MLB Pipeline

Find out about the stars of tomorrow, from the guys who know today. Jim Callis (@jimcallisMLB) and Jonathan Mayo (@JonathanMayo) are your tour guides for this ride through the unfolding stories & breaking news in Minor League Baseball. From top prospects to scouting executives to farm directors, the MLB Pipeline is jam-packed with exclusive coverage of the minors you can't get anywhere else.

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Back To School
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.
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Nearly Top 100
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.
67 min
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The Top 100 is here! The Top 100 is here!
This week's MLB Pipeline Podcast is all about celebrating the release of our new Top 100 prospects list.
72 min
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Building Up To The Top 100
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.
64 min
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List Season Has Begun!
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.
60 min
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International Intrigue, Survey Says & More
The latest Pipeline Podcast is jam-packed with plenty of prospect talk from Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff.
67 min
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Predictions for 2023
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.
50 min
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Best Draft prospects of the decade, plus Max Clark
In the final MLB Pipeline Podcast episode of the year, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff stay focused on the Draft -- past, present and future.
73 min
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The Top 100 Draft Prospects list is out!
64 min
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That's a wrap on the Winter Meetings
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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Winter Meetings preview
The baseball world will descend on San Diego for the Winter Meetings next week and Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff have you covered with everything you need to know to be ready from a prospect perspective.
60 min
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Rookies & Rosters
On the latest edition of the Pipeline Podcast, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff begin looking ahead to 2023 and trying to project next season's top rookies. Jim and Jonathan draft five prospects each based on where they think they'll finish in Rookie of the Year balloting, and they have Orioles infielder Gunnar Henderson and Diamondbacks outfielder Corbin Carroll as the favorites in each league.
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Putting a bow on the AFL
On this week's MLB Pipeline Podcast, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff wrap up coverage of the Arizona Fall League by recapping the Championship game and analyzing the league's award winners and top performers before Jim sits down for an interview with Fall League MVP Heston Kjerstad of the Orioles.
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Postseason heroes and AFL standouts
With another exciting Major League season in the books, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff examine the postseason through a prospect lens on this week's MLB Pipeline Podcast. That means a deep dive into the work of ALCS and World Series MVP Jeremy Peña, providing some historical perspective in terms of where his postseason measures up against other rookies and examining where he lands in terms of long-term value of the 2022 rookie class. The rest of the episode looks at the Arizona Fall League, with Twins prospect Austin Martin joining the pod and the trio recapping the Fall Stars Game and looking ahead to the final week of the AFL season before answering a mailbag question about Astros prospect Zach Daniels.
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Fall League, Fall Classic
Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra & Jason Ratliff discuss the ongoing Arizona Fall League and upcoming World Series in the latest Pipeline Podcast.
60 min
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An Inside Job
On the latest Pipeline Podcast, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff focus on the Arizona Fall League
59 min
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First Week In The Fall League
Jim Callis and Jason Ratliff just returned from the Arizona Fall League and Jonathan Mayo just got there, so the latest Pipeline Podcast centers on what transpired in the developmental circuit's first week. They discuss the first two starts by Rangers right-hander Kumar Rocker and delve into several other prospects, including Orioles outfielder Heston Kjerstad, Giants outfielder Luis Matos and Brewers catcher Jeferson Quero. There's more AFL talk with an interview with Tigers outfielder Parker Meadows and a mailbag question about Blue Jays infielder Addison Barger, plus discussion of rookies who could make an impact in the Division Series. The guys also send their love to Sarah Langs and ask for help in her battle with ALS.
52 min
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Arizona Fall League opener, haboobs, a Painter ...
Jason Ratliff and Jim Callis are on location during the opening week of the Arizona Fall League season and they're joined by Jonathan Mayo in discussing the start of the AFL's 30th year, including top performances and dust storms (haboobs). They then shift to talking about the top prospects from the 2022 season, as Jonathan interviewed the Phillies' Andrew Painter, MLB Pipeline's Pitching Prospect of the Year. Gunnar Henderson, our Hitting Prospect of the Year, was discussed along with some of the other bats who landed on the Pipeline Prospect Team of the Year. The trio finished off, as always, with a question in the mailbag, this time about Nick Gonzales' return engagement in the AFL.
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Arizona Fall League Sleepers
With the Arizona Fall League season ready to start on Oct. 3, the latest Pipeline Podcast identifies several non-Top 100 Prospects who could make a name for themselves in the developmental circuit.
52 min
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All in on the Arizona Fall League
It's all Arizona Fall League, all the time on this week's episode of the MLB Pipeline Podcast. With AFL rosters released late last week, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff do a deep dive into the prospects who will be in action in a couple of weeks.
62 min
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Top Performers In The Minors
Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff are all together again for the first time in a while on the MLB Pipeline Podcast, and their focus this edition is on the top Minor League performers of 2022
54 min
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Let the callups continue
Sam Dykstra and Jonathan Mayo kick off this week's MLB Pipeline podcast breaking down the latest big prospect callups to the Major Leagues, including Top 100 prospects like the Astros' Hunter Brown, the Yankees' Oswald Peraza and the Red Sox's Triston Casas.
64 min
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Here we come A-Carrolling
On this week's MLB Pipeline Podcast, Sam Dykstra and Jonathan Mayo celebrate the callup and big league debut of No. 3 overall prospect Corbin Carroll of the D-backs.
61 min
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Ranking The Systems
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Re-rank and file
MLB Pipeline just re-ranked all of its prospect lists, from the Top 100 to all 30 team Top 30 lists, and Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff waste no time digging into the new lists on this week's episode.
67 min