Early Guesses On Staten Island’s Opening Roster

By EJ Fagan On June 2, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Prospects

Short-season A-ball can sometimes be exciting to follow, but oftentimes it gets a little mundane. The league’s bread and butter includes players who just graduated college, were drafted by MLB teams, and are setting out to start their careers as professional baseball players. The problem is that top prospects these days often sign pretty late [...]

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Looking Ahead To The Amateur Draft

By EJ Fagan On May 31, 2011 · 14 Comments · In Prospects

The 2011 MLB draft is just about a week away. As I usually try to, I’ve resisted writing about the draft so far. Other bloggers on the minor league baseball beat have tried to do some guessing and profiling of potential draftees, but I find that these profiles, mock drafts, and other previews tend to [...]

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2011 Yankee Second And Third-Tier Prospects Much Better Than 4 Years Ago

By EJ Fagan On March 9, 2011 · 8 Comments · In Prospects

4 years ago, the Yankee farm system was enjoying its first revival in half a decade. After years of terrible drafts and an overall barren system, the Yankees managed to very quickly add to the top of their farm system and become one of the best organizations in baseball, at least temporarily. I [...]

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Spring 2011 Top 30 Prospects With New Ratings

By EJ Fagan On February 24, 2011 · 31 Comments · In Prospects

Yesterday, I announced a new prospect rating system that I wanted to use to rank Yankee prospects. There are significant changes from my list half a year ago, mostly because the rating system forced me to more logically think out the rankings, but also because some offseason news changed my opinions slightly.

To refresh: [...]

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2011 Breakout Candidates

By EJ Fagan On January 12, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Uncategorized

[image title="slade-heathcott1" size="full" id="24263" align="center" linkto="full" ]The story of 2010 in the Yankee farm system was no doubt, “The Killer B’s all break out.” It provided a huge dose of excitement for us Yankee fans that had been missing (besides Jesus Montero talk) since Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain, and Ian Kennedy were coming up. We [...]

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