Update

by John Sickels on Jun 16, 2008 11:29 AM EDT

Working on Father's Day didn't have much appeal, so I will get the Trevor Cahill thing up for you later this morning. We will do Jesus Montero tomorrow.

For Wednesday and the rest of the week, should we do more Controversial Prospects? If so, who?

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Some Players I would like

Greg Halman

Collin Balester

Sean Doolittle

Alcides Escobar

Pablo Sandoval

by sully10x on Jun 16, 2008 12:06 PM EDT 0 recs

For me...

Jo Jo Reyes
Charlie Morton
Cole Rohrbough

Now raise your goblet of rock. It's a toast to those who rock!

by Dewey Finn on Jun 16, 2008 12:09 PM EDT 0 recs

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Not a Controversial Prospect request, but an interesting topic of discussion nonetheless . . .

Prospect Retro: Ryan Theriot

by mrkupe on Jun 16, 2008 12:12 PM EDT 0 recs

I'm liking the Controversial Prospect

Is it possible, as a follow up, to do a controversial prospect retro? It would be a good benchmark for the controversial prospect of today.

by Lunkwill Fook on Jun 16, 2008 12:40 PM EDT 0 recs

+1

I love this one.

by GuyinNY on Jun 16, 2008 3:51 PM EDT up 0 recs

My choices

Reid Brignac
Desmond Jennings
Austin Jackson
Matt Antonelli

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-Jonathan Swift

by King Billy Royal on Jun 16, 2008 12:47 PM EDT 0 recs

I also think Matt Gamel, Angel Villalona and Colby Rasmus are pretty good/ contoversial propects right now as well. I second the above fella’s pick of Alcides Escobar also. I don’t know if he is controversial but is getting really good and has been kinda under-mentioned around here.

by casejud on Jun 16, 2008 2:22 PM EDT up 0 recs

What about?

Ben Revere. He was considered an overdraft by the Twins but he has been tearing up the minors at a .400 clip. Also, he was the fastest player in his draft year.

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-Jonathan Swift

by King Billy Royal on Jun 16, 2008 2:43 PM EDT up 0 recs

Beyond the controversial prospects

What about Mock Draft v. Real Draft?

by mtk52983 on Jun 16, 2008 1:35 PM EDT 0 recs

David Murphy

He’s not a prospect any more but I find him fascinating and wonder if he can possibly be as good as he has been.

by bushe on Jun 16, 2008 3:16 PM EDT 0 recs

Aaron Poreda

good results/FIP despite not having plus breaking ball/strikeouts

by Daniel Berlyn on Jun 16, 2008 3:51 PM EDT 0 recs

Neftali Feliz

I’d love to see John’s opinion on this velocity guy.

by guru4u on Jun 16, 2008 5:20 PM EDT 0 recs

Madison Bumgarner

Maybe “controversial” isn’t the right word for him, but I find his year somewhat (pleasantly) strange. He was supposed to be this super raw arm with no secondary stuff and shaky control, but his numbers would lead one to believe he’s quite polished. If he really is more polished, just how good of a prospect does that make him?

by aCone419 on Jun 16, 2008 6:02 PM EDT 0 recs

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Interesting note with Bumgarner’s performance. He’s been markedly better against RH batters than LH batters this year, which suggests that his breaking stuff (which you’d expect him to use more against lefties) may still be a work in progress. However, he was known to have the makings of a fair change, so perhaps he’s honing that into an interesting offering.

Is he polished? Whatever he’s throwing, he appears to be throwing it for strikes . . .of course, you could read that statline a number of different ways. The first is as you suggested, that he’s rather polished, more so than many thought. A second is that he’s got command of a fastball with plus velocity, which he’s just throwing by inexperienced batters at this point without need for much else. If that’s the case, then he’s still rather raw. Another fine example of needing scouting to tell us about the stats.

by mrkupe on Jun 16, 2008 10:03 PM EDT up 0 recs