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The 2008 Draft Review Podcast

July 9th, 2008 · 16 Comments

You asked us your 2008 draft questions, albeit weeks ago, and now you get your answers, in podcast form. It took a little while to iron the technical end of this out, find a time we were both available to record it, edit it, and figure out how to post it, but we hope it […]

 
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Tags: 2008 MLB Draft · 2009 MLB Draft · Chat/Mailbag · Our Opinion · Podcast · Scouting Reports

Ask Us Draft Questions!

June 6th, 2008 · 17 Comments

By The Mailbag
As part our post-draft coverage, we thought the best approach would be to cover things that our readers wanted to hear about. We weren’t able to cover every player in our top 100 or get out all the content we wanted to before the draft started, but we still have […]

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The Draft Liveblog

June 5th, 2008 · 18 Comments

By Kiley McDaniel
This is the place where I’ll yammer on and on about all kinds of stuff. Join me in the comments with some of your thoughts, or hit me at kiley@saberscouting.com.
And if you’d like to talk to Frankie, he’s liveblogging this thing for FoxSports.com here.
Join me after the jump for periodic updates and […]

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Posey Requests Moon, Stars, Second Half of SaberScouting Mock Draft

June 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

By Kiley McDaniel & Frankie Piliere
We’ve got the second half of the mock draft here for you, but you might want to take it more in spirit rather than at face value, since there’s been a lot of developments in the past 24 hours that may make this attempt moot, but one particularly that will […]

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SaberScouting’s Mock Draft, Draft Eve Edition

June 4th, 2008 · 14 Comments

By Frankie Piliere & Kiley McDaniel
It is the eve of the most highly-awaited day for all of us weird people that follow the MLB Draft. Here at SaberScouting, we’ve decided to celebrate Draft Day Eve by breaking out our crystal ball and projecting the first 15 picks of Thursday’s draft. Why just 15, […]

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Saber-Scouting’s Mock Draft, Version 1.0

April 21st, 2008 · 42 Comments

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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The Complete First Chat

April 7th, 2008 · 12 Comments

By Frankie Piliere & Kiley McDaniel
We promised a chat last week, you submitted questions, and now we have to face the music.
A big thanks to all the people who have linked to us and to the readers for coming by. The quick response to the site has been unexpected and also made us step up […]

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Rumored Price For Boras Clients Surface

April 7th, 2008 · 12 Comments

By Kiley McDaniel
Scott Boras is without a doubt the highest profile agent in sports history and many of his methods are heavily debated. A few teams deal with him with no fear, some allow him to out-leverage them, others just don’t deal with him at all. That being said, until recently, he seemed […]

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Tags: 2008 MLB Draft · Draft Buzz · News & Notes · Our Opinion

The Prospecting Mission Statement, Part II

April 1st, 2008 · 8 Comments

By Kiley McDaniel
Catch part one of this series here. I’ve dragged my feet a bit on getting to part two of the series, but all four of you eagerly awaiting more of the site’s methods on ranking prospects, wait no more!
This section will focus on a interesting philosphical debate including Ben Grieve, financial valuation […]

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Tags: Our Opinion · Prospect Lists

Prospect Mythbusting: Put Us On The Case

March 31st, 2008 · 15 Comments

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 […]

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