MiLB 5/3
by daveh33 on May 3, 2010 12:42 PM EDT
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PrintOn this day, 35 years ago, the good Lord gave us Christina Hendricks.
some starters on the bump for today:
Aroldis Chapman
Jeremy Hellickson
Chris Tillman
Tim Alderson
Mauricio Robles
Mark Rogers
Martin Perez
TJ House
Jake Odorizzi
Cody Scarpetta
Kyle Lobstein
and its after noon, so Mike Stanton and Carlos Peguero have already hit home runs.
I don't have milb.tv, but anyone who does might want to be tuning in right now to see Wil Myers play... my crush has 4 homers and a .391 OBP over his last 10 games. dude will hit
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Christina Hendrick's Prospect Status
Is going wayyyyyyyyyyy up in my book. They should have started her off in DD…er, I mean, AA
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by Mets2k9 on May 3, 2010 12:56 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Burlington/Quad Cities is on MLB Network also
Myers just hit an RBI double.
He doesn’t wear batting gloves, which is pretty badass.
baseball rules.
sure thing
watching these low level minor league games really gives you appreciation for the fundamentals and “baseball IQ” of Major League players. been some mistakes that really shouldn’t have been.
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He just peed on his hands instead… to prevent blisters.
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and he smoked that thing
He’s gonna be a monster.
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officially a double
supposedly went to third on the throw. not sure what throw because the coverage of the game kinda sucks, but yeah.
baseball rules.
Wow.
The announcers were like “Holy!” “What was that!??” “Laser…” “Inning ends on a.. cannon (laughter)”
I see why they’re keeping him at catcher.
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whats the question on myers behind the plate?
b/c that throw was ridiculous
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by billybeingbilly on May 3, 2010 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
receiving/blocking
8 passed balls so far on the year. arm clearly not an issue. that throw was absurd.
baseball rules.
i wish i wouldve known this was on earlier
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by billybeingbilly on May 3, 2010 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions
is myers going to get another AB?
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by billybeingbilly on May 3, 2010 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions
uh oh....time for dayton to trade him
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by billybeingbilly on May 3, 2010 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
sure could
he’s top 25 for me right now.
was not expecting this kind of immediate dominance… he’s been burning the basepaths up, and now he’s hitting some home runs for good measure.
Agree with Philly
There’s to many guys ahead of him who won’t graduate and doing well enough to merit him skipping ahead of them. He’s definitely top 25 though
A few red flags
I like the kid and think he’s top 100 easy but I’m not convinced he’s top 25 and definitely not buying into the top 10 yet. His BAPIP is .447 heading into today and his line drive % is 8%. ISOp is .139 heading into today. He’s definitely putting up the ridiculous numbers so far but his OPS is gaudy right now because of the high BA that is unsustainable.
Just for comparison sake he and Wilmer Flores were born a day apart and are both in low A. Flores slash line is .341/.388/.560. Flores has a high BAPIP too (.359) but nothing like Trout and his ISOP is .219. Flores is also striking out at a lower clip. I don’t see anybody flipping out about Flores jumping up to the Top 10 yet and deservedly so but I like him better as a prospect than Trout.
by joerote on May 3, 2010 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Flores' start is encouraging, but he's still a LFer waiting to happen imo.
Trout is supposedly going to be a good CFer
all things being equal then
i’d rather have Flores. I think he is destined for a corner, not necessarily LF.
3B
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that's his next move
with thoughts that he’ll move to RF/LF down the road. His value would certainly increase if he can stick at 3B.
RE: Corner OF
There is no chance he winds up a corner OF. He is way too slow. He will go from SS → 3B → 1B if he moves off third. I think he’ll stick there. Remember he is a very raw international talent.
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Arm
A players arm is so insignificant in terms of his overall value it is barely worth mentioning here. Additionally, why wouldn’t that be an asset at third base?
