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  • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 76: Ben Norman
    • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 76: Ben Norman
    Ben Norman hopes for a breakout season. | Ben Norman/Instagram Speed and defense are keys to a solid all-around game for this former Hawkeye Ben Norman Left Fielder6´2´´200 poundsAge: 262023 SSS Top Prospect Rank 922023 High Level Birmingham (Double-A)Age relative to high level +1.4 yearsSSS rank among all left fielders in the system 2Overall 2023 regular season stats 64 games ⚾️ 9 HR ⚾️ ...2024
  • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2024: numbers 42-36
    • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2024: numbers 42-36
    Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Here are the multi-ballot players! After revealing the players who appeared on a single ballot yesterday, it’s time to show players who were voted onto multiple ballots but who didn’t quite make it into the top 30 plus honorable mention Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) status for pre-season 2024, as voted on by the Purple Row community...2024
  • Today in White Sox History: December 21
    • Today in White Sox History: December 21
    Four years ago, consolation prize Dallas Keuchel signed with the White Sox. | Quinn Harris/Getty Images Record-setting badness is shipped up to Boston 1938 The White Sox dealt infielder Boze Berger to Boston for third baseman Eric McNair. The swap was a huge win for the White Sox, as in 1939 McNair slashed .324/.375/.426, logged 2.2 WAR and finished 29th in MVP voting. Berger is notable i...2023
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  • South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 94: Cristopher De Guzman
    • South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 94: Cristopher De Guzman
    Cristopher De Guzman started 2023 in Montana, hitting so well in the Pioneer League the White Sox scooped him up. | Pioneer Baseball League Sure, he’s a long shot, but De Guzman is already playing with found money Cristopher De Guzman Shortstop5´11´´185 poundsAge: 242023 High Level Winston-Salem (High-A)Age relative to high level +0.8 yearsSSS rank among all shortstops in the system 5Ov...2023
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  • This Week in Purple: Hall of Fame
    • This Week in Purple: Hall of Fame
    Photo by Alex Trautwig/Getty Images Colorado Rockies recap and discussion thread for Saturday, December 2 and Sunday, December 3, 2023 The weekend is a great time to kick back and reflect. This Week in Purple is the place to catch up on the news from our team at Purple Row. You’ll find links to Rockpiles and other content below as well as a platform for community discussion in the comments...2023
  • Thursday Rockpile: Pioneer League baseball has a stronghold in Colorado
    • Thursday Rockpile: Pioneer League baseball has a stronghold in Colorado
    Lucas Boland/The Coloradoan / USA TODAY NETWORK Colorado Rockies news and links for Thursday, November 30, 2023 The Colorado Rockies may be in LoDo to stay—having signed a 50-year lease with Coors Field back in 2017—but some baseball fans aren’t so lucky. While the Rockies ownership does struggle to field a competitive product and grow the team’s fan-base, Dick Monfort has at least investe...2023

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  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 76: Ben Norman
    2024
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2024: numbers 42-36
    2024
  • • Today in White Sox History: December 21
    2023
  • • This Week in Purple: Hall of Fame
    2023
  • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2023: numbers 52-36
    • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2023: numbers 52-36
    Here are the players who received multiple votes, but didn’t quite crack into our rankings After revealing the players who appeared on a single ballot yesterday, it’s time to show players who were voted onto multiple ballots but who didn’t quite make it into the top 35 and honorable mention Purple Row Prospects (PuRPs) status for mid-season 2023, as voted on by the Purple Row community. For each p...2023
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  • • South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 91: Johan Domínguez
    After continuing to climb the organization and sitting on the doorstep of the majors, Johan Dominguez succumbed to TJS last April. | Norm Hall/MLB Photos via Getty Images Tommy John surgery derailed his ascendance to the majors Johan Domínguez Right-Handed Starting Pitcher6´4´´210 poundsAge: 272020 SSHP Top Prospect Ranking: 482021 SSS Top Prospect Ranking: 452022 SSS Top Prospect Ranking:...2023
  • • Today in White Sox History: December 21
    Things did not work out well at all for Bobby Jenks after leaving Chicago. Two careers that tanked after leaving Chicago 1977 Mary Shane is hired by the White Sox as the first woman play-by-play announcer in baseball history. She would join Lorn Brown, Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall in the booth for roughly 20 games, mostly at home. 2010 Closer Bobby Jenks, battling injury for much of th...2022
  • • Stock Up, Stock Down for Cincinnati Reds' Top 10 Prospects for Week 8
    2015
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Pioneer League lifestyle

  • • Brewers' David Denson Hopes Coming Out Paves Way to Achieving MLB Dream
    2016
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Timeline

  • 2024
    "0 points, 3 ballots) — the 2018 15th rounder was briefly on the PuRPs radar back in 2018 when he absolutely murdered Pioneer League pitching, and now the 27-year-old righty-hitting utility infielder (splitting time between second, short, and third in that order) is back."

