Phew - the deadline wasn’t a complete dud
Let’s take a look at this monster deal. It looks like:
To the Red Sox; Jason Bay
To the Dodgers: Manny Ramirez, a lot of $
To the Pirates: 3B Andy LaRoche, RHRP Craig Hansen, OF Brandon Moss, RHSP Bryan Morris
So let’s look at this by team.
The Red Sox got rid of a giant headache in Manny Ramirez, […]
Comparing Fernando Martinez and Carlos Triunfel
In response to, erm, questions about Martinez’s absence from the Top 100, I’m going to do a little analysis of these two prospects. I hope this can do two things:
1. Shed a little light on how I evaluate prospects.
2. Give some pub for Carlos Triunfel, who is, in my opinion, the most interesting prospect in […]
Detroit Tigers Top 5 Prospects
We went from a quite bad farm system in the White Sox, to a quite good one in the Indians, now unfortunately we’re back to a quite bad one. The Tigers’ only representative in the Top 100 was Rick Porcello. Beyond him, there’s not a whole lot. The farm system was already pretty mediocre […]
Teixeira Traded to the Angels…
… for Casey Kotchman and Stephen Marek.
Eh.
This is a great trade for the Angels, obviously. Teixeira is a substantial upgrade over Kotchman for the balance of the season, and Marek isn’t exactly a huge part of their future. If they re-sign Tex, great, if not, they’ll have two picks to console themselves with. However, that […]
Cleveland Indians Top 5 Prospects
I’ve always mentally placed the Indians as one of the best-run organizations in baseball. Obviously this season isn’t going quite to plan (or my prediction, for that matter), but I would never lose hope for the future when you have leadership like the Indians do. Even better, when you have a well-run organization these top […]
Casey Blake traded to the Dodgers
Casey Blake has been traded to the Dodgers for prospects RHP Jon Meloan and C Carlos Santana. The Indians are sending cash to the Dodgers to help pay off the rest of Blake’s contract this year.
Blake is essentially what Xavier Nady is, except five years older. He can be counted on to produce position-average offense […]
Nady and Marte traded to the Yankees
According to a lot of sources (BP, Heyman, Rosenthal), The Pirates have traded Xavier Nady and Damaso Marte to the Yanks for Jose Tabata, Ross Ohlendorf, George Kontos and Phil Coke.
This is not a good trade for the Pirates, and I’m extremely disappointed. Ever since Neal Huntington took over for the Pirates, I’ve been very […]
Chicago White Sox Top 5 Prospects
The first two rankings were quite easy to do, as both teams have pretty good farm systems. That’s not the case with the White Sox. The system wasn’t good to start with, but after emptying it out in trades, it’s in pretty much shambles. Drafting Gordon Beckham is a good start, but there is A […]
Boston Red Sox Top 5 Prospects
Before the season, I said the Red Sox had the 3rd best farm system in baseball, behind the Rays and A’s. The graduations of Clay Buchholz, Jacoby Ellsbury and Justin Masterson have probably dropped them a little, but with six players in the Top 100 this system is still very, very good.
1. 1B Lars Anderson
Who?: […]
Baltimore Orioles Top 5 Prospects
Everybody likes lists, right? So for the next… well… 17 years in all likelihood, I’ll be going over every team’s top 5 prospects, alphabetically and starting with the AL. Shall we?
1. C Matt Wieters
Who?: I suppose it’s fitting that we start this off with the #1 prospect, period. You’d think that I’ve verbally gushed over […]
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