Table of Contents Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of Daily Notes. 1. Three Links Relevant to the Draft 2. Featured Game: Tampa Bay at New York AL, 19:05 ET 3. Other Notable Games 4. Today’s Complete Schedule Three Links Relevant to the Draft Here are three links relevant to the amateur draft, [...]
Dave Martinez is expected to become a big-league manager someday, and he’ll be well prepared when he gets the opportunity. The Tampa Bay Rays bench coach couldn’t ask for a better mentor. Following a 20-year playing career, the 47-year-old Martinez has spent the last five seasons working under Joe Maddon. —— David Laurila: How differently [...]
Episode 192 FanGraphs managing editor Dave Cameron makes his weekly appearance. Discussed: • The draft, who’s available in it this year. • The draft, how the CBA affects it. • Dick Allen, against Dave Cameron’s will. Don’t hesitate to direct pod-related correspondence to @cistulli on Twitter. You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or [...]
It’s draft day. The first round (and supplemental 1st) is scheduled for tonight, beginning at 7 p.m. EST, and the next 39 rounds will be on Tuesday, June 5 (rounds two through 15) and Wednesday, June 6 (rounds 16 through 40), beginning at noon EST on both days. I’ll be live blogging the first round [...]
This year, talk of Stanford baseball has centered mostly around two top-end talents in Mark Appel and Stephen Piscotty. The first is considered a lock for the first pick on campus, and the second is coveted for his patience and power even if he falls to the second round. Both players played their parts in [...]
Confession: while I enjoy no-hitters as much as most baseball fans, part of me wanted Johan Santana‘s no-hitter to get broken up. That impulse did not stem from a particular animus against Santana or the Mets. It most certainly did not stem from a liking for the Cardinals. In fact, the desire only reared its [...]
During the 2011 season, Mariners Taijuan Walker quickly morphed from project to one of the best pitching prospects in baseball. Entering 2012, an aggressive assignment to Double-A skipped him past the hitters’ paradise of the California League. The upper level assignment was expected to challenge the teenage right-hander. However, with a 2.86 FIP, nearly a [...]
Unlike in the other sports, draft picks in Major League Baseball are not tradeable assets – teams are required to use the selections that are allocated to them, and they are not permitted to officially trade a player for the first 12 months after he signs a professional contract with them, though teams do occasionally [...]
If you’re not a Braves fan or a prospect hound, chances are you’ve never heard of Yankees prospect Cody Johnson before. Let’s fix that, because in his own way, he’s one of the most compelling prospects in baseball. Cody Johnson is one of the biggest busts in Braves prospect history, which, really, is quite an [...]
