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Sometime This Weekend: Prospect Smackdown: Alan Horne vs. Kevin Mulvey
Monday: Case Study: Dewon Brazelton
Tuesday: Thinking about Brandon Wood
Wednesday: Crystal Ball: Billy Butler
Thursday: John's Biggest Shadow Draft Successes
Friday: John's Biggest Shadow Draft Busts

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Case Study
I would be quite interested in a Dee (Dermal) Brown case study.  

by twill on Sep 21, 2007 5:38 PM EDT reply actions  

Clay Buchholz and Tim Lincecum
Crystal balls.  Lincecum has been in the league most of the season.

by Bravesin07 on Sep 21, 2007 5:41 PM EDT reply actions  

+1
Or just a straight up Prospect Smackdown
I'm proud to have seen #756

by Azantor on Sep 21, 2007 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions  

Smackdown
Hanson vs. Rohrbough
Check out MVN.com/mlb-braves for the best Braves coverage

by was385 on Sep 21, 2007 5:49 PM EDT reply actions  

+1
Battle of Braves top pitching prospects!

by NewKidInTown on Sep 21, 2007 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

draft
anything involving looking at past drafts.

by mckeeno on Sep 21, 2007 6:09 PM EDT reply actions  

+1
Id love to see a Jackson vs Jennings smack down.

by beautox on Sep 23, 2007 7:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

Actually....
he'd kill him, if he sat on him.

by NewKidInTown on Sep 22, 2007 1:44 PM EDT up reply actions  

LOL
Prospect Smackdown, pie eating contest between Blanks and Snider.

5'11  245 fatty

versus

6'7 280 fatty

by NewKidInTown on Sep 22, 2007 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

Prospect Smackdown
I'd like to see Franklin Morales vs. Ubaldo Jimenez...

by Dfarth on Sep 21, 2007 6:26 PM EDT reply actions  

How about..
A John Sickles retro.. about yourself your life, your education.

by JD Sussman on Sep 21, 2007 6:27 PM EDT reply actions  

it could be intresting
we are reading someone's material and potentially buying someone's book we should know about who he is .

by JD Sussman on Sep 21, 2007 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

+1
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

by WayneCampbell05 on Sep 21, 2007 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

Prospects that never made it?
How about doing something highlighting prospects who had good numbers in the minors but just never got a chance at the bigs (not really players who got injured). Maybe do some kind of projection along with it?

Just an idea

by deltabourne on Sep 21, 2007 10:33 PM EDT reply actions  

Crystal Ball
Not an all star, but a big contributor to the Yankees this season. How about a Melky Cabrera Crystal Ball. Does he have what it takes to start in center for several years or is he just a stop gap for another big free agent signing?

by T for Jose Tabatha on Sep 21, 2007 11:14 PM EDT reply actions  

I'm an idiot
No wonder I thought about a Crystal ball about Melky. I thought I remembered it, but I wasnt sure. I retract my previous crystal ball and ask if we can see a Fausto Carmona Crystal Ball. He looked like a failed reliever with blimps of beind something special but he turned himself around this year as a starter. Is he for real John?

by T for Jose Tabatha on Sep 22, 2007 12:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

couple of ideas
as a tigers fan, i'd like to see something on rico brogna or justin thompson.

a couple of broader ideas:

  1.  Sparky's Kiss of Death - a high level review of all of the players labeled by Sparky as the "next big thing" who inevitably tanked.
  2.  The Curse of the Tigers - a review of the terrible results (whether by bad picks or bad luck) of the Tigers' farm system between the class of Tram, Whitaker, Morris, & Parrish up to the current Granderson, Verlander, Zumaya core.
-dennis

by djshelto on Sep 21, 2007 11:35 PM EDT reply actions  

A totally new idea:
Prospect Retro Historical style:  Take a look back to the 1800's when baseball was all about fun and not about what performance enhancing or stamina boosting drug players were taking.

Or maybe do a hall of fame review.  Obviously not everyone, but top guys we all know.  Maybe do a little digging and see what kind of prospect they were and who they "projected" to play like.  Maybe how their prospect numbers/projection rates next to today's young players.

I don't know a lot about the era pre-my life and have just started getting into prospects over the last 5 years, so it would certainly interest me to see what prospecting was like historically, maybe while you were growing up John, maybe while Bill James was growing up...

by phiago on Sep 22, 2007 12:34 AM EDT reply actions  

I'd like to see a Holliday prospect retro
This year has been great for him so it would be interesting.

by achengy on Sep 22, 2007 1:07 AM EDT reply actions  

joakim soria - prospect retro
plenty (including every team but the royals) missed the boat on this stud.......would be interesting to see in terms of what was missing and what he found

by Wheelhouse on Sep 22, 2007 1:26 AM EDT reply actions  

here is a good one
Edgar Renteria prospect retro.  How did he go from hitting .253 in A+ ball to an all star SS.

by Bravesin07 on Sep 22, 2007 1:32 AM EDT reply actions  

Here's another good one
An updated version of Hanley Ramirez crystal ball.  No one thought he would be this good so fast, is he the best SS since A-Rod manned the position.

by Bravesin07 on Sep 22, 2007 1:36 AM EDT reply actions  

general manager analysis
Look at most or all of the drafts that the current GM's were involved in and see who drafted who.
#269

by mrmetaa on Sep 22, 2007 11:50 AM EDT reply actions  

Case Study
Meant to post that a case study on the Mets famous trio of mid-90's, overhyped pitching prospects - Bill Pulsipher, Jason Isringhausen, and Paul Wilson.  

Izzy and Wilson, of course, went on to respectable major league careers but none of these guys became the #1/#2 starters that people envisioned.

by NYCRoyal on Sep 22, 2007 11:57 AM EDT reply actions  

How about....
Comparing those 3 to the Joba, Hughes, and Kennedy somehow

by hallofamer2000 on Sep 22, 2007 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yanks fans
everywhere just threw up in their mouths a little at that comparision!

by drwmsu1 on Sep 22, 2007 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions  

idea
Antoine Williamson vs. Brandon Larsen
3B Failed Prospect Smackdown-

Or famed college hitters who did not make it ex: Scott Bryant, Ty Griffin, Monty Farris, Bobby Hill...

by pst2 on Sep 22, 2007 8:40 PM EDT reply actions  

Joe Dillon
Prospect Retro

by floridamarlinscards on Sep 23, 2007 1:28 AM EDT reply actions  

prospect smackdown
danny duffy vs kasey kiker
Babe Ruth and Travis Snider back to back!!!

by realityconquest on Sep 23, 2007 4:20 AM EDT reply actions  

Brooklyn Cyclones Rotation
Vermont Lake Monsters style

by brandard on Sep 23, 2007 8:50 AM EDT reply actions  

Crystal Ball / thinking about
any of the following Jeff Keppinger, Brendan Harris, Norris Hopper

by beautox on Sep 23, 2007 9:03 AM EDT reply actions  

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