Comments on: Daily Farm Report 5/11/08

By: azruavatar

azruavatar — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:18:06 +0000

Good catch Jesse. I still associate him with the Dodgers because of his time as GM there but he is working with Towers in San Diego now.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:16:33 +0000

For Depodesta’s blog, that would be the Padres front office, not the Dodgers. Pretty cool though if it’s real.

By: picklefork

picklefork — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:47:54 +0000

Can someone provide a complete list (if there is one) of the Boras clients.

From what I have heard

Pedro, Crow, G.Cole, Hosmer, Alex Meyer.

Anyone else already see how this is going to play out?

Cole goes to the Cubs, Tigers or Angels
Hosmer goes to the Yanks, Sox or Tigers.

Sad how the system is manipulated.

By: azruavatar

azruavatar — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:42:24 +0000

nuhusky41 - that’s crazy. I hate that stat even more now. How archaic and inane yet relied upon by so many individuals in the big leagues. Ridiculous.

Erik - I like to walk barefoot in snow. I really like cold weather. 0 degrees sounds pretty nasty (and I’d almost certainly gripe) but I’ll always pick extreme cold over extreme heat.

By: fewgoodcards

fewgoodcards — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:24:18 +0000

big difference between pg and baseball america this year. BA had melville ranked 13th overall. i have also heard that melville, gerrit cole, and alex meyer didn’t even make pg’s top 10 high school pitching prospect list. that is quite a drop for 3 guys they consistently rated among the top 10 high school prospects overall. they had cole as #1 on that list for a long time.

By: Shhh

Shhh — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:20:44 +0000

On PG’s top 50 prospects Melville wasn’t even listed.

And thanks for the info BJM.

By: picklefork

picklefork — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:24:53 +0000

I read somewhere that had Ordazzi the #22 overall prospect in the draft..maybe PGcross…not sure.

I have yet to read anywhere that he will be drafted as anything else then a pitcher.

I need to get over and watch him..just so hard to know when a HS is sked.

I played Highland in HS…I think they play their conf sked on Mon/Wed/Fri..hopefully that is still the same.

Unless Melville has regressed since I saw him last fall…I find it hard to believe he wont be a top 15 pick..but rumors are he hasnt been dominate.

By: BigJawnMize

BigJawnMize — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:44:16 +0000

FGC–That was purely hypothetical…

By: fewgoodcards

fewgoodcards — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:37:12 +0000

i don’t know about moving kozma to 2nd. he was considered the best defensive shortstop in last year’s draft, and while his arm probably isn’t as strong he is a very good defensive shortstop.

By: BigJawnMize

BigJawnMize — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:24:47 +0000

No! I didn’t really think to look for him. I sat with some guys from the Nationals front office for a couple innings. They were pretty serious when Odorizzi was pitching or at bat, but the rest of the time they were pretty cool and shot the shit a little. I got the impression that they were looking to catch Melville on this trip as well and that they doubt teams would be too concerned about his up and down year, but it has definitely cast him some dollars. There were a couple other area players that they were interested in seeing for the later rounds. A lot of teams were on this guy and you can bet teams were taking notes of other teams around.

If the Cards grab him, I bet it will be as a MIF. I haven’t seen Kozma play in the field yet (Memorial Day weekend, don’t get yourself promoted to PB Pete), but if this kid can hit at the next level he would push Kozma to second.