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If you could find some way to get people who see a lot of minor league games to post their observations of the players, that'd be interesting, at least to me. It might lend itself better to reading than to reader comments, though, so it may not be such a great idea.
1) Coverage of foreign leagues, unless TPTB are planning on constructing another section of the site for that.
2) Sporadic threads for discussion about individual players, similar to what Sickels is doing on his blog. For a link, you could use a team site's player page or a stat page from BA.
Another thing I wouldn't mind seeing, if someone out there is doing it, are links to MLEs at various points throughout the season. I know Rallymonkey does some, and I guess Szym does as part of his whole ZiPS enterprise. But most of us are in the dark on MLEs until the new BPro book comes out in four months.
I second the foreign leagues suggestion, but relevance to former/future MLB players is key. It would be nice to know how Tony Batista turned out. Anyone know?
I would suggest that if discussion really gets going on a prospect somewhere else on the site, particulary a non-consensus-top-10 prospect, you could set up a thread here for that player. I prefer organic selection of players to talk about -- either through discussion elsewhere or "I just this guy at an AA game and he looked great" rather than solely by your own whim.
[x] Interviews with David Cameron, Bryan Smith Sickels, BA guys, scouts, scouting directors, etc. It'd be really cool if we could submit some of those questions, but just getting some of those guys to participate would be excellent.
[x] As someone mentioned before, maybe some comments/scouting reports from people who have seen top prospects play.
[x] Rule 5/Amateur Draft previews.
[x] If you can find them, MNL splits. I know MLB keeps track of them, but I don't know if you or anyone else here knows how we can get our hands on them.
[x] Maybe you could post some threads in which fans would have a debate about which prospect is better. Like for example, Vlad could make a writeup about a top prospect from the Pirates organization, and Fabian would do a writeup on a Yankee farmhand that plays the same position and we get to decide who's better, et al.
(1) Which pitchers and hitters are better than his stats and which are worse? Why are they better/worse? Are there ways to detect these players / are we just using the wrong stats?
(2) Defense. Which individuals have it and which don't? What do the bad defenders lack? This is something I can't find at Baseball Cube.
(3) Which skills evolve and which don't? (I get the feeling defensive range may be the hardest to improve.)
(4) What are the distributions of likely outcomes for prospects? How long does it take (or at what level) to be sure about a player? When projecting a player, what value does draft status have?
(5) How useful is a good farm system? How useful are good, but not great, prospects when building a contender?
Maybe some odes to organizational soldiers. Anything but prospects lists, as they seem like Hal Gurtner's Network Time-Killers to me.
If possible, perhaps you could put in one of those tabs that comes up when your cursor hovers over the name - what is that called? So, if my cursor is over "Notes in a Minor Key" in the sidebar, a tab would appear that told me it was an awesome collection of writing on the minor leagues. That might be good for all sections in the sidebar.
A lot of the below repeats what's above - that's what happens when you're late to the party....
Where should the Ammy draft, Rule 5 drafts, foreign leagues, amateur and international baseball be discussed?
Essays, studies, out the wazoo! After all, isn't this where can provide value, being "outside the forest" to borrow badly from an old Bill James analogy.
Having a set of links on the side that are specific to whatever areas might fall under this section would be great, be they to data (MLEs, park factors, etc...) or sites.
Meaning less than no disrespect to Sickels, his blog is getting overcovered at present. Even at this time of year, other people are doing interesting things.
Like greenback44 (was greenback43 taken?), I'm not into endless prospect lists, particularly since the maker has often been captured by another entity or lacks expertise.
This would be great. Really, really great.
This has swiftly become one of my favorite parts of the site. If there was any content lacking on old Primer it was discussion of prospects so I'm glad to see a concerted effort to cull more articles.
Interviews would also be great but I understand that may not be the easiest thing to pull off. Many interviews are riddled with mundane questions and softballs so I would like to believe that an interview by Mike tailored to this crowd would be much more informative than something for Sportsline, etc.
NoMike sounds good to me!
also prospective links posted in the dugout? I am so sad about how the Dugout is being phased out!
This corner is new.
What did you have in mind here Mike? I go to a number of Can-Am games during the season. Is there something that would suit your needs.
