Official MiLB/Prospects Thread

[Boxcar]

"To confuse an idiot requires no skill" - Confucius

 

Where's Confucius now? Oh that's right, he's dead.

[AintNoThang]

Where's Confucius now? Oh that's right, he's dead.

 

You have slowly become my favourite poster.

[Jimcanuck]

Potential Cdn 1st rounder next year:

 

David Calabrese | OF | St. Elizabeth Catholic HS, Vaughan, Ont.

 

Calabrese was the biggest riser at the Future Stars Series. He's a senior and draft-eligible for 2020, but he was still just 16 at the event, turning 17 shortly after on Sept. 25. Calabrese showed an exciting combination of hitting ability, quick-twitch athleticism, speed and defense at a premium position, making him a candidate to jump up draft boards. Calabrese isn't that big—listed at 5-foot-9, 145-pounds—but he's a 70 runner who ran the 60-yard dash in 6.47 seconds. He stole a hit from Crews at Fenway Park, reacting quickly off the bat on a line drive in front of him in center field to make a sliding catch. Between his speed and defensive actions, he looks like an easy bet to play center field, though he didn't show much arm strength at this event. Calabrese stood out in the batter's box as well, going 3-for-8 with a double off a lefthander to right field that would be a single for most hitters, but his wheels allowed him to leg out the extra base. At Fenway Park, he pulled another ball into the corner for an extra-base hit that the right fielder misplayed, allowing Calabrese to come all the way around to score on the play thanks again to his speed. Calabrese's swing is simple, quiet and direct from the left side, geared for line drives with doubles power.

[Captain Adama]

Potential Cdn 1st rounder next year:

 

David Calabrese | OF | St. Elizabeth Catholic HS, Vaughan, Ont.

 

Calabrese was the biggest riser at the Future Stars Series. He's a senior and draft-eligible for 2020, but he was still just 16 at the event, turning 17 shortly after on Sept. 25. Calabrese showed an exciting combination of hitting ability, quick-twitch athleticism, speed and defense at a premium position, making him a candidate to jump up draft boards. Calabrese isn't that big—listed at 5-foot-9, 145-pounds—but he's a 70 runner who ran the 60-yard dash in 6.47 seconds. He stole a hit from Crews at Fenway Park, reacting quickly off the bat on a line drive in front of him in center field to make a sliding catch. Between his speed and defensive actions, he looks like an easy bet to play center field, though he didn't show much arm strength at this event. Calabrese stood out in the batter's box as well, going 3-for-8 with a double off a lefthander to right field that would be a single for most hitters, but his wheels allowed him to leg out the extra base. At Fenway Park, he pulled another ball into the corner for an extra-base hit that the right fielder misplayed, allowing Calabrese to come all the way around to score on the play thanks again to his speed. Calabrese's swing is simple, quiet and direct from the left side, geared for line drives with doubles power.

 

Guy sounds like a total f***ing wop

[Spanky__99]

Our AFL affiliate Scottsdale Scorpions rosters...

 

https://www.mlb.com/arizona-fall-league/teams/scottsdale-scorpions

 

Game 1 Boxscore: https://www.mlb.com/gameday/scorpions-vs-solar-sox/2019/09/18/606720#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=606720

 

Game 2 Boxscore: https://www.mlb.com/gameday/scorpions-vs-saguaros/2019/09/19/606722#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=606722

 

http://mlb.mlb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ibp&sid=l119&cid=544&y=2019

[Jimcanuck]

Alejandro ((Not in top 20)):

 

Josh... Why am I not in the top 20? Were you scared off by my wholesome physique? I can really hit the cover off of the ball, so please tell me why?

 

Josh Norris: I am probably the high guy on Mr. Kirk. In other years, he might have made this list but the league had something like 15 Top 100 prospects in it, so making the list was a very tough sell. He's got a great approach, makes a ton of contact, pitchers love throwing to him and he has done a nice job controlling the running game. Probably want to see a little more power out of him and, yes, he is going to get some scrutiny because of his body.

[TheHurl]

 

Read the entire thread if you get a chance

[glory]

That's insane.

 

Teams avoiding free agency is not the problem with baseball. It's minor league salaries and salaries for MLB players from years 0-6. It's a joke how MLB can get away with that. Doesn't help that Tony Clark appears to be clueless.

[Barkerfan23]

That's insane.

 

Teams avoiding free agency is not the problem with baseball. It's minor league salaries and salaries for MLB players from years 0-6. It's a joke how MLB can get away with that. Doesn't help that Tony Clark appears to be clueless.

 

They can get away with it because minor league baseball is no different than the economics of the rest of the world. Most of the world makes very little ( despite what our Canadian lifestyle will have you believe)

[flafson]

I spent 3 years in the army making ~$300 per month so could be worse.

[Bobthe4th]

I spent 3 years in the army making ~$300 per month so could be worse.

 

Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t the army provide you with food and accommodation for free?

[Bobthe4th]

 

He shows anything and he'll be in the rotation soon. Disappointing that he had a wasted year this season by never coming back from injury.

