2008 Mid-Season Top 100 Prospects
A lot can happen in half a season, even when it comes to long-term assets such as prospects. Besides the entry of the 2008 draftees, three months can greatly affect ‘veteran’ prospect rankings. They will not necessarily make or break a career, but all of the prospects had questions attached to their rankings, and many […]
Top 100 Prospects Review: The Top Ten!
Here we go, la crème de la crème. (What does that mean anyway? The cream of the cream? Huh?).
10. OF Travis Snider (Toronto Blue Jays)
Year In Review: Honestly, a bit of a disappointment. Skills-wise, Snider and LaPorta were rather similar prospects before the season started. They were both guys with a ton of power […]
Top 100 Prospects Review (20-11)
20. LHSP Brett Anderson (Oakland Athletics)
Year In Review: Anderson was reputed as having the highest ceiling of any player acquired in the Haren trade, and he’s lived up to that billing. Anderson throws all of his pitches with average velocity and excellent control, but the most important quality is that everything moves down, sharply. Anderson […]
The Harden Trade
There was a prospect trade involving the A’s. Did anybody think I wasn’t going to talk about this?
Christina Kahrl over at BP is far from a fan of this trade, but I think she’s looking at this the wrong way. Perhaps people’s hopes were brought up after Jayson Stark suggested a Harden package would have […]
Top 100 Prospects Review (30-21)
30. OF Jason Heyward (Atlanta Braves)
Year In Review: I’m such a fan of this guy. He just turned 18 this year, so it’s as if a guy was drafted out of high school, placed in full-season baseball and hit .340/.400/.497. Obviously a BA like that requires some luck with BABIP, and he has a very […]
The Sabathia Trade
I’ll take a bit of a break from reviewing the top 100 prospects to talk about the prospects involved in the big trade. If you’ve been living under a rock, the Indians traded CC Sabathia to the Brewers for OF Matt LaPorta, RHSP Rob Bryson, LHP Zach Jackson and a PTBNL which will almost certainly […]
Top 100 Prospects Review (40-31)
Now we’re really going to get into the big hits and big disappointments.
40. RHSP Homer Bailey (Cincinnati Reds)
Year In Review: Bailey may be a poster-boy for big disappointments. He just isn’t the uber-prospect he was touted to be a couple of years ago. He will have a big league career as a starter, I’m certain; […]
Top 100 Prospects Review (50-41)
50. LHSP Frank Morales (Colorado Rockies)
Year In Review: A combined 57 walks and 41 strikeouts (not a typo, unlike the rest of the things on this site) is not the way to go. Morales has all the stuff you’re looking for, but when your control is this terrible, I don’t care.
Prospect Status: Way down, graduated.
49. […]
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