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New top 100 prospect poll
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:46 pm
by steve49
69 Shearten Apostel, 3B (TEX)- Some of the biggest raw power in minors, Apostel has consistently hit the ball hard with a 41.9% hard hit rate according to Rotowire. Our own Eddy Almaguer wrote a sleeper post about Sherten in January. Previous Rank: 85.
Hmmm ...... maybe Huntington should have spent 2018 in the South Seas ?
New top 100 prospect poll
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:16 pm
by MaineBucs
Similar to some reports on Baz's performance this year, as well as what Meadows has done in the majors, it appears that the Pirate's minor league talent evaluators underestimated the value (understatement) of some of the Pirates' prospects.
It also appears that we are better at judging talent in other organizations, such as Reynolds, Williams, Vasquez (although he was in the majors), Rodriquez (no not Sean), and such better than some of our own.
For example, no one appeared to see the break-out performance of Newman coming down the pike; hence the trade with the Indians for Gonzalez.
I believe that missing on prospect evaluations, the life-blood of cheap teams, is a greater indictment of NH and his management structure than the inability to build a winning team with an unrealistically low budget.
New top 100 prospect poll
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 7:01 pm
by steve49
446860676C4B7C6A7A090 wrote: Similar to some reports on Baz's performance this year, as well as what Meadows has done in the majors, it appears that the Pirate's minor league talent evaluators underestimated the value (understatement) of some of the Pirates' prospects.
It also appears that we are better at judging talent in other organizations, such as Reynolds, Williams, Vasquez (although he was in the majors), Rodriquez (no not Sean), and such better than some of our own.
For example, no one appeared to see the break-out performance of Newman coming down the pike; hence the trade with the Indians for Gonzalez.
I believe that missing on prospect evaluations, the life-blood of cheap teams, is a greater indictment of NH and his management structure than the inability to build a winning team with an unrealistically low budget.
Very good and insightful post . As to the Newman issue , let's add to that the fact that it went further than just Huntington. Gonzales was given the job coming out of spring training.