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Dustin Ackley To Be Promoted?

I was taking my daily stroll through the minor league box scores when I happened upon the results of the Tacoma Rainiers and Sacramento River Cats game.  Immediately I became aware of the change. Michael Saunders batted leadoff and Sean … Continue reading

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Coming Soon #2: Dustin Ackley

I am a devout reader of Ron Shandler’s annual Baseball Forcaster, and the statistiacl analysis that he and the rest of the Baseball HQ staff does is, in my mind, second to none.  However, I literally laughed out loud at … Continue reading

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10/22 Arizona Fall League Report

Stephen Strasburg’s second outing went much differently than his first as three Peoria Javelinas took him deep and he was touched up for eight runs in his 2.2 innings of work.  Talented as Strasburg is, he is not immune from the steep learning … Continue reading

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10/20 Arizona Fall League Report

Yesterday’s AFL results are littered with four hit performances from the likes of Bryan Petersen, Starlin Castro, Jon Lucroy, and Carlos Rivero, not to mention HR’s by Grant Desme (#3), Brad Emaus, Chris Parmelee, Matt Dominguez,  and Russ Mitchell (#3).  … Continue reading

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10/13 Arizona Fall League Report

The 2009 Arizona Fall League season kicked off in grand fashion yesterday with several fine offensive performances.  Homeruns by Phillies top prospect Domomic Brown, Baltimore’s Brandon Snyder, Washington’s Chris Marrero, and Minnesota’s Rene Tosoni helped to fuel fine offensive outputs … Continue reading

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Top 20 RHP’s for 2009 **Part 1**

Amidst all of my spring training reports, content writing for Hot-Prospects.net, and life outside the blogging world, I had put the Top 20 prospect reports on the back burner.  Well, we are back on track and this segment will feature … Continue reading

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3/8 Spring Training Report

Pitching prospects are the big story of today as several young hurlers put in some positive innings today.  Justin Masterson, Daniel Bard and Junichi Tazawa combined to throw 6 innings of 3 hit, 1 run ball today, David Purcey looked … Continue reading

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2/26 Spring Training Report

Jose Reyes was easily today’s best MLB performer with two HR and 6 RBI’s as the Mets shut out the Marlins 9-0, but today’s top prospect performance came from my man Nolan Reimold who went 2-2 with a HR 4 RBI and … Continue reading

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Top 20 Third Base Prospects (Part 2)

Here is the list for the second half of the top 20 third base prospects.  This is a difficult list to rank simply for the fact that many of these guys are still very young and quite raw.   11.) … Continue reading

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$100 Growth Project

I was chatting with a good friend of mine about the many nuances of prospecting and buying and selling on eBay.  Noticably perplexed, he asked “how much money can you really make doing this?”  Of course I said that it … Continue reading

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