Fall and Winter League Baseball
With the regular minor league season over, and the playoffs in full swing, it’s not too early to think about the fall and winter leagues.
The Arizona Fall League has announced a number of the players who will be participating in the league when play begins on October 10. Among the top prospects that will be participating are KC’s Luke Hochevar, Baltimore’s Nolan Reimold, Colorado’s Troy Tulowitzki, Pittsburgh’s Neil Walker, Arizona’s Jamie D’Antona (who will be mostly catching, according to the Arizona Republic), Houston’s Matt Albers and Hunter Pence, the Cubs’ Scott Moore and Eric Patterson, Atlanta’s Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Joey Devine, Boston’s Jacoby Ellsbury, Philadelphia’s Gio Gonzalez, the Yankees’ Eric Duncan, San Diego’s Colt Morton, the Cardinals’ Amaury Marti, Oakland’s Landon Powell, Tampa’s Wes Bankston, Detroit’s Brent Clevlen and Kody Kirkland, and Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun. Baseball America does a good job covering the AFL.
After an eight-year hiatus, the Hawaii Winter League returns beginning October 1 with a four-team, 40-game schedule. The Rangers have already announced that they will be sending four prospects, including C Emerson Frostad and OF John Mayberry Jr., to Hawaii. The league will include younger players from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China in addition to players from the US minors (mostly from A-ball).
The Mexican Pacific League, Dominican Winter League, Venezuelan Winter League, and Puerto Rican Winter League will all begin play in the mid-October time frame. I provided the links to the league Web sites, although a couple of them haven’t been updated with any 2006-2007 info yet.
Mike Emeigh
Posted: September 10, 2006 at 01:04 PM |
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In unrelated minor league news, the Durham Bulls entire staff was fired. Three major league advance scouts and minor league pitching coordinator Jerry Nyman (all four were leftovers from Naimoli/Lamar) are gone as well.
Any primates who make it this far, the first round of Mai Tais are on me.
I'd love to, but there's not much chance of it.
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The Brewers are sending P Joe Thatcher and OFs Lorenzo Cain and Darren Ford.
The Blue Jays are sending OFs Ryan Patterson and Eric Nielsen.
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http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/content/printer_friendly/phi/y2006/m10/d13/c1710950.jsp
A wide array of pitching prospects (Joseph Bisenius, Gio Gonzalez, J.A. Happ, Kyle Kendrick, Zack Segovia); AA catcher Jason Jaramillo; and (former?) prospect Gavin Floyd.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Teams aren't sending as many top pitching prospects to the AFL any more, because of the environmental effects and because they want to limit innings for their best guys. Sure, you get the occasional Hochevar (who was lit up yesterday) or Phil Humber, but those guys are there because they "didn't" pitch that much in the regular season. Mostly, though, you get B-/C+ guys; the Marlins, for example, sent four pitchers of which only one, Adam Bostick, is more than a long shot to get a big league job.
Team do send their best hitting prospects to the AFL, though. Combine that with the hitting environment and you get what you are seeing now.
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Of course, it may be that the Phillies only have one top hitting prospect. But still, I think 12 being posted after my #10 is pretty funny.
doesn't this negate the whole point of the exercise?
Niemann did have a good start
Drays with Kazmir, Niemann, Hammel have the start of a good rotation.
If they can strike paydirt with one of Jackson, McClung or Tiffany...watchout Orioles?
where is Townsend?
That says more about the state of the Phillies' pitching prospects than anything else. I'd put Carrasco ahead of all of those guys but Gio, and Outman would be right in there along with Maloney.
The Phillies move their pitching prospects about as slowly as any organization. In most organizations, Outman and Maloney would have been promoted to high-A (and Carrasco might even have made a couple of token appearances there), and Pfinsgraff and Brauer would have been at Lakewood a month earlier than they were. Brauer just dominated the NY-P, but still made it to mid-August before being bumped up.
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