Unless your name is John Orelud, each baseball player has to go down to the minor leagues, and work his way up the food chain. It is not an easy journey for a player trying to force his way onto a major league roster. Every step along the way, the minor league players performance [...]
Archive for the ‘Prospects’ Category
Prospect Grand Prix 2011
Posted in Around the Web, Minors, MLB, Opening Day, Prospects, Rookie Of Year, Rookies on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Counting down the 100 Names You Need to Know
Posted in American League, Around the Web, Minors, National League, Projections, Prospects, Rookie Of Year, Rotisserie, ROY on February 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Each year, USA Today comes out with their 100 names you need to know for the upcoming season. This is a good resource of getting to know some of the minor league players that are usually at that point of their career where they are ready make a big impact at the major league level. Here [...]
Deep League NL Prospects 2010
Posted in Minors, MLB, Prospects on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Each year I read all the minor league resources I can get a hold of. A comprehensive list of web sites on the minor league players to know is sure to include Prospect Junkies, MLB Fantasy Prospects , Prospect Insider , Project Prospect , Rays Prospects ,Mets Minors , Braves Minors ,Scouting Book and Johns [...]
Things Going Wright
Posted in Around the Web, Mets, Minors, Prospects on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As the Mets had one of their worst offensive seasons in team history in 2009 scoring only 671 runs, with only 95 HRs. As, compared with 799 runs and 172 HRs the previous year. We have former Mets executive Tony Bernazard to blame, but when David Wright goes yard to the right side for the [...]
Names to Know 2010 Edition
Posted in American League, Around the Web, Minors, MLB, National League, Opening Day, Projections, Prospects on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Each year, USA Today comes out with their 100 names you need to know for the upcoming season. The list is different from typical prospect lists. Its typically a good resource for fantasy leagues, as these are players who have a good chance to make contributions for the upcoming season: These aren’t necessarily baseball’s 100 [...]
Possible Gems with Rule 5 Draft
Posted in Minors, MLB, Prospects, Rule5 on February 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In preparing for your fantasy drafts for 2010, most owners will target a few sleepers to go along with the consistent performers. However, most of the time with sleepers, you have to have the roster flexibility, and realize they might not make an immediate impact early on. But, if you can uncover a player you [...]
June Draft Here We Come
Posted in American League, Around the Web, National League, Prospects on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Oakland A’s changed the way players are picked in the draft with their affinity towards college players. However, in recent times a player such as Clayton Kershaw was drafted out of high school, and within a few seasons, he was making contributions to the major league team. With the upcoming draft, here are a [...]
Chris Dickerson – the Corey Patterson Clone?
Posted in Minors, MLB, National League, Projections, Prospects, Reds on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Reds Chris Dickerson (like it says here) has a track record of the high strikeout numbers. I decided to take a look back at his minor league performance, and he is pretty consistent with double digit home runs and the 20 or so stolen bases. HR RBI SB BB SO AVG OBP SLG AB [...]
Players Report Today
Posted in Albert Pujols, American League, Around the Web, Nationals, Prospects on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The players reporting at camps today are playing second fiddle to the A-Rod press conference. Alex meets the press and they will be looking to drill down on the line of questioning, unlike what Gammons did. Alex made this bed and now he has to sleep in it. Its been said that Michael Phelps was [...]
Prediction Season 2009 Begins
Posted in American League, National League, Opening Day, Preview, Projections, Prospects, Rookies, Rotisserie on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Baseball Insights site has unveiled their 2009 player projection functionality. For example , I did I lookup on John Bowker, and Daniel Murphy. Over at Fantasy Phenoms, they have their prospect outlook by position . The MLB Jerk has a look at NL East prospects. The Grand Finale link of the day is Keith [...]
