Comments on: Keith Law ranks Phillies system 11th

By: Rickey Branch

Rickey Branch — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:03:48 +0000

An interesting outing by lefty starter Daniel Schmidt in the final game of the best of three Aussie national tournament . His Perth team won 3-2 on an unearned run in the bottom of the 9th. Schmidt pitched a 6.2 inning, two hitter, striking out 5 and getting 13 ground ball outs. It will be interesting to see if he turns out to be a prospect to join Naylor, Harman and Naughton as the top Aussie in the organization.
http://www.baseball.com.au/default.asp?Page=50267

By: the fish

the fish — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:07:02 +0000

“3up3kkk Says:
January 26, 2009 at 10:08 am
I read Hunt’s comment on Savery a bit different. When he says he was not in top physical shape, I take that to mean that he was still not 100% healthy, not that he was unfit and out of shape.”

I thought that might be the case too- being out of shape just didn’t seem like part of Savery’s MO. but Lamar seems to say it was both- health, and conditioning.

“If he’s healthy and in the shape that we expect him to be in”

By: ryanhoward06

ryanhoward06 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:39:45 +0000

First time poster here so bear with me.

John from Philly.ne,

I am in to cards and the market that goes along with it. Nerdy? Yes, but I love it. For those who aren’t aware here is what goes on. Maybe most of you are but I figured I would post it anyway.

Cards can sometimes be a great estimate of how good a player can be, but at other times you can make a lot of money buying cheap when a player is under hyped. For example, Ryan Howard’s best rookie card went for at the most $15(sometimes less then $5) when he was in the minors. Even after winning ROY it reached around $45. During the 2006 season it approached $900. Today people are more aware of players and do a lot of research so that doesn’t happen again.

Of the players in the minors now the one that sticks out is Lou Marson for higher prices reached. A lot of comps to Russel Martin will do that I guess. A guy that might be a little undervalued is Dominic Brown right now. Donald seems to be on par, maybe a little low.

Also it’s tough to go off Beckett now a days since changes in prices can happen weekly. I prefer to just use Ebay’s completed listings.

My personal opinion is that Marson gets overlooked a lot. That’s fine by me because those guys seem to succeed more.

By: 3up3kkk

3up3kkk — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:11:29 +0000

I mean Chuck Lamar, not Lamar Hunt. Wow, where did the name of KC’s former owner come from??

By: 3up3kkk

3up3kkk — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:08:55 +0000

I read Hunt’s comment on Savery a bit different. When he says he was not in top physical shape, I take that to mean that he was still not 100% healthy, not that he was unfit and out of shape.

That would better explain the apparent overall loss in velocity and inconsistency. As stated above, if he was simply out of shape, that effect wouldn’t show up until later in games..