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The 2023 Double-A All-Stars and award winners

Yankees' Domínguez, Rays' Caminero made debuts in The Show
@JoeTrezz
September 26, 2023

As summer ebbs into fall, Minor League Baseball has started to reveal its end-of-season award winners and All-Star teams. Last week it was the three Single-A and High-A circuits. Now it's time to reveal this year's Double-A honors, as voted on by league managers. In the Eastern League, Baltimore's Coby

Shuckers' Misiorowski brings the heat, fans 12

Top Brewers prospect posts six zeros in his fifth Double-A start
@JoeTrezz
August 16, 2023

The Brewers knew when they plucked Jacob Misiorowski in the second round and gave him the biggest bonus in their 2022 Draft class, that the upside junior college righty had the potential to dominate. Now, a little more than a year since his drafting, Misiorowski is already at Double-A Biloxi

Schanuel coming as advertised for Trash Pandas

Three weeks after Draft, Angels first-rounder mashing at Double-A
@JoeTrezz
July 30, 2023

When the Angels drafted Nolan Schanuel with the 11th overall pick in this month’s 2023 MLB Draft, the organization hoped the slugging first baseman would rise quickly through its Minor League system. It was a match seemingly made for such an ascent: come Draft day, many felt Schanuel’s polished bat

Jace Jung's bat acclimating quickly to Erie

MLB's No. 57 prospect homers twice in sixth Double-A game
@JoeTrezz
July 30, 2023

Jace Jung is making this Double-A thing look easy. The Tigers’ No. 2 prospect has only been at the level less than a week, but he’s been flexing his power ever since arriving at Detroit’s Double-A affiliate Erie on July 25. The latest example came Sunday, when Jung belted two

Tiedemann dominates in rehab return to Dunedin

Top-ranked Blue Jays prospect sharp with six K's at Single-A
@JoeTrezz
July 29, 2023

When he’s healthy, there aren’t many more dominant pitching prospects than Ricky Tiedemann, who made four starts at Double-A New Hampshire earlier this season before missing two months with a biceps issue. The good news for the Blue Jays and their No. 1 prospect per MLB Pipeline? If Tiedemann’s rehab

DSL Red Sox no-hit themselves, well, sort of

Boston's DSL Blue squad twirls gem against DSL Red team
@JoeTrezz
July 7, 2023

When you play in a league with more than one team from your organization, every head-to-head matchup comes with bragging rights. The Rookie-level Dominican Summer League Red Sox Blue commandeered them on Thursday in pretty remarkable fashion – no-hitting organizational counterpart Red Sox Red in a 1-0 victory. That’s right:

With 12 more K's, Grayson rocks and rolls for Tides

Orioles right-hander sporting 1.54 ERA in six starts back at Norfolk
@JoeTrezz
July 5, 2023

Grayson Rodriguez didn’t let his struggles at the big league level carry over back to Triple-A when he returned to the level in early June. A month later, the Orioles former top prospect looks like he’s knocking down the big league door once again. Rodriguez turned in another gem Tuesday,

Renegades' Thorpe brings the heat in 12-K start

No. 6 Yankees prospect runs scoreless streak to 17 2/3 innings
@JoeTrezz
June 11, 2023

Even with Anthony Volpe recently graduated, the Yankees’ farm system right now is known for its position player talent, with top-ranked prospect Jasson Domínguez headlining a crop whose five best-rated prospects per MLB Pipeline are exciting young hitters. But the system has some arms, too. That’s becoming super obvious at

San Jose's two-way sensation swats first pro homer

No. 9 Giants prospect Crawford showcases tantalizing potential
@JoeTrezz
June 10, 2023

Coming out of the 2022 Draft, perhaps no prospect offered as much intrigue and upside as Reggie Crawford, a two-way player from the University of Connecticut who was recovering from major injury when the Giants snagged him with the last pick of the first round, signing him for a slightly

DSL Guardians kick off season with 28-run barrage

Rookie-level squad rolls on Opening Day with 13-run frame, 24 hits
@JoeTrezz
June 5, 2023

There is nothing like Opening Day, and the Rookie-level Guardians Blue had one for the ages in the Dominican Summer League on Monday. Cleveland’s DSL affiliate came out of the gate swinging in its inter-organizational opener against the DSL Guardians Red … and swinging, and swinging and swinging. When they

Elly's massive May rolls on with two-homer night

MLB's No. 4 prospect socks two more homers, has nine this month
@JoeTrezz
May 26, 2023

Reds fans far and wide entered 2023 envisioning the day when top prospect Elly De La Cruz would reach Cincinnati. That day might be rapidly approaching. It’s hard to find a hitter hotter than De La Cruz, the fourth-ranked prospect in baseball per MLB Pipeline, who has spent the month

Lee's 6 hits key Space Cowboys' sonic boom

Astros prospects León, Dirden also go deep in 8-HR, 24-run rout
@JoeTrezz
May 7, 2023

To remember a day like he had at the plate on Sunday, Korey Lee said he needs to think back "probably to Little League or high school, or something like that." When they happen at this level, they're hard to forget. "Just from a hitting standpoint, (today) was probably the

Pelicans' Horton dials up dominance in second start

Fourth-ranked Cubs prospect fans seven over four hitless frames
@JoeTrezz
April 20, 2023

If you thought Cade Horton’s pro debut was electric, you need to see what he did for an encore. The Cubs' No. 4 prospect and top pitching prospect (No. 93 overall) followed up his first career start with another dazzling effort, striking out seven across four no-hit innings in Single-A

Red-hot Adell smashes 460-foot home run

Angels farmhand goes yard in third straight game for the Bees
@JoeTrezz
April 7, 2023

Jo Adell hasn’t stopped hitting homers since he fell short of making the Angels’ Opening Day roster, and his third in as many games was the best one yet. In Triple-A Salt Lake’s 6-5 win over Albuquerque on Thursday night, Adell took a 3-1 fastball from right-hander Karl Kauffman and

Grayson ready for rehab return with Aberdeen

Top Orioles pitching prospect not ruling out MLB debut this year
@JoeTrezz
August 30, 2022

ABERDEEN, Md. -- In Grayson Rodriguez’s mind, he was on the cusp of promotion when injury struck in early June, given the dominant first half at Triple-A Norfolk the righty remembers as “hands down the best I’ve ever thrown the baseball in my life.” Instead, he was rewarded for that

Wacha, 'pen combine on Worcester's first no-no

Rehabbing righty, Politi, Shugart deliver feat vs. first-place Bulls
@JoeTrezz
August 5, 2022

Michael Wacha has come close to experiencing a no-hitter several times in the Majors, but had never seen one come to fruition until Thursday night at Triple-A Worcester. What began as a rehab start for the Red Sox righty ended in historic fashion for the WooSox, who achieved their first

Julien homers twice, plates seven for Wind Surge

Twins No. 27 prospect collects four hits en route to Wichita record
@JoeTrezz
June 30, 2022

On certain nights, there's a guy who can basically beat an entire team by himself. Edouard Julien had one of those nights Wednesday. The No. 27 Twins prospect homered twice as part of a career-high seven-RBI night to pace Double-A Wichita’s 10-1 win over Springfield, plating the Wind Surge’s first

Rafaela hits for first cycle in Drive history, naturally

Red Sox No. 27 prospect's feat follows Hitter of the Month honors
@JoeTrezz
May 18, 2022

Natural cycles are the rarest type of cycle. They’re also the most dramatic, allowing the player to punctuate his achievement with a roundtripper and then celebrate with a jog. Ceddanne Rafaela lived that reality Tuesday, hitting for a natural cycle in High-A Greenville’s 11-6 win over Hickory. The No. 27

Four San Antonio pitchers combine on no-hitter

Bachar, Lugo, Belen, Kopps delivers milestone against Travelers
@JoeTrezz
May 15, 2022

To see Kevin Kopps react, it looked like the end of any other game. His teammates let him hear about the lack of emotion afterward, after they’d spilled out of the home dugout in elation, engulfed their closer in the center of Nelson Wolff Stadium, and later as the clubhouse

Then and now: Northwest League

At six teams, Minor Leagues' smallest circuit rich in tradition
@JoeTrezz
April 1, 2022

Following Major League Baseball's announcement that historical league names are returning to the Minors in 2022, MiLB.com provides a refresher on each of the 11 circuits from Triple-A, Double-A, High-A and Single-A -- including past champions, famous alumni and more.

Then and now: Eastern League

Largest Double-A circuit enters its 11th decade of play
@JoeTrezz
March 21, 2022

Following Major League Baseball's announcement that historical league names are returning to the Minors in 2022, MiLB.com provides a refresher on each of the 11 circuits from Triple-A, Double-A, High-A and Single-A -- including past champions, famous alumni and more.