Sally Stock Watch: Altuve, Matthes, Pimentel, Vizcaino
In this Sally Stock Watch piece, we take a look back at a foursome of prospects previously scouted who have moved on from the South Atlantic League.
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.
Game Report: Stolmy Pimentel, SP, Boston Red Sox
Stolmy Pimentel (5 IP, 9 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 5 K, 1 BB) – Early in the 2009 season, I had circled the Greenville series as a “must see”. Besides Casey Kelly, Red Sox prospect Stolmy Pimentel had garnered quite of prospect hype as an international signing whose bonus ($25,000) made him a bargain [...]
Breaking Down Baseball America’s “Sally” Top 20 for 2009 Part 3
The third and final piece to the top 20 puzzle are the omissions who could have been included. Baseball America’s “Sally” top 20 included a number of early 20′s talents which led to the exclusion of a handful of worthy teens. Let’s look at a few. As a side note, I found it interesting Anthony [...]
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 [...]