Category Archives: Bryce Harper

College Pitching, Bryce Harper, and Scheduling

The Week Ahead GO/AO College Data Update 2010 MLB Draft: Top 30 College Third Base Prospects 2010 MLB Draft: Top 100 College Outfield Prospects 2010 MLB Draft: College Position Player Big Board Reader Suggestion?… I’m really excited about the college third baseman list, so that’ll probably be the first thing published. I’d like to start [...]

2010 MLB Mock Draft 2.0

1.1 Washington Nationals: CC of Southern Nevada FR C Bryce Harper 1.2 Pittsburgh Pirates: The Woodlands HS (Texas) RHP Jameson Taillon 1.3 Baltimore Orioles: Brito Private HS (Florida) SS Manny Machado 1.4 Kansas City Royals: Mississippi JR LHP Drew Pomeranz 1.5 Cleveland Indians: Ball State JR 2B Kolbrin Vitek 1.6 Arizona Diamondbacks: Florida Gulf Coast [...]

2010 MLB Draft: Top 30 College Catching Prospects

30. Pittsburgh JR C Kevan Smith The former Panthers quarterback is a plus athlete with a strong arm who is still understandably raw in some phases of the game. He was a highly regarded prospect coming out of high school who was at one point seen as a potential top five round pick, but was [...]

Bryce Harper – The Importance of Makeup

There have been whispers out of Las Vegas for months now that presumptive first overall pick Bryce Harper’s, shall we say, “intensively competitive” and “self-assured” manner wasn’t playing all that well with the scouts assigned to watch his every step. This past week, however, those whispers grew just a teensy bit louder after Kevin Goldstein [...]

Updated Top Fifty 2010 MLB Prospect Big Board

1. Bryce Harper – C – College of Southern Nevada 2. Jameson Taillon – RHSP – The Woodlands HS (TX) 3. AJ Cole – RHSP – Oviedo HS (FL) It would take something pretty funny to happen this spring to knock either Harper or Taillon off of their comfortable 1-2 perch in my rankings. Harper’s [...]

The Debut of Bryce Harper

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2010 MLB Mock Draft 1.0

1.1 Washington Nationals: C Bryce Harper – College of Southern Nevada Steven Strasburg is going first overall in this draft. Book it. One man by his lonesome may not be able to turn a baseball team’s on-field fortunes around, but it only takes one superstar to revive public interest in a moribund franchise. If nothing else, [...]

2010 MLB Draft Prospect: Jameson Taillon

RHP Jameson Taillon (The Woodlands HS, Texas) heavy 92-94 FB; also seen at easy 93-95; most recently hit 96-97 plus 77-84 CB; 75-76 maybe? underutilized 76 CU with real potential 83-84 with SF plus command 6-7, 230 pounds popular comps include Gerrit Cole, Stephen Strasburg, Josh Beckett, and, wait for it, Roger Clemens… [Before I [...]

Top 50 2010 MLB Draft Prospects – Expanded Version

I had way too difficult a time attempting to group the top 50 2010 MLB Draft prospects into meaningful tiers, so instead I grouped them in a way that made it easier for me to come up with common things to talk about under each tier. I’ve been gone a few months, but I’m still [...]

Big Board 1.0: Top 50 2010 MLB Draft Prospects

I know this qualifies as a way, way, way too early look at the top 50 2010 MLB Draft prospects, but it seems like as good a way as any to get back into the swing of things here as we begin to prepare for another exciting draft season. This list is extremely preliminary (especially [...]