished plenty over his long career, logging nearly 2,000 innings and earning a selection to the 1991 NL All-Star team. Hoss Brewer, RHP, Arkansas-Little Rock Relative:Colten Brewer(brother, Yankees pitcher) Currently at Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Colten Brewer has pitche...
Watson is arguably the best hitter in the prep class, he had a strong summer at a number of events, and he's young for the class. Those three facts will help him a ton in the draft models every team is using, with maybe a dozen clubs that lean on...
While we didn’t predict them in the correct order, the top five talents in the class left the board in the top five. There was a lot of talk that the Twins might end up going with a college hitter here, as they are a team that often lean on their model to inform picks. The le...
The next step came when the country imported Mike Griffin to be the manager of the national team in 2012. The current head of the Pro5 Baseball Academy in North Carolina -- who will return as a bench coach under Chadim in this Classic -- had one goal: Developing the program into one...
If they don’t go with the young left-hander, they could also be another team looking at Yesavage. If they want to consider a college bat, Cam Smith, Carson Benge, Vance Honeycutt or Tommy White could be in the mix. Jun 19, 2024 ...