but I went with Beltre here by a nose over Kiker. He’s picked up lately and he’s going to start justifying the hype.

for the 4th straight time.

I was tying all this crap. btw, thanks dirk for all the hard work. The polls are a bitch to create.

can’t decide

chosen one? haha

North by Northwest is on TCM.

He doesn’t have Kiker’s FB, but the performance is great—with enough ambiguity to conceive that the best is yet to come.

Had to vote for Judo boy.

After Harrison’s start on Sunday, there sure is alot of room on his bandwagon. Also, why is Arias still considered a prospect? He is going to miss the AAA all-star game due to his shoulder bothering him. Again!

Kiker at 10? This system is loaded, LOADED. And, Robbie Ross should probably be in the top 10 as well…

Real tough choices now though.

Could see it being either Kiker, Borbon, or Beltre in this spot as well.

It looks like Neftali Feliz’ next start is getting bumped back to Friday in Corpus instead of Thursday in Frisco like we all wanted. Man, I was so there. grrrrrr

This time he’s gonna win it.

German Duran. The guy can play and is getting terrific experience at the major league level. I would prefer if he had spent the first half of this year at AAA, where I think he would have continued to post terrific minor league numbers. He is going to force the Rangers to find him at bats next year and i could see him forcing Kinsler to the outfield before anyone else.

I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon, but I didn’t want to wait that long to get another one up and there’s zero chance I was gonna do one of these by freaking iPhone.
Good job, and thanks.

Oh, and i went with kiker again.

Looks like a runaway to me. How about moving on to #11

I really like Harrison and Hunter is making me change my mind about him but I still say Kiker here.

but I’d trade him for Engel Beltre in a heartbeat, so I voted Beltre.

I went thru and watched Jared Hyatt pitch on the free video at MiLB.com – link at the magic calendar. He’s built a lot like BMac. He’s a little shorter and appears to have a little better wiry strength and coordination. He has no hips so he’s constantly tugging at his belt buckle to secure his pants.

He has a pretty simple delivery – stand tall and straight and throw over the top – tries to get a downhill effect to his pitches. His FB isn’t blazing fast – never heard a gun reading – guessing around 90 mph. He tries to keep it down but didn’t seem to get punished that badly when it got up.

His change-up is a lot like BMac’s – starts out looking like a low FB then dies down onto the plate. The low FB/CU combo works well together. I don’t remember ever seeing his CU drift up or get hit hard. He repeated it well.

His CB is more like Tommy Hunter’s – not a big loopy slow curve but a tight hard biting one that is always around the plate. His height and delivery seemed to add to the downhill movement when it reached the plate – it was a pop-up getter. He didn’t really get wild with the CB until he tired in the 7th before getting yanked. Not many CB’s in the dirt, if any.

For a thin guy he hides the ball well – seemed like uses his glove to hide the ball. He’s got some deception in there. His mound presence was calm and purposeful, not showy or macho but business-like. Better than BMac’s IMO. He didn’t seem intimidated at all. He got tons of pop-ups and weak fly-balls. Mayberry made a fine running catch in the RF corner to save a double once. Good wheels and moxie running toward the wall by JMJ there. Looking back at his 2008 stats I’m surprised by his decent K-rate because his arsenal appears to me to be built for contact.

He’s not junk – sound head, simple repeatable game plan and a decent athlete. Yay us.

The Redhawks’ announcer said Teagarden’s throw-out rate was 35% not 40% like I’d heard the week before. 35, 40, still good.

The did a quick feature during the game of all the former OK Redhawks who are playing in tonight’s All Star Game. Plenty of names. Mostly on other teams. gak