We’ll cover another batch of prospects today, looking at how they’ve fared in the first half of 2007. Again, a few reminders. The grades listed below were the grades assigned to the player prior to the start of this season, they aren’t midseason grades. I won’t assign a grade for 2007 until after the season, this is just kind of a one sentence overview of how each guy is playing this season so far. Any and all comments are welcome, as always.

The C+ Guys

Jacob Dempsey, OF – Released. This one kind of shocked me, and I never found out why he was released.

Charlie Yarbrough, 1B – Just started playing. Promoted to Lakewood.

Gus Milner, OF – Having a pretty good season at Lakewood, though he’s too old for the SAL.

Antonio Bastardo, LHP – Only 11 IP at Lakewood so far. The 14 K are nice, the 6 walks are too many.

Zach Cline, LHP – Released. Not sure why, he’s in Indy ball now.

Jason Donald, SS – Raised his stock perhaps more than any other prospect in the system. Dominated at Lakewood, holding his own at Clearwater.

Sam Walls, RHP – Injured, now in the GCL, presumably just to get back in game shape.

Andrew Cruse, RHP – Kind of disappointing performance. Decent K/9, passable BB/9, but he should be putting up better numbers considering his age.

Justin Germano, RHP – Don’t even get me started.

Jason Jaramillo, C – Had me believing after a torrid start, has tailed off a bit, and has shown very little power. Hit .345 in April, .143 in May and is hitting .293 in June.

The B- guys

Reymond Cruz, RHP – Was he released? Is he hurt? I don’t know.

Garrett Hill, RHP – Still at Lakewood, a disappointment, but his peripherals are good. 2.86 BB/9, 8.83 K/9, 0.26 HR/9, 1.16 GB:FB.

Matt Olson, RHP – Released. Don’t know why.

Darren Byrd, RHP – Disappointing at Lakewood. Too many walks, not enough K’s, but a good GB:FB ratio.

Carlos Monasterios, RHP – Up and down season so far at Lakewood. Decent in April, good in May, not so good in June.

Jeremy Slayden, OF – Having a good but not great season in Clearwater. Really needs to start to pound the ball a bit more or his grade will not improve. Age is still a factor here.

Mike Zagurski, LHP – Went from Clearwater to Philly in a month. Quite the meteoric rise.

Will Savage, RHP – Solid peripherals at Clearwater, good control and K rates, and equally good against lefties and righties.

Mike Costanzo, 3B – Another real slow start, way too many K’s, but he’s starting to heat up in his traditional second half style.

Pat Overholt, RHP – Tried as a starter, mixed results, and sent to Reading. His strength is still getting groundballs, but he needs to pitch more to that strength than he has in the last 6 weeks or so.

Michael Bourn, OF – Has served mostly as a pinch runner/defensive replacement in Philly. Hard to figure out his value going forward.

Heitor Correa, RHP – Short season ball.

Kyle Drabek, RHP – Up and down so far at Lakewood, and now dealing with some minor arm troubles. All in all, a decent first full season so far.

Lou Marson, C – A decent batting line, .289/.362/.363, and he’s young for his league. He mashes lefties to the tune of a .400 average with a .553 slugging %, but has little power against RHP.