Schedule

by John Sickels on Sep 21, 2007 5:44 PM EDT in News

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

Billy Butler...

Crystal Ball

by adschofield on Sep 21, 2007 5:43 PM EDT 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

Dan Cortes vs Trevor Cahill

by doublestix on Sep 21, 2007 5:50 PM EDT reply actions

draft

anything involving looking at past drafts.

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

Jordan Schafer v. Desmond Jennings

by NewKidInTown on Sep 21, 2007 6:13 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

Lars Anderson v. Travis Snider

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

Top (insert # here) breakout prospects

for next year.

by hallofamer2000 on Sep 21, 2007 8:05 PM EDT reply actions

Smackdown: Beau Mills vs. Matt LaPorta

by Havok1517 on Sep 21, 2007 10:04 PM EDT 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

melky

http://minorleagueball.com/story/2007/2/16/16741/2377

by doublestix on Sep 21, 2007 11:20 PM EDT up 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:

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.
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.

Go Jays!!!!

Allan's World

Blue bird Banter

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