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Podcast features first-base promotions for Caglianone, Eldridge

June 6, 2025

Check out the latest episodes of The Show Before the Show, MiLB.com's official podcast. A segment rundown is listed below, in case you want to skip to a particular section. Like the podcast? Subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts. The podcast is also available via Spotify, Megaphone and other

Jac Caglianone Makes MLB Debut With Kansas City Royals

Royals’ Top Prospect is 343rd Triple-A Omaha player to make MLB debut
June 4, 2025

PAPILLION, NEB. – Omaha Storm Chasers first baseman/outfielder Jac Caglianone made his MLB debut for the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in their game at Busch Stadium against the St. Louis Cardinals, the eighth Storm Chaser to debut in the Major Leagues this season and the sixth

Check out this broadcaster call a Caglianone homer -- BEFORE the pitch

@WeintraubCole
May 31, 2025

Nicholas Badders channeled his inner Nostradamus in the broadcast booth Friday night -- and Jac Caglianone made it count.

MiLB podcast discusses Anthony, Caglianone at Triple-A

May 30, 2025

Check out the latest episodes of The Show Before the Show, MiLB.com's official podcast. A segment rundown is listed below, in case you want to skip to a particular section. Like the podcast? Subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts. The podcast is also available via Spotify, Megaphone and other

Minors' RBI leader Caglianone pulverizes homer in third straight game

@allisonmast13
May 25, 2025

Jac Caglianone has been electric throughout his young pro career, and his home runs seem to defy the laws of nature. It’s only fitting then that the Royals' top prospect has rumbled into Triple-A with the Omaha Storm Chasers and in a flash, has strung together a three-game home run

Friendly foes, 2024 first-rounders Moore and Caglianone trade first Triple-A homers

@JesseABorek
May 23, 2025

For years, Christian Moore and Jac Caglianone laced up their cleats against one another in the SEC. A rivalry that spanned Florida, Tennessee and other landmarks across the South moved to Salt Lake City this week as the Royals and Angels' top prospects got simultaneous Triple-A promotions. So it was

Royals No. 1 prospect Caglianone rips two more homers for four in three games

@JoeTrezz
May 6, 2025

Jac Caglianone looks like he’s figuring out this Double-A thing and finding his groove at the plate. That's bad news for Texas League hurlers. There has been no pitching lately to the Royals' top prospect and Caglianone (MLB No. 18) showed why Tuesday, homering twice in Northwest Arkansas’ matchup against

Caglianone hits latest Double-A homer so far it lands on a nearby building!

@thevandalorian
May 3, 2025

Jac Caglianone is just showing off at this point. Caglianone, the Royals' first-round pick in the 2024 Draft, put a high fastball from Cardinals prospect Tekoah Roby (STL No. 11) on top of a building beyond the right-center-field wall at Hammons Field. Caglianone led an offensive charge with his two-run

Caglianone meets Kershaw -- the outcome? Two hits for Royals' top prospect

@benweinrib
April 23, 2025

If Jac Caglianone has any concern about facing Major League pitching, it sure wasn't showing on Tuesday. And MLB's No. 20 prospect wasn't just facing any big leaguer -- he was staring down future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw. The results: a pair of knocks as part of a three-hit

Naturals Suffer First Loss in Heartbreaking Fashion

Five-run first not enough to hold off RoughRiders on Wednesday
April 10, 2025

SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS – The Northwest Arkansas Naturals (4-1) got on the board in a hurry against the Frisco RoughRiders (3-2) in game two of a six-game series between the Texas League opponents, but the RoughRiders got the last laugh with ninth-inning heroics that evened the series with a 12-9 final

Naturals Sweep Drillers With 14-3 Win Sunday

April 7, 2025

TULSA, OKLAHOMA -- The Northwest Arkansas Naturals' (3-0) offense stayed hot on Sunday in the series finale against the Tulsa Drillers (0-3) at ONEOK Field in a 14-3 victory, giving NWA a series sweep. The Naturals knocked out 17 hits in the win, with everyone getting in on the action

Caglianone & Dickerson Homer in 9-5 Win Saturday

Royals #1 prospect demolishes first AA homer
April 6, 2025

TULSA, OKLAHOMA -- Royals top prospect, Jac Caglianone, and shortstop Dustin Dickerson each homered while #3 prospect Carter Jensen, #30 prospect Spencer Nivens, and Dickerson all had two hits in the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (2-0) 9-5 win over the Tulsa Drillers (0-2) on Saturday at ONEOK Field in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Caglianone's first Double-A homer clears ... everything?!

