“We grow baseball players like we grow corn.” from The Final Season.
You can’t get much cornier then that, but wait, there is Tom Arnold. Why do I bring this up? A big part of the movie was filmed in my current home town of Cedar Rapids, IA, and my wife and I were actually extras in the crowd when they were filming the ball game action. We got to see and hear some of the actors give their lines while they were sitting in our midst, and watch some of the action being filmed on the field. Then we had shots taken of us in the crowd doing real and mimed cheering. Rad. Back when I was blogging at Reverend Redbird, I had a write up of my movie experience if you wanna check it out.
“I helped Mr. Frodo destroy the Ring of Doom, surely I can coach a rag tag gang of rural high school kids to glory!”
I will probably wait for the DVD, in vain hopes of seeing my mug in the crowd. It’s in theaters Oct. 12th. BA’s FSL Top 20 comes out tomorrow. we’ll be wrapping about that later, I’m sure. Adam Ottavino Prospect Profile is in the hopper, as well.
In the meantime, Project Prospect has their Top 5 Cardinal prospects.
- Rasmus
- Garcia
- Anderson
- Ottavino
- Herron
I’m a little surprised Perez didn’t make the top 5, but not very surprised. My dilemma is this–and I’m not a huge fan of rankings, but who do you put #7? You have Perez there at 6 at least, then who? Kozma? Hoffpauir? Martinez? Mortensen? When I go through my personal rankings, 7 always trips me up.
Goold goes to A ball and continues his People’s Prospect Choice Award, or whatever he is calling them. Make your votes be known.
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erik
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If you go by how he listed his honorable mentions his top 9 is rounded out by Martinez, Perez, Kozma and Mortensen. He doesn’t have Hoff listed at all.
I agree. I have been trying to come up with my top 10 and I always get tripped up at number 7. I have really been leaning Jose Martinez. What he did at Double A can’t be ignored.
Then what do you guys think?
8. Kozma?
9. Walters? I know his upside is limited but you can’t ignore what he did this year.
10. Craig?
http://www.whiteyball.com
I’m going with Mortensen at 7. 68 K’s and 19 walks from a groundball pitcher sounds good to me. Granted we’ve seen college righties dominate low-A before and then crash and burn, but I’m optimistic about Mortensen.
Martinez would probably be my #8 guy. I was super high on Martinez at the end of 2005 (based on his performance in JC), but after seeing him in QC in 2006 I have a hard time thinking he’ll be an impact player. But as whitey said, you can’t ignore his AA performance.
I’m not sure that I would have Kozma in my top 10 at this point. I like Walters better for sure. Then there are a group of interesting relievers, Motte in particular. Heck, I think Edwards might have more impact potential than Kozma.
In terms of where do you rank a guy, the hardest to me might be Mather.
Erik-
Did you see Rachel Leigh Cook? I couldn’t watch all “She’s all That” because of Freddy Prince Jr, but I did Tivo just to her scenes. To think of it I had the same problem with “Fever Pitch”. Jesica Biel, Oooohhhhh! Fredy Prince Jr, Boooooo!
BJM
Whitey posted on his sight that Danielson is completing the Pineiro trade and Anderson might join Team USA. It will be cool to possibly see the three of them stay on that team all summer though I think Anderson is the best bet to still be there next summer and not have been called up at the time.
BJM–Did see Rachel Leigh, and yes she is as easy on the eyes off screen as she is on. I didn’t get a real close up view, but she wasn’t far from where I was sitting. And they had her all dressed up in 80’s wear, so it wasn’t too exciting.
I’ve got Martinez at #7. Pretty good bat at a premium position, and not much older than Rasmus/Anderson. Then I go with Mortensen, Walters and Hoffpauir rounding out the top 10. Mortensen is probably this high because the Cardinals should know exactly what they want to do with him and won’t tweak him at all, except to make him better at what he already does. Hoffpauir should be given the 2B job over Adam Kennedy right now, but I’m ok with the situation because he is a pretty good insurance policy for both Kennedy and Rolen.
Since I haven’t seen it posted anywhere yet I just figured out the draft order before Free agent signings for next years draft. I found something that said the tie breaker for records is the previous years records I also assumed that game 163 counts for the draft if not this would probably change around the 23-25 picks since all three were tied at 89 W after 162 games.
Tamba Bay
Pittsburgh
Kansas City
Baltimore
San Francisco
Florida
Cincinnati
Chicago White Sox
Washington
Houston
Texas
Oakland
St Louis
Minnesota
LA Dodgers
Milwaukee
Toronto
Atlanta
Chicago Cubs
Seattle
Detroit
New York Mets
San Diego
Philadelphia
Colorado
Arizona
LA Angels
New York Yankees
Cleveland
Boston
I think my top fifteen would have to go thusly:
1) Colby Rasmus
Clay Mortenson
2) Jaime Garcia
3) Bryan Anderson
4) Tyler Herron
5) Chris Perez
6) Ottavino
7) Jose Martinez
9) P.J. Walters
10)Joe Mather
11)Peter Kozma
12)Brad Furnish
13)Blake Hawksworth
14)De La Cruz
15)Mark Worrell
or something like that.
#7 is Martinez or Walters
rb–i’m just not that high on worrell, too quirky but you can’t really argue with the results. I guess i just have issues ranking someone who is going to be a middle reliever for his career. hawksworth doesn’t even crack my top 20 after that miserable season of his. i think his shoulder is still hurt, and i wouldn’t bet on him staying healthy.
just off the cuff, and like i said, i’m not a huge fan of lists
1. rasmus
2. garcia
3. anderson
4. perez
5. ottavino
6. herron ( i keep flip flopping on who i like more, ott or TH)
7. drumroll…..kozma
8. martinez
9. mortensen
10. allen craig
11. hoffpaiur
12. mark hamilton
13. p.j. walters
14. maiques
15. boggs….
and i’m sure i could do a lot more flip flopping on some of those, too