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Horton struck out 49 in his last 31 innings for the Sooners, including a 13-strikeout performance against eventual champion Mississippi at the College World Series.

The Kansas City Royals selected Virginia Tech outfielder Gavin Cross, a 6-foot-3 210-pound left-handed hitting Tennessee native, with the ninth pick in the MLB Draft on Sunday night.

LOS ANGELES — Termarr Johnson doesn’t lack for confidence. Not in a cocky way or anything like that, but there’s a clear belief in himself, the type of swagger that leads one to say this after the Pirates made him the fourth overall pick on Sunday at the MLB draft.

As family businesses go, baseball certainly is a weird one. It’s not like father and son spend all day together over the fire at Ye Olde Baseball Shoppe, first in apprenticeship and then in partnership, forging out careers side-by-side until one day the dad turns over the shoppe keys to…

LOS ANGELES — The word Dave Roberts kept coming back to was "uncomfortable."

The Braves are reigning World Series champions largely thanks to their farm system that developed stars such as Austin Riley, Ozzie Albies, Max Fried, Ronald Acuna and Ian Anderson, among many others. While the Braves wouldn’t have engineered their unforeseen October run without a historically great trade deadline, the core…

SAN FRANCISCO — As he walked into the Giants clubhouse a little after 10 a.m. Sunday, Heliot Ramos ran into veteran Joc Pederson, who brought the young outfielder in for a hug. In other words, one newcomer welcoming another.

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — At this point two years ago, Brendan McKay was a sensation. A two-way player who was the No. 2 prospect in the Rays farm system and the No. 14 prospect in the game, according to Baseball America’s rankings.

BALTIMORE — Another first for the Orioles’ developing farm system came Wednesday, with Baltimore coming in fourth in Baseball America’s latest organizational rankings.

The Mariners' climb up from the bottom of Baseball America's overall farm system rankings was steady if not supersonic, taking almost four years to reach the highest possible point.