Overall it is difficult to find a plus outfielder with subpar speed. He is a 20 on the 20-80 scale. He won’t be an OF unless he is pushed there by Wright and Davis.
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wow
i always just assumed he’d have average speed, since he’s at SS and they are usually athletic, but I guess Bengie Molina once was a SS too….
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No...
Flores is incredible slow. I’ve seen him listed a pure 20 runner from more than one source. There’s some speculation he broke his foot and it healed wrong. He can’t run for s*** and he’s definitely not a SS.
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Still hoping for 3B
But if he ends up in LF, I think the difference in the bats is fairly substantial. Assuming Flores is a LF, they would be close in my rankings right now but I would give the edge to Flores.
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quick blueprint/roughdraft of a top 40 spects for me, as of today
mostly just to show guys whose tools are turning into skills / or who have more tools/skills than i previously thought . also accounting for graduations / guys currently in the show…
1. Michael Stanton – OF FLA
2. Stephen Strasburg – P WAS
3. Carlos Santana – C CLE
4. Buster Posey – C SF
5. Jesus Montero – C/DH NYY
6. Aroldis Chapman – P CIN
7. Desmond Jennings – CF TB
8. Dustin Ackley – CF/2B SEA
9. Domonic Brown – OF PHI
10. Martin Perez – P TEX
11. Mike Montgomery – P KC
12. Jeremy Hellickson – P TB
13. Starlin Castro – SS CHC
14. Pedro Alvarez – 3B/1B PIT
15. Christian Friedrich – P COL
16. Logan Morrison – 1B/OF FLA
17. Aaron Hicks – CF MIN
18. Devaris Gordon – SS LAD
19. Tyler Matzek – P COL
20. Julio Teheran – P ATL
21. Wil Myers – C KC
22. Freddie Freeman – 1B ATL
23. Mike Trout – CF LAA
24. Brett Wallace – 1B TOR
25. Matthew Moore – P TB
26. Lonnie Chisenhall – 3B CLE
27. Kyle Drabek – P TOR
28. Alex Colome – P TB
29. Shelby Miller – P Stl
30. Mike Moustakas – 3b KC
31. Arodys Vizcaino – P ATL
32. Michael Taylor – OF OAK
33. Casey Kelly – P BOS
34. Chris Carter – 1B/DH OAK
35. Kyle Gibson – P MIN
36. Chris Withrow – P LAD
37. Aaron Crow – P KC
38. Jordan Lyles – P HOU
39. Fernando Martinez – OF NYM
40. Nick Weglarz – OF CLE
STANTON OVER STARSBURG, zOMG YOU CRAZY
Seriously though… Castro, Gordon, Myers and Lyles have some serious helium right now.
Stanton is so very legit right now.
He can’t not be #1….
Castro and Gordon have been really impressive. particularly Gordon to me… he looks very impressive right now. I had Lyles at 41 on my feb list, so he hasn’t moved too far up, as I was expecting him to do well in AA
I don't know, Stanton has had one crazy start to the season
But considering his limitations with making contact and where he can play defensively, wouldn’t Strasburg still rank ahead of him? Strasburg is crazy.
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by Satchel Price on May 3, 2010 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s a fun debate, and I’m still going with Stras, but I think it’s more semantics than anything else. Everyone’s pretty well aware of the respective upsides, limitations, etc., and at some point it becomes a subjective personal preference thing.
if Stanton is going to walk as much as he is going to strikeout
then his limitation is greatly diminished. in fact, he has no limitation if he keeps close to a 1:1 bb:k ratio. dude is OBPing over .500 right now because he is walking so much
Lyles
Yeah, you were expecting a 19-year-old to make a (nearly) flawless transition from A to AA.
Reasonable expectations! Absolutely!
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by criminal type on May 3, 2010 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Also
I was never super high on Ackley … and his performance so far, albeit with a really small sample size, doesn’t indicate SUPERSTAR potential.
