The twenty sixth annual MLB All-Star Futures Recreation is underway at Truist Park in Atlanta, Ga., with protection on MLB Community, MLB.com and the MLB App. You possibly can watch it stay on the high of this text as effectively.
ATLANTA — The All-Star Futures Recreation places the sport’s greatest prospects on one area for a day every July, creating lasting recollections for each gamers and followers.
The 2025 version – held Saturday at Atlanta’s Truist Park – will probably be no completely different. These are a few of the high moments from this 12 months’s Futures Recreation, which options 33 gamers on MLB Pipeline’s High 100 Prospects listing, together with eight of the highest 19:
Cijntje change pitches
Mariners No. 8 prospect Jurrangelo Cijntje has drawn loads of consideration in his first full season as a switch-pitcher, and he labored from either side within the second inning, turning into the primary such hurler in Futures Recreation historical past. The 2024 fifteenth total choose struck out a pair of Nationwide League batters: High Brewers prospect Jesús Made on an 85.5 mph breaker and No. 4 Marlins prospect Joe Mack on a 97 mph fastball, each as a righty pitcher. He threw solely two pitches left-handed — a 92.9 mph fastball and a 79.1 mph curveball — however that’s all he wanted to retire high Dodgers prospect Josue De Paula on a fly ball to left. Cijntje touched as excessive as 98.7 mph from the best aspect, backing up many evaluators’ beliefs that his Main League future is as a full-time righty flamethrower.
Batting apply
Pregame BP is usually a spectacle at showcases just like the Futures Recreation, and High 100 prospects took benefit of their time within the highlight.
Pirates No. 2 prospect Konnor Griffin took vicious cuts with immense bat velocity and impeccable barrel management, drawing reward from everybody across the cage. Brewers high prospect Jesús Made — solely 18 years outdated — caught the eye of Braves legends Chipper Jones and Andruw Jones, each of whom checked out one another after the switch-hitter’s second swing and nodded at one another silently and approvingly. Tigers slugger Josue Briceño hit a few of the farthest balls in BP and homered eight instances in his spherical. Fred McGriff, performing as American League hitting coach, informed Briceño’s group — together with Sebastian Walcott, Kevin McGonigle and Harry Ford — they might get an additional swing in the event that they “hit a bomb”. Every went deep shortly after, proper on command.
American League
1. Max Clark, CF (Tigers)
2. Braden Montgomery, LF (White Sox)
3. C.J. Kayfus, 1B (Guardians)
4. Jhostynxon Garcia, RF (Crimson Sox)
5. Harry Ford, C (Mariners)
6. Josue Briceño, DH (Tigers)
7. Sebastian Walcott, 3B (Rangers)
8. Kevin McGonigle, SS (Tigers)
9. George Lombard Jr., 2B (Yankees)
SP. Parker Messick, LHP (Guardians)
Nationwide League
1. JJ Wetherholt, DH (Cardinals)
2. Konnor Griffin, SS (Pirates)
3. Owen Caissie, RF (Cubs)
4. Charlie Condon, 1B (Rockies)
5. Zyhir Hope, CF (Dodgers)
6. Jesús Made, 2B (Brewers)
7. Josue De Paula, LF (Dodgers)
8. LuJames Groover, 3B (D-backs)
9. Joe Mack, C (Marlins)
SP. JR Ritchie, RHP (Braves)
