Leave a Comment

Daily Link Roundup
Beyond the Box Score — The guys at SaberScouts with a look at Johnny Cueto. Bill James + Freakonomics? Amazing. Something I'll be looking at later this week on here, the Rays rotation and the 500 minor league innings theory. Pic of the day: Sheffield has a heart.

Baseball Transactions - Wednesday
Baseball Digest Daily — ... The Cubs signed Cintron, 29, as a minor league free agent February 18. In limited action, the infielder battled a sore left hamstring and was even struck in the face with a foul ball while standing in the on-deck circle two weeks ago. Cincinnati Homer Bailey - Optioned to Louisville (AAA). Wild, wild, wild. That's one way to characterize his Spring: 19 IP, 24 H, 16 BB, 11 K. Many scouts affirmed he has been passed on the depth chart by RHP Johnny Cueto (great scouting report here ) and RHP Edinson Volquez . This is one case where a pitcher has great ...

The upside of upside
Viva El Birdos — ... But improving on a pitch they already have, that's upside.  One of my favorite new sites is Saber-scouting.  Two individuals who have worked for MLB previously (one as a scout) publishing their analysis of different players and prospects.  Here's a recent scouting report on Johnny Cueto, the Red's pitching prospect who has made some noise recently surpassing Homer Bailey in their depth chart.  Notice that they grade out the future potential of the pitches.  As pitchers get a better feel for their secondary offerings, you'd expect improvement. That's ...

Saber-Scouting: Scouting Report: Johnny Cueto
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — ... —The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Saturday, March 29, 2008 Saber-Scouting: Scouting Report: Johnny Cueto "Kiley McDaniel takes a look back at his scouting report on Cincinnati hot prospect Johnny Cueto from when he scouted him last year in the Florida State League.” ...

Baseball Transactions - Monday
Baseball Digest Daily — ... - Contract purchased from Louisville (AAA). He had a great Spring, according to many scouts and executives who saw him. Look at the numbers: 17.2 IP, 16 H, 10 ER, 12 BB, 19 K, 5.06 ERA. He is one of five players that won spots on the roster, despite not being on the 40-man list. Saber-Scouting offers an in-depth scouting report on the 22-year-old: Fastball - Sat at 93-95 effortlessly with great command and late explosion the entire game. Moves it inside, outside, keeps it down, rarely elevated but it was eye level and purposeful when he did. Almost every one had heavy ...

THT Live: Johnny Cueto’s First Game
The Hardball Times — ... . Nonetheless, I believe I was able to properly identify the pitches that Cueto threw. For a good primer on Cueto's stuff, read the scouting report that Kiley McDaniel posted at Saber-Scouting last week. His main pitch on Thursday was a four-seam fastball running 94-97 mph (48 pitches). He also threw a slider 87-90 mph (20 pitches), a change-up 85-92 mph (16 pitches), and a two-seam fastball 96 mph (one pitch). PITCHf/x data is missing for seven pitches. Against right handers, Cueto relied on mainly on his fastball (64 percent) and his slider (23 percent). Against left ...

Hype machine: Johnny Cueto
THT Fantasy Focus — ... if you'd like to check it out. It's a good read. Kiley McDaniel at Saber-Scouting also had a nice writeup of Cueto's arsenal last week. Derek Carty is a student in New Jersey who loves Fantasy Baseball. His articles can also be found at FOX Sports, and he'll be contributing content to Rotoworld in the coming season. He welcomes questions via ...

Scouting Report: Jeremy Jeffress
SaberScouting — by Kiley McDaniel It’s been awhile since we’ve last published something here at SaberScouting, but don’t worry, we’re still here, we just took a break after the draft. The draft answers will be coming soon—we tried a high-tech way of bringing those to you and it didn’t really work out. You’ll see those answers soon, we’re just not sure if it’ll be the fancy or scaled-down version. Also, in the rush to get out our draft content, I’m back-logged by about 10-12 Florida State League games with some legit prospect reports on the way. I just saw ...

Scouting Report: Jeremy Jeffress
SaberScouting — by Kiley McDaniel It’s been awhile since we’ve last published something here at SaberScouting, but don’t worry, we’re still here, we just took a break after the draft. The draft answers will be coming soon; we tried a high-tech way of bringing those to you and it didn’t really work out. So you’ll see those answers soon, we’re just not sure if it’ll be the fancy or scaled-down version. Also, in the rush to get out our draft content, I’m back-logged about 10-12 Florida State League games with some legit prospects coming soon. I just saw Jeremy Jeffress ...