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In an episode that Jim Callis dubs the worst in MLB Pipeline Podcast history, he, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff break down the first of the 2023 organizational Top 30 Prospects lists. Against Jim's will, they do an impromptu -- and guaranteed-to-be-terrible -- ranking of the AL East and NL East farm systems, with the Orioles the clear No. 1 and the Nationals cited as the most improved. Jonathan has an interview with D-backs outfielder Druw Jones, the No. 2 pick in the 2022 Draft and the son of five-time All-Star Andruw Jones, that even Jim would have to admit is far from awful. And the guys mull which prospects qualify as both the best hitter and the best power hitter in their systems before tackling a listener mailbag question about which Top 100 Prospects Jim and Jonathan disagree about most. Terrible. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest edition of the Pipeline Podcast with Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff centers around the start of the college season. They recap top prospects who performed well at MLB's Desert Invitational in Arizona, including Tennessee right-hander Chase Dollander and Grand Canyon shortstop Jacob Wilson, and other stars who got off to strong starts, such as LSU righty Paul Skenes. The top pitching prospect in this year's Draft, Dollander also sat down for an interview with Jim the day after pitching the Volunteers' opener. The guys then discuss prospects competing for jobs in Spring Training and answer a mailbag question about the top five Rookie of the Year candidates in each league. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. First, they look at some of the biggest prospect hauls in trades from past Winter Meetings, with Jim and Jonathan declaring a winner for each deal. After touching on the first-ever Draft Lottery, the trio previews the Rule 5 Draft by looking at the best picks made over the past decade. They're then joined by A's scouting director, and this year's West Coast Scout of the Year, Eric Kubota before wrapping up, as always, with questions from the listener mailbag. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Next up is a discussion of the decisions teams had to make finalizing their 40-man rosters, including surprises added or left off. They conclude by double-dipping into the listener mailbag, as they ponder where the Padres' Jackson Merrill ranks among shortstop prospects after an impressive Arizona Fall League, then identify their favorite prospects who aren't highly ranked. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. From there, the trio looked at Julio Rodriguez and Michael Harris II, the 2022 Rookies of the Year, and tough 40-man roster decisions facing each team before finishing up, as always, with a question from the mailbag. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jim Callis, Sam Dykstra & Jason Ratliff discuss the ongoing Arizona Fall League and upcoming World Series in the latest Pipeline Podcast. AFL talk includes the recent top performers of the week (Blue Jays outfielder Zach Britton, Cardinals left-hander Connor Thomas), every game now being streamed live, the ball/strike challenge system that has been well received and an interview with Cubs first baseman Matt Mervis. Then the guys discuss how the Astros and Phillies built their World Series clubs and reminisce about which participants had the most prospect hype when they arrived in the big leagues. Finally, it's back to the AFL with a listener mailbag question about which players could make Opening Day rosters in 2023. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the latest Pipeline Podcast, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo and Jason Ratliff focus on the Arizona Fall League. The developmental circuit featured a game Monday with a team hitting not one but two inside-the-park home runs, something that hasn't happened in the Majors since 1986. The guys discuss the prospects involved (Braves infielder Cal Conley, Orioles outfielder Heston Kjerstad) as well as the AFL's Hitter of the Week, Twins shortstop Austin Martin, and the Pitcher of the Week, Tigers left-hander Joey Wentz, who joins the show to discuss his season. They also talk about Cardinals lefty Connor Thomas' 10-strikeout game -- a rarity in the AFL -- and answer listener questions about infielders Jordan Lawlar (Diamondbacks) and Noelvi Marte (Reds). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices