Sally Stock Watch: JD Martinez & Tim Beckham
Tampa Bay Rays Tim Beckham and Houston Astros JD Martinez have both raised their prospect profiles in 2011 after taking different paths to professional baseball. For both the 20th rounder (Martinez) and the #1 overall pick (Beckham), the opportunity is there to become big league regulars for years to come.
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 [...]
Shortstop Showdown – Flores vs. Beckham
Since squaring off in the Appalachian League, the question keeps coming up over and over again. If you had to choose one, would it be Tim Beckham or Wilmer Flores? The answer is much more difficult than two lines in a baseball chat box allow. In seeing both play this season, I’m not even sure [...]
Scouting Report: Tim Beckham, SS, Tampa Bay Rays
Tim Beckham is a glowing example of why I decided to only write prospect reports on players I see in person. In heading to the ballpark to watch Beckham, I expected to see a sleek, athletic “Hot Rod” and left without seeing it. I wrote this piece a few weeks back comparing Beckham and Red [...]
Missing in Action: Martin Perez, SP, Texas Rangers
Since March, I had the four game set versus Hickory circled as one of my can’t miss series of the season. Needles to say I was HORRIBLY disappointed in missing Martin Perez, top 100 prospect and young Rangers phenom. In hunting around ProspectTube, I found a three minute video of Perez facing off against Tim [...]
Comparing Sally Shortstops
The following players are both 19 and born only one month apart. They are one inch apart and their listed weights are within about ten pounds. Each is a Sally shortstop with one being a high round pick and the other being a somewhat touted international signing who has lost 90% of his prospect mojo. [...]