Saturday I went to my first baby baseball game of the year in Trenton to see them play New Hampshire. Dellin Betances was on the mound but much more exciting than that for me was getting to see my favorite not-really-a-prospect from Staten Island, DeAngelo Mack. I was so excited, in fact that I completely …
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I was reading the transcript of Keith Law’s Top 100 Prospect chat on the train ride home, and this specifically caught my eye: Joe (New York) Why is Gary Sanchez so low? What impressed you the most about Banuelos? What is a fair comparison to him? Klaw (1:21PM) Sanchez is low? He was 17 in …
I’ve been getting a lot of prospect stalking in at the end of the year, as you can see. After being too lazy to make it out to Trenton basically at all in the past, I made my third trip there in two months last night. The objective was to get a Jesus Montero bobblehead …
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Last Friday I went back to Trenton, this time to claim a David Robertson bobblehead that looks nothing like him. As an added bonus, Andrew Brackman was pitching. A quick catch-up: Andrew Brackman dropped to the Yankees in the first round in 2007 due to signability concerns and they grabbed him then signed him to …
Phil Hughes – 8IP, 4H (all singles), 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 11K He’s going to the Arizona Fall League to get his innings up since he missed so much of the year. Hopefully the injury magic does not repeat itself in 2008.
I had the opportunity to attend both the Futures Game on All Star Sunday, and the Home Run Derby on Workout day. I took a lot of pictures, here are a few with links to more. Futures Game The US Squad was a bit nerfed because it was being used as a tryout for the …
I went to the first game of my Staten Island Yankees ticket plan today, and was very excited to see Pat Venditte pitching. I even used my camera to grab some videos: End of his warmups, you can see him switch arms here: First batter, throwing lefty: Second batter, throwing righty: Third batter: throwing lefty …
Ladies and gentlemen, Clayton Kershaw: