Comments on: Prospect Q/A with Kevin Goldstein http://phuturephillies.com/2009/01/03/prospect-qa-with-kevin-goldstein/ Phillies Prospects Sun, 27 May 2012 05:30:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ryan http://phuturephillies.com/2009/01/03/prospect-qa-with-kevin-goldstein/#comment-37340 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:17:25 +0000 http://phuturephillies.com/?p=2031#comment-37340 After observing both extensively this season, I’ll have to respectfully disagree. Taylor has a cannon for an arm. By far one of his best assets.

I could see making that argument for position (center vs. left), maybe, but I highly doubt the runners in the SAL took particular notice of Brown vs. Taylor in that dept. Either way, its hard to argue with a 33% difference.

]]> By: andyb http://phuturephillies.com/2009/01/03/prospect-qa-with-kevin-goldstein/#comment-37326 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:53:51 +0000 http://phuturephillies.com/?p=2031#comment-37326 I would say that the best outfield arm would be DBrown or Gose and Gose probably did not play enough to win the tiebreaker. Brown pitched in the low-mid 90s in high school but had more potential as a multi-tooled outfielder.

Taylor has a decent arm, but not that good. Assists are sometimes based on how many runners try to take advantage and maybe they don’t run as much on Brown.

]]> By: Ryan http://phuturephillies.com/2009/01/03/prospect-qa-with-kevin-goldstein/#comment-37324 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:49:07 +0000 http://phuturephillies.com/?p=2031#comment-37324 Wow, how can D.Brown have the best outfield arm when Taylor dominated in the assist category? 18!!!

]]> By: allentown http://phuturephillies.com/2009/01/03/prospect-qa-with-kevin-goldstein/#comment-37323 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:43:10 +0000 http://phuturephillies.com/?p=2031#comment-37323 Section 205 –
I read BA’s writeup on D’Arnaud and they are talking of his D as more potential, based on skills, than actual performance. They confess that he did throw out only 19% of basestealers and had a lot of passed balls. On the skill side, they are looking at arm strength and general athleticism. But I think it a stretch to slot him above Marson on D at this point. He may get there, or he may not, but Marson is certainly no slouch defensively. Watching him at Reading, he seemed very agile behind the plate and blocked balls well. BA dinged him for not setting up hitters well, but I think that was the Reading manager/coach, who made the pitchers begin games fastball-fastball-fastball … I think that also led to the critique of Carrasco not being able to put guys away and having some long innings. All fastballs will do that for you, since most AA hitters will hit even a good fastball if they are 99% sure that is the pitch they are getting.

]]> By: TJC http://phuturephillies.com/2009/01/03/prospect-qa-with-kevin-goldstein/#comment-37322 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:39:06 +0000 http://phuturephillies.com/?p=2031#comment-37322 More from BA (this is free info off the public site):
Best Hitter for Average – Dominic Brown
Best Power Hitter – Michael Taylor
Best Strike-Zone Discipline – Lou Marson
Fastest Baserunner – Quinton Berry
Best Athlete – Anthony Hewitt
Best Fastball – Carlos Carrasco
Best Curveball – Kyle Drabek
Best Slider – Mike Stutes
Best Changeup – Carlos Carrasco
Best Control – Mike Cisco
Best Defensive Catcher – Lou Marson
Best Defensive Infielder – Freddy Galvis
Best Infield Arm – Freddy Galvis
Best Defensive Outfielder – Anthony Gose
Best Outfield Arm – Dominic Brown

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