Some people seem caught up in John Lackey’s 2005 “Cy Young” season. He had a great year, but can we buy the 16 Win, 3.5 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, and 200 K projections? Put simply: No.
Pardon me for being the sole dissenting voice here, but these forecast totals are way off-base. When Lackey came up in [...]

If we’re talking about talented $1-5 future picks, then Dustin McGowan should be at the top of your list. He’s an example of a young SP who had TJ surgery and got his stuff back. 349 Ks in 356 minor league innings, but you’re also looking at 143 BB. He’ll be very good down the [...]

You can pinpoint the date the Los Angeles Clippers dragged themselves out of the muck and started their ascension towards becoming a legitimate NBA caliber team: Wednesday June 27, 2001. That was the day Jerry Krause traded Elton Brand to the Clips for the rights to Tyson Chandler and Brian Skinner. Basically Elton Brand for [...]

It’s still a couple months until draft day, but get all your baseball prospect info at Daily Prospect Updates At At The Plate (My Favourite Site)

Here you go, Canada’s World Baseball Classic Roster. You might notice the glaring exemption of Larry Walker, and wonder if he’s still a Canuck. Larry, who missed a good portion of ‘05 with a neck injury, is probably out of baseball at any level for the rest of his life. He’s got a bad disc [...]

When I first saw Juan Cruz pitch in 2001 I had a feeling the guy was going to be great. He was throwing 98 mph with incredible movement, and it would have been impossible for anyone not named Neo to hit his slider. So what’s happened to Juan? Well I was checking the line scores [...]

Signed by the Mariners as an undrafted free agent on March 2, 1999, Chris Snelling has come a long way from Corpus Christi College High in Tuggerah, Australia. The 5-10, 195 Snelling, a veteran of Australia’s Olympic baseball program has been dubbed the minor’s Lenny Dykstra. Of course Jeremy Reed was also the minor’s Lenny [...]

I know this is the time of year everyone starts searching for this stuff. So here’s a list of baseball prospect charts floating around the ‘Net. I can’t say I agree with any of them, but you might want to take a look.
Brian Smith’s Top 75 At Baseball Analysts
The Always Reliable And Sane Baseball America [...]

What If…Rafael Soriano had kept his Ulnar Collateral Ligament and his 96 mph fastball intact? He’d be the 5th best closer in the AL right now behind Francisco Rodriguez, Mariano Rivera, Joe Nathan, Francisco Cordero.
Soriano, 27, emerged in 2003 with a 1.53 ERA and a 0.79 WHIP over 53 Innings Pitched. He struck out 68, [...]

The time has come to eschew all Vince Young’s rhetoric and start believing that he’s going in the NFL draft. I know he says he’s interested in staying at Texas another year, but there’s no way you see him suiting up in the NCAA come September. People are actually coming out of the Young camp [...]