Troy Taylor is an under-the-radar pitcher to maintain your eye on within the Seattle Mariners system. A 22-year-old right-hander who was taken within the twelfth spherical of the 2022 draft out of the University of California Irvine, Taylor impressed evaluators within the Arizona Fall League with a two-pitch combine that has him well-positioned for a future position as a big-league reliever. “I’m a big fan of what he can do athletically, as a mover,” stated a scout I spoke to. “His stuff is good. He’s a guy who probably ends up in the bullpen with the Mariners, and sooner rather than later.” He’s already come a good distance. Taylor was an infielder at Rancho Cucamonga’s Los Osos High School, and when he did sometimes take the mound — “I closed a couple of times” — all he actually di...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- As Ron Washington took the stage alongside MLB Network host Harold Reynolds on Friday evening, the impressionable viewers earlier than him -- lots of whom hadn’t even taken their first steps but when he started his huge league managerial profession in 2007 -- rose to their ft to supply a standing ovation. The Angels’ supervisor was one in all a sequence of visitor audio system invited to the 2024 DREAM Series, a Major League Baseball and USA Baseball improvement occasion for predominately Black elite highschool athletes geared towards the dynamics of pitching and catching. It was becoming for Washington to be in attendance, provided that the occasion -- held yearly since 2017 in concurrence with Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend -- takes place at Tempe Diablo Stadium, the ...