2010 Futures All-Star Roster Announced - Belt gets snubbed
Unbelievable. The rosters for the 2010 Futures All-Star Game (played the day after the MLB ASG) were announced today. The lone rep for the Giants is Francisco Peguero on the World Team's roster.
The selection rules are that each major league team must have at least 1 rep, but no more than 2. If a team does get 2 reps, 1 must be an American, and the other must be an international player.
My main question is, which 2 American 1B prospects are having a better year than Brandon Belt? How does he get left off the squad? Also, if you're picking an international star to rep the Giants, Jorge Bucardo would be the obvious choice over Peguero.
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So I don’t know much about this Belt fellow, but decided to look him up. Interesting fact I found – his current MLE is .273/.351/.430. From Single-A! I didn’t know it was possible to hit that well in Single-A that you could post a respectable MLE. Pretty impressive performance so far. Hopefully he can keep raking?
Well, a couple things. If I’m not mistaken, the first step in the process is the organization submits a very short list of playerys it’s willing to have participate (maybe 3 guys), and then it becomes a quilting exercise of trying to get two rosters filled out within the parameters (one all american, one not, and one player from each club) which no doubt causes tons of headaches. Then of course, the Future’s Game rosters are put together from a very scout heavy perspective, rather than stat heavy (thus the Giants have sent people like Angel Villalona and Pablo Sandoval to the game when their stats weren’t all that impressive), which gives high draft choice players like Eric Hosmer (who is also having a heck of a year) a nod over a 4th rounder like Belt, who scouts still view with some skepticism as to his power potential. And lastly, I think the rule is no team can have more than 3 players, but it doesn’t matter which roster they’re on (as for instance the Royals have 2 Americans in Hosmer and Moustakas, the Blue Jays have 3 players on the World roster, etc.)
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
follow ups
1) I may be mistaken, but I think Pablo actually did have very good stats in the year he was selected. I think he was hitting around 380 at SJ. Again, I may be wrong. Obviously I agree about Villalona (damn, it’s been forever since I thought about that guy).
2) I think the “participation trophy” aspect of these all star teams is dumb. Why should every team get one guy represented? If one team has done a great job of scouting and development and can send 5 guys and another team hasn’t done such a good job, why should we dilute the talent in the game and force a max on the team that has done things right and enable the one team that does things wrong? Pet peeve of mine.
The second time Pablo was in the Futures Game he was tearing up the Cal League, but he was also a selection in 2006 when he was a 1B hitting < .250 with absolutely no power in the Sally League. Either they were doing a brilliant job of seeing the Future at that point, or the Giants offerings were really uninspiring in 2006.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
not quite correct
1. Toronto only has 2 guys, Henderson Alvarez and Trystan Magnuson, and the rule is definitely no more than 2 players each. I don’t know if they relaxed the rule about 1 American + 1 international player, but that’s what it used to be.
2. Belt was a 5th rounder, not a 4th rounder.
3.
…Belt, who scouts still view with some skepticism as to his power potential.
Belt has 9 HRs, 26 2Bs and 3 3Bs in 237 ABs this year, as opposed to Eric Hosmer, who has hit only 9 HRs, 45 2Bs and 10 3Bs in 649 ABs in the past 3 seasons of Rookie League, low-A and hi-A ball. Which guy has a questionable power future?
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
They both do
But Hosmer has more power potential.
ah yes, BA mistakenly has Noesi listed as a Blue Jay and I didn’t think about the error. I think Ltisme below is correct, they both have questions, although Hosmer (who had been a huge potential bust in his first full season) has probably answered a lot of questions this year after getting fitted for glasses and a lot of scouts still see the guy who was a potential 1-1 pick 2 years ago. He’s also putting up his numbers in a decidedly less hitting friendly environment and is 1.5 years younger than Belt. I’m going to guess that he’ll be a Top 20 prospect in baseball this winter on a lot of people’s lists.
Anyway, I don’t mean to argue, because I’d love to have seen Belt make the cut, he’s the one really exciting thing that’s happened in the Giants system this year, one of the very few players who isn’t some brand of disappointing, and it would be great to see him rewarded this way. But I understand that it’s gotta be hard getting these rosters into some kind of shape and I don’t find either Hosmer or Morrison’s inclusions by any means egregious.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
Peguero???
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The Giants do love him, and the organization is the first tier in the selection process.
My Bucardo is better than yours.
A hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill. Insofar as the clutch hitter is not a sportswriter's myth, it is a vulgarity, like a writer who writes only for money.
He's already on the 40-man roster
Which tells you how much they love him.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
PeguerLOL
Vroom part II
Q: Did you ever make an offer for Vladimir Guerrero?
Sabean: In a word: No. If we had signed Guerrero or [Gary] Sheffield, we would have been without [Long list of replacement level vets]—obviously not being able to field a competitive team, especially from an experience standpoint, given our level of spending.
Hosmer and Morrison
The MLB braintrust chose Eric Hosmer and Logan Morrison to the team, instead of Belt.
Here are their current stats, with Hosmer and Belt playing the whole time in hi-A, and Morrison splitting between AA and AAA.
Brandon Belt: .392/503/.641/1.145 …. HR=9 / 2B=26 / 3b=3 / RBI=58 / BB=53
Eric Hosmer: .356/.425/.529/.953 …… HR=3 / 2B=24 / 3b=6 / RBI=42 / BB=33
Lo. Morrison: .333/.413/.558/.970 …… HR=4 / 2B=15 / 3b=5 / RBI=29 / BB=21
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
My impression is that selections are generally based on perceived prospect status, not current stats.
by BestHyperboleEver on Jun 22, 2010 6:35 PM PDT reply actions
Thus why it’s called the All-Star Futures Game rather than the All-Star At Present Game.
by BestHyperboleEver on Jun 22, 2010 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions
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