  • 2023
    "On the heels of the A's announced move to Las Vegas, a group of Oakland-area fans started the Oakland Ballers, who will play in the independent Pioneer League."

  • 2022
    "Longtime big league coach and manager Jim Riggleman has been hired to manage the Billings Mustangs of the Pioneer League, according to an announcement from Mustangs’ clubhouse manager Harrison Faulk (Twitter link)."

  • 2021
    "Pioneer League will have sudden-death HR derby to replace extra innings"

  • 2020
    "The Appalachian League have converted to a college summer circuit for rising freshmen and sophomores, with many teams from the Pioneer League and New York-Penn League also likely to become part of college summer leagues."

  • 2017
    "It took until the final game, but the Ogden Raptors are Pioneer League Champions for the first time in franchise history."

  • 2016
    "It's just that, as all those buses rattled along past Wisconsin and Iowa corn fields in the Midwest League and beneath the darkened big sky of Montana in the Pioneer League, a guy like Denson cannot help but feel like a phony, eventually."

  • 2015
    "The Orem Owlz, a rookie ball affiliate of the LA Angels in the Pioneer League, planned to hold a “Caucasian Heritage Night” on Aug."

Pioneer League trade rumors, contract, salary rumors

  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 76: Ben Norman
    2024
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2024: numbers 42-36
    2024
  • • South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 94: Cristopher De Guzman
    2023
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  • • This Week in Purple: Hall of Fame
    2023
  • • Thursday Rockpile: Pioneer League baseball has a stronghold in Colorado
    2023
  • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 97: Jason Matthews
    • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 97: Jason Matthews
    Jason Matthews played on Team New Zealand in the World Baseball Classic in 2022. | Daniel Shirey/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images The New Zealand-born player looks to make baseball history [As we began rolling out the Top 100 a month ago, Matthews was our No. 100 prospects. Given six players on our list elected free agency and three prospects were added in the Aaron Bummer trade, it made ...2023
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  • Outside The Confines: Winter Meetings are coming...
    • Outside The Confines: Winter Meetings are coming...
    Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The hot stove is about to get feverish. Baseball’s winter meetings are poised to get underway next week (December 3-6 officially) in Nashville (expansion conspiracy theorists can have fun reading too much into the location), and teams will have an ideal opportunity to put their heads together, woo agents, and hopefully come away with some n...2023
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  • Royals Rumblings - News for November 29, 2023
    • Royals Rumblings - News for November 29, 2023
    Have you changed your furnace filter lately? At Just Baseball, Jared Perkins has a great, long piece about mental health in baseball with Melissa Lambert, Kansas City’s director of behavioral science. “Relationship building requires understanding each player for who they are, where they have been, and where they are trying to go,” Lambert said. ... “I feel transparency is crucial so they know w...2023
  • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 100: Jason Matthews
    • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 100: Jason Matthews
    Jason Matthews played on Team New Zealand in the World Baseball Classic in 2022. | Daniel Shirey/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images The New Zealand-born player looks to make baseball history Jason Matthews Shortstop 6´0´´187 poundsAge: 262023 High Level Charlotte (Triple-A)Age relative to high level -0.3 yearsSSS rank among all shortstops in the system 7Overall 2023 MiLB stats 48 games ⚾️ 4...2023
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2023: numbers 52-36
    2023

