Top 30 Prospects, Part IV: 11-15
by Grant on Feb 9, 2010 1:19 PM PST
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If you're really dogmatic about your rankings, here's the segment that will give you a ton to complain about...
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Top 30 Prospects, Part III: 16 -20
by Grant on Feb 8, 2010 1:11 PM PST
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Is Madison Bumgarner in this batch? Well, you'll just have to click the link to find out....
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Top 30 Prospects, Part II: 21-25
by Grant on Feb 5, 2010 11:42 AM PST
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Pitchers, pitchers, pitchers. It's like a Mötley Crüe song for nerds.
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Top 30 Prospects, Part I: 26-30
by Grant on Feb 4, 2010 12:59 PM PST
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By unpopular demand, the first installment of McCovey Chronicles’ Top 30 Prospects for 2010*:
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Top 30 Prospects, Part I: Just Missed
by Grant on Feb 3, 2010 11:23 AM PST
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In the 2001 Baseball America Prospect Handbook, here were the prospects who made up #s 26-30:
26. A 24-year-old outfielder who had hit .272/.333/.402 in AA (Texas League)
27. An 18th-round draft-and-follow who had his contract voided due to elbow problems and sat out a year.
28. A 7th-round pick who threw hard, but had no professional experience yet.
29. A hacking 24-year-old who moved to catcher to attempt a career as a super-utility player
30. A 28-year-old soft-tossing lefty with a chance to be a LOOGY one day.
The names aren’t as important (Doug Clark, David Brous, Erick Threets, Edwards Guzman, and Chad Zerbe) as the descriptions. When trawling through the bottom end of a prospect list, all you have are descriptions, for the most part. A 24-year-old rightie with below-average stuff but above-average command. A 23-year-old with enormous power potential but substantial contact issues. Those are the kinds of descriptions that pepper the bottom of a prospect list.
And just going off those vague descriptions, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have ranked most of the 26-30 bunch from 2001 in the top 50 of this year’s crop, with the lone exception of Threets, who would probably be analogous to Matt Graham from this year’s list. Maybe that’s a little harsh -- four of the above five did make the majors for a brief time, with one of them even busting the record books -- but it’s a testimony to the improved depth of the system. I can’t speak to how this year’s depth stacks up with other teams around the league, but it sure beats the dregs from the bottoms of Giants’ prospect lists in the past.
This is all a long-winded introduction to the honorable mentions of my top-30 list. I’m not sure where these guys would rank if I stretched the list out to 40 or 50, but some of you value them enough that you might be expecting them to pop up from #10 to #20 when they don’t show up from #21 to #30. I’ll just kill the suspense here. And by "suspense," I mean "indifference." And by "kill the indifference," I mean, "feed the indifference until it grows stronger and more powerful, eventually morphing into hostile apathy."
Five guys who aren’t on the top-30 list:
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Ranking Prospects
by Grant on Feb 2, 2010 7:00 AM PST
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Three years ago, Kevin Goldstein told the following to both of the readers of this site:
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The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announced today that Jon Miller, who has spent parts of five decades as the voice of five Major League Baseball teams and has been the voice of ESPN’s national Sunday Night Baseball telecasts for 20 years, has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, presented annually for major contributions to baseball broadcasting. Miller will be honored during Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies on Sunday, July 25, 2010 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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Former closer Kim, Giants agree to deal
Some of you might be too young to remember, but Byung-Hyung Kim used to be really good. Then he became a starting pitcher, lost six or seven miles off his fastball, and had all sorts of arm injuries, not necessarily in that order.
I'd give a spring training invite to Greg Minton if he wanted one. It's an no-risk, all-reward proposition, and I especially like when they're given to 31-year-old relievers with a history of past success. A distant, distant history, sure, but....
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