Few teams can match the international scouting track presence of the Mariners. And nearly six years ago, in a span of three days in August, the Mariners landed two promising young Latin American middle infielders: Asdrubal Cabrera and Luis Valbuena. The Mariners have since traded both players to the...

Milwaukee’s Double-A Huntsville club was a nightmare for Southern League pitchers in 2008. Huntsville routinely rolled out a prospect-heavy lineup, mixing in Matt LaPorta, Mat Gamel, Angel Salome, Michael Brantley, Lorenzo Cain and Cole Gillespie throughout the season. The final product was an...

As mentioned, the Puerto Rican League was full of more veterans than prospects in its return, but it still had plenty of storylines.. Consider: IAN KENNEDY, RHP, YANKEES Kennedy had as bad a year in 2008 as he had in 2007, when he shot through three minor league levels and finished his first full pr...

Used to be, winter league baseball in Puerto Rico and Mexico brought out the stars and the crowds, with many of the game’s top-flight minor leaguers on display, too. Indeed, the 1960s and into the 1990s were the good old days—a period of time that seems to get better by the year whenever...

Sift through the pile of stats coming out of the Dominican League, and it’s almost too good to be true. Pablo Ozuna, a 34-year-old third baseman, must have found the fountain of youth. What else to make of his time there? When the playoffs got under way, he was the regular-season batting champ...

Fernando Martinez’s winter-ball season may be over. But at least this time his absence is not being brought about by injury. The Venezuelan League’s Caracas Lions announced today that they have released the 20-year-old Martinez, who this offseason repeated as the Mets’ No. 1 prospe...

The Arizona Fall League is considered the place to be for prospects when the regular season ends, but the Caribbean leagues are peppered with plenty of prospects still playing ball. And leagues like the Venezuela League offer advantages over the AFL, one of which is the length of the season. While t...

A junior circuit that will shadow the Arizona Fall League became closer to reality late Tuesday when Hawaii Winter Baseball announced that its contract with Major League Baseball would not be extended. The junior circuit, not yet given an official name, would in essence shift the format of Hawaii Wi...

Baseball America subscribers can read full scouting reports on the Top 20 Prospects in the Hawaii Winter Baseball league, but here is the list of the top 20 prospects from the league, as compiled by John Manuel after talking to scouts and HWB managers. Have your own opinions about the list? You can ...

Talk about putting heavy weight on recent performance. After Brandon Wood’s .167/.259/.250 start in 13 games for Estrellas, the Dominican Winter League club has released Wood, according to Baseball America correspondent Bill Shaikin. "You’ve got to perform pretty much right off the p...