LSB Community Prospect Project: Mid-Season #19
by thedirkatron on Jul 23, 2009 6:34 AM CDT
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That was a close one.
After garnering 33% of 190 votes, Guillermo Moscoso has won the right to be called the LSB Community #18 prospect!
The List So Far:
1. 1b, Justin Smoak
2. RHP, Neftali Feliz
3. LHP, Martin Perez
4. RHP, Tanner Scheppers
5. LHP, Matt Purke
6. RHP, Wilmer Font
7. (Tie) RHP, Blake Beavan
7. (Tie) CF, Julio Borbon
9. RHP, Tommy Hunter
10. RHP, Michael Main
11. LHP, Kasey Kiker
12. LHP, Robbie Ross
13. C, Max Ramirez
14. RHP, Joe Wieland
15. 1b/OF, Mitch Moreland
16. RHP, Wilfredo Boscan
17. OF, Engel Beltre
18. RHP, Guillermo Moscoso
Time to move on to the vote for #19.
The polls are open, so go ahead and vote in the poll at the bottom and feel free to make any suggestions and/or criticisms in the comments below.
And, as always, please don't hesitate to tell me you want on the list for next time.
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Go Poveda!
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by boomer1 on Jul 23, 2009 6:44 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Finally I get to vote for someone else.
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by Parman on Jul 23, 2009 8:52 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
i would think poveda would win this in (close) to a landslide
for me the next 6 are going to be tough btwn
kennil gomez
telis
profar
sardinas
smith
edwin escobar
madrigal
its fairly interesting that (at least in our CPP) that one of the 1.5 mil bonus guys may not make the top 25 (well probably wont) but i think sardinas is going to be one o fmy next 3 guys
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
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by knockoutking on Jul 23, 2009 7:01 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Went Poveda, then going Hurley
and then going Edwin Escobar.
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by Michael Cave on Jul 23, 2009 7:21 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
i just have a hard time voting for him here
without knowing, for sure, what his injury was. if it was minor labrum surgery (a fray), tahts one thing. if it was a SLAP tear…thats another
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
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"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Jul 23, 2009 7:25 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow, I had no idea you felt this way...
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by Gdawg on Jul 23, 2009 9:54 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
For me
Poveda, Hurley, Madrigal, Gomez, MDLS
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by Conjunction on Jul 23, 2009 7:25 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
If you don't vote poveda you're a communist!
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by rentz on Jul 23, 2009 7:34 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
communist party?
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Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
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"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Jul 23, 2009 7:40 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
thats pretty awesome
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by rentz on Jul 23, 2009 7:43 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
ive seen a ton of ppl around DC w/ it on in the last year
haha
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
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"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Jul 23, 2009 8:03 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Its funny you mention it
I was in DC a couple years ago, and I went to a Nats game just to see decrepit old RFK before it got retired. I wore this shirt to the game, and I ran into someone else there wearing it as well. We got a good laugh out of it.
by Bandire on Jul 23, 2009 10:36 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Poveda here, please add Strop
then Escobar
Strop
Madrigal
Kirkman
Fabio
Gomez
Pimental
There's more to the picture than meets the eye.
by tricer on Jul 23, 2009 7:55 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
upon further review - position players Telis and Tim Smith
probably need to be mixed in there somewhere.
Also, a plug for Strop here. I’ve heard (or seen) Trip, Jason Cole, and Jason Parks speak glowingly of Strop and the progress he is making recently. Maybe one of them (or anybody else) could give some insight on this guy? His last 6 outings (9.2 ip) have been scoreless with 6 hits, 4 bb, and 9k. The word on the street, is that once he “gets it” he will move in short order and be one of the liveliest arms in the ML pen.
There's more to the picture than meets the eye.
by tricer on Jul 23, 2009 7:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
im all for strop being the next guy on the list
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
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"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Jul 23, 2009 8:04 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
to bea dded to the list
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
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"Taking steroids is only gonna make him whiff on those sliders in the dirt with more fury." -thedirkatron
by knockoutking on Jul 23, 2009 8:04 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Strop was on but not getting any votes.
I have no problem adding him again if there’s support, though.
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by thedirkatron on Jul 23, 2009 5:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Omar for me
Say, Dirk… shouldn’t Geuris Grullon be on the list soon? Maybe Edwin Escobar too?
They’re both extremely young and raw, but after watching JParks, MJH and JCole fawn over him in their roundtable chat, it seems like they should be on here over a lot of the current fillers up there.
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by lonestarJon on Jul 23, 2009 7:57 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
ummm, Escobar is second on the list
There's more to the picture than meets the eye.
by tricer on Jul 23, 2009 7:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
D'oh
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"After intense analysis, I have come to the conclusion that Neftali Feliz throws fucking hard." - John Sickels
by lonestarJon on Jul 23, 2009 7:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Just to throw out some other names who could concievably be in the 20's
Richard Bleier
Manny Pina
Corey Young
Braden Tullis
Lil’ Lemon
Tommy Mendonca
Carlos Melo
I’ll second Tricer’s Strop request.
