Scouting The Sally Top-25 Baseball Players Scouted: August Edition
The August update to my Scouting The Sally Top-25 Baseball Players Scouted ranks current and former prospects seen in person over the live of Scouting The Sally.
Scouting The Sally Top-25 Baseball Players Scouted: July Edition
The July update to my Scouting The Sally Top-25 Baseball Players Scouted ranks current and former prospects seen in person over the live of Scouting The Sally.
Scouting The Sally Top-25 Prospects Scouted: June Edition
Scouting the Sally re-releases it’s top-25 prospect scouted list with a new look and updated prospect information.
Boston Red Sox Have the Goods to Get Justin Upton
Over the past few seasons, the Boston Red Sox have never been shy about going over slot for amateur talent. This has led to their building what is arguably the most balanced system in either league as they seem to be at least two to three legitimate prospects deep at every position. And while they lack elite level prospects like Kansas City with Hosmer, Moustakas, Montgomery, and Lamb, I’d argue there isn’t a team better equipped to deal from depth for a superstar player like Justin Upton. In the past the Red Sox have been extremely hesitant to deal prospects for help at the big league level to their detriment. That philosophy backfired pretty soundly in 2010 as injuries to a number of veterans exposed a lack of depth at the big league level, along with a pretty wide gap between the production expected from a Boston Red Sox in order to compete in the AL East and the reality of prospect growing pains.
Starting Pitcher Showdown – Banuelos vs. Kelly
Manny Banuelos and Casey Kelly were the two most polished starting pitchers I had the opportunity to see in person during the 2009 season. After writing game reports on both, Yankee fans have questioned my placing Casey Kelly above Manuel Banuelos as a prospect. While both were similar in terms of production in the South [...]
Breaking Down Baseball America’s “Sally” Top 20 for 2009 Part 1
With Baseball America’s track record pegging top prospects in the Sally, it’s difficult for me to pen a piece like this in which I’m forced to go against quite a bit of their recently released South Atlantic League top 20 prospects list. Maybe I’m a bit pretentious, but I was able to see a number [...]
Maximum Velocity
With my polishing off a scouting piece on Red Sox prospect Will Middlebrooks today, I am not going to be able to pen another full piece before going back to work tomorrow so I wanted to begin to share some raw data from the 2009 Sally season for readers to feast on. To start, here [...]
Game Report: Casey Kelly, SP, San Diego Padres
I have been high on Casey Kelly since he spurned an offer to play quarterback for my Tennessee Volunteers and signed with the Red Sox for three million dollars as an over slot first round pick in the 2008 draft. After signing, he focused on shortstop posting a .215/.255/.331 line which, in turn, took some [...]