4 Rangers on BA's Top 100
- #9 Neftali Feliz
- #13 Justin Smoak
- #17 Martin Perez
- #42 Tanner Scheppers
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Bumgarner ahead of Perez is dumb
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
If he gets his velo back maybe not but right now it is
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
by Kinslerhomer on Feb 23, 2010 11:19 AM CST up reply actions
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"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
This list is bad
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
I don't trust any list without Joaquin Arias, our utility infielder of the future, on it
Go Rice Owls!
Site must be crashing from traffic
can’t get the page to load.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
I still can't get this page to load
anyone else having trouble viewing it?
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
If you're not going to be that team with 7-8
This is the way to go. Three of the top 17, four of the top 42. Excellent.
by Brett Perryman on Feb 23, 2010 11:35 AM CST reply actions
So is it Heyward or Strasburg?
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
1 is Heyward, 2 Strasburg
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"When you have a weapon on your shoulder like he has, you can be cool." RW on Perez
And the little bastard threw it for a swinging strike three in a 3-2 count. He’s blessed. And ballsy.
that's a pretty fearsome foursome there...
If the Rangers don't make the play-offs this year I'm gonna go all Epic Bearded Man on your ass.
The Perez Brothers ® both in the Top 20. Awesome.
by TooLegitToQuit on Feb 23, 2010 12:29 PM CST via mobile reply actions 1 recs
But he did try his hardest.
"grilled cheese punches like a bitch" -Gdawg
"i feel like k-rod after a save." -by reagan on Jan 23, 2010, that glorious day Hicks was out of our lives.
Poor luvsummer...
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
This is why newbies never stay long
"Jurick Profar is tired of practice!! I wanna play I wanna play….waiting for march 12 to go to spring training! to kill some pichers:D:D I am Jurickson Profar son of judeska and chesmond.. And I was born ready! ready to play baseball!!" - Jurickson Profar
I like to think the partial 5 at the bottom of the list above is a little malt liquor hitting the curb in honor of Matt Purke...
The 40 Trumps All!!!
Oh, God... I had a roommate who was obsessed with Bone Thugs. Like crazy obsessed.
Like, if you looked at any of his notebooks, they’d be full of doodles he did in class of Bone Thugs.
That wasn’t as bad as my other roommate who was obsessed with the The Rock, though.
Long story short: Don’t ever live with anyone, ever.
Most of ‘em suck, and the ones who don’t are psychos.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Feb 23, 2010 1:16 PM CST up reply actions
I guess I was the only one who read that post and thought of Cream's "Crossroads" and then tried to figure out what those lyrics had to to with the Cream song
Clearly I’m not a Bone Thugs aficionado.
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
You don't know what you're missing fool.
Now Eazy’s long gone
Really wish he would come home
But when it’s time to die
Gotta go bye-bye
All a thug could do is cry, cry
Why they kill my dog and man
I miss my uncle Charles y’all
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
Ugh
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"When you have a weapon on your shoulder like he has, you can be cool." RW on Perez
And the little bastard threw it for a swinging strike three in a 3-2 count. He’s blessed. And ballsy.
by Rodney on Feb 23, 2010 1:39 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Rec
"I don’t know how these SN blog authors get their gigs, but I’m frankly surprised SN tolerates AJM’s lack of effort." Tex34
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
by Brian Thomas on Feb 23, 2010 8:48 PM CST up reply actions
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wasn’t it blues singer Robert Johnson that was to have gone to the “Crossroads” and sold his soul to the devil so he could play guitar like he did? That is what I thought of.
I soloed in the Mile High Club!
Yes sir, that was him
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
I would just like to take this moment to point out that my son wears Scheppers #22 on his t-ball team.
Proud papa.
Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
ElectricOkra.com
OT. damn
@WWWUZzCOM Yankees to lose Depaula to the Seattle Mariners, all those sources who claimed the Yankees were locked on Depaula were wrong!
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
Damn. Damn.
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
Best tools pot
Feliz can make a case for having one of the most devastating changeups and fastballs. Martin Perez (Rangers) flashes fastball, curveballs and changeups all worthy of 70 grades at times.