Royals' top prospect mashes 464-foot roundtripper for Northwest Arkansas
@alyssam_gomez
April 5, 2025

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and it looks like that includes Jac Caglianone Texas League homers. In just his second game for Northwest Arkansas, the Royals’ No. 1 prospect launched his first Double-A homer onto the street outside of ONEOK Field on Saturday night in the Naturals' 9-5

Cross' four hits, Squires' big homer lift Naturals to come-from-behind win in Tulsa

April 5, 2025

TULSA, OKLAHOMA -- After trailing by nine runs entering the eighth inning, the Northwest Arkansas Naturals (1-0) mounted a massive comeback late to take down the Tulsa Drillers (0-1) on Friday evening at ONEOK Field in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Nats put up 10 runs in the eighth inning, winning 12-11

Caglianone swaps jerseys with old friend at Spring Breakout

Reunion with D-backs' Abner among highlights of Royals' prospect showdown
March 15, 2025

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- When Royals top prospect and MLB’s No. 22 prospect Jac Caglianone stepped to the plate in the seventh inning Friday night, he saw the D-backs' outfielders take a step back. Well, maybe a few steps back. Arizona pitcher Philip Abner, watching from the dugout, thought that was

2024 Draft class gets early chance to take center stage at Spring Breakout

March 11, 2025

When players are taken in the early rounds of the MLB Draft, it’s easy to dream about seeing them under the bright lights of the big leagues, but a common refrain has been that fans don't get to see those players for years after they're selected. Thanks to Spring Breakout,

Here are the prospects with the best tools in Spring Breakout

March 10, 2025

The inaugural edition of Spring Breakout was a rousing success last year. Sixteen games showcased not only many of baseball's best prospects but also some of the most jaw-dropping tools in the Minors. Of the 10 best individual attributes we highlighted a year ago, nine belonged to players who reached

10 prospects at Spring Training who are lighting up Statcast

February 21, 2025

One of the best parts of Spring Training every year is getting to see the top prospects in baseball. A lot of the time, it's the first look fans get at MLB's future stars. But we also know a lot more about those prospects going into Spring Training than we

These are the best tools on the new Top 100 Prospects list

@SamDykstraMiLB
January 27, 2025

Players featured on last year’s edition of the best tools among Top 100 prospects should look familiar to even casual baseball fans at this point. Pirates right-hander Paul Skenes (best fastball, slider) took the Major Leagues by storm as the NL Rookie of the Year, thanks to his hard-throwing ways

These are MLB’s No. 1 prospects at each position

@JoeTrezz
January 23, 2025

MLB Pipeline's 2025 rankings of the Top 10 prospects at each position are official and the 2025 Top 100 Prospects list will be revealed at 7 p.m. ET on Friday on MLB Network and MLB.com.

Here are the Top 10 first base prospects for 2025

January 16, 2025

MLB Pipeline will reveal its 2025 Top 100 Prospects list at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 24, with a one-hour show on MLB Network and MLB.com. Leading up to the release of the Top 100, we'll examine baseball's top 10 prospects at each position.

'Great year of baseball' for Caglianone includes stamp of approval from Witt Jr.

@JesseABorek
November 19, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- When the Royals selected Jac Caglianone with the sixth overall pick in July, fans and the front office alike saw the vision: a power-hitting middle-of-the-order bat with prolific collegiate slugging exploits teaming with Bobby Witt Jr. at the heart of the lineup for years to come. Those

8 prospects who stood out in the AFL Championship Game

@JesseABorek
November 17, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- And just like that, the curtain has fallen on the 2024 Fall League campaign. The Salt River Rafters thwarted the Surprise Saguaros’ attempt at a three-peat in unconventional fashion as the road club in their home park (by virtue of Surprise finishing with the regular season’s best

Arizona Fall League Week 5 top performers

@JoeTrezz
November 10, 2024

Here are the top performers from the fifth week of AFL action:

Top performers of 2024 Fall Stars Game

November 10, 2024

MESA, Ariz. -- Thayron Liranzo wielded one of the Arizona Fall League’s most potent bats in the first four weeks of the season, but he had struggled as of late. Coming into the annual Fall Stars Game, he had gone hitless in his last 10 at-bats. But with the contest