davell

Atari for a bit, then Nintendo. Great memories of an Atari baseball game you could hit a HR directly past 3B. And a 3 on 3 football game that when guys got tired, they became feint in color and fumbled any time they touched the ball. Tecmo Bowl, the first one, and Double Dribble dominated my High School years. Followed by Super Tecmo Bowl in college.

It still seems like he's had a lot of hard hit balls right at guys recently.

That's worse than the DSL SS from 5 years ago or so that seemed like he K'd half the time and made 2 errors a game.

I was browsing the VSL/DSL rosters the other day and came up with 6 guys to keep an eye on based on stat scouting and DOB: Alfredo Colorado Erling Moreno (well, this one was kind of obvious) Eugenio Palma Luis Hidalgo Wladimir Galindo Yohan Matos I'm definitely interested on hearing reports on Matos and Galindo, since they received solid bonuses.

I think all we've got to realistically deal this month is Bonifacio and one of the LHP, likely Russell. Villanueva and Schierholtz are August deals, they'll clear waivers.

Would have been better if Castillo yelled "Are you not entertained?" and threw his bat at the scouts.

Nice to see KB back on the board.

I want to see more of Wada. We have him as a pre-arb next year, followed by 3 arb seasons. Granted, he's old. But he may be a useful part of some sort.

I honestly think that when we give him away, he'll pitch much better. But not until then.

I look at it like this:,For now(and until proven otherwise by guys failing) I'll take what I think our future looks like over the chances that they could have won a WS over these past 3 seasons. I don't believe it was likely we would have made the playoffs over that time without hitting on damn near everything correctly. Given our limited payroll and I won't judge our FO on taking this route poorly unless it results in failure. World Series win or bust. If they last 10 years and don't win one, I'll be unhappy. If they make the playoffs 5 times out if 10(now 5 out of 7) and leave the team in shape to make 3 of the next 5 after that, I'll be OK with this route, if they fail to bring a WS home.

His rankings are no different than one of us posting something like this. Like Brett a lot obviously, but never been a fan of this guy. I'd love to know what his "flashes of very goodness" on Ryan McNeil is, for instance. I've seen no reports on him at all. There's plenty more to question as well. Just not a fan.

Damn, this escalated with the quickness.

Heyman mentioned we're not going to deal Ruggiano or Coghlan.

you like vogelbach that much, woah Vitters. And Szczur. And Brett. And McNutt. I've got some offseasons of catch up to do though.

I think we may actually have 4 of the top 10 prospects in baseball.

I think both start at Kane County next year. Jimenez is looking far more advanced than I'd have thought.

I'm not that worried about it. He'll get pushed quicker once he's converted to the pen. They just want innings out of him and to get him acclimated to the US. Plus, he's still rather raw as it is.

Seriously, we got a 2nd very, very good prospect in that deal.

Dodgers are paying 500k of what's left.

I feel confident that money goes towards overage on next years IFA spree.

Schtick Scouting contacts Writing ability Level of bias Good information to crap no one cares about ratio on their twitter account Jason Parks Schtick- Remembering his roots, Parks has taken on the big Twitter persona from the evaluator who hired him, Kevin Goldstein. He took a very large leap in attitude in an immediate, yet seamless fashion. Going from sad sack, my wife left me, Ramen noodle eating dude to I'm the wittiest man in the world overnight. The wittiness plays down due to how often he attempts it. If he contains it to once a paragraph instead of every sentence, it works fine. It plays down when he's having sex with baseballs and stalking average minor leaguers for no reason. Grade- Role 4/6 Scouting Contacts Parks makes use of a wide array of contacts and also makes his way out to games more than most. He definitely has the love to do his job and it shows. He wears down from information overload and falls back to the last thing he truly remembers when talking about a prospect. After the season though, he gets things correct, as he does have more info to go through than any normal human can possibly handle. Parks gets credit for changing BP for the better though, as he constantly looks to add contributors and then helps them find jobs in the scouting community. Grade- Role 7/8 Writing Ability- Parks aims to entertain while providing knowledge and insight. As previously mentioned, the entertainment attempts quite often distract from the content, which is excellent. This is a work in progress that has a ways to go. Loads of potential, but there's a glaring hitch that most just can't overcome. The drive is there, whether it harnesses the sometimes dumb or creepy parts of his schtick. Is yet to be determined. Grade- Role 4/7 Level of bias Parks is a Rangers fan and certainly talks about them a good amount. But they do have an extremely high upside system, so it's understandable, to a degree. He talks about all systems, giving more time to the ones he considers fun. The risk here is inviting questions on players he hates talking about or seems talentless. While the best course of action here is to ignore, he constantly falls into the same trap as many others and bashes bad players for no reason. In turn, this turns off fanbases he otherwise answers things positively for. This can be learned to be dealt with, but extremely few actually take the high road. Most prefer inciting the fanbases on occasion, as it gives them a bit of self-serving satisfaction. Grade-Role 5/7 Good info to crap ratio This falls into shtick and Parks is still building his schtick. He's not made people CARE about anything else he may post about. His predecessor could talk about weird neighbors and make it interesting. Parks has yet to find that medium. As for tweeting. Parks ratio is surprisingly low. He engages fans way too often, getting bogged down in meaningless Twitter fights he can't win. He does tweet solid content on occasion, but prefers keeping it inside his articles, as he should. Grade-Role 3/6 Overall- While Parks can be annoying, he certainly brings knowledge to the table. With his style being a work in progress, a lot depends on how long he's for his current position, as to how much he improves. He's made it clear he'd make a move to the right situation and seeing him get 4 guys hired on with teams inside his 1st full year at the helm, shows it could happen. If he sticks to this and works out his kinks, he's got the knowledge to go down as an All Time prospector. If the writing style/personality fail to come around, he'll wind up solid. Some love, some hate, some categorical ass kissers catering to him. Overall Grade-Role 4.5/7

What are the 5 tools of a prospect writer?

ranking the people who rank prospects? That's unpossible. I think if done properly and distributed correctly, it could piss quite a few of them off.

http://i.imgur.com/FftclsL.gif Their schtick is tiring, they're definitely annoying. But at least they provide legit scouting observations. I just look past the other stuff.

At this point, I go...... 1. McDaniel 2. Parks 3. Law 4. Badler 5. Callis 6. Crawford 7. Cooper 8. Manuel 9. Piliere(for past work and hopeful he jumps back in from PG) 10. Rubio(not a slight, I like him) Mayo, Sickels, and Hulet are so awful they're not worth reading.