stltoday.com - 9/4/2008
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TOWER GROVE — The news Tuesday that Joe Mather would miss the rest of the season with a hand injury nearly put an unexpected wrinkle on the annual prospect rankings. The word Jaime Garcia is exploring surgical options to correct a sore elbow definitely will impact the Top 30.
As mentioned in a previous blog entry , it’s that time of year that the wheels begin turning on the ...
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Daily Farm Report - 9/3/08
Future Redbirds —
... Derrick Goold is asking for his readers to weigh in on 2009 prospects in three categories: Top Rookie, Breakout Prospect and Sleeper. Head on over and weigh in, if you are so inclined. ...
UCB: Top 7 Minor League Players
Rockin' the Red —
... of years. Ranking top prospects is as much of a subjective game as it is an objective one, because at some point you have to determine how much a player's potential outweighs another player's statistics. As hard as Baseball Prospectus and Co. work to predict a player's potential, there's still an arbitrariness to it all, making each person's prospect list a little different. Derrick Goold asked the UCB to rank our top 7 minor leaguers today, so here's mine (notice: Chris Perez is on the verge of cracking the limit for who qualifies as a prospect, and, considering he'll be on ...
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Trip ends with a thud
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chicago.cubs.mlb.com 9/4/2008 — CHICAGO -- Ryan Dempster starting at home used to be a sure thing for the Cubs. Lately, though, wins have been hard to come by for the National League leaders, no matter who's pitching. Houston's Randy Wolf shut out Chicago, 4-0, and handed Dempster ...
Cubs still in dark about Zambrano —
FOXSports.com News for MLB 9/4/2008
Carlos Zambrano visited the Chicago Cubs' team orthopedist Wednesday to check out his right arm but didn't have an MRI.
Zambrano left his start Tuesday night against the Houston Astros after five innings and 86 pitches, telling pitching coach Larry ...
