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Is Guyer the guy? (Revisited)

The Cubs have any number of prospects having fine seasons, and so their choice of minor-league player of the year, Brandon Guyer, is noteworthy. If you glance at this list of former recipients of this award, you will see names that are familiar to Cub fans–Burke, Hoffpauir, Soto, Patterson (Eric), Dopirak, Choi, Jackson (Nic), Patterson [...]

Posted 14 September 2010 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Hitting prospects 2010

This is a new prospect-rating system, adapted from my recent player-value ratings that yielded dollar values for major leaguers. In that system, an offensive player earned points for total bases, walks and stolen bases. Why those particular numbers? Because, as I explained at the time, They are the means by which a player gets around [...]

Posted 18 May 2010 † Phil § prospect ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,