By Frankie Piliere & Kiley McDaniel
We’re now entering the homestretch for the MLB Draft as June 5th quickly approaches. Area scouts have compiled their lists and evaluations and are stepping aside as crosscheckers, scouting directors, and other top team brass come in to see prospects and form the help form the draft board.
And, as that […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
On today, the high holiday of NFL Draft day, even the majority of baseball people I know are focused more on football than baseball. Some of that is a function of the NFL Draft becoming an enormous sporting event on the level of the Super Bowl for die-hard sports fans.
The rest is […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
I covered earlier in a Notes column just a taste of the legend of Tampa prep 1B Jamie Mallard. Frankie and I both believe that mechanical breakdowns and scouting reports should be separated, so the legend will continue now in part two, and later this weekend with part three in a scouting […]

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By Frankie Piliere
There are always safe picks in the draft. Those picks may not have the most upside but there’s a good chance that you know exactly what you’re getting. Wade Miley, a 6-foot-2 lefty I got a good look at in the Cape over the summer, fits that mold perfectly.
Miley has been a strikeout […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
I’ve been hitting (and will continue to hit, although metaphorically) high school games this week because it is district tournament week here in Florida, and some draft prospects are playing their last games of the season, while others are just getting started on a long journey to the state tournament in Sarasota.
I caught […]

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By Frankie Piliere
It’s very easy to write about prospects that the whole world knows about. From a scouting perspective—and I’ve seen said this before—it is far more exciting to write about a “discovery.”
One discovery that I think I made over the summer was Nate Freiman, a first baseman playing for the Orleans Cardinals. […]

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By Frankie Piliere & Kiley McDaniel
We promised this mock draft a week ago and are finally delivering it now. So, we apologize for the delay and are trying to make it worth the wait by giving you a little more information than the average mock does. I know the one thing I hate when I’m […]

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By Kiley McDaniel

Deolis Guerra will likely forever be known as the best pitching prospect traded from the Mets for Johan Santana. That’s unfair to Guerra, because they will always be linked and there’s not much of a chance Guerra even gets into Santana’s league as a pitcher—not many do.
I was able to see Guerra […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
I went out to catch a matchup between the Dunedin Blue Jays and Tampa Yankees yesterday; to see a few notable pitchers and get yet another look at intriguing bat Travis Snider.
Yankees RHR Mark Melancon (pictured, right, in college at Arizona) isn’t quite all the way back from Tommy John surgery, but there […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
Rick Porcello is really, really good. I’d like to be more specific, but I already wrote an intro for him in the previous full write-up here. He got a bunch of money, people think he’s great and he pitches near where I live.
So, why am I writing about him again, other than […]

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