I like that. They also serve. For example, there's Gary Burnham. Third generation player, none of whom made the bigs. He made it to AAA, but that's as far as he got before going to the Atlantic League. He could hit some when he was younger, but was never much of a fielder. There's probably better stories out there. I just happen to know the guy.
Another thing that might be neat is a look at some of the instructors, coaches and managers at the minor league level. Who are the good ones? Who were some of the good ones in the past?
I'd like this very much and, at one point, started to work on my own version - but 30 orgs is way too much for one guy to keep up with.
GGC, I remember Gary Burnham from back in his Clemson days and thought he'd probably make it back when he was with the Phillies' org.
I am keeping up with this conversation, and while I don't have a lot of time at the moment I will try to address some of the comments over the weekend. I did want to note that I like this:
Of course, the idea would be to have one page for each team... a wiki would maybe even be an unterrible idea where people could add their impressions as the season goes along and they see each player.
very much, although as Der Komminsk-sar noted, it's impossible for one person to keep up with 30 orgs, so it will have to be a community effort. I'll explore this with Jim after Thanksgiving.
-- MWE
Yeah, I work for his uncle. I've only seen him play a couple times.
One person keeping up with 30 orgs would be, uh, frightening. Trust me, even one isn't easy. If John Perrotto hadn't offered to get info for me directly from the Pirates, I couldn't do it now. It's practically impossible to find more than sporadic reporting of minor league transactions, thanks to MLB's takeover of minorleaguebaseball.com. They're also starting to run more and more of the individual team sites, and are uniformly making them crappier. MLB Advanced Media makes me think of the sickly red growth that covered everything in War of the Worlds. I'd like to see it suffer the same fate.
The Wiki idea, of course, is good in that people can maintain the various pages to whatever extent they want. No one person has to be completely responsible, unless people are idiotic. If you notice that someone got traded/released, you check to see if that's been updated on the Wiki...
The only real problem with Wiki's that I've seen is information quality control. But I'd actually even settle for BAD first hand information on a prospect that is rumoured to be traded than no first hand information at all (so quality control isn't an issue right off the bat).
Yes.
One of the best moments in Carolina Mudcats' history was the 2003 Southern League championship. The Mudcats rode Miguel Cabrera into the first half championship, but by the time they got to the postseason he was long gone, and the team didn't have a single decent prospect playing. But they managed to beat Tennessee and Huntsville (which had JJ Hardy, Corey Hart, Dave Krynzel, and Ben Hendrickson) for the title, and it was mostly organizational soldiers who carried the load. The classic soldier on that team was lefty reliever Sean Fesh, who was 28, had been in OB for 10 years, and had never won a title of any sort in his career. Fesh is the kind of guy who doesn't quite have major league ability, but has enough to get AA hitters out and fits in well with whatever he's asked to do; he's just happy to play.
-- MWE
I have a batch of minor league hirings to post, which I'll get around to doing sometime this weekend. I wanted to combine most of those into a couple of threads rather than having a lot of little threads saying that Jeff Blauser, for example, was hired to manage at Mississippi.
-- MWE
Is that somewhere else on the site? I'm so confused since the redesign.
I don't know what I was thinking - suffice it to say, I didn't get very far.
Do you recall the 2002 Lynchburg team? It had an amazing number of guys, for a class A team, who reached the majors or still have a chance--Jose Castillo, Sean Burnett, DJ Carrasco, Chris Duffy, Nate McLouth, Ron Paulino, among others. But when they won the league title, the playoff MVP--as a result of hitting the game-winning HR in the final game--was Matt Meath, an org. fill-in who's spent five years in the low minors, getting assigned to whatever team has a few injuries and seldom getting more than a handful of ABs. That was his only HR that year.
and I can't find the dugout again. argh i dont know if i am retarded, but i am definitely pissed!
I was really hoping for some good Tchaikovsy's Sixth Symphony discussion. Dang.
Is that somewhere else on the site? I'm so confused since the redesign.
Roger Norrington Posted: November 20, 2005 at 11:58 PM (#1740266)
It's a trap!
This is a classic movie quote waiting to happen.
Sorry to mini-hijack a very nice and useful thread, but...I think I'll be using this one frequently.
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