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    FanGraphs Top 15 Prospects Lists – A Recap | FanGraphs Baseball

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    posted on March 08, 2013 at 06:38 PM by Jim Furtado to prospect reports, prospects  |  0 comment(s)

    Fangraph’s 2013 Top 15 Prospect Reports.

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    1. Shredder posted on August 31, 2011 at 02:58 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    That should say Ken Griffey Jr.
    2. bfan posted on August 31, 2011 at 03:55 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Here is hoping they do not collide at high-speed on a long fly-ball to left-center (or right-center, if Harper plays RF).
    3. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) posted on August 31, 2011 at 04:13 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I cant wait for this Dream Team to fall on its face like the Miami Heat! GO SURPRISE SAGUAROS!
    4. Marmaduke Ellington posted on August 31, 2011 at 05:36 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    It's just too bad they're no longer the Surprise Scorpions (as they were in 2005). Practical joke gone horribly awry: "Surprise! Scorpions!"
    5. Busted Flush posted on August 31, 2011 at 06:41 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The AFL is probably the best kept secret in baseball and a much better experience than Spring Training. Spring Training (at least the Cactus League) has become an over-priced, over-crowded experience. The AFL, however, features the best prospects in the game, great seats that can be had for a couple of bucks, and the weather in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area in the fall is perfect.
    6. CC is on irrevocable waivers posted on August 31, 2011 at 07:07 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The AFL is probably the best kept secret in baseball and a much better experience than Spring Training. Spring Training (at least the Cactus League) has become an over-priced, over-crowded experience. The AFL, however, features the best prospects in the game, great seats that can be had for a couple of bucks, and the weather in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area in the fall is perfect.


    This.

    Plus the majority of the crowd is hard-core fans (with a substantial minority actually employed by a MLB franchise), so striking up conversations with strangers is great fun.
    7. Dave Spiwak posted on August 31, 2011 at 07:14 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The AFL is probably the best kept secret in baseball and a much better experience than Spring Training. Spring Training (at least the Cactus League) has become an over-priced, over-crowded experience. The AFL, however, features the best prospects in the game, great seats that can be had for a couple of bucks, and the weather in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area in the fall is perfect.


    This is good to hear -- I'd like to check out the AFL at some point soon.

    I went to go see the Angels play in ST a few years ago. Bought tix from a scalper outside the stadium for just above face value -- but his brokerage had bought them in bulk from the team for way less than face. The fact the team was dumping tix on the secondary market for a ST game and letting the scalpers set market value just screamed "FANS LAST!" and really rubbed me the wrong way.

    Plus concessions inside the stadium were pretty much the same price as regular season, and the stadium was nice, but nice like a mini-pro stadium or a new-ish minor league stadium.

    Add to that Chone Figgins snubbed my wife's attempt to get an autograph, at which point she pretty much clocked out as a baseball fan -- and I haven't watched a game without protest since. In general, the players didn't seem any more accessible than they do during regular season games -- there are still the players who like to sign autographs and talk and those who don't.

    I wasn't expecting Bosse Field and men in derby hats, and I don't personally care about interacting with players -- but overall the experience was pretty sterile and charmless.
    8. BourbonSamurai, vassal of the Harpsburg Empire posted on August 31, 2011 at 07:29 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    i'd love to watch the games. what is mlb network doing that it can't show me some AFL games?

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