2008 Organizational Review MLB.com

by laxtonto on Oct 22, 2008 12:54 PM CDT Comment 18 comments

MLB.com is doing their MLB team minor league reviews with the Rangers being released today.

They cover the Rangers Players of the year with the preseason and current picks, and the some of the major movers in the minor league system. They also have a 2007 draft recap as well.

LINK

Interesting read that doesnt cover any where as much information you get here, but interesting to see the view of a relative outsider instead of the our everday sources

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Ouch!

Could you please edit your title to “Organizational Review” ? Not being a spelling nazi here, but ‘origin’ says a whole different thing, and it’s the title! Sorry to be a pest.

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by Ed Coffin on Oct 22, 2008 2:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Originzational v. organizational. Nope, not a typo.

Nothing pithy here. Please move long.

by WyoRanger on Oct 22, 2008 2:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

By the way

Do appreciate you posting it. I honestly don’t go to mlb.com or espn.com for Rangers news (not sarcasm) so I wouldn’t have seen it.

Nothing pithy here. Please move long.

by WyoRanger on Oct 22, 2008 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Looks like Main is still way under the radar, at least compared to the reviews

from Jamey, JParks, MJH, and Adair. Also Perez.

Go Rangers!

by rooster on Oct 22, 2008 2:40 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Chris Davis:

Overall, he batted .309 with 40 homers and 128 RBIs in 2008.

MLB 1b with 30 HR/100 RBI
prince fielder
carlos pena
lance berkman/youkilis missed by 1 HR
delgado
pujols
adrian gonzalez
mark teixeria
miguel cabrea
ryan howard

players who had 40 HR/~125 RBI/hit near .300
ryan howard had 48 hr, 146 rbi but hit .251
miggy cabrera: 37 HR, 127 rbi, .292
teix: 33 hr, 121 rbi, .308
pujols: 37 hr, 116 rbi, .357

damn.

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by knockoutking on Oct 22, 2008 2:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

thats overal btwn majors and minors btw

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by knockoutking on Oct 22, 2008 2:55 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

x

Which is why Davis didn’t win Most Awesome Rookie EVAR award. It’s rare.

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by FuturePants on Oct 22, 2008 3:39 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Main

A general question: for all the anticipation he’s now generating, why was he drafted so low in the first?

Go Strangers.

by hightowersmith on Oct 22, 2008 3:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I think the short answer is...

…he’s a RHP who isn’t very big. And he missed most of his junior season with rotator cuff problems.

I know Keith Law had him ranked around 10-12, I think, heading into the draft.

by Adam J. Morris on Oct 22, 2008 3:41 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

So similar to the Lincecum slippage..

by tyd3311 on Oct 22, 2008 3:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

AND no one was sure if he was a CF or a pitcher

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by knockoutking on Oct 23, 2008 2:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Some of the college pitchers moved ahead of him, since his season ended before their's

and it wasn’t as clear whether his development would be as a pitcher or an OFer.

Go Rangers!

by rooster on Oct 22, 2008 3:47 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Position

Yeah, I think it was a big question over what position he would settle into, as well. Some teams viewed him as a center fielder, but had others ranked ahead of him on their board.

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by Andy Seiler on Oct 22, 2008 3:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

which is strange that he dropped

because I believe he was considered one of the top OF in that draft too. It looks sort of like teams just passed on Main since they weren’t 100% sure on what route they wanted him to take even though he was likely to excel at either one.

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by Gdawg on Oct 23, 2008 5:38 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs