0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/21/2012
On Thursday, I wrote about ten young pitchers to keep an eye on in 2012. The same caveats apply for this list as for the pitchers list: all hitters must be under 25, and none of them can have been traded this offseason. Let’s take a look. 1. Jason Heyward, Braves. In his rookie season […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/20/2012
The Washington Nationals today announced a two-year extension for first baseman/left fielder Mike Morse, buying out his final two arbitration years. Morse will still become a free agent after the 2013 season as he was initially able to, but does the signing take the Nationals out of the running for free agent first baseman and […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
Another one bites the dust. With Orlando Cabrera announcing his retirement yesterday, we lose one of the last few players that can be largely identified with the now defunct Montreal Expos. It is a club that might soon be extinct, actually. Out of all the remaining “true” Expos, just Vladimir Guerrero and, arguably, Javier Vazquez […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Apparently, one year with the Chicago Cubs was too much for Carlos Pena, who signed with the Tampa Bay Rays, his former team, today. The deal is for one year and $7.25 million. Tampa Bay got a year of solid production last season out of former top Angels prospect Casey Kotchman, who had a .306/.378/.422 […]
0 comments by Mark Smith
Here it is. The one you’ve all been waiting for – the very top of the Top 100. For the first two installments, you can head here and here, and if you want more detailed scouting reports, you can head here and find the player’s team (I’ll be doing a little clean-up, moving some players […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/19/2012
The Oakland Athletics are currently in talks with free agent outfielder Jonny Gomes. If they sign Gomes, I think will have officially hopped off the Billy Beane bandwagon, because the team’s offense right now is an absolute horror show. Assuming Gomes is in the fold, Beane has four outfielders to play the corners alongside Coco […]
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Cleveland Indians starter Fausto Carmona has been arrested in the Dominican Republic for identity fraud. It’s being reported that Carmona, whose real name is apparently Roberto Hernandez Heredia, was arrested after renewing his visa in the Dominican earlier today. It’s unknown at this time whether or not Carmona has lied about his age in addition […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Young pitching is always in demand in the MLB. Young studs Mat Latos, Trevor Cahill, Michael Pineda, and Gio Gonzalez were all dealt this offseason for top 100 prospects. It’s a known fact that teams are in love with cost-controlled, successful MLB pitchers, and they’re not hesitating to give up young, unproven players for them, […]
0 comments by Mark Smith
Here are the next 46 prospects in the Top 100. Adding those 46 to the 39 from the other day … carry the 1 … we’re up to 85 prospects, leaving 15 “Elite” prospects for Friday’s post. These prospects fit in the 16-61 range, and several of them could be elite prospects next year, which […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 1/18/2012
Yu Darvish is officially a Texas Ranger, as he has signed a six year, $60 million contract that will also offer $10 million in bonuses over the life of the contract. The contract is the largest ever given to a Japanese player, much like the $51.8 million posting fee the Rangers paid the Nippon Ham […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
This tweet from ESPN’s Jim Bowden made me sick to my stomach when I saw it, and I’m not even a Phillies fan. So unless Domonic Brown, a former top five prospect who was slow out of the gates because he broke his hand last season, wows the Phillies in the spring, he’s spending his […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
Some consider reality TV to be the lowest form of entertainment on earth (after the “comedy” Whitney, that is). Some of us absolutely eat that stuff up. Whatever camp you fall into, I think we can all agree that watching a reality TV series featuring the Miami Marlins is an absolute must-see. Lucky for all […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
After the Yankees acquired Michael Pineda from the Mariners and signed Hiroki Kuroda last week, cries immediately started coming out of the Big Apple that the Yankees once again had one of the most superior rotations in the league, despite still lacking a fifth starter. I began to fall deep into thought and wonder just […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Tuesday was the last day that teams could announce the amount of money they would want to offer their arbitration-eligible players, but it was the San Francisco Giants who ended up making a move that would allow them to not have to worry about what to do with one of their stars on offense. They […]
0 comments by Mark Smith
I have no idea how Keith Law, Kevin Goldstein, Baseball America, and the many other prospect gurus do it. How do you possibly put all these players in order? How do you compare hitters with pitchers? How do you compare first baseman to outfielders across the minor-league spectrum? It’s a monumental task that requires a […]
