This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball
South Side Sox — ... 2. Tyler Flowers, C: The heir apparent to the top spot has improved his standing this season with some superb hitting for the Barons. Many observers – including this one – would be able to make a pretty good argument that his bat is ready for the majors right now. Behind the plate, however, he requires a good deal more seasoning but the White Sox are adamant that he will be a major league catcher. Path to the majors: Flowers has a clear, though measured, path – he is the organization’s only prospect of any note at the ...

Atlanta Braves Minor League Recap: 6/12
Sports Page Atlanta — ... A second straight loss to the league leading Barons. Former Braves farmhand Tyler Flowers went 2-5 with 2 2B and an RBI. His OPS is up over .900 on the year and he would be a great addition to the offense (though where we would put him I don't know) in the next year or so. Otherwise nothing else special to see here. Ryne Reynoso got hit around in his 5 innings and the bullpen pitched well after he left. ...

Wasted Days, Wasted Nights: Cubs' One-Day Stop In Atlanta Ends In 2-0 Loss
Bleed Cubbie Blue — ... may eventually get some value out of that deal with Tyler Flowers, who is an excellent prospect, but for now, advantage Atlanta. ...

Minor Leaguers Could Play Big Role at Trade Deadline
South Side Sox — ... Tyler Flowers -- Flowers is the Sox best prospect now that Beckham and Poreda are soon to lose their prospect status. Flowers is slated to take over for AJ Pierzynski following the '10 season, but might force his way onto the roster next year as a DH/backup C. ...

The Braves' Jason Heyward makes the 2009 Futures Game Roster
Sports Page Atlanta — ... was also selected for the World Team roster, and catcher Tyler Flowers was selected for the U.S. Team. Flowers is hitting .281/.433/.522 with 10 homeruns for the double-A Birmingham Barons in the White Sox organization. Feliz has a 3.86 ERA and a .258 BAA at triple-A for the Rangers organization. ...

White Sox Acquire RP Tony Pena from Diamondbacks
Beyond the Box Score — ... , and Tyler Flowers.  Both Beckham and Poreda have already seen significant time with the Major League club.  Allen has struggled in a very short stint at AAA, but not much can be learned from that.  In roughly 275 AA PAs this year, Allen showed decent power with a .182 ISO and good on-base ability, with a .369 OBP supported by a .083 IsoD (Isolated Discipline, OBA - BA).  Allen's .332 BABIP is supported by a very good 21% LD rate.  Allen's defensive value is likely to be slim.  ...

Open Thread 7/12: Braves at Rockies & Futures Game
Sports Page Atlanta — ... Kris Medlen makes the spot start in place of Javier Vazquez today for the Braves. The Braves need to get this win so they can go into the break at .500 on the season. Over on ESPN2 at 2pm EST, the Futures Game will be televised. Jason Heyward is batting 8th, right behind Tyler Flowers for the US team. Barbaro Canizares, who was a late add, is batting 4th for the world team. Use this thread to discuss both games.

Braves in the Futures Game
Sports Page Atlanta — ... today. Canizares started at first base and went 1-2 with an RBI single. Heyward started in RF and went 1-2 with a single. Heyward hit the ball hard in both AB's, singling to center in his first AB and grounding out sharply in his second. World team 2B Starlin Castro made a nice play to retire Heyward in his second AB, snagging a line drive on the short hop and throwing Jason out at first. Heyward was impressive all around. Former Braves, Tyler Flowers and Neftali Feliz also competed and played well. Feliz ...

Futures Game/Weekend Recap
Red Reporter — ... and Tyler Flowers, no less), and went 0-for-2 with a strikeout.  Bummer.  On the other hand, Sulbaran pitched the 9th inning for the World team with a 2-run lead, and despite walking 2 hitters, didn't allow a hit to earn the save.  ...

SB Nation's Mid-Season NL EAST Roundtable...Washington Nationals Edition - Part 1.
Federal Baseball — ... coming back from injury, and that leaves them with a potential for 6 starters for next season (Vazquez, Hudson, Jurrjens, Lowe, Kawakami, and Hanson). The consensus is that Vazquez has done nothing but increase his trade value quite a bit since coming over for essentially one top-prospect (Tyler Flowers). There are so many teams that need a top starter that the Braves may have the opportunity to get better than excellent return for Vazquez, and with Hudson returning not lose that much in the rotation. This gets even more interesting if the other top two ...

2009 NL East Mid-Season Blogger Roundtable, Part 1: The Trade Deadline
Sports Page Atlanta — ... coming back from injury, and that leaves them with a potential for 6 starters for next season (Vazquez, Hudson, Jurrjens, Lowe, Kawakami, and Hanson). The consensus is that Vazquez has done nothing but increase his trade value quite a bit since coming over for essentially one top-prospect (Tyler Flowers). There are so many teams that need a top starter that the Braves may have the opportunity to get better than excellent return for Vazquez, and with Hudson returning not lose that much in the rotation. This gets even more ...

