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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: Reb
Date: November 17, 2014, 1:22 am
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La Stella was Braves #9 prospect before 2014 season.
Here's the entry:
Background: La Stella transferred from St. John’s to Coastal
Carolina and emerged as a second-team All-American and the Big
South Conference player of the year in 2011. Injuries slowed him
in 2012 before La Stella put together an impressive season in
the Double-A Southern League, where he was ranked as the
circuit’s No. 16 prospect
Scouting Report: La Stella has hit at every level thanks to
great hand-eye coordination and above-average bat speed. He has
an excellent approach and exceptional feel for the strike zone,
which helps him rack up more walks than strikeouts. La Stella
also shines as a situational hitter with his ability to advance
runners via the hit-and-run or by bunting. He runs the bases
well and with intelligence despite not being blessed with great
quick-twitch athleticism. Defensively, he makes all of the
routine plays at the keystone and has an average arm. Nagging
injuries, including an elbow issue this season, have kept him
from playing even 100 games in a season.
The Future: Braves fans are begging for La Stella to get an
opportunity to unseat Dan Uggla at second base. Finances could
play a role, but his bat appears to be near big league ready if
needed.
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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: guest61
Date: December 8, 2014, 12:31 am
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HTML http://www.minorleagueball.com/2014/12/7/7351045/chicago-cubs-top-20-prospects-for-2015
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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: ben
Date: December 8, 2014, 8:41 am
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Thanks Dusty...good read!
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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: CUBluejays
Date: December 16, 2014, 10:49 am
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Cubs signed Yovanny Ceuvas, 16 year old OF, out of the IPL.
Here's a link to his stats or lack there of, they aren't helpful
HTML http://www.iplbaseball.com/Player/yovanny-cuevas
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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: craig
Date: December 18, 2014, 10:59 am
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HTML http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft/astros-nix-reach-grievance-settlement/
Jacob Nix, Houston draftee, gets $1.5 settlement. The note
doesn't detail, but presumably it's a grievance settlement
rather than a contract. So Houston doesn't violate the draft
cap and get doesn't get penalized for going over the draft
limit. Had the "contract" been enforced, it would really have
killed them. But neither do they get Nix's services.
Would seem to be a win-win outcome overall for Nix. He gets the
$1.5 million he wanted, plus he presumably gets another shot to
return to the draft and get additional million(s). So he can
double his money. And perhaps end up in a less dysfunctional
organization besides.
Personal thought: Houston just lost, lost, and lost in this
whole deal. They lost the players, they lost a bunch of money,
they lost a lot of face/reputation, and they were perhaps at
risk of losing additional penalty picks future, even is that
didn't actually happen. Two possible stories:
1. The common view has been that they tried to trick the
system, tried to take advantage of Aiken, and their sins found
them out and came back to punish them.
2. The alternate story is that they assumed their Aiken deal
was good and done; were careless/hasty in advancing Nix until
Aiken had cleared; and then they were double-diced when they
both got the terrible news on the Aiken physical, and realized
they'd gone way too far with Nix. Lose, lose, lose.
I've always thought story 2, incompetent dumb mistake and
sincere concern about Aiken's health prospect, had Occam's Razor
and had better explanatory power. If they were just using the
elbow as an pretense, even though they weren't really concerned
about it's impact on his pitching future, I don't imagine they'd
have carried things to the disastrous wall.
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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: CUBluejays
Date: December 18, 2014, 11:07 am
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It will be interesting to see where Aiken goes in the draft. If
he goes top 5 the elbow concern was likely a sham and the just
wanted to drive down his price to get Mac Marshall along with
Aiken and Nix. It is interesting that Aiken, Nix, and Marshall
are all going the juco route, so they should all get drafted
next year.
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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: davep
Date: December 18, 2014, 3:04 pm
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I think that if he doesn't go first (or perhaps second) in the
draft, it is because teams take the health problem seriously.
He was quite clearly the top player in the draft this year, and
should not lose any standing in next year's draft unless some
teams are scared off by the health reports.
Assuming, of course, that he pitches as well this year as he did
last year.
Even some top prospects who actually HAD surgery still go in the
10 to 20 range. For Aiken even to go 4th or 5th, I would think
that teams actually take the physical concerns seriously.
I agree with Craig. I think that the problems were due more to
the incompetency of Houston management, rather than to their
greed. They never should have made that kind of offer to Nix
until they were certain that Aiken would sign for their offered
amount.
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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: Reb
Date: December 18, 2014, 3:38 pm
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As to Nix, too bad Astros didn't lose draft picks. Had they
gone through the arbitration process to its conclusion, without
a settlement, arbitrator may well have enforced the Nix contract
and the cba's provisions re. loss of draft picks.
But, via settlement, Nix gets his bonus money and will get
another round of bonus money when he goes back into the draft
again and doesn't have to play for Astros--he's happy. Astros
get to pay Cash Considerations to Nix and don't lose draft
picks--they're happy. Union gets the remedy that the player
wanted--and probably doesn't care much about draft pick losses
for the club--so Union is happy. MLB office is happy for the
whole thing to go away, they're happy.
Only guy not too happy is Aiken. Not entirely clear whether
time limits have been waived for him to file a grievance in near
future on his own behalf. Different factual situation than Nix
situation but presumably he just goes back into the draft next
year and that's that. Hope he doesn't get hurt in the interim.
Cubs probably won too many games to get a shot at him in 2015
draft.
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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: CUBluejays
Date: December 18, 2014, 3:51 pm
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--- Quote from: davep link ---
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> I think that if he doesn't go first (or perhaps second) in the
draft,
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The Astros have the 2nd and 5th picks in the draft, the chance
that Aiken lets them pick him again have to be almost zero. It
is tough to tell the rankings this far out, but Brandan Rogers
seems to be the #1 guy so far.
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Re: On The Farm (11/14 - 08/15)
DIR By: davep
Date: December 18, 2014, 4:29 pm
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Sorry. I assumed that you were excluding the Astro's picks. If
I remember right, according to draft rules, they would have to
have Aiken's permission to pick him a second time.
But assuming his performance (and scouting report) is equal to
that when he was in high school, I would assume that he will be
picked 6 through 10 (actual picks) even if teams agree with the
Astro's assessments, and third or 4th at the worst if they
disagree with the Astro's assessments of the medical risks.
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