Scouting Reports: The Other International Prospects

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  When the rumors first came out about Rodriguez, the player I was seeing as a comparison was Vlad Guerrero. So that is quite different from what you wrote and what you report as a comparison. How do you tell if a player can just hit the baseball anywhere it is pitched like Vlad or a prospect suspect who can’t?

  In any case, what you wrote makes a lot of sense. A $1.5M bonus would place him about the middle of the first round and hitters in that range have a number of issues they need to figure out if they are to become good.

  A $2.5M then is very rich because that’s what a #5 draft pick overall would get, and hitters at that point are expected to be a bit more polished and with less questions or with a lot of potential to grow to be a top hitter/pitcher. Given all the issues you note, he would have to have a lot of potential and some good chance of reaching it, but I don’t really get that from your description of him, not if you are using Joel Guzman as a comparison.

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Reds Rumored To Have Deal With Venezuelan Center Fielder Yorman Rodriguez
Published 6/27/2008 by Dunnerer (noreply@blogger.com) at Dunn and Dunner
From Saberscouting.com There are rumors that since his agent has stopped shopping him around that a deal has been struck and the Reds are rumored to be that team—another team new to being a major player on the international scene, spending $2.0 million in March on 16 year old power-hitting OF Juan Duran, and have already spent $3-4 million this season on pre July 2nd prospects.In the rest of the article they talk about his positives: Yorman Rodriguez has been touted as the top position player in this class for some time. His selling ...

Daily Farm Report 6/27/08
Published 6/28/2008 by erik at Future Redbirds
... him the # 2 international prospect.  Saberscouting also has more on Yorman and others. The free agent signing period for international players starts this Wednesday, and I’m sure the Cardinals are going to make some noise whether they sign him or not. ...

The IFA Hot Stove is Heating Up
Published 6/28/2008 by Eric Schultz at Pending Pinstripes
... The also have scouting reports of some of the other top prospects, as well as rumors as to which teams are after them.  The Yankees have been after Yorman Rodriguez, the top position player available, but if is believed that he might have agreed to a deal with the Reds already.  Adis Portillo, the 2nd best pitcher available, is reportedly connected with the Padres.  The guys for whom the Yankees are considered the frontrunners to sign include powerhitting outfielder Yeico Calderón, infielder Giancarlo Arias, and lefty pitcher Carlos Perez.  Anything could happen, but that is ...

Saberscouting: International Free Agent Reports
Published 6/29/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Saberscouting: International Free Agent Reports Something you can look for as an ongoing theme for these scouting reports is that I’ll mention a prospect that’s mostly projection, that would get $500,000 to $750,000 in most years, but this year will get that price pushed up by $250,000 to $500,000, due to demand. The supply is good this year, with a strong crop of talent, but the demand, especially at the top of the talent scale, is higher. I suppose at some point, when every top player has their perceived value boosted that much, the effect may not be teams ...

MLB Weekly
Published 6/30/2008 by Antone (noreply@blogger.com) at Hip 2 Da Game
... Oakland A's but he is so far off from the majors that you never know what can happen. I'm sure we will be hearing a lot more about Michel Inoa over the next few years. In related news, Pending Pinstripes also notes that there were some shady dealings during the signing process after Inoa and his agent backed out of an earlier agreement with the Yankees and raised the price. SaberScouting also has some scouting reports on the rest of the top international prospects. Arizona Diamondbacks: After jumping out to a ...

International Free Agent Signing Day Discussion
Published 7/2/2008 by Eric Schultz at Pending Pinstripes
... Giancarlo Arias, Carlos Perez, and Yeico Calderón are some of the guys who have been predicted to sign with the Yankees.  There is a scouting report of Arias and Calderón here, and one of Perez ...

July 2nd Morning Update
Published 7/2/2008 by kileymcd at SaberScouting
By Kiley McDaniel There has been intrigue, rumors, and large amounts of money flying around with the opening of the signing period for nearly all of the top 16 year olds in Latin America beginning this morning. Some scouts and agents started posting in the comments of the scouting reports article and 100 comments later, it turned into a liveblog of sorts of international rumors and facts. It’s still a comments section, so take it with a grain of salt, but there’s some good stuff in there. ESPN ...

Catching Up on the International Signing Period
Published 7/4/2008 by jscape2000 at Pinstripe Alley: Front Page Posts
... Based on SaberScouting's prospect reports this looks like a good haul for the Yanks.  Instead of competing with the new kids in town, like the A's and Padres, who signed the top talent for millions of dollars ($5 million for Michel Inoa), the Yankees used their established network of scouts and their strong reputation to target several bats (the weakness in the system). ...

More on international signings
Published 7/5/2008 by Ghost at Friar Forecast
... for the shout out on your site). ed. note: to be the first to comment on a post, just click on the post title and then the comment section will appear at the bottom. I’m not sure why there isn’t a comment link when there are no comments, but I don’t know how to fix it. What did DePodesta say on his site? Or are you talking about the link on the sidebar? Either way, yes, thanks Paul … and thanks for the post, Padman! Most info from SaberScouting and DePo’s blog. Adis Portillo-  From everything ...

Cards eye a prize from Latin pool
Published 7/8/2008 by Derrick Goold at Bird Land » Bird Land
... (check out the player featured in the masthead — look familiar?), describes Rodriguez as ”plus-plus speed” with raw “plus-plus power.” That’s site scouting report on Rodriguez reads, in part: ...

International signing rumor mill
Published 7/13/2008 by erik at Future Redbirds
... I have a real quick piece of info I wanted to pass along–Good news for Giant fans, not so great news for Cardinal fans, but interesting info nonetheless. I’m told the Giants have signed highly sought after 16 year old Dominican OF Rafael Rodriguez for $2.55 million. I’m told that the Cardinals were one of the teams that were strongly vying for his services, and they were right in the mix up until the end, but San Fran won out. Saberscouting discussed more about him here. Rodriguez been compared to Dave Winfield and Vladimir Guerrero, for what ...

Yorman Rodriguez: Seeing Red?
Published 7/15/2008 by erik at Future Redbirds
... , which makes me feel a little better about what I had been hearing.  A little later after that, over at Saberscouting there was a poster by the name of Carlos Sanchez who said a Rodriguez had agreed to sign with the Cardinals for $3.3 M. Assuming he was referring to Rafael Rodriguez, I mentioned it in that post in the name fun and rumors. Here’s where things get a little interesting. It turns out that he was referring to the one month younger Rodriguez, the highly coveted Yorman. ...

Signings OMG Signings, Alonso, Sulbaran, Rodriguez
Published 8/16/2008 by Dunnerer (noreply@blogger.com) at Dunn and Dunner
... Finally the last guy Yorman Rodriguez. Word on this 16 year old center fielder is that he was pretty much the best international position prospect out there this year, Michael Inoa obviously being the best overall. He has drawn comparisons to Eric Davis, and Carlos Beltran. Pretty high praise for a kid, so Ill step it up a notch and say he's a mix of Ricky Henderson's speed, Babe Ruth's power, and has the brain of Steven Hawking. Ultimately I think he really compares to Lee High School legend David Wooderson. ...