A .310/.373/.512 line in the Midwest League at age 19 is a great performance. A .386/.444/.584 in the Midwest League at age 19 is great enough to lead the entirety of single A baseball in offensive performance as measured by wOBA (min 200 PA).
The first line, Colby Rasmus’ performance in 2006, cemented his position as the Cardinals’ #1 prospect, which he wouldn’t relinquish until graduating to the majors. The latter performance put Oscar Taveras at #4 on the Future Redbirds top 20 and generally in the #3 or #4 spot on industry lists. Is it possible that Oscar Taveras is underrated?
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I’m not certain if Colby Rasmus had a run in with Andy Van Slyke’s son A.J. in the minors or if Rasmus forked Van Slyke’s yard. In any event, Van Slyke has made it a point, yet again, to trash Colby Rasmus in the media with some specious arguments. Don’t forget, we’ve been here before when Van Slyke misportrayed a series of things related to the junior Rasmus.
He’s at it again with Rick Hummel this time.
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Erik pointed out a great post on Royal Review by Scott McKinney in which Scott takes a look at a Success and Bust rates for Baseball America’s top 100 prospects over 13 years to see how they turned out. And I thought that on the eve of spring training, this was a good check on the “hope springs eternal” optimism of Spring Training.
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I’ve been talking about TotalZone and prospects the past week at BtB. (Way more often than I had planned, I’ve had way too much extra free time lately. I’ll get a job eventually, right!? Right???)
We’ve talked about some of the leaders and laggards with TotalZone before, but I thought I’d throw together this handy-dandy chart together before the season starts.
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 by erik in Projections, tags: Allen Craig, Chris Perez, Colby Rasmus, David Freese, Jason Motte, Jess Todd, Josh Kinney, P.J. Walters, Steve Hill
It actually was snowing here in Iowa for a few minutes. Snow! That’s just not right. Another sign of the season is Dan Syzmborski’s ZiPS projections are out. I’m sure someone at VEB will be covering the projections for the big club, here we’ll run down some of the minor leaguers projections. I’m sure most of you know by now these aren’t to be taken as gospel, and I’m not here to argue their merit. If you don’t care for them, come back another day. Some thoughts after the jump-
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by erik in Interviews, tags: Adam Reifer, Brett Wallace, Colby Rasmus, Daryl Jones, David Freese, Jaime Garcia, Jeff Luhnow, Jess Todd, Jon Jay, Pete Kozma, Roberto Pina, Santo Franco
Ben Badler is one of the many talented writers at Baseball America, the standard bearer for all things prospects. Recently I asked him if he’d be up for some Q and A and he very graciously agreed to rap with us. I thoroughly enjoyed his answers and I’m sure you will as well. Thanks to Ben for taking the time out of his busy schedule to give us his insights on the Cardinal farm system.
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