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"After intense analysis, I have come to the conclusion that Neftali Feliz throws fucking hard." - John Sickels
by lonestarJon on Jul 23, 2009 8:14 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bleier and Mendonca
won’t get thoughts from me until the 30s, just too much talent ahead of them. Mendonca hasn’t impressed so far with his transition to pro ball, too many K’s.
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by t ball on Jul 23, 2009 9:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Andrew Doyle!
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by bioaggie on Jul 23, 2009 9:26 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, why?
The 40 Trumps All!!!
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by thedirkatron on Jul 23, 2009 5:35 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why not?
We have 16 year old latin children on the list that we know next to nothing about. I think a 4th round draft pick from this year that was a great pitcher for a Big 12 college program at least could make the list. He seems to be doing okay for Spokane in the 3 innings that he has pitched in relief.
Honestly I kind of just put his name up there as a joke but it was a reply to Jon’s list of guys who could conceivably be in the 20’s and I think he has just as good of a shot as Mendonca.
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by bioaggie on Jul 23, 2009 6:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Geuris, right now, has little argument to be a top-30 prospect in this system
I love Geuris like no heterosexual man should love a young Latin lefty, but he’s currently pitching in relief at Spokane. Thompson and Tullis deserve to be on the poll before Geuris, as they are both promising prospects in their own right AND they’re starting. I would rank Geuris in the 30-35 range, which is where Hindman ranked him recently. If Geuris were starting, I would have him 10 spots higher, but at the moment he has a LOT of potential but hasn’t yet shown it consistently on the mound.
In my mind, Geuris has just as much upside as Purke. But he is raw raw raw. Once he gains a bit of polish, he could very well be a top-10 prospect for us, and I believe he will. But it will take more time. He’s teetering on the edge of the top-30 right now based almost entirely on potential, so he’s definitely worth waiting on.
by naropean on Jul 23, 2009 11:02 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
You just gave me a chubby...
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by Rodney on Jul 23, 2009 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't understand the Hurley love
he was ok when healthy, now he has to come back from a near death sentence in terms of baseball injuries.
Hurley isn’t top 30 unless he proves he can do it again (or actually better than he did before), much like Diamond who has failed mightily after TJ surgery.
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by NothinG on Jul 23, 2009 8:26 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
He got 2 votes?
Wouldn’t exactly call that love.
by tyd3311 on Jul 23, 2009 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
jk, he has 10 votes.
I don’t know either.
by tyd3311 on Jul 23, 2009 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
and he got 32 votes last time
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by NothinG on Jul 23, 2009 10:44 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well looks like I wasted another vote on Hurley
Poveda’s running away with this.
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by Gdawg on Jul 23, 2009 9:55 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Add to list...
Can you add Pedro Strop to the list? Assuming that Omar Poveda gets voted on here, Strop and Warner Madrigal, in some order, are the next two for me from the remaining list.
Greg Golson doesn't do extra base hits.
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by YourNameHere on Jul 23, 2009 11:33 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Just for fun
Any LA prospect gurus here want to rank just the LA prospects in the system? Once we get past Perez, Font, etc., I don’t know much about these guys and how they compare to each other.
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by Gdawg on Jul 23, 2009 12:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Who voted "Other"
And who do you mean by that? You didn’t specify
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
by bigsteve on Jul 23, 2009 12:46 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Voted Poveda
will go with Madrigal then Gomez.
Dirk, can you add Tullis and Richard Alverez to the list please?
by Hull Fan on Jul 23, 2009 1:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
reviewing the list
one thing is really glaring to me, we need to develop some position players, maybe we should be sellers this trade deadline, and try to add some higher level position players
by blueballlefty on Jul 23, 2009 2:36 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I think we're fine positional wise
The majority of our ML positional players are young and under team control for several years. The only true position I think we are weak in is 3B and if Whittleman keeps up his torrid pace that would make that argument go away.
If we were an aging veteran heavy team then I would agree with your assessment but I think we are fine as is right now.
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
by bigsteve on Jul 23, 2009 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Poveda goes here
id like to have seen him go ahead of Boscan, but this is a fair enough spot for him… The amazing thing is, i actually feel pretty good about Poveda’s chances of one day being an effective big league starter. Thats pretty awesome when you are talking about the #19 guy in your system who is already really close to reaching the bigs
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by blalock84 on Jul 23, 2009 11:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Neil Ramirez
needs to be on this poll. He has a great ceiling and though he’s been very disappointing so far has had some encouraging outings lately.
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by t ball on Jul 24, 2009 10:22 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
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