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TORONTO – The road to get back to a Major League mound was, as Lucas Giolito put it, long and arduous. But as his strong return on Wednesday night demonstrated, it has a chance to be highly rewarding.

The first month of the season is in the books, but there's plenty of action in store. There are races to track in all of the divisions, milestones within reach for star players and it's never too early to think about who will capture some coveted hardware. And there's only

The Minor League season is a month old and several of the game's best hitting prospects are off to fast starts. Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony is tearing up Triple-A (just like he did at the end of last year), Padres shortstop Leo De Vries is leading the High-A Midwest

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New York-based sluggers have maintained their stranglehold on the top of the Hitter Power Rankings. But a Midwestern star has jumped into the top three, while three new names with hot bats have broken into the top 10 since our last edition two weeks ago. Once again, the Hitter Power

TORONTO -- Clearly, the Boston bats had no trouble clearing customs. And to say Jarren Duran was a tone-setter when he belted the third pitch of Tuesday night’s game at Rogers Centre over the wall in right field would be an understatement.

The Washington Nationals are on the clock. OK, not quite yet, but they do have the No. 1 pick in this year’s Draft, and MLB Pipeline has an updated and expanded Draft Top 150, ranking the players all 30 teams are criss-crossing the country to see to line up their

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What a difference one year -- and one or more players -- can make. The seven teams below really scuffled offensively at a certain position in 2024, but now they are flying high at that same spot in 2025. Whether it's due to the performance of a newcomer or a

CLEVELAND -- Manager Alex Cora has been trying his hardest this season to find at-bats for Rob Refsnyder due to the Red Sox facing off against so many right-handed pitchers. On Sunday, the right-handed-hitting Refsnyder and the Red Sox finally got a chance to face off against a left-hander. He

CLEVELAND -- A strong weekend from Jarren Duran ended on a sour note in Cleveland on Sunday when he was involved in an incident with a fan in the middle of the seventh inning of Boston’s 13-3 win. It occurred after the top of the inning, when the Red Sox

The prospect performances that stood out Sunday across the Minor Leagues involved big names (like Marcelo Mayer and Matt Shaw) going yard and big arms (like Jacob Misiorowski) racking up a lot of strikeouts. Not to mention Arjun Nimmala, who has put a little home run streak together at High-A.

CLEVELAND -- The third inning of Game 2 of the Red Sox’ 7-3 win over the Guardians in the nightcap of Saturday’s doubleheader was the perfect encapsulation of how dangerous Jarren Duran can be.

CLEVELAND -- Alex Cora’s 1,000th game as the Red Sox's manager had a little bit of everything. It started with a barrage of rain on Friday that forced a doubleheader on Saturday -- and forced Cora to wait 18 hours to achieve his milestone. And while it came in the

After more than two years and three injuries, Lucas Giolito is finally on the cusp of making his Red Sox debut. The likely last hurdle came on Friday in a rehab start for Triple-A Worcester. The right-hander struck out four in 4 2/3 innings against the Syracuse Mets. He gave

CLEVELAND -- The Guardians and Red Sox were expected to be in the national spotlight Friday night on Apple TV+. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans. The opener of the weekend set between Cleveland and Boston at Progressive Field was postponed by rain. The clubs will instead play a split

BOSTON – Getaway day with Garrett Crochet on the mound. Confidence beamed throughout the clubhouse that a happy flight to Cleveland loomed for the Red Sox. But something unexpected happened on Thursday afternoon: Boston’s new ace lefty had a complete struggle with command, particularly in the first two innings.

For Red Sox fan Anna Gailbreath, Crochet day is crochet day. See, Gailbreath is crocheting a red and white sweater this season during lefty Garrett Crochet's starts. She spends each outing working away on the sweater -- but only as long as Crochet is in the game. Once he exits,

A number of Top 100 prospects proved worthy of their rankings at the plate and on the mound, while one ended a game with a memorable moment ... and a bat flip. Andrew Painter took another positive step forward on his path back from Tommy John surgery while an unranked

BOSTON -- When Kristian Campbell takes the field with the Red Sox on Thursday to close out this seven-game homestand, it will mark the four-week anniversary of his Major League debut. And what an action-packed first month it has been in the Majors for MLB Pipeline’s No. 6 prospect (Boston’s