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by criminal type on May 3, 2010 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm on board with a lot of this
I like the aggressive ranking on Weglarz, Gibson, Colome, and Myers. Some of my personal favorites
I’m still a Drabek doubter, and I’m not quite so high on Vizcaino, but I like how that list looks
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I would put Tony Sanchez...
over Weglarz. Catcher with good defnsive ability tearing apart the FSL. He is going to be AMAZING!
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Well
I’d go with Strasburg mainly because he has zero red flags while Stanton’s only one is an elevated K rate. The ranking that I strongly disagree with is Chapman. I wouldn’t put him in my top 50 at this point. He’ll never make it as a starter because he reaches 100 pitches by the 5th inning every game, just like today’s game. All he’s got is a 100 MPH heater, pretty much the anti-Leake.
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by WayneCampbell08 on May 3, 2010 9:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I disagree that Strasburg has zero red flags
Scouts have said that Strasburg’s mechanics could lead to arm trouble down the road.
Jacob Turner?
Falls out of the picture b/c of the forearm tightness?
He’s looked as good as any prep pitchers in ST and A ball so far.
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I almost put him on there
decided to put Weglarz instead… he is not far behind Miller, but I like Miller a bit better
he is clearly better than Shelby Miller
Better breaking ball, better command.
Putting a guy like Weglarz over him is borderline crazy.
I am most confident that Weglarz will hit in MLB
his ceiling may not be as high as the other names on the list… but I am very certain that he will hit. and notice how I wrote “as of today” … meaning the list is pretty tied to current performance/trends…. and for a HS kid to have arm trouble within the first month of his full-season debut kind of worries me…
Dude
Stras has an era a bit above 1.50, is striking out 11 per 9, walking only 2.5 per 9, and a whip of .85. Stanton’s been lights out, but Stras hasn’t exactly been slummin’ it. He’s still my #1
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i think if I had him as my #1 before, then I might still have him there
as it was, I had Heyward #1…. and I don’t regret that at all.
not including today’s stats… Stanton is ISOPing .512…. let me rephrase that. .512. through 111 PA.
and he has another home run today.
last year in AA : 9.1 BB%, 29.1 K%
this year in AA: 22.5 BB%, 21.6 K%
I’m sorry but he is the top dawg right now. he is showing real improvement in cutting down his K’s… his BB% is rising faster than my boner, and his power is otherworldly. his wOBA right now is .515 …. he is putting up high school numbers in the Southern League, and he will be 20 years old this entire season.
by daveh33 on May 3, 2010 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Bowden going for Pawsox.
What do people think of Bowden? I thinks he’ll be a bust.
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by bestbostonsports on May 3, 2010 4:37 PM EDT reply actions
He totally went off the rails when he got promoted to Triple-A. Not sure exactly why, but he’s never really recovered. Strikes me as the sort of guy who’s in between roles at this point — unless something changes, he’s not good enough to be a starter, and his skill set is not a good fit for the bullpen.
noticed a lot of Hosmer's doubles are going to left and center
one of the few knocks on him as an amateur was that he didn’t pull the ball much. if/when he figures this out, could be a friggin monster. i seem to remember Adrian Gonzalez having this same sort of knock (i think, might be wrong). he’s become awesome even in that ballpark because he now can crush it out to RF.
baseball rules.
He only seems to draw walks and strikeout
5 MORE YEARS OF FELIX!
by Marinerfanjake on May 3, 2010 7:35 PM EDT up reply actions
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continues to dominate..
just another day
2 for 2 with a homer and a walk
Promote
Austin Romine 1-1 HR 1 BB
Hitting .357 with a 10/13 BB/K. Talk about a breakout this year, he is pushing Montero now IMO to beat him to NY if Posada has a major injury.
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Trayce Thompson
Currently 2/3 with his 4th home run
This after a recent 1-16 stretch.
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Ryan Kalish
A low BABIP is hiding his great start:
.230/.381/.432, 20BB, 9K, 4HR, 7SB, 1CS, .203BABIP
Love it
Power, speed, control of the zone…he’ll be fine even if he has to play in a corner.
