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Prospect Q + A w/Keith Law
Keith Law was kind enough to do a little email Q+A with the me. As many of you I’m sure already know, Keith is the lead baseball analyst for Scouts, Inc of ESPN.com. Before joining ESPN, he spent 4½ years with the Blue Jays as a Special Assistant to the GM, and he also was previously a writer for Baseball Prospectus. He’s a Harvard grad, so naturally he intimidates the crap out ...
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Future Redbirds: Prospect Q + A w/Keith Law
BBTF's Baseball Primer NewsblogFuture Redbirds: Prospect Q + A w/Keith Law When Love Was The Law In Los Angeles ...St. Louis? Is there a hitter, past or present who you’d compare Colby Rasmus to? I don’t do the comparison game - most hitters strike me as unique. How often is a Stanford RHP compared to Mike Mussina? Why do we typically only hear white players compared to white players, and black to black? Anyway, Rasmus looks to me like a guy who’ll draw walks, hit for plus power and average, and provide above-average defense in center. That’s nothing you couldn’t glean from his ‘07 stat line. He’s got good ...

The Morning Tailgate
STLSportsMag — ... ] St. Louis' relationship and ESPN.com's Keith Law got off to a bad start when he took to regularly dogging the '06 Cardinals (even after they won the WS), but the guy is fairly knowledgeable, especially about minor league talent which is the topic of this Q&A done by Future Redbirds [ Future Redbirds ] It's never too early to start looking at what the draftniks have listed as the Rams choice at #2 in the Draft.  I'd say the leader is a guy named Long. [ ...

The dialectics of injured pitchers
Cardinals Diaspora — ... Boggs doesn’t come to the game with the hype surrounding the opposing starter Homer Bailey, Cincy’s great right hope, but sporting a good fastball/curve combination and able to reach the mid-90s with his heater, there’s much to like. In an interview with ESPN scouting guru Keith Law at ESPN at Future Redbirds this winter, Law praised the young righty and speculated that he should at least be able to stick as a solid long reliever. ...

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