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Cade Horton’s pre-draft impression, Pete Crow-Armstrong’s adjustments, Moisés Ballesteros’ swing and more.

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Local high school outfielder in the 2nd round

Crowded out of a job in New York, Luke Voit gets a starting gig in San Diego.

Willie Weiss, his ability to adapt from his positive and negative experiences brought him to triumph.

A spectacular, entertaining center fielder, but one whose reputation did not always match the defensive metrics, Hunter faces an uphill climb to Cooperstown.

July 15th, 2021 Share share-square-941426 Let’s say this straight from the outset -- Draft evaluation takes years. More than any other sport with a Draft, baseball requires years of development and positives and negatives can come on the roads between making a pick and the end of a Major League career. That doesn’t completely rule out immediate evaluation, however. As evidenced by MLB Pipeline’s Top 250 Draft prospects, we still have a pretty good idea of who the top talents were heading ...

MLB.coms Mayo: Maybe the best all-around catching prospect in this class 5:09 AM UTC Share share-square-557827 When the Marlins scouted prep catcher Joe Mack, they saw him compete in three sports: basketball, volleyball and baseball. In one particular instance, director of amateur scouting DJ Svihlik returned to upstate New York and caught him taking batting practice the morning after a district championship volleyball match.  "Its very impressive when young players will do that, and you cant ...

Daily baseball statistical analysis and commentary.

The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. For a tentative schedule and a chance to fill out a Hall of Fame ballot for our crowdsourcing project, see here. All WAR figures refer to the Baseball-Reference version unless otherwise indicated. Torii Hunter could go get it. Flu...