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Mike Leake
6 IP, 4 H, 2 R (1 ER), 1 BB, 4 K against the Mets tonight
Season numbers: 5 GS, 33.2 IP, 28 H, 2 HRA, 16 BB, 22 K, 2.94 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 59% GB%
He had 12 walks in his first two starts over 13.2 IP. Over his past 20 innings, he’s allowed just 4 walks and struck out 14.
Another bomb for Mike Stanton today
Unless I’m reading something wrong: 2-4, HR, K.
Unreal.
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O = M = G
really?
Wow Blackburn makes nearly identical money as Baker does now....
by SteveHoffmanSlowey on May 3, 2010 10:11 PM EDT up reply actions
JC Ramirez
7 IP
4H
1ER
1BB
7 K
He’s been all kinds of inconsistent this year.
Wilson Ramos
ohh, he only ended up with a 4-5 Major League Debut at the plate yesterday
and today he decides to settle for a 3-4 game with 1 more AB likely pending.
Not to mention he’s every bit as good as that Mauer guy behind the dish
Wow Blackburn makes nearly identical money as Baker does now....
by SteveHoffmanSlowey on May 3, 2010 10:21 PM EDT reply actions
I hated the Mauer extension absolutely hated it
Because I knew Ramos was a stud, and Mauer a future left-fielder/ 3rd basmen / 1st basemen isn’t worth 23-24 M a year
he should have got 18-20 22 tops…
Wow Blackburn makes nearly identical money as Baker does now....
by SteveHoffmanSlowey on May 3, 2010 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions
ok I was a little bit firm there
But from the moment of the news of the extension
I disliked it for my twins.
1. Mauer has an injury history, period.
2. He doesn’t have A-Fraud or Albert Pujols type of game changing Power, or intimidation
(don’t get me wrong he intimidates the Heck out of pitchers just not the same way Bonds or Pujols does)
3. He gets Sundays off regularly becasue of the position he plays, SO WHY TWINS WHY?
without realizing it, they made what was sooooo fun about the Twins, and what made them My Favorite team and many other fans like me’s billy beane phillospy like franchise into an orgainzation that just spent over 1/4 of the ENTIRE cap on 1 friggn player…..
Wow Blackburn makes nearly identical money as Baker does now....
by SteveHoffmanSlowey on May 3, 2010 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions
+1
Best player in the game and HoF track catcher >>> Latino A.J. Pierzynski
and I should probably note
That’s his upside, not what he actually is at this point.
Playstation is for children
And Mauer, yes a Minnesota boy, doesn’t actually fish
Wow Blackburn makes nearly identical money as Baker does now....
by SteveHoffmanSlowey on May 3, 2010 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Randal Grichuk
2-4, HR, K
3 HRs in last 3 days
Matt Rox' #6
Tim Alderson
5 IP, 5 R (4 ER), 9 H, 0 HR, 0 BB, 8 K. 7 GO:0 AO
I guess this is an improvement…
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Odd start
He struck out more guys tonight than he did in his previous four games combined. Combining that with his 7 ground outs, you have to call this his best start of the year, right?
Wynn Pelzer
one of John’s guys:
6 IP, 4 H, 1 R (Unearned), 4 K, 2 BB.
Also, I saw Wilking Rodriguez went, not too great:
5 IP, 3 R, 8 H, 2 K, BB
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Re:
Maybe it’s nickpicky, but I’m a little worried about his stamina. Seems like he always is pretty dominant for 3-4IP and then gets knocked around after that. I realize he didn’t get killed today — but this does seem to be a repeat pattern.
I'm not too worried
he’s 19 and in AA. If he’s 22 and still struggling, then I could see something to worry about.
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For Sure
Like I said, it’s nitpicky. But I think lasting longer in games is his biggest hurdle to the majors. It will be interesting to see how he develops in that regard….
