Monthly Archives: February 2009

College Baseball’s Second Friday Night – A Pitching Retrospective

This is a Strasburg-free zone (more or less), so get your fix of the big man over at Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg… Highlights from the most notable pitching performances from the second Friday night of the college baseball. We’ve got great prospects, good prospects, and fringe prospects. Whatever you are in the mood for, [...]

Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg Strasburg

It probably doesn’t make a whole lot of sense for a baseball draft website to spend as little time discussing San Diego State junor righthander Stephen Strasburg as I have, but, as you may have already picked up on, things around here don’t always make sense. Quite honestly, I’m not sure that I have anything [...]

College Mid-Week Update; Mike Leake vs. Kyle Gibson

What do you do when you don’t have a college team profile or a positional prospect ready to post? You’re about to find out! Who am I kidding, the title of the post is a dead give away. Time for an update on all the college action that’s gone down from Tuesday to Thursday. It’s [...]

2009 MLB Draft: Junior College Baseball – Top Ten Prospect List

Batteries refreshed after gargantuan college recaps and tedious schedule making, so let’s switch things up and delve deeper into what has turned out to be a much more popular topic (judging by Google entry searches) than I ever would have anticipated – junior college baseball. I’ll admit to being a big of a novice in [...]

Coming Attractions

College Team Profiles – all of the prospects you need to know on every college baseball playing school in the country Mock Draft – everybody’s favorite feature Top 10/15 Prospects by Position – we already knocked out high school RHPs, but we still have every other position to cover for both college and high school [...]

2009 College Baseball Opening Weekend – Little Bit of Everything Version

Quick spin around college baseball’s opening weekend. A whole bunch of Friday starters (and relievers) were already covered, so let’s take a look at some of the most meaningful hitting performances of the weekend. Of course, since I can’t resist, I threw some interesting pitching lines in at the bottom. Small sample size caveats apply, [...]

2009 College Baseball Opening Night – A Pitching Retrospective

A look back on the pitching highlights from college baseball’s opening night. It’s not a comprehensive look back, it’s not an ultra-scouty look back, it’s not even an analytical look back. It’s just a quick and dirty review of how an assorted sampling of some of the very best arms in college baseball performed on [...]

2009 MLB Draft: College Big Board 1.0

1. Steven Strasburg (RHSP – San Diego State) Alright, so far this is pretty easy… 2. Alex White (RHSP – North Carolina) 3. Grant Green (SS – Southern California) 4. Dustin Ackley (OF – North Carolina) 5. Kyle Gibson (RHSP – Missouri) White is a confusing prospect. On one hand, he’s second on the board [...]

All Draft-Eligible Sophomore Team

We’ve covered the 2011 freshmen. We’ve covered the 2010 sophomores. We’ve even dipped our toe into the 2009 college draft pool by looking at a few of the top seniors eligible to be picked four months from now. Time to finally dive right in and take a look at some potential impact talents available to [...]

All Senior Prospect Team (Class of ’09)

One of my favorite quirks about the Rule 4 Draft is the “senior sign.” College players who have stayed in school all four years often don’t get actually do so on purpose. College baseball seniors are “forced” to stay in school by big league scouting directors because of one (or more) inherent flaws in their [...]