MILB 9-1

He seems to really have worn down. Cubs are sending him to the AFL, which kind of worries me, but hey, it’s their prospect. They know what they’re doing.

He still has pretty good numbers for his age, position, etc. Just not as good as they were a month ago

Just went back and watched it again to make sure, but the catch was made at about the depth of the second base bag about 60 feet towards the 3B line. It was closer to third than second. Wright was lined up way closer to 3B than any SS would ever play and he still barely got it.

Freeman is so amazing that without that cowardly shift he would have hit it THROUGH the shortstop.

But yeah I was surprised they were already putting a shift on him.

Jeremy Jeffress!
1 IP, 1 H, 0 BB, 0K

Pitch F/X;
11 pitches, 7 strikes, fastest at 97.7

Now just get his plate discipline atleast average and he will be scary.

There’s 5-10 guys that are legit POY candidates.

lists that favor upside over floor are disadvantaged using this method of evaluation

You just spelled it out in more specific terms than I did . . .I thought about writing more, but it was late and I was tired. :)

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, and honestly, I’m not sure how much value “high floor” really has unless A) the player in question is at a high level of the minors (preferably AAA, but at least AA) and B) we’re talking about the short term. Time and time again, we’ve seen “high floor” players (especially pitchers) enter the majors and have a good run of initial success, only to get dragged down by the same things that affect players with lower floors and higher ceilings. High floor/low ceiling players also seem to have more difficulty at regaining their previous levels of performance once they’ve fallen off . . .Brian Bannister jumps to mind. And yeah, I know that Bannister doesn’t miss bats. He was still thought to be a guy who could pitch comfortably at a No. 4 starter level for at least a few years after his rookie season.

In other words, I’d be much more interested in seeing a long-term evaluation (3-5 years) of rankings. I still don’t expect BP to do that well relatively speaking (who has KG hit on that others haven’t other than taking an early flier on Neftali Feliz?), but I would think most of the other guys would be pretty close. Yet more reason why you REALLY shouldn’t read too much into the analysis of a bunch of glorified reports, heh, or as I like to say, “I like them for what they can give me, not for what they can tell me.”

This is only the 2nd year of playing full time in the field, he was drafted as a pitcher.

The Phils org loves the kid, because he’s supposedly one of the hardest workers and seems to understand what he needs to do to develop. He could honestly turn into Heyward/Dom Brown lite or he could as you say not amount to anything. Although that does describe about 25% of prospects.

From looking at the pictures that I’ve seen of him, I’m not sure how much he’s really going to fill out. He’s certainly lanky and athletic. . .but a lot of lanky guys stay that way, it’s just how their genetics work. My personal guess is that he adds some lean muscle as he gets older but that his biggest gains in power production will be realized through mental rather than physical development.

But Mariners executives insisted they knew nothing before the July 9 trade about the 25-year-old minor-leaguer facing felony charges in a rape and sodomy case in which he later pleaded no contest to a lesser charge.

Zduriencik said he’d asked the Rangers’ Daniels before the trade why Lueke had pitched in only four games in 2009 and had been on the team’s suspended list.

Zduriencik said he was told there had been an incident at a bar involving the woman and a third party and that Lueke had been “acquitted.” “So, at that point, we took their word for it,” said Zduriencik

“I asked Jack, ‘Have you checked this out?’ " Armstrong said. "And he said, ‘Yes, I talked to Jon Daniels and he told me that this was an incident in a bar in Bakersfield … ’ And Jack said he [Daniels] told him that Lueke had been acquitted, or exonerated. And I said, ’So, it’s over? No big deal?’ He said, ‘No big deal.’ "

Some teams do Google, Facebook and background searches on prospects. The Mariners didn’t do a Web search, which would have flagged Lueke’s case.

When asked why, Zduriencik replied: “In all the deals I’ve been in all the years, I can’t remember anybody saying ’I’m running a Google [search]’ to figure out what a player’s done.”

He added: “That is our policy now. We are doing that. We have done that since that moment.”