He only threw 80 pitches tonight
Maybe they’re intentionally limiting him, I don’t know.
Ceterum censeo, Ron Washington esse delendam
Well, he just turned 19 a month ago
and is striking out 24% in AA. I’m not too worried. Elvis had less than overwhelming stats, too, when he was very young for each level. I expect Perez to adjust just fine, as Elvis did and his line will improve month to month over the season.
Ceterum censeo, Ron Washington esse delendam
He has two HRs now - one off a LHP as a RHH & one off a RHP as a LHH
Both were absolute blasts… no doubt, pitcher didn’t turn around HRs.
His first jack was off Gavin Floyd and travelled 411 feet (true distance 409 ft.). Here is the path:
http://hittrackeronline.com/hrdetail.php?id=2010_598
The chart and data for tonight’s wont be up until tomorrow… but I’m guessing ~390-400 ft.
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Some video
HR #1: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7730903
HR #2: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7817987
Interestingly his video page on mlb.com already has three defensive plays on it -
1) “Smoak shows his range”: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7608667
2) “Smoak’s sweet stop”: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7672105
3) “Smoak’s leaping grab”: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7727307
It is not too late to buy stock in this kid, no. Come jump on the bandwagon. We’ll even forget you questioned his power for no good reason (yes, being concerned over SSS splits on a guy coming off a lingering oblique injury in AAA a year after being drafted in the face of scouting reports to the contrary = no good reason.).
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He's been having solid at bats
and for the most part not swinging at anything bad. Several well hit outs before he smacked his first hit. And had a HR absolutely stolen by Ichiro yesterday. http://texas.rangers.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7801747
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Michael Saunders
Showing signs of life after a terrible start to the season. Last 3g, 4-9, double, 4bb/1k, 3sb
Hellickson with another gem.
7 IP, 4 H, 1 HR, 2 ER, 8 Ks, 0 BB.
On the year:
6 G, 5-0, 35 IP, 2.57 ERA, 1.086 WHIP, 9 K/9, 1.8 BB/9.
When he’s still rookie eligible next year where will he slot? Gotta be top 5-10 right?
well actually
He was better in AAA last year than this year, so how much higher can you push him on the basis of this year’s performance?
He’s about as much of a sabermetric darling as you can find, but still . . .
So continued dominance doesn't bump him along with graduations?
His scouting reports have been pretty glowing for at least a year now. He got swinging strikes on 15% of his pitches at AAA this year, and he’s right there again. He has swing and miss stuff and great control.
What pitchers do you think will be better that will be prospects still next year?
numbers are good
But there’s still only so much you can take from them.
The question isn’t which pitchers are better prospects (ranking prospects relatively rather than absolutely never ends up well), it’s which prospects.
I had Hellickson at No. 14 last year, which is still pretty high and higher than BA (No. 18).
Interesting note: When Jim Callis was asked about guys with No. 1 starter potential, he specifically omitted Hellickson.
IDK your list specifically.
I’m assuming you have some combo of Heyward, Stras, Matusz, Feliz, Posey, and Santana on there. I’d expect all of them to lose rookie eligibility, so unless he gets vaulted by a few guys he’d be right at the top 10. That was my question.
Number 1 starter potential is what will carry Feliz to the bullpen and Chapman as well. I’ll take a 2 starter.
what?
“Number 1 starter potential is what will carry Feliz to the bullpen and Chapman as well. I’ll take a 2 starter.”
Explain please.
They throw hard.
They don’t have great control or secondary offerings. Both seem like they may never be starters in a big league rotation.
so
It doesn’t sound like you think either one of them has No. 1 starter potential.
They have the potential.
They don’t have the liklihood.
I guess my issue is what is number 1 stuff and why is it so important. Do the Rays have a true number 1? No, but they have the best record in baseball. Did any of the Braves HoF triumvirate have number 1 stuff?
actually, all three of them did.
All three of them had multiple aspects of their games that rated as at least 70s and in some cases true 80s on the 20-80 scale.
