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.
2010 Was A Banner Season for Prospects Scouted on STS
While working on my piece ranking the top third base prospects in the “Sally”, I began wondering how much interest would a piece about five teenage third base prospects generate on the cusp of the World Series. Lately, I’ve been pondering the future of the site and how to take a small, South Atlantic League based site to a national prospect audience. As one prospect analysis told me, my site is a niche within a niche and there’s just not a broad audience for that. However, if prospect fans looked through the archives of my site, they would see 2010 was a fantastic year for players scouted on the site over the past couple of years on a national level. Let’s look at a few of those names.
Stick and Move: Peter Gammons Takes a Jab at Baseball Bloggers
Let’s face it, Peter Gammons is an icon. When “Baseball Tonight” first started, he was the reason I tuned in. On a show which spent 98% of its air time talking about current happenings in the Major Leagues, Gammons would talk prospects at a time when few bothered to even familiarize themselves with their favorite organization’s top-10. Fast forward to baseball in the age of the Internet and fans are more educated than at any point in the history of the game. From SABR to scouting reports, baseball fans I speak to feel the need to know more than ever before. As somebody who attributes my love of prospects in part to Peter Gammons, I was surprised when he posted the following tweet.
Game Report: Mike Minor, SP, Atlanta Braves
Mike Minor (4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 4 K) – The seventh overall selection in the 2009 draft, the Braves organization took quite a bit of heat for what was considered to be a low risk, medium ceiling pick. With recent first round picks including high risks/high reward players in Cody Johnson [...]
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 [...]
Rome @ Savannah: Game 2 Recap
Today marks the end of the Sand Gnats 2009 season at home and wraps up what has been a phenomenal year with a number of top prospects coming through AND the Mets affiliate here having some real talent. Last night served as a fitting wrap on a great season as I caught a pitchers duel [...]