What if I was to tell you Trevor May had his best start of the year, and the Clearwater box score was a treasure trove of exciting nuggets. Would that be something you’d be interested in seeing?
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A few loose ends
I wanted to give go over a few important links that have been pointed out to me.
Jim Salisbury, the only beat guy who makes a concerted effort to prep us for the draft, has up a column where he name drops a bunch of guys the Phillies are interested in. Read it here. My thoughts? Nimmo, Fernandez, Chafin, Hedges and possibly Miller will be gone by pick 39. I still expect the Phillies will take RHP Jeff Ames with either their 2nd or 3rd pick. Hes a Pacific Northwest guy, Phillies drafted him a few years ago, and his stuff has improved quite a bit since then. I think he’s rated in the 100-110 range or so, so our 2nd round pick seems like a good bet.
I also wanted to point out a website called Stadium Journey, which does extensive write-ups of lots of minor league parks, complete with pictures and other tidbits. If you can’t get to these places because you live thousands of miles away, its kind of cool to see the confines. You can see the tour of Brighthouse Field here and check out the rest of the site for some of the grounds of our enemies.
Box Score Recap, 1 June 2011
Knock knock. Box score delivery!
Box Score Recap, 31 May 2011
June is here. I thought we’d never make it. In less than 10 days, we’ll have 50 more guys to obsess over. For now, a report on our current obsessions
I present to you my new statistical toy: the Prospect Power Rating (PPR)
So here’s the thing. I get lots of ideas in my head, and most of them I either discard, or I begin working on it, then give up half way through and move on. The SONAR project, something I started years ago, is somewhere in category 2, because I have a lot of ideas for it, but its incredibly in depth, it takes a ton of time, and its imperfect. Until I figure out the ways to remove most of the imperfections, it will remain dead. But in the meantime, I had an idea that kind of comes out of that semi-failed project. I was thinking it would be fun to have a way to take a quick and dirty look at how our prospects are performing, but without doing a ton of heavy lifting and adjusting. I figured once I built the spreadsheet, I could do a lot of copy/paste work, and it would basically update itself. And I think I was right. Which means I should be able to maintain this with little effort, which means I won’t get bored with it and discard it. Maybe. Anyway, I figured I’d unveil it here, and we’ll see how it goes. Full explanation below the fold, as well as the inaugural rankings
Continue reading I present to you my new statistical toy: the Prospect Power Rating (PPR)
Box Score Recap, 30 May 2011
May is almost over. June is almost here. If you want to see the box scores, look right over here
2011 MLB Draft Notebook, v2.0
Hey everyone, with the draft approaching, I wanted to focus my attention on a few more guys I see as possibilities for the Phillies pick at #39. In Part 1 I covered RHP Tyler Beede (HS, A), RHP Kyle Crick (HS, TX) INF Nick Delmonico (HS, TX) and RHP Hudson Boyd (HS, FL). Before I get in to that, I want to talk a bit about draft spending, since its something that dominates every single post/feature about the draft, and it is of course the most wildly debated aspect of the MLB draft, not just from the Phillies perspective, but all around baseball. I’m planning to write a long piece on this, but consider this the appetizer. Check below
Box Score Roundup, Weekend Edition
3 days worth of box scores. Its a box score bonanza. Or a jubilee. Or something.
Box Score Recap, 26 May 2011
Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Box Scores
(they are posted below)
Box Score Recap, 25 May 2011
Sorry. I can’t believe what I just stayed up to watch. I don’t have the energy to slice and dice the box scores. I’m just giving you the links. Apologies!
Phuture Phillies 