[Krylian]

Merryweather is still a thing?

[Jonn]

Merryweather is still a thing?

 

Only in GTA V

[glory]

Honestly I think I trust Shatkins more with pitching acquisitions than hitting, so Merryweather might actually turn into something (even if it's out of the pen). Of course he has to be healthy for that.

[Spanky__99]

 

He shows anything and he'll be in the rotation soon. Disappointing that he had a wasted year this season by never coming back from injury.

 

Nice, this just had me look up the numbers in the AFL... Kevin Smith *woof* At least Warmoth is having a decent fall.

[Ray]

Kevin Smith is having an absolutely brutal Fall League:

 

.135/.200/.189, 3BB, 20K

 

What an insane fall. He was a Top 100 guy by Baseball-America coming into the 2019 season. Other places also had him on the fringes of a Top 100 ranking.

[Deadpool]

Kevin Smith is having an absolutely brutal Fall League:

 

.135/.200/.189, 3BB, 20K

 

What an insane fall. He was a Top 100 guy by Baseball-America coming into the 2019 season. Other places also had him on the fringes of a Top 100 ranking.

 

Yeah, his off-season swing tweak did NOT work.

[Laika]

The nice thing about prospects is that it's almost always at least somewhat realistic to hope for big improvements. Look at Trent Grisham (Clark) for instance - dude hit .230 with no power for three straight seasons and then in 2019 looked like an elite prospect with all of the tools.

 

Kevin Smith's 2018 showed that he has the tools. His 2019 showed that he is, like Justin Trudeau, just not ready. Can he recover or will his professional career be tarnished by the blackface of his 2018 stats? Who knows!

[jays4life19]

lol

[Barkerfan23]

Julian mayweather's name now triggers negative feelings in me.

[Laika]

Julian mayweather's name

 

So close yet so retarded

[Spanky__99]

Julian mayweather's name now triggers negative feelings in me.

 

[TheHurl]

 

“The project is going well,” said Doug Hutchens, deputy city manager and Dunedin’s point man on the baseball project. “The stadium project is on schedule for completion in time for spring training next spring.”

 

The stadium at 373 Douglas Ave. may be on time, but the training facility, about 3½ miles away on Solon Avenue, is running behind.

 

 

That’s because of the increased scope of work the team has committed to what it is calling the Blue Jays Player Development Complex. The new, two-story, 100,000-square-foot training and administrative complex will be nearly three times the size of the tired, overcrowded existing facility.

 

According to the team, the new complex will have a 10,000-square-foot weight room; eight locker rooms, two dining rooms and two training rooms; classrooms and large conference rooms; sports labs and “fuel bars”; a variable depth pool, plunge pools and a sauna.

 

Outdoors, there will be three new full ballfields, for a total of six; five-bay and seven-bay batting cages; two 10-pack gang mounds and a new half-field.

 

The training complex should be completed by summer, Hutchens said, adding that it is “not too problematic” being behind schedule because the new fields will be completed by spring training, and the team can still use the existing clubhouse. When the new facility is finished, the old clubhouse will revert to the city, which will repurpose it as a parks maintenance facility.

 

Also not announced, but a conversation I have been privy to is that Dunedin will start taking 2 interns from a certain Toronto Sport Management College Program. Starting in Spring 2021.

[Spanky__99]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also not announced, but a conversation I have been privy to is that Dunedin will start taking 2 interns from a certain Toronto Sport Management College Program. Starting in Spring 2021.

 

The same certain one you attended...

[flafson]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t the army provide you with food and accommodation for free?

 

That is mostly correct, as long as you're ok with whatever food and accommodations they give you.

Breakfast at 6am, lunch at noon and dinner at 6pm, menu tends to be always the same, lunch and dinner would usually consist of crappy burned hot dogs. Until this day, I avoid hot dogs like the plague...

As for accommodations, that would mean sleeping on base with a mattress that is 2 inch thick if you're lucky, hell I used my firearm as a pillow by tucking it under the mattress. Surprisingly, I didn't mind this part and I was perfectly fine sleeping on the floor for quite a few years afterwards too.

I guess when you're 18, you can get used to anything.

[Jimcanuck]

That is mostly correct, as long as you're ok with whatever food and accommodations they give you.

Breakfast at 6am, lunch at noon and dinner at 6pm, menu tends to be always the same, lunch and dinner would usually consist of crappy burned hot dogs. Until this day, I avoid hot dogs like the plague...

As for accommodations, that would mean sleeping on base with a mattress that is 2 inch thick if you're lucky, hell I used my firearm as a pillow by tucking it under the mattress. Surprisingly, I didn't mind this part and I was perfectly fine sleeping on the floor for quite a few years afterwards too.

I guess when you're 18, you can get used to anything.

 

Good training for times of war / conflict.

[glory]

Julian Merryweather is alive in the AFL.

 

1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K

[Laika]

Julian Merryweather is alive in the AFL.

 

1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K

 

* Jules Mayweather

[Deadpool]

* Jules Mayweather

 

I'm thinking we may have a new board meme with this one...