By Frankie Piliere
Every fan that follows prospects will know where I’m coming from with this. There is always some great degree of ambiguity when it comes to prospect tracking but why is that? We feel that the degree of ambiguity should be taken down a notch if not totally eliminated. There should be much less guess work on the part of the fan as to what their team’s number two pitching prospect’s velocity has been this season or how their newly converted first base prospect looks defensively. Obviously, we’ll be scouting a great deal of players from the amateur all the way up through the professional ranks. But, what we’d like to do is take suggestions from our readers on this. Find out what I mean after the jump….
What I mean is this; you, the reader, make a suggestion to us about a prospect that you can’t seem to get any straight answers about elsewhere or just plain can’t find any good information on. Since we’re still a pretty small outfit, we will not get to go out and see everyone you suggest to us. If we do not, we’ll utilize our contacts in the scouting industry to find you those answers.
Outlets that write about prospects are suppose to give answers to those who follow them. That’s what we’re going to try to give you with this suggestion box. And, what we hope to provide in return is cold, hard facts about these prospects that you need answers on.
So, fire away in the comments section and throughout the season we’ll hopefully get to many of your requests.
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15 responses so far ↓
1 Bill // Mar 31, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Some guys who I have heard conflicting reports on and wouldn’t mind some more info:
Faustino De Los Santos
Aaron Poreda
Jordan Walden
Basically all three have the same issue. Some places claim they throw high-90’s and have #1 upside and other places claim their stuff is more ordinary with less upside…
Awesome website BTW - just found it today.
2 Aubrey Klaft // Mar 31, 2008 at 1:18 pm
What’s wrong with Craig Hansen? Is it really true that the sox changed his mechanics and broke him? Are his pitches really that flat now? How did his mechanics change? Will he ever be a major leaguer?
3 fpiliere44 // Mar 31, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Nice to see some new names posting. Great to have you guys reading…hope you enjoy.
Awesome suggestions too. I think I’ll get a shot to see Hansen very early on in the year.
4 Dan Budreika // Mar 31, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Nice site guys.
Questions: Do you see Elvis Andrus living up to his tools? And can John Lannan have MLB success with such an anemic K rate?
5 jscape2000 // Mar 31, 2008 at 7:37 pm
I’d love to get your opinions on Humberto Sanchez as he rehabs. Kevin Whelan and Eric Wordekemper interest me as well.
6 Grant // Mar 31, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I’m interested to hear your thoughts on Pete Kozma. He wasn’t the most popular pick last year among Cards fans. What kind of player do you think he can become?
7 dan // Mar 31, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Is there something mechanically wrong with Christian Garcia? And is it BS or does he really have the best stuff in the entire Yankee organization?
And for future reference, for this type of thing would you rather an e-mail or will this suggestion box be open all the time somewhere on the page?
8 fpiliere44 // Mar 31, 2008 at 9:13 pm
We’re going to try and put some sort of suggestion box on here or when we get our @saberscouting.com emails up we’ll do it that way. Depends on what we have the capacity to do on wordpress I suppose.
Excellent suggestions thus far.
9 Alex // Mar 31, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Tommy Hanson, Braves. I’ve heard all sorts of differing reports on this kid and as a Braves fan I’d like to know whether to buy the hype.
10 mudie // Apr 1, 2008 at 3:55 am
Jonathan Diaz, SS - Dunedin Blue Jays; yea he probably isn’t even an interesting prospect for most jays fans but I irrationally selected him as my “pet prospect” after the ‘06 draft and as such I’d really like to see a legitimate scouting report on him. Thank for allowing us the input.
11 Jeremy Darnell // Apr 1, 2008 at 11:05 am
I would like to see a report on Blue Jays’ prospect SS Justin Jackson, the Yankees’ prospect C Jesus Montero and University of South Carolina’s James Darnell.
12 Chase // Apr 1, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Franklin Morales’ velocity has been reported to be down, so any confirmation of that would be appreciated. Also, anything on Grant Desme’s or Andrew Brackman’s recoveries or just a scouting report on Arnold Leon in general would be excellent.
Love the site! Keep up the good work!
13 MC Roberts // Apr 1, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Are Tyler Clippard’s problems correctable? What do you think of Dellin Betances, and what’s so worrying about his mechanics?
MC
14 erik // Apr 2, 2008 at 5:37 pm
if you’re in fla and you get a chance to see any cardinal prospects, let me know. we get a pretty steady stream of traffic, and i’d be sure to reference your reports. in particular i’m interested in sp’s tyler herron, david kopp, jesse todd and ofs daryl jones and tommy pham
15 sluhser // Apr 6, 2008 at 3:06 am
Not necessarily a prospects question but certainly saber related.
This is basically me wanting my intuition either verified or refuted. My gut tells me that there should be a positive correlation between a players contact rate, average, and career ABs. My thinking is that a younger player who hits for a lot of contact but isn’t necessarily hitting the holes or gaps will start doing so as he gains more experience.
This would make contact rate a much more important statistic among young prospects (16-19ish).
This is all based on a hunch and it may be faux logic. Either way, I’d be interested to see what the math says in regards to it.
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