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
pot* post*
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
by Kinslerhomer on Feb 23, 2010 2:36 PM CST up reply actions
Tools pot
that’s Lincecum.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
pot*weed*
"We pitched, we caught the ball, we ran the bases, we had good days where we out-fundamentalized the other team." - Ronald Washington
by Pocket Ninja on Feb 23, 2010 6:16 PM CST up reply actions
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"I don’t know how these SN blog authors get their gigs, but I’m frankly surprised SN tolerates AJM’s lack of effort." Tex34
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
by Brian Thomas on Feb 23, 2010 8:49 PM CST up reply actions
Exactly
"We pitched, we caught the ball, we ran the bases, we had good days where we out-fundamentalized the other team." - Ronald Washington
by Pocket Ninja on Feb 23, 2010 9:40 PM CST up reply actions
2009 BA Top 100 Graduation
I love seeing this list. This is the second consecutive year that we’ve had 4 players listed in the top 42. We graduated 3 players from last year’s list (Holland 31, Andrus 37, Teagarden 73) with only two carryovers (Feliz, 10, Smoak 23). I see that graduation rate as a great sign. Sign of very good things to come.
I was wondering if it was ever going to come out.
We could possibly have only 1 prospect in the Top 100 next year (Perez). But still, 4 players in the top half is very nice, with 3 in the top 20 is quite impressive.
"Jurick Profar is tired of practice!! I wanna play I wanna play….waiting for march 12 to go to spring training! to kill some pichers:D:D I am Jurickson Profar son of judeska and chesmond.. And I was born ready! ready to play baseball!!" - Jurickson Profar
Here's hoping we see Moreland and Profar take big steps forward
then we’ll have a new big three for next year
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
Font will hopefully break into the top 100 next year
Main, if he bounces back will get consideration
We have 4 1st round draft picks
We may not have the top 50 talent like we have this year but we should still have several on the top 100 list
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.
This comment:
I don’t agree with Matusz over Feliz. No GM in their right mind would trade Feliz for Matusz. Just look at what both did in their brief taste in The Show last year. This minor concern of whether Feliz will end up in the bullpen is not reason enough to penalize his ranking.
Posted by John D | February 23, 2010 at 12:23 pm
It’s not that uncommon, right? “The Show” bit, that is.
Also, no Eric Hosmer! Holy cow. Remember all the Hosmer’s potential >> Smoak’s potential talk?
"Jurick Profar is tired of practice!! I wanna play I wanna play….waiting for march 12 to go to spring training! to kill some pichers:D:D I am Jurickson Profar son of judeska and chesmond.. And I was born ready! ready to play baseball!!" - Jurickson Profar
No Ynoa either
Makes me smile just a little
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.
Meh
The dude is still only 17
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
by Kinslerhomer on Feb 23, 2010 5:43 PM CST up reply actions
Oh I know
Its just all the love and hype he was getting last year was way way too much and I think alot of people way overhyped him. Now seeing them backtrack a little makes me smile. Not saying he won’t or can’t get back to being a top prospect but it goes to show we may need to temper our enthusiasm a little on these kids.
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.
That's fine, but
it’s because he blew out his elbow. Doesn’t really mean they’ve backtracked.
by Brett Perryman on Feb 23, 2010 6:16 PM CST up reply actions
When you say blew out how serious are you talking
I didn’t think it was a serious injury
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.
Yeah
“blow out” is the wrong term. But the injury is why he didn’t pitch all year and is what led directly to him being dropped.
by Brett Perryman on Feb 23, 2010 8:05 PM CST up reply actions
Does we=you?
There is nothing wrong with getting excited about a young prospect, regardless of the results-to-hype ratio. The fact that the majority of them flameout before they reach their ceiling doesn’t change the reality that their raw tools warranted the initial hype to begin with.
Several scouts that saw Ynoa said that he was the best 16 year-old Latin American pitcher they had ever seen. The initial hype was a result of people who are paid to evaluate talent telling their team to throw tons of money at this kid because they had never seen a 16 year-old with the combination of size, pitchability, and stuff before. Ynoa wasn’t a pitcher with a fringe-average ceiling that got overhyped and then failed to meet those expectations. This was a very special kid who simply got hurt and lost some developmental time. It’s not really that complicated.
