Homer Bailey - Ace Pitcher or Talented Underchiever?

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Baseball-Intellect: Homer Bailey - Ace or Talented Underachiever?
Published 4/3/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Baseball-Intellect: Homer Bailey - Ace or Talented Underachiever? Scouting report on Homer Bailey… Bailey is a still a terrific prospect. Even with his flaws, we should still point out how young he is at 21 (turning 22 in May). However, based on consistency and performance issues, to go along with questions of how well he can “pitch” and not just “throw”, we should ask ourselves just how good we think Bailey will be.

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Published 4/11/2008 by Eric at Redleg Nation
Alex Eisenberg writes scouting reports for Hardball Times and Baseball Intellect. He always does interesting pieces that include video to show people what he’s talking about. When he says something like “better body tilt” or “scap load,” it gives a good idea of what he’s referring to. At the beginning of April he did a piece comparing Bailey v2006 to v2007. He also talks about Bailey’s mental makeup (but isn’t calling him dumb) in addition to mechanics. I normally wouldn’t make too big a deal about a pitcher’s mental make-up. I view it as a plus or minus but I ...