This story was excerpted from MLB Pipeline's publication. To learn the total publication, click on right here. And subscribe to get it usually in your inbox. The 2023 Minor League season is in full bloom, and as temperatures begin to heat throughout the nation from Portland, Me., to Lake Elsinore, Calif., one thing else is coming again, too – the baseball highway journey! We’ve documented loads of methods you may plan and begin your odyssey via the Minors with the Ballpark Guide collection, and now it’s about time we additionally present you what it’s like on the market on the path to the Majors that's Minor League Baseball. With that in thoughts, the MLB Pipeline Game of the Month is again for 2023. We’re beginning the collection up once more at Double-A Amarillo’s HODGETOWN on Thursday, ...

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Mason Montgomery is the highest-ranked left-hander within the Tampa Bay Rays’ pitching pipeline. No. 7 total and with a forty five+ FV, the 2021 sixth-round pick of Texas Tech University is coming off his first full skilled season, through which he logged a 2.10 ERA with 171 strikeouts in 124 innings between High-A Bowling Green and Double-A Montgomery. Back with the Biscuits to start out the present marketing campaign, the 22-year-old Austin native has a 3.38 ERA to go together with 16 strikeouts in 13.1 innings. Deception and journey are among the many southpaw’s attributes. As our lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen wrote earlier this yr, “His glove hand plays the role of the magician’s assistant, flying above Montgomery’s head and toward the ...