By Kiley McDaniel
The first in Saber-Scouting’s series of prospect profiles will start out of order with our #2 draft prospect, much-ballyhooed Vanderbilt third baseman Pedro Alvarez.
Alvarez has been on the prospect radar since entering his senior year in high school in the Bronx at Horace Mann High. He was a 14th round pick by […]

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by Kiley McDaniel & Frankie Piliere
We’ve been gearing up for draft season for quite some time around here, and this is the next phase of our draft information bonanza—all of which will be completely free. The latest update of our top prospect rankings and mock draft can be found on the links at the top […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
I got a chance recently to see one of the more intriguing breakout prospects of the young 2008 minor league season, Rays right-hander Jeremy Hellickson.
He has some out of this world numbers this season in the High-A Florida State League for Vero Beach (61-to-3 K/BB ratio in 51.2 IP), and has the pedigree […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
As mentioned in the earlier Tyler Robertson first look, he is a bit of a polarizing figure as a prospect.
Now that I’ve given you plenty of time to peruse the video of his motion (that’ll be my excuse for the delay in posting the report), I’ll drop in with my thoughts on what […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
I’m leaving now to head to Orlando for the UCF-Clemson series, so I don’t have time to post the full Tyler Robertson scouting report right now.
I did manage to get the video on YouTube, and to tide you over until the report comes, here’s the Robertson video and here’s my preliminary thoughts on […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
The past week I once again went to more Florida State League games than a human probably should and neglected posting because 1) in my spare time I was moving and 2) after putting off a day or two, a ton of info piled up.
Weak excuse, but now we’re about three weeks away […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
Part three of my getting-caught-up recap will cover the rest of the amateur games I saw since the Kelly-Ferrara recap that weren’t covered in part two of this never-ending recap series.
Inside this report, I’ll have yet another Casey Kelly update (more here, here, and here). And for those of you sick of […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
Part two of my getting-caught-up recap will cover some of the amateur games I saw since the Kelly-Ferrara recap, while the others will be covered in part three which jointly will span the spectrum of mid-range to high-profile and cover 2008 and 2009 draft prospects.
The college game I caught last Friday was a […]

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By Frankie Piliere
The scouting road has been taking me all over creation of late, but I return to you with a scouting report on Old Dominion junior RHP Dan Hudson.
Hudson had huge buzz building behind him as I went to see him for the first time in the Cape Cod League. He was a guy […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
I’ve been all over the state the last week, and while that has meant less frequent posting, it also means tons of stuff is in the hopper for the next few days.
This is a very busy for scouts with crosschecker season in full effect for top draft prospects and the minor league season […]

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