Top 100 Prospects Review (60-51)
60. LHSP Scott Elbert (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Year In Review: Elbert’s perennial injury problems have continued, as last year’s shoulder surgery held him out until June 4th this year. He’s been brought back slowly as a reliever, and while he hasn’t been dominant, he’s been decent enough. This is one of those ‘wow’ moments when you […]
Top 100 Prospects Review (70-61)
70. C John Jaso (Tampa Bay Rays)
Year In Review: For whatever reason, the Rays decided Jaso’s .316/.408/.484 season last year didn’t earn a promotion to AAA. No matter why, it seems it was the right decision, as his newfound power of last season has disappeared, leading to a disappointing .253/.385/.369 line.
Prospect Status: Way down.
69. RHSP […]
Top 100 Prospects Review (80-71)
80. LHSP Nick Hagadone (Boston Red Sox)
Year In Review: While not a premier prospect, Hagadone’s season may be a cautionary tale as to why you should never get too excited about prospects who are still so far away from the majors. Hagadone had a bad first start, an excellent second start, and left his third […]
Top 100 Prospects Review (90-81)
90. RHSP Aaron Poreda (Chicago White Sox)
Year In Review: One of my prospect pet peeves is when a supposed power pitcher is unable to strike batters out. (Deolis Guerro anybody?). At High-A, Poreda struck out only 15% of batters he faced, and for some reason that earned him a promotion to AA. A good start […]
Top 100 Prospects Review (100-91)
Here’s how it works. I’ll do 10 at once, tell you what kind of year they’ve had, my opinion of how their value has changed, and if they’re eligible or not. As a rough estimate, a ’slight’ change would be a roughly 10-20 spot movement, normal would be 20-30, ‘way’ up or down is roughly […]
Top Ten Drafts
To wrap things up, here are who I think had the best drafts:
1. Colorado Rockies
2. Tampa Bay Rays
3. Kansas City Royals
4. Minnesota Twins
5. Arizona Diamondbacks
6. Texas Rangers
7. Oakland Athletics
8. Cincinnati Reds
9. Houston Astros
10. Milwaukee Brewers
NL West Draft Review
I’m kinda excited that I’m done with these. Why? Because of what comes next: The top 100 prospects review, where I update you on how all my little pets have done. After that? An updated top 100. Are you as excited as I am?! No? Great!!
Arizona Diamondbacks
Best Pick: Ryne White, the very productive Purdue 1B […]
NL Central Draft Review
Chicago Cubs
Best Pick: Chris Carpenter, who’s just now started to fully recover from Tommy John surgery. With a mid-90s FB and a mid-80s curveball which allowed him to strike out 88 in 73.2 IP, Carpenter could just be some improvement in his command to be as good as any pitcher in the draft.
Worst Pick: Ryan […]
NL East Draft Review
Atlanta Braves
Best Pick: Brett DeVall, who has three potentially plus pitches with the ability to command all of them.
Worst Pick: Ezekiel Spruill, who throws a hard fastball… inconsistently… with a weird delivery… and not much besides that.
Highest Risk/Reward: Spruill.
Overall: Their first three picks were high school pitchers. Even though I really like DeVall, how can […]
AL West Draft Review
I love the Angels for taking a bunch of high school and small school players I’ve never heard of. Really making my job easy, guys.
Los Angeles Angels
Best Pick: Ryan Chaffee, because he’s cool. Apparently he throws from 3 different arm slots. So there’s a lot of breaking balls right there, a decent fastball, and an […]
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