- Baseball America has it’s best of the rest prospects, guys who just missed the book. Part one has scouring reports of Cardinal farmhands Troy Cate, Eric Haberer and Travis Hanson. Part two features Stuart Pomeranz.
- Draft day just got a lot more fun, as Jeff Sackmann is beginning to roll out his new website Collegesplits.com. Happy day!
- Speaking of Sackmann, he ranked the Cardinal system as the 23rd best overall in the minors.
- More statistical goodness. BP has boosted it’s minor league stat keeping. Fangraphs is also now posting minor league data.
- Heard the phrase 5 tool player all too often? John Sickels broke down how he assesses minor leaguers, judging them by the 7 skills.
- Unsolicited promo: Buy this book! Deric McKamey works for the Cardinals, and his book Minor League Baseball Analyst combines the best of scouting and stats.
- Fanhome recently had a chat session with Springfield Cardinal announcer Mike Lindskog.
- Baseball Analysts recently categorized minor league pitchers on several different levels.
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Goldstein had the Cards at 27th. Astros, Pads, and Nats round out the bottom. I agree with the Pads and Nats, but the Astros? Pence and Patton are better than anything we have in the system right now. Before everyone jumps on me about Pence being better than Colby, I say that because Pence is farther along than Colby.
Patton is further developed than any pitcher in our system.
Keith Law had us last, and I got into with him at VEB. At first, I thought it was cool that he called me out. Then, I realized that if he trolls the blogs looking for guys who say bad things about him, he couldn’t POSSIBLY do anything else.
Later…
I don’t really know much about Patton and from what I understand Pence is pretty good. I thought Law had us the same as Goldstein, 27th. Anyway, I think you have Keith Law wrong, he’s actually a pretty nice guy from what I understand of him. I think it’s great he’s reading the same stuff we are reading, and that he’ll actually defend his position to us verses sitting in some ESPN ivory tower.
RHP Kyle McClellan was on Fanhome last night.
Later this week, a recap will be posted.
Patton projects as a number #2 for his ceiling. The game I saw him pitch he was efficent and threw strikes, but that’s apparently not always the case so his control is an issue.
The difference between what he is right now and what he could be is refining a secondary pitch to plus status, I believe the most likely pitch for that is his curve, which is good but he apparently tips with a different arm slot.
Erik, if you remember back a few months ago, you and I were debating the need for another conservative draft or how both of us would mix high ceiling/high busts with lower ceiling/more polished guys. I got thinking about that this weekend, and looked at the BA rankings. Five of the Cards top six prospects, at least according to BA figure to face the AA transition hurdle for a signifcant portion of the season.
Rasmus
Perez
Anderson
Garcia
Jay
The only top sixer not on the list is Hawksworth who will be pitching in Memphis. It seems to me that no other organization is at such an exciting, yet crucial time, with so many of their top prospects facing arguably the biggest hurdle in player development.