Hellickson doesn’t have that. The BA top 100 list noted his best grade is on his command, which gets a 65.
If you’re looking for guys to be true No. 1 starters, then you need to find guys who grade out exceptionally high in at least one part of the game. Fastball velocity is a popular choice of focus for prospect-watchers because it has appeal both quantitatively and qualitatively, but it’s by no means the only way a pitcher can become truly elite.
I've seen multiple reports that has
everyone of his pitches between 55-60. So you put 3 plus pitches with nearly plus-plus command, you have the potential for an ace. Certainly it’s more likely he’s a #2, but he could easily have ‘ace’ stuff.
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indeed
I was responding to another poster who brought up Maddux/Glavine/Smoltz, and I explained that they all had multiple parts of their games that rated as 70s if not 80s, which Hellickson doesn’t.
And you just responded with “every one of his pitches is between 55-60”, and BA has his command as 65.
Where did we disagree?
Ultimately it's numbers on the scouting scale are
very educated hypothesis about how ones stuff will translate to the show. I’ve read scouts saying Hellickson is better than Price and clearly Price has ace potential. I doubt many scouts would have rated anything Glavine did in the minors a 70/80 because scouts are ultimately going to conservative with guys that are pitchability types because they’re not sure how exactly big league hitters will react to their command even if they have above-average stuff. I guess my only real disagreement is that his ceiling isn’t an ace. I think he could be an ace. Will he be? Probably not, but I would say that about every pitcher not named Stasburg.
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Yeah, I don't think I can go more than a couple spots higher
His ceiling remains unchanged and I was already pretty certain he was a MLB ready, very good pitcher. There isn’t a whole lot he can do to go higher this year for me. The guys above him were already overwhelmingly guys with superstar kind of ceilings… a few guys will jump him this year based on ceiling again.
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He's still clearly behind at least Chapman, Perez, Turner (if healthy) and Matzek (as well as presumed grads Stras, Feliz, Matusz)
and could easily end up behind guys like Kyle Drabek, Casey Kelly, Julio Teheran, Christian Friedrich, Tanner Scheppers, Alex Colome (yes really), Simon Castro, Jennry Mejia, Mike Montgomery, etc…
If any of those guys has an excellent season (which most of them are having great seasons in the same neighborhood as Hellickson) and had better scouting reports (not a huge stretch – though Hellickson’s reports are very good now) they could easily end up above him for me. Lets take Scheppers as an example. If he stays healthy all year with that stuff… hard to keep him down. His stuff is much better than Hellickson’s, and that’s nothing against Hellickson. Teheran – same kind of thing.
We’re only a month in and lots of things could happen still…
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FYI
Kelly has 10 K’s in 10.2 IP as one of the youngest players in AA. He’s 20 years old in his first full season of pitching and league average for pitchers is 24.3.
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There's no prospect in baseball I dislike more.
Not his stuff or his potential. I just hate the hype surrounding him. It nauseates me. I at least will admit to an extreme bias against him.
I have a hard time saying two guys with a combined 11 IP above HS are better prospects right now than a guy who has consistantly dealt at every level through AAA and has great scouting reports.
Shiny new toy syndrom.
Not me.
This is pretty much exactly the response I envisioned. It seemed like you were looking for names to nitpick, but I figured Id give them to you anyway.
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Sorry for nitpicking.
I just think it’s frustrating that a guy who has great stuff (as evidenced by his high K and swinging strike numbers) gets lumped in as “not number 1 material” because he doesn’t throw 96.
but that's not the reason
It’s not just that his fastball doesn’t get a really high grade, it’s that NONE of his pitches get a really high grade.
Command is a frustrating thing to figure out, but usually it’s better to err on the side of caution. Sometimes you’ll find a Matusz type who, as it turns out, lacks a true out pitch that stands above the others primarily because ALL of his pitches are out pitches. But that’s usually not the case.
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