It is not fairly Christmas Morning, nevertheless it’s shut.
The twenty sixth All-Star Futures Sport will happen at 4 p.m. ET on Saturday at Truist Park in Atlanta. The sport will characteristic 50 of one of the best prospects in baseball — 33 of whom seem on MLB Pipeline’s newly minted Prime 100 prospects listing. As Jonathan Mayo described the occasion on the MLB Pipeline Podcast, “It sort of feels like a online game the place you set all one of the best prospects within the sport on the sector collectively and see what occurs.”
Right here is all the things you might want to know concerning the star-studded showcase.
The sport, which was USA vs. World till 2019, will characteristic an American League vs. Nationwide League format for the fifth yr in a row and can final seven innings. The underside of the seventh inning could also be performed it doesn’t matter what the rating is. If the sport is tied after seven, there will probably be an eighth inning; whether it is tied after that, the sport will finish in a tie.
Gamers will probably be permitted to re-enter the sport if wanted resulting from harm.
The Futures Sport rosters are loaded with Prime 100 expertise. Of the 50 gamers attending the Futures Sport, 33 are on MLB Pipeline’s Prime 100 Prospects listing, together with 9 of the highest 23 prospects.
The NL Futures Sport roster has 16 Prime 100 prospects, and the AL has 17.
The sport will even embrace 16 first-round picks, 9 of whom have been chosen within the 2024 Draft. The best-picked of that group is Charlie Condon, who was chosen third total. 2023’s No. 3 total choose Max Clark (MLB No. 12), represents the highest-picked on the AL facet. This will even mark Clark’s second consecutive yr on the Futures Sport.
On the mound, a pair of relievers enter the sport sporting the bottom ERA for his or her respective squads. Welinton Herrera (COL No. 20) has amassed a 0.74 mark, whereas Baltimore’s Keagan Gillies has a stingy 1.11 ERA in 27 appearances — each hurlers compiled these numbers throughout two ranges of the Minors this season. By way of starters, Jonah Tong (MLB No. 59) enters motion with a 1.83 ERA at Double-A Binghamton this season, and Gage Soar (MLB No. 68) leads the AL facet with a 2.13 mark throughout two ranges. Tong additionally paces the Minors with 125 strikeouts.
Listed here are the ten greatest total prospects anticipated to take the sector in Atlanta, together with data on their present Minor League membership and anticipated arrivals within the bigs:
No. 3 Leo De Vries, SS, ETA: 2027 (Excessive-A Fort Wayne, Padres)
No. 4 Sebastian Walcott, SS/3B, ETA: 2026 (Double-A Frisco, Rangers)
No. 7 Kevin McGonigle, SS, ETA: 2027 (Double-A Erie, Tigers)
No. 8 Jesús Made, SS/3B, ETA: 2028 (Single-A Carolina, Brewers)
No. 12 Max Clark, OF, ETA: 2027 (Double-A Erie, Tigers)
No. 13 Konnor Griffin, SS/OF, ETA: 2027 (Excessive-A Greensboro, Pirates)
No. 17 Noah Schultz, LHP, ETA: 2025 (Triple-A Charlotte, White Sox)
No. 19 JJ Wetherholt, SS/2B, ETA: 2026 (Triple-A Memphis, Cardinals)
No. 23 Charlie Condon, 1B/OF, ETA: 2026 (Double-A Hartford, Rockies)
No. 27 Josue De Paula, OF, ETA: 2026 (Excessive-A Nice Lakes, Dodgers)
The Futures Sport perennially welcomes again former Main Leaguers from the host metropolis to teach and converse with the following technology of younger stars, and this yr continues that custom. Serving because the skipper for the NL is first-ballot Corridor of Famer Chipper Jones. He will probably be joined by Mark DeRosa, Andruw Jones, Tim Hudson, Pete Moylan, Kanekoa Texeira, Tyler Flowers and Nick Markakis to spherical out the employees.
Within the NL dugout, two-time All-Star Marquis Grissom will probably be on the helm. The remainder of his employees contains Jerry Manuel, Fred McGriff, Marvin Freeman, Johnny Estrada, Brian Hunter, Dale Murphy and Ryan Klesko.
The Futures Sport provides a novel look into MLB’s subsequent technology of stars. Amongst all earlier members, 86.5% have gone on to play no less than one Main League sport, whereas 250 complete gamers (21.4%) had been chosen to play in no less than one Main League All-Star Sport previous to 2025.
Notable gamers who as soon as took the sector as Futures Avid gamers embrace Miguel Cabrera (2001 and ’02), Zack Greinke (2003), Joe Mauer (2003), Justin Verlander (2005), Joey Votto (2006 and ’07), Clayton Kershaw (2007), Mike Trout (2010 and ’11), Bryce Harper (2011), Mookie Betts (2014), Aaron Decide (2015), Ronald Acuña Jr. (2017), Bobby Witt Jr. (2021), Elly De La Cruz (2022), Jackson Chourio (2022 and ’23) and Dylan Crews (2024).
MLB Develops alumni attending the Futures Sport
Enrique Bradfield Jr.: States Play
Harry Ford: DREAM Collection
Marquis Grissom Jr.: Elite Growth Invitational, DREAM Collection, Breakthrough Collection, States Play
LuJames Groover: Breakthrough Collection
C.J. Kayfus: States Play
George Lombard Jr.: Hank Aaron Invitational
*Brice Matthews: Breakthrough Collection & Commissioner’s Cup
Braden Montgomery: Breakthrough Collection, Hank Aaron Invitational, DREAM Collection
Jurrangelo Cijntje: Reviving Baseball in Interior Cities (RBI) Program.
*was referred to as as much as the Main Leagues on Friday and won’t take part
