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Royals Review Prospect Pulse: September
Here it is: the final Pulse of the year. The top hitters kept hitting but some of the pitchers hit the wall in August. This month, I've got Myers, Hosmer and Moustakas as the Top 3. Those three are so tightly ranked--in a Top 50 list of prospects, I'd have them with all within 5 or 6 slots of...
Royals Top 30 Prospects: #18-13
We now cover prospects #18-13. Some of these players (Herrera, Fortuna, and Sample for example) are in about they same place I would have ranked them last year--or perhaps they even dropped a little bit--not because their performance was bad but there is a lot of competition for spots as we move...
Recapping my predictions for the 2010 Royals Prospects
Back in March, I gave my prediction of what the Royals Top 20 Prospects would look like at the end of the season. So before I start into my real 2010 Royals Prospect List, I thought I would look back and see how my prognostications went. I'll repost the article with my new comments in bold and...
Royals Review Prospect Pulse: September
The minor league season is wrapping up with some of the short season clubs already finished. The big news with this list is the ascension of Mike Montgomery to the #1 spot. I flip-flopped him and Hosmer but eventually decided if a list that is charting performance through the year is worth...
2008 Royals Draft Review
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TotalZone on Second Base Prospects
Rally and Sackmann (sounds like a detective show) have given us TotalZone stats for minor leaguers, which can be found at position players' pages at Minor League Splits. Sackmann provided the data, Rally created TotalZone, which he has long used with major league players. For a full explanation on...
2010 Top 20 Royals Prospects
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A Perfect Fit
Grit's Honor: The Bavasiest Way to Build a Baseball Team It's turning into a real annus mirabalis for Dayton Moore. Between the second time we grabbed Ho-Ram, and when he snagged Willie B... Really, there are only two questions: do we bat him leadoff or second and how many promotional ads do we...
Royals Draft Followup
Here are the guys taken so far (thanks to the handy official website for this one): (3) Eric Hosmer - 1B (36) Michael Montgomery- LHP (49) Johnny Giavotella- 2B (80) Tyler Sample- RHP (115) Timothy Melville- RHP (145) John Lamb- LHP (175) Alex Llanos- SS Thanks to a rehearsal dinner...
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