Prospect Reports

Top 10 Prospects to Watch for the 2016 Season

Jan 13, 2016

American League, Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, National League, Prospect Reports

Source: Rob Carr/Getty Images North America Every year, every team in baseball brings up new players from their minor league system who attempt to make an impact at the big-league level. Sometimes it works, m...

2016 Chicago Cubs Top 20 Prospects

Nick Schaeflein

Jan 11, 2016

Chicago Cubs, Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, National League, National League Central, Prospect Reports

Jared Wickerham/Getty Images North America With collaborating efforts from Robert Villarreal Over the last few seasons we have seen Theo Epstein, Jed Hoyer and the entire Chicago Cubs organization get st...

Pittsburgh Pirates Top 20 Prospects

Brandon Shrider

Jan 8, 2016

Features, Headlines, Minor League Baseball, Pittsburgh Pirates, Prospect Reports

Credit: MLB.com Until three years ago the Pittsburgh Pirates had underwhelmed for quite some time. OK, let's actually call it what it was. The Pirates were terrible, the laughing stock of the league rather,...

St. Louis Cardinals Top 20 Prospects

Jake Hasan

Jan 6, 2016

Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, National League Central, Prospect Reports, St. Louis Cardinals

Credit: MLB.com Due to their continuous success over the last handful of years, the St. Louis Cardinals have always been picking farther towards the back of each round in the draft. This has led to general ...

Oakland Athletics Top 20 Prospects

Brandon Shrider

Jan 4, 2016

Features, Minor League Baseball, Oakland Athletics, Prospect Reports

Source: Christian Petersen/Getty Images North America) Less than two years, ago the Athletics had one of the best prospects in all of baseball. Rated as a top-15 prospect, Addison Russell was the future fac...

Seattle Mariners Top 20 Prospects

Jamey Vinnick

Jan 2, 2016

American League West, Features, Prospect Reports, Seattle Mariners

(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) Once upon a time, the Mariners had one of the top young farm systems in baseball. Highlighted by Golden Spikes winner Mike Zunino, big hitting shortstop Brad Miller, and a quad of...

Backward K Podcast: Episode 01

Ryan Blake

Jan 1, 2016

American League East, Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Features, Los Angeles Dodgers, Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, New York Yankees, Podcasts, Prospect Reports, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Transactions

Happy New Year to all of our loyal followers and readers here at Baseball Essential. We truly appreciate each and every one of you and are looking forward to some more fun in 2016! With the new year comes a ...

Colorado Rockies Top 20 Prospects

Patrick Brewer

Dec 23, 2015

Colorado Rockies, Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, National League, National League West, Prospect Reports

Source: Harry How/Getty Images North America Perhaps no team in the National League West has to focus on their prospects as much as the Colorado Rockies. Long the butt of many jokes in the NL West, the Rockie...

Catching up with Padres’ Top Pick Austin Smith

James E. Clark

Dec 22, 2015

Features, Interviews, Major League Baseball, National League, Prospect Reports, San Diego Padres

I was lucky enough to interview the San Diego Padres first-round selection of the 2015 draft. The Padres used that selection on a high school talent out of the state of Florida named Austin Smith. He attended P...

San Diego Padres Top 20 Prospects

Patrick Brewer

Dec 21, 2015

Features, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, National League, National League West, Offseason, Prospect Reports, San Diego Padres

Credit: San Diego Union Tribune Heading towards the 2016 season, the Padres farm system looks immensely different than it did two years ago, and quite different than even last year. New general manager A.J. P...