By Kiley McDaniel
We’re a little over a month past the 2008 draft and, if you think like we think, you can’t help but demand early rankings for the 2009 draft. You’re sick, but don’t worry, we’ve been talking to our scouting contacts, and we’re here for you.
I’ll be unveiling our top 30 high school […]

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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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By Lincoln Hamilton
Today, we’re going to take a break from the draft and July 2nd signings and jump back into the prospect world with a scouting report of arguably the hottest young hitter in baseball, Rangers slugger Chris Davis.
In a great piece of timing, Davis hit a homerun last night in Yankee Stadium, to go […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
There has been intrigue, rumors, and large amounts of money flying around with the opening of the signing period for nearly all of the top 16 year olds in Latin America beginning this morning.

Some scouts and agents started posting in the comments of the scouting reports article and 100 comments later, it turned […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
Something you can look for as an ongoing theme for these scouting reports is that I’ll mention a prospect that’s mostly projection, that would get $500,000 to $750,000 in most years, but this year will get that price pushed up by $250,000 to $500,000, due to demand. The supply is good this […]

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By Kiley McDaniel
As mentioned in the last article, SaberScouting.com’s sources are indicating that 16 year old Dominican right-hander Michel Inoa is expected to sign with the Oakland A’s for a bonus between $4.25 million and $4.50 million as the headliner of the international signing period that starts on July 2nd.
Inoa has a frontline starter profile […]

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by Kiley McDaniel
It’s been awhile since we’ve last published something here at SaberScouting, but don’t worry, we’re still here, we just took a break after the draft.
The draft answers will be coming soon—we tried a high-tech way of bringing those to you and it didn’t really work out. You’ll see those answers soon, we’re just […]

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By Kiley McDaniel & Frankie Piliere
I’ve run out of ideas for an intro for the last minute update to the Top 100, so I’ll talk about other articles.
Looks like we won’t be able to get the top 100 capsules and spreadsheet up and running by draft time, but it might be something we’ll do blurbs […]

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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
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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