Fangraphs Prospect Chat With Mike Newman: 9/27 Edition
A new week, a new prospect chat over at Fangraphs. Be sure to hop on and ask a few questions. Enjoy the piece? Be sure to follow Scouting the Sally on Twitter, check out our YouTube Channel, and friend us on Facebook! We’d also love to hear from you in the comments section!
Fangraphs Prospect Chat With Mike Newman: 9/20 Edition
A new week, a new prospect chat over at Fangraphs. In the 2+ hour chat last week, over 1,100 readers stopped by to check things out. A total of 293 questions were asked of which a cool 113 were responded to. It was exciting, but off the charts wild trying to keep up with that [...]
A Retrospective On Rockies Tyler Matzek
Over at Fangraphs, I posted a scouting retrospective on Tyler Matzek titled, “2011 Proves Rocky For Rockies Tyler Matzek” including information about the August 2011 start I was in attendance for. And while I saw plenty of improvement from the September 2010 start which dropped his prospect status significantly in my mind, He was still [...]
Fangraphs Prospect Chat With Mike Newman: 9/13 Edition
A new week, a new prospect chat over at Fangraphs. In the 2+ hour chat last week, over 1,300 readers stopped by to check things out. A total of 289 questions were asked and I was only able to answer 116 of them and even took a little heat for it (cue sarcasm). It was [...]
Unfortunate Turn Of Events Make Manny Ramirez An Easy Target
Manny Ramirez has spent the 2011 season making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Having met the slugger briefly, I regarded him as a class act, although that belief is now being firmly tested.
Call Up Of Rays Matt Moore Reminds Of Missed Opportunities
The call up of Matt Moore reminds me of missed scouting opportunities over the first three years of Scouting The Sally.
Chris “Family Night” Schwinden Mention On Atlanta Braves Radio!
Yesterday, I posted a retrospective on the 2009 Savannah Sand Gnats pitching staff highlighting the remarkable ascent of New York Mets prospect Chris “Family Night” Schwinden who was once considered a non-prospect in scouting circles. In “Shocked By The Call Up Of Chris Schwinden“, I take a look at why Schwinden was considered the fifth [...]
First Fangraphs Piece and Chat @4:00 p.m. est.
My first piece over at Fangraphs titled, “Jarrod Parker Deserves A September Call Up” went live today so be sure to check it out if you haven’t already. I’ll also be chatting over there at 4:00 p.m. for 90-minutes or so talking prospects. They’ve been kind enough to let me post the chat here as [...]
Scouting The Sally On Fangraphs
When I started Scouting The Sally two years ago, contributing to Fangraphs was included on my personal short list of things I’d like to accomplish in blogging. I’m excited to announce Fangraphs can now be crossed off of that list as I’ll be contributing two prospect pieces and a live chat per week after Labor [...]
A New Direction For Scouting The Sally
Hello all, As you can see from my lack of posts over the past three weeks, life has given me a swift kick in the pants. Now back at the day job, I’m just not able to pound out multiple pieces per day like I did a month ago. For the first time in the [...]