Prospects

by prhood on Sep 8, 2006 12:39 PM EDT

I'm involved in a minor league draft and have 2 picks remaining. I'm considering the following players after some research and diging:

John Drennen, OF CLE
Chris Carter, 3B CWS
Keiron Pope, OF BAL

The data on each is some what limited. John rates Drennen as a B prospect which is quite good but the other 2 are not rated as far as I know.

Their MiLB stats for 2006 are:

Drennen (Lo A) .321/.409/.471/.880 (OPS) in 240 AB with 6 HR, 30 RBI and a 31/52 K/BB ratio
Carter (R) .299/.398/.570/.968 (OPS) in 251 AB with 15 HR, 59 RBI and a 34/70 K/BB ratio.
Pope (R) .341/.411/.585/.996 (OPS) in 135 AB with 5 HR, 29 RBI and a 10/36 K/BB ratio.

Drennen was promted to Hi A and struggled while Carter started at Lo A and was apparently sent down to the Rookie league.

This is the limit of my information. I would tend to rank the players as listed above. Does anyone have additional information that might prove helpful?

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Re: Pope

Pope fell apart when promoted to the NYPenn league:

.107 BA 33/2 K/BB ratio

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/milb/stats/stats.jsp?n=Kieron%20Pope&pos=OF&sid=milb& amp;t=p_pbp&pid=457780

Bobby Crosby - a poor man's Adam Everett.

by natsfan2005 @ Minor League Ball on Sep 8, 2006 12:49 PM EDT reply actions

BA showed these numbers but I wasn't sure if his appearance in the NY/Penn league preceded or followed his time in the Rookie league. The way the data is presented in BA it appeared that he started in NYP, struggled and was sent down to the Rookie league.

by prhood on Sep 8, 2006 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions

re:

Aberdeen (NYP) was definitely 2nd. But he was soooo bad there I think they might have just shut him down until instructional league.

Someone who had that amount of struggles in the NYP is probably atleast 1500 ABs away from the bigs (if they ever get there).

Bobby Crosby - a poor man's Adam Everett.

by natsfan2005 @ Minor League Ball on Sep 8, 2006 1:09 PM EDT up reply actions

rankings

Drennen
Carter
Pope

by Justin & Joe on Sep 8, 2006 12:58 PM EDT reply actions

Drennen

Drennen seems pretty good. After that, I'd consider digging some more, but that's just based on the numbers - I haven't seen Carter or Pope play.

by BobbyMac on Sep 8, 2006 4:17 PM EDT reply actions

Thoughts on Drennen!

Hello prhood,

Drennen has done a pretty good job at Low-A; at High-A, he has struggled more - from my observations of the Kinston game logs, he seems to be pulling the ball too much. However, being as young as he is, I think there is time to correct that; plus, he has shown some ability to go up the middle and to the opposite field, but still needs to do it a bit more consistently at High-A before he can put up above-average to great numbers there.

I don't know about the other two, but Drennen's performance and work ethic seem to indicate that it's only a matter of time before he handles High-A as well. Don't forget - he did hit a Roger Clemens' fastball for a HR, so it seems he has pretty good bat speed as well - another positive sign.