By the way, BA ranked the Cubs' farm system at #15 in MLB - after 5 straight years in the top 10 (and 2001-2003 they were in the top 3). The NL Central: Brewers: 4 Pirates: 19 Astros: 20 Cardinals: 21 Reds: 29
Murton isn't a prospect anymore per BA rules, he finished his rookie eligibility last year. But Hill and Cedeno are still considered prospects. Murton would definitely have been in their top 100 and probably just behind Felix in their Cubs' top 10 list.
Within the next two years? SS Stephen Drew, Diamondbacks SS Brandon Wood, Angels 2B Howie Kendrick, Angels OF Carlos Quentin, Diamondbacks RHP Chad Billingsley, Dodgers LHP Jon Lester, Red Sox
The Dodgers have 9 out of the top 100, the Angels, Diamondbacks and Marlins each have 7. The Diamondbacks should have 5 of the top 50 and 6 of the top 67.
51-100 is out, 1-50 out on Thursday. Looks like the Cubs will have three prospects in the top 100 as Mark Pawelek is at 85 and Ronny Cedeno is at 94. BA pegs Pawelek's ETA as 2008. I'd guess Felix will be around 30.
C Michael Barrett 1B Albert Pujols 2B Rickie Weeks SS Felipe Lopez - meh 3B Aramis Ramirez OF Adam Dunn OF Jim Edmonds - meh OF Jason Bay SP Carlos Zambrano SP Chris Carpenter SP Roy Oswalt SP Mark Prior SP Ben Sheets - sorry Tim CL Brad Lidge SU Mike Gonzalez SU Derrick Turnbow
Yes. Including some outings where he gave up like 6 ER in 2/3 of an inning - and got the first 2 outs of the inning too. BA Chat on the Cubs' system (access needed): Ron Potesta also read off his radar readings during broadcasts and they were noticably slower than his BA scouting reports from years past.
I don't think he will. You may have had to live through that to understand. Garvey is Bartman without the patheticness. I was 1 in 1984 and I hate him. Could be my time living in San Diego.
Well, UCLA made it close and shame on the refs for giving the game to USC. Oh, and this is the first time I have really been unimpressed with Howland's coaching (mainly timeout usage and substitution patterns).
I hope Ben Howland makes these jerks run around begging for mercy in practice. Utterly embarassing. Oh, and they better work on their FTs. Because UCLA would have beat Washington and USC if they made their FTs. This better be a wake-up call.
Heh, you're on a crusade, eh? hey, both my schools getting the screw on the same weekend. Cal's your other school? The Pac-10 always play their games Thurs-Sat.