SB Nation NL East Blogger Roundtable: Part 1 - The Trade Deadline
Amazin' Avenue — ... coming back from injury, and that leaves them with a potential for 6 starters for next season (Vazquez, Hudson, Jurrjens, Lowe, Kawakami, and Hanson). The consensus is that Vazquez has done nothing but increase his trade value quite a bit since coming over for essentially one top-prospect (Tyler Flowers). There are so many teams that need a top starter that the Braves may have the opportunity to get better than excellent return for Vazquez, and with Hudson returning not lose that much in the rotation. This gets even more interesting if the other top two ...

AL Central Roundtable Part 1
South Side Sox — ... , Dexter Carter and Dan Hudson all make good trade bait and add up to a nice package.  The typical play is to trade established starters for young arms.  If it's possible, Kenny will make it happen.  Position-wise, Beckham and Tyler Flowers are pretty much off the table.  After that it's ...

White Sox Mum at Trade Deadline, Still a Factor in AL Central
South Side Sox — ... for Tony Pena (a middle reliever). Given the price that the Sox have paid this year, if middle relievers cost a Top 100 prospect, then you'd expect the Sox to pay something like a Top 50 prospect (Tyler Flowers) for a position player, and more if that player was actually any good. ...

Atlanta Braves Top 20 PRE-SEASON Prospects in Review
Minor League Ball — ... eight dings this year, but still a very fine prospect. 3) Thomas Hanson, RHP, Grade B+:  6-2, 3.22 with a 46/29 K/BB in 67 innings in the majors. Obviously very successful in his major league debut following excellent work in Triple-A. 4) Jordan Schafer, OF, Grade B+: Hit .204/.313/.287 in 50 major league games, now injured with a bad wrist. Was pushed to the majors without Triple-A experience and it showed. 5) Tyler Flowers, C, Grade B: Traded to White Sox. Hitting ...

Jason Bartlett's Trade Value
DRaysBay — ... SF Angel Villalona Conor Gillaspie Nick Noonan CWS Tyler Flowers NYM Reese Havens ...

Why Javier Vazquez Is Baseball's Invisible Man
Beyond the Box Score — ... Kenny Williams has made some decent moves recently, however, his trade of Vazquez remains questionable. Sure, Tyler Flowers looks to be like the heir apparent to ...

Braves 2009 draft was out of character
Talking Chop — ... , Tyler Flowers, and Cole Rohrbough. In recent years, with that option taken away, they haven't done much in the way of signing summer-follows in late rounds (the only one of note I can think of is J.J. Hoover, and he was a 10th-rounder). ...

Thome, Contreras Casualties of Underperforming Sox, Payroll Crunch
South Side Sox — ... We'll have to wait until we hear from the man in charge himself to try and guess his future plans for the organization. But one thing that needs no explanation is Tyler Flowers impending call-up, which just got a heckuvalot more interesting. ...

Introducing Your September White Sox Call-Ups
South Side Sox — ... This post was written by larry, but apparently he broke the site. I'm leaving his post below so the tech guys can figure out what went wrong, and reposting it again so you can comment and such. Or, in most cases, re-introducing. Tyler Flowers: The White Sox' top prospect receives a deserving call-up to serve as the 3rd catcher.  One suspects, however, that he will see a bit more playing time than his predecessor ceremonial 3rd catchers have in the past.  Jim Thome's departure may ...

Freddy Garcia Just Knows How to Pitch with a 10-run Lead
South Side Sox — ... baseball could be fun. After not seeing a victory for two solid weeks, I've seen back-to-back well pitched games that were highly entertaining for different reasons, and the first 3-game win streak in over a month. Thursday against the Cubs, it was fun to watch another team commit the type of errors that have plagued the Sox this year, and for the Sox to actually take advantage. Tonight, we got to see the major league debut of Daniel Hudson (more later), a bit of Tyler Flowers, the continued surprisingly effective Freddy Garcia and ...

Chicago White Sox Top 20 PRE-SEASON Prospects in Review
Minor League Ball — ... 3) Tyler Flowers, C, Grade B: Hitting .297/.423/.516 combined between Birmingham and Charlotte. Solid overall. ...

This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball
South Side Sox — ... This week: The material for TWIWSMiLB is becoming more threadbare.  September call-ups have taken the likes of Daniel Hudson, Tyler Flowers and Carlos Torres.  Minor league rehab assignments appear to be over for the season.  And, just to further deplete things, Jared Mitchell and Christian Marrero hit the DL. The minor league playoffs begin next