Lies, Damned Lies: The PECOTA Top 100 by Nate Silver
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Baseball Prospectus unveils the PECOTA 100
Published 4/27/2007 by Matt Birnbach at Future Fish
Prospects, Organizations, Gallardo, Everything
Published 4/27/2007 by Jeff <info@brewcrewball.com> at Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts
... Read this article.
Minor League Scorebook
Published 4/28/2007 by Rob at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... Nate Goldstein takes a look at young players in the majors;
the Angels fare pretty well (fifth overall in his final
Compositte Organizational Rankings), though the Dodgers come
out in the middle of the pack (12th, just ahead of the A's).
The AL has it all over the NL in prospecty goodness, and the
big shock is that the Yankees come out ahead of the Angels
and even the Devil Rays on his ranking. I have a hard time
believing that.
Chop Links: 28th April
Published 4/28/2007 by John Beamer at Chop-n-Change
... Also at BPro (subscription required) is a list of the top prospects in the game according to PECOTA. Is Salty there? Yep — sure is.
PECOTA Top 100
Published 4/29/2007 by Bones at Honest Wagner
... Nate Silver of BP presents The PECOTA Top 100. Only one Bucco. When Upsides are used to assess overall organizational talent levels, the Bucs come in dead last in the final summary rankings of "Total Talent Stock".
(Thanks to sludgeworm for the link).
And Tulowitzki Makes Three: Rockies 9, Braves 7
Published 4/30/2007 by Rob at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
... in major league history.
In the top of the seventh inning of a tied game, with runners on first and second and nobody out, Chipper Jones hit a line drive at Tulowitzki, who snared the ball in flight, stepped on second to double up Kelly Johnson, and tagged Edgar Renteria just between first and second for an unassisted triple play.
Nate Silver recently wrote that PECOTA and some scouts say he "he just isn’t that special", especially considering his weak offensive performance. No matter what, he'll go down in the history books now.
Minors Notes
Published 5/8/2007 by James at YanksBlog.com
... Nate Silver over at Baseball Prospectus put up the PECOTA 100 the other day. It's a very interesting list and a good read, especially the parts about the top 50 players under 25 and the organizational reports (the Yankees came in second in true prospects). Also, in the
Second Half Preview: AL
Published 7/10/2007 by Jacob Wheatley-Schaller at Vegas Watch
... is living up to PECOTA’s lofty expectations, and ...