MLB Pipeline

The 2023 college baseball season starts this weekend and Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff are all about it on this episode of the MLB Pipeline Podcast. The trio previews the start of the season by looking at Major League Baseball's Desert Invitational, which is stacked with Top 100 Draft prospects, and by welcoming LSU ace Paul Skenes to the pod. From there, talk turns to the pro game with a discussion of who will be their organization's top prospects in 2025 before going back to the college game to answer a Mailbag question about Dylan Crews and Wyatt Langford.

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In this week's episode of the MLB Pipeline Podcast, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff dig into 10 of the best prospects who just missed the Top 100. Jonathan tals with Rockies pitching prospect Riley Pint and his decision to leave baseball before coming back. The guys review 2021 predictions about who would be the top prospects for each team in 2023 and how prescient (or not) we were and also discussed the Draft Combine, which will take place at Chase Field in June. They remembered longtime Twins scouting executive Mike Radcliff, who lost his battle with cancer last week, before wrapping up with a question from the Mailbag.

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This week's MLB Pipeline Podcast is all about celebrating the release of our new Top 100 prospects list. Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff talk all things Top 100, breaking down the list in a number of ways, most notably with a draft of Top 100 players, with Sam, Jonathan, Jason and Jim Callis all picking players from the list at each position, based on long-term value. Jim talked with Astros right-hander Hunter Brown, a Top 100 prospect with a World Series ring! And the gang finished up, as always, with a couple of questions from the Mailbag about, you guessed it, the Top 100 list.

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With just a couple of days until the new Top 100 prospects list is unveiled, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff build more excitement for that list by continuing their breakdown of the Top 10 by position lists. This week, they look closely at all the position player lists: catcher, first, second, third base, shortstop and the outfield. They also interview the No. 1 prospect in the international class, Ethan Salas, who recently signed with the Padres, while finishing, as always, with a question from the mailbag.

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MLB Pipeline's prospect lists are starting to arrive, so Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff kick off the latest Pipeline Podcast by breaking down the 10 best lefty and righty pitching prospects in the game. Jonathan discusses the time he spent at MLB's Dream Series and interviews former big league reliever LaTroy Hawkins, one of MLB's instructors at the event. The guys also recap where the top international prospects signed and answered a listener mailbag question about which righty will headline next year's Top 10.

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The latest Pipeline Podcast is jam-packed with plenty of prospect talk from Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff. First, they bring on international expert Jesse Sanchez to discuss this year's class of amateur talent that can begin signing with teams starting on Sunday. Then they delve into Jonathan's survey of club executives on a wide array of prospect-related topics, from Rookie of the Year picks (Corbin Carroll and Gunnar Henderson) to top pitching prospect (Andrew Painter). After that, they break down MLB Pipeline's All-Defense team of the top glovemen in the Minors and tackle a listener mailbag question.

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In the first MLB Pipeline Podcast of the new year, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff look into their crystal balls to make predictions for the 2023 season. The prognosticators make their picks on everything from Rookies of the Year to Pipeline Hitter and Pitcher of the Year to which team will have the top farm system at the end of '23. Who will be the No. 1 prospect in baseball at the end of the year? Which prospect will make the biggest rise up the Top 100? Who will be this year's Jackson Chourio? Tune in to find out!

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In the final MLB Pipeline Podcast episode of the year, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff stay focused on the Draft -- past, present and future. First they pick a Draft Team of the Decade, looking at the top player at each position based on their stock as Draft prospects, as well as which draftees from those classes have performed best in the big leagues, and projecting who might surpass them in the future. Then Max Clark, the top high school player in the 2023 Draft class, joins the pod before the pair hits the mailbag for a question about Jake and Zack Gelof.

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Who are the top players in the 2023 Draft class? Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff dig into the new Top 100 list on this week's MLB Pipeline Podcast. They discuss the class as a whole (a 55 on the 20-80 scouting scale), the top 10 players on the list, a couple of two-way prospects and two intriguing names from the bottom half of the list. Then they break down the big three-team, nine-player trade that sent Sean Murphy to Atlanta, William Contreras to Milwaukee and a bevy of prospects to Oakland. And finally, as always, they wrap up by answering a question from the mailbag.

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With the Winter Meetings in San Diego coming to a close, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff recap all of the news that was in this week's MLB Pipeline Podcast. They discuss the first-ever Draft Lottery, with the Pirates getting the No. 1 overall pick. Then they broke down the other Draft -- the Rule 5 -- which took place on Wednesday and was highlighted by the Nationals taking Thad Ward with the No. 1 pick before analyzing the two trades of the week involving prospects. Jonathan talked with Midwest Scout of the Year Steve Williams of the Pirates before the trio came back together to answer a Rule 5-related question in the Mailbag.

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