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TotalZone on Center Field Prospects
Thanks to the efforts of Sean Smith and Jeff Sackmann, we now have TotalZone stats for the minor leagues, which can be found at players' pages at Minor League Splits. You can read up on how useful and reliable these stats are here. Yesterday we looked at shortstops, today let's tackle center...
Sickels on Engel Beltre
John Sickels has a new post up on Engel Beltre, as part of his "controversial prospect" series...some folks had Beltre in the Rangers' top 5 or 10 prospects, whereas Sickels didn't have him among the top 30... Sickels has upgraded Beltre, based on his performance thusfar this season, to a B-,...
Stat line of the day
Engel Beltre, in the Midwest League: .295/.331/.446 The MWL is a pitcher's league, and low-A is generally populated by guys who are a year or two out of high school, international signees, and lower-light college draftees in their first pro season. Beltre is 18 years old...if he were American,...
Saturday a.m. stuff
Do you guys realize that Opening Day is in 9 days? The season starts soon... Evan Grant looks at the final roster issues and projects the 25 man roster...he has German, Tejeda and Littleton making the bullpen, Mendoza starting the season in AAA (until he's needed on April 12), Laird and Melhuse...
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