No word on whether his lack of education influenced his ability to repeat his signature, though. I’ll ask around for you.
by jparks77 on Feb 23, 2010 6:34 PM CST up reply actions 13 recs
Look im not saying the kid doesn't have talent
But other than the injury what has changed between last year to this year? Jarrod Parker is not going to pitch in 2010 because hes undergoing TJ surgery yet he stayed on the list. Last year Ynoa was this amazing talent who had never pitched against real competition and scouts and evaluators raved about his ceiling. Did that ceiling change because of his injury this season? I ask because I thought it wasn’t a serious elbow injury. If he “blew it out” like Z says above I retract because that obviously is a major injury.
All I am saying is last year he shouldn’t have been ranked where he was thats all. Perhaps this year they are overcompensating by dropping him too far I don’t know.
If Profar goes out this year and has an injury and misses all season will that drop him from top 10 into the 20+ range? If lack of experience against pro competition didn’t matter last year why should it matter after one season when he is still younger than 98% of other pro players?
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.
The elbow tendonitis (or whatever it was) was a set-back, no question
But if evaluators and team officials believe the injury to be minor, there is no reason to assume his ceiling won’t remain as high as it was pre-injury. If that is indeed the case, he should remain on prospect lists because his combination of raw stuff and age can’t be overlooked. Of course, prospect lists are snapshots of the moment and subjective. The fact that BA didn’t include him in their top 100 this season doesn’t mean he was overhyped last season. Just because Jarrod Parker suffered an injury and remained on the list doesn’t mean Ynoa was overhyped last season.
Yah, I think the fact that two teams (at least) were willing to give him 4mm+ at the age of 16 is more significant than where BA ranked him after a year lost to injury problems.
But then again this is Big Steve, so…
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Feb 24, 2010 2:57 PM CST up reply actions
Well, he's no DiFaziGod.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Feb 24, 2010 2:53 PM CST up reply actions
nice douche comment there at the end
i dont agree with what he said about the whole ordeal but there is really no need to bring it up simply because you disagreed with him
"He do what he do" - Ron Washington
by dustinvandeman on Feb 23, 2010 6:54 PM CST up reply actions
Obviously, I disagree
Thanks for letting me know where you stand on the issue, though. I’ll keep that in mind going forward.
by jparks77 on Feb 23, 2010 7:07 PM CST up reply actions 5 recs
Hey Jason
Have you seen Arias throw in person lately, or heard anything from a scout/scouts? I am wondering about his arm, since he seems a logical choice as the UIF.
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"When you have a weapon on your shoulder like he has, you can be cool." RW on Perez
And the little bastard threw it for a swinging strike three in a 3-2 count. He’s blessed. And ballsy.
I'll be in Surprise for most of March
But I haven’t seen or heard anything about his arm yet. Jason Cole is planning on arriving this Thursday, so hopefully he can post an update when he gets a chance to see Arias in action.
I'll be there 25-29
Email me if you will still be in town.
"I don’t know how these SN blog authors get their gigs, but I’m frankly surprised SN tolerates AJM’s lack of effort." Tex34
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
by Brian Thomas on Feb 23, 2010 9:00 PM CST up reply actions
I would say Jason, in his position as a scout-in-training for Latin America, is a little touchier than most on that little controversy
I can’t say that I blame him for making that swipe.
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Ehh, I wouldn't let it worry you too much
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
It won't
I have Mexican league scouting reports to work on and hours of curling to watch. My time is booked. Ha.
Though I throughly enjoy my life as an attorney and I get to do all kinds of fun, varied stuff, there is a modicum of jealousy in my bones towards your scouting activities
I tip my hat to you, Mr. Parks.
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Holmes..
Let me know if you need a bodyguard down in Mexico, I’m quite handy with the Hunga Munga.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
I think the swipe
was just fine and you have no need to back off from it. The entire post was a good summary of how to think about Profar’s ilk.
Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische dein Heiligtum.
Nah. Around here it's simply par for the course.
Morality you can fake. Fun you either have or you don't.
Fuck yes you should have
It was hilarious, and it wasn’t a cheap shot.
"I don’t know how these SN blog authors get their gigs, but I’m frankly surprised SN tolerates AJM’s lack of effort." Tex34
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
by Brian Thomas on Feb 23, 2010 8:55 PM CST up reply actions
Yes you should.
It was funny.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on Feb 24, 2010 2:58 PM CST up reply actions
Matusz for Feliz
I imagine 25 or so GMs, possibly including Jon Daniels, would make that trade.
Matusz is going to be a very very good starting pitcher for a very long time. Don’t underestimate the guy.
Go Rice Owls!
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