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Welcome to the first of Baseball-Intellect's 2008 Major
League Baseball Draft Preview article, which will profile players
for the 2008 MLB draft. Today, I am reporting on a prospect that has me somewhat conflicted: college pitcher Brian Matusz. ...
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What is the significance of Wood's strikeout problems?
By striking out as much as he does, Wood
puts a cap on his batting average and in the process puts a cap on his OBP since Wood doesn't walk enough to make up for a sub-par batting average. His ...
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Continuing our 2008 major league baseball draft preview,
we take a look at the draft's best first
base prospect in Justin Smoak, the 21 year old from South Carolina. An excerpt from the article follows: We see the initial hand load as Smoak ...
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An excerpt on my article breaking down today's
blockbuster deal between the Indians and Brewers Sabathia breaks
his hands early, but simply tucks his arm behind his body before loading the arm horizontally. Just before the arm begins to load up, ...
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Breaking Out to the Overrated: Colvin and Fowler
By Alex Eisenberg April 23, 2008 We have two
center field prospects. Opinions on both players are divided amongst talent observers, but the two prospects have gotten off to very different starts. We ...
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posted 4/14/2008 from
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Breaking down the changes of Francisco Liriano both
pre-injury and post-injury using video analysis and determining if
the changes will affect the quality of his stuff down the road.
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An excerpt from the article is below: My
third observation is the most important in my view:
the front leg kick. At the Futures Game, we see a front leg that kicks out forcefully. You can see how the front leg "firms" or straightens up; look at ...
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Lambo has a simple, quiet swing until he
starts rotating those hips and moving those hands forward.
You see a forward shift in weight to build up momentum, a small loading of the hands, and then at foot plant he turns his hips and hands together ...
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The fall of Willis is pretty mind boggling
and admittedly difficult to watch. If he is to
get back to being the pitcher he once was, here are some things to try: 1. Get in shape - this is the easiest thing for Willis to do. Getting back in shape ...
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Breaking Down Phillies Prospect Carlos Carrasco By Alex
Eisenberg April 7, 2008 In what was a breakout
year in 2006, Carlos Carrasco saw his K% jump by 8.8%, from 15.9 to 24.7. His BB-rate did increase slightly, but the overall command was much ...
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In conclusion of today's draft, here are two
scouting reports on a couple more top college prospects
in Aaron Crow and Pedro Alvarez. However, I also want to let me people know what to expect going forward in terms of draft coverage. I will be ...
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Featured Article Is Clayton Kershaw Worth the Hype?
Picking apart what may be the best pitching prospect
in baseball... Clayton Kershaw's Mechanics
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Continuing our 2008 Prospect Preview Series, I suspect
the next this list will generate the most negative
feedback from fans. Below are pitchers that make up who I think are among the most overrated pitching prospects in baseball. Most of these ...
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Homer Bailey - Ace or Talented Underachiever? By
Alex Eisenberg April 2, 2008 As sort of a
preview to the upcoming articles about the most overrated prospects in baseball, I wanted to look at a pitcher that I tend to think talent evaluators overrate: ...
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I would agree with this as there are
pitchers who break their hands early that produce excellent
velocity. However, they produce velocity in different ways. There is no one magic mechanical attribute that all of a sudden increases velocity. ...
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Today it was learned Oakland Athletics pitching prospect
Fautino de los Santos will undergo Tommy John Surgery
and be out at least a year. When this site first opened, one of my first articles gave a scouting report on de los Santos and much of the ...
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Continuing our 2008 Major League Baseball Draft Preview,
we look at college shortstop Gordon Beckham . The
21 year old from the University of Georgia is regarded as the second best shortstop in this year's draft. The actions Beckham incorporates ...
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An excerpt of the article is below ...Given
the choice between one arm action or the other,
I prefer what he's doing in 2008 because the process from the rotation into a ready-to-throw position and then the rotation into release is simpler and the ...
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"Clayton Kershaw's curveball scares children" "Clayton Kershaw's curvebal
is public enemy number one" "Clayton Kershaw is straight
filth" Just a couple of the high heaps of praise that surround Dodgers pitching prospect Clayton Kershaw, ...
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As a follow up to the Rich Harden
article, I breakdown the other players involved in that
deal including Chad Gaudin, Sean Gallagher, Matt Murton, Eric Patterson, and Josh Donaldson. Below is an excerpt on Sean Gallagher: To initiate an aggressive ...
2008 Baseball Draft Preview: Scouting Pitcher Brian Matusz