Pioneer League stats and results

  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 76: Ben Norman
    2024
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2024: numbers 42-36
    2024
  • • South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 94: Cristopher De Guzman
    2023
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  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 97: Jason Matthews
    2023
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for November 29, 2023
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  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 100: Jason Matthews
    2023
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2023: numbers 52-36
    2023
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  • • South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 45: Hunter Dollander
    One of the biggest surprises of 2022 was the emergence of UDFA starter Hunter Dollander. | @Hunter.Dollander High Ks and low BBs are key to this UDFA’s game Hunter DollanderRight-Handed Starting Pitcher6´0´´232 poundsAge: 262022 High Level Winston-Salem (High-A)Age relative to high level +2.0 yearsSSS rank among all right-handed starting pitchers in the system 13Overall 2022 season stats ...2023
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 17, Brenton Doyle
    Photo by Scott Kane/Getty Images The outfielder has a star ceiling and a floor boosted by excellent outfield defense 17. Brenton Doyle (310 points, 24 ballots) Brenton Doyle sure looks the part of a future impact major leaguer. The 6’3”, 200-pound righty outfielder, who turns 25 in May, has bulk and athleticism that evokes a football player. He signed for an above-slot $500k out of D-2 She...2023
  • • South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 82: Yoelvín Silven
    @Peluche_Polanco_26 This righty offers few free passes, but needs to miss more bats Yoelvín Silven Right-Handed Relief Pitcher6´1´´186 poundsAge: 232020 SSHP Top Prospect Ranking 702021 SSS Top Prospect Ranking 522022 SSS Top Prospect Ranking 532022 High Level Birmingham (AA)Age relative to high level -1.4 yearsSSS rank among all right-handed relief pitchers in the system 17Overall 2022 st...2023

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  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 97: Jason Matthews
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2023: numbers 52-36
    2023
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  • • This Day in Braves History : July 7th
    Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1914: In an exhibition game in Buffalo, the Bisons of the International League crush the Boston Braves, 10 - 2. 1918: Rabbit Maranville gets a 10-day leave from the Navy and hits .316 in 11 games for the Braves before going back to sea. 2008: Tough day at the office! Braves shutout by Dodgers Hiroki Kuroda...2023
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  • • Brewers' David Denson Hopes Coming Out Paves Way to Achieving MLB Dream
    2016
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  • • Stock Up, Stock Down for Cincinnati Reds' Top 10 Prospects for Week 8
    2015
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  • • Brewers' David Denson Hopes Coming Out Paves Way to Achieving MLB Dream
    2016
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  • Independent Oakland Ballers to start play in 2024
    • Independent Oakland Ballers to start play in 2024
    2023
  • • Jim Riggleman To Manage Pioneer League’s Billings Mustangs
    Longtime big league coach and manager Jim Riggleman has been hired to manage the Billings Mustangs of the Pioneer League, according to an announcement from Mustangs’ clubhouse manager Harrison Faulk (Twitter link). The Pioneer League is an independent circuit designated as an official partner league of Major League Baseball. Riggleman played in the minors during…...2022
  • • Minor league team cancels racist white heritage night
    A minor league baseball team on Friday decided to cancel a racist white heritage night they had planned after receiving some backlash. The Orem Owlz, a rookie ball affiliate of the LA Angels in the Pioneer League, planned to hold a “Caucasian Heritage Night” on Aug. 10, but they announced they were cancelling the event...Read More...2015
  • • Uceta lifts Ogden to Pioneer League title
    It took until the final game, but the Ogden Raptors are Pioneer League Champions for the first time in franchise history. The Raptors, who last won a title in 1991, topped Great Falls 8-3 in the decisive third game of the series on Sunday night....2017
  • Riggleman, 69, takes minor league manager post
    • Riggleman, 69, takes minor league manager post
    Veteran baseball manager and coach Jim Riggleman, 69, has accepted a position with the Billings Mustangs of independent Pioneer League to be the club's next manager....2022
  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 100: Jason Matthews
    2023
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  • • Thursday Rockpile: Pioneer League baseball has a stronghold in Colorado
    2023

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Pioneer League fantasy rankings and news

  • • Stock Up, Stock Down for Cincinnati Reds' Top 10 Prospects for Week 8
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Pioneer League schedule, game

  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, pre-season 2024: numbers 42-36
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  • • Today in White Sox History: December 21
    2023
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  • • Thursday Rockpile: Pioneer League baseball has a stronghold in Colorado
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  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 97: Jason Matthews
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  • • Outside The Confines: Winter Meetings are coming...
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  • • Royals Rumblings - News for November 29, 2023
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  • • 2024 South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 100: Jason Matthews
    2023
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospect rankings, mid-season 2023: numbers 52-36
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  • • South Side Sox Top Prospect No. 45: Hunter Dollander
    2023
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  • • Colorado Rockies prospects: No. 17, Brenton Doyle
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  • • Brewers' David Denson Hopes Coming Out Paves Way to Achieving MLB Dream
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