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1. Mike EmeighSkipworth's one of the best HS catching prospects to come along in years.
Cole's interesting; my guess is that he'll go top-10, maybe top 5. He's thrown only a handful of innings in HS ball the last couple of years, largely because Lutheran's pitching staffs have been loaded, but he can really bring it AND he's still growing into his body.
-- MWE
Tim Beckham (HS SS from Georgia) and Gordon Beckham (college SS at UGa) are NOT related.
-- MWE
Lenny's Junior?
1 - Only two of the thirty position players are from states outside the South, Southwest, or California (and that includes one from DC). Is this normal for BA's teams?
2 - Do these teams regularly include pitchers who average a walk an inning (as two of them did)?
They're not related. Cutter is Lenny's kid, but Allan is no relation. EDIT: Now I've seen it mentioned both ways. Allan's Wake Forest bio page makes no mention of Lenny and says his father's name is Randy; however, Allan Simpson said that Cutter and Allan are brothers. I'm pretty sure that the WF bio is right and the two Dykstra kids are not brothers.
Only two of the thirty position players are from states outside the South, Southwest, or California (and that includes one from DC). Is this normal for BA's teams?
I don't know about BA's teams, but top HS players tend to be concentrated in warm-weather states. Some families will relocate to Florida, for example, to help their kids' chances of having a pro career. There's a selection bias here, however, as players in warm-weather states play more games and thus are 1) more likely to be seen by scouts and 2) have more time to get up to full speed by April, at which point some cold-weather high schools are just starting their schedules.
To use a word I've begun to hate...do you think there may be an ineffiency here some smart team could exploit?
That would barely even make sense if Lenny was a pitcher, let alone a hitter.
Interesting. I think there may be a study here.
Nah...A Cutter is always breaking away.
It's an interesting idea. It could be more pitchers are getting drafted out of the Northeast beacuse a flame thrower is a flame thrower and the scouts figure they can teach the skill of pitching in the minors. For offensive players, though, raw physical skill isn't as impressive if the one game you see a guy he's flailing at pitches down and away. In other words, maybe it's easier to pick out a great arm than a skilled position player in a short season of play. Just bouncing ideas here.
Sounds like an inefficiency to me. Let's keep this quiet so the Yankees, Mets and Red Sox don't go all Atlanta Braves on us.
Didn't Bill James take a look at the regional issues and conclude the great lakes area was underscouted compared to the south?
I also think teams like the idea that Northern pitchers usually have less milage on their arms due to less opportunity for year-round play.
Most elite players nowadays spend the entire summer playing for traveling teams, attending showcases, and the like. The seasons "start" later in the Northeast, is all.
-- MWE
But if all the seasons end at the same time, the northern kids would still pitch less. And if they're pitching into the fall, then the northern kids' seasons are shorter on two ends.
McGeary made his first start last year on April 12th. There were kids in Texas who'd already been pitching two months at that point.
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