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A Pitch F/X Analysis of Danny Hultzen
With all the excitement surrounding this year's playoffs, it is easy to forget that The Arizona Fall League is in full swing and it features the first two picks in this years draft, Gerrit Cole and Danny Hultzen. Two of the six team's stadiums are also equipped with Pitch f/x cameras, allowing for...
Saturday Rockpile: As Injuries Mount, Rockies' Rookies Getting a Shot
Rockies add infield reinforcement with Gomez | Inside the Colorado RockiesIn a somewhat-surprising move, the Rockies recalled Hector Gomez from AA Tulsa yesterday, presumably to help with the middle infield depth while Troy Tulowitzki and Jonathan Herrera are on the shelf with injuries. Gomez, who...
Questions and Answers With Fangraphs Marc Hulet
While I was down south Marc Hulet posted his Top 30 Jays prospect list on Fangraphs. I love prospect lists. One of my favourite things about being on this site is arguing with Hugo each year about our prospect list (well that and listing to Johnny's Cher impersonation, when we are trying to do a...
Composite prospect rankings: Reds
With a big thanks to nycredsfan for compiling the rankings from the Big Three of prospect analysis (Baseball America, John Sickels, and BPro's Kevin Goldstein), here is a composite ranking based on those three lists of 20. Rank Name John Sickels Baseball America Kevin Goldstein...
High & Inside: 11/08/10
Was this the first full weekend without baseball? Felt like it, and by that I mean, "what a horrible weekend." Here's what we're reading: Now that the free agent market has opened, fans are awash with certain ideas that sometimes sound good, while others are just popular myths. JC Bradbury...
Bluebird Banter Top 30 Jays Prospects: 21-30
Happy weekend, hope you all are relaxing and enjoying. Me, I spend the time before the football games writing. But then looking at our prospects is always a lot of fun and a great place to start arguments. Of course the difference between being in the 21-30 slots and being in the Just Missed Out...
Top Prospects, part 3: The fringe pitchers
2010 Top Prospects 4 Position Players 1 The Injured 5 Pitchers 1 2 Fringe Position Players 5.5 Pitchers 2 3 Fringe Pitchers 6 Santana & Recap Identifying fringe pitching prospects is a more difficult job than identifying fringe position players, mainly because I think just about...
Top Prospects, part 2: The fringe position players
2010 Top Prospects 4 Position Players 1 The Injured 5 Pitchers 1 2 Fringe Position Players 5.5 Pitchers 2 3 Fringe Pitchers 6 Santana & Recap I call these guys fringe guys because at the moment, their performance does not really warrant status as legitimate prospects. Some of...
Top Prospects, part 1: The Injured
2010 Top Prospects 4 Position Players 1 The Injured 5 Pitchers 1 2 Fringe Position Players 5.5 Pitchers 2 3 Fringe Pitchers 6 Santana & Recap Today's piece is the first in a series which will outline my view of the Indians top prospects. As a preface, my rankings are based on a...
The Angels Top 32 Prospect Performances, Beginning with Randal Grichuk
Time to kick off prospect season! Coverage of the 2010 top Angels' prospects begins with a look at the best statistical performances of 2009. Using the generally-accepted sabermetric assessment of a player's contributions, value-over-replacement-player ("VORP"), I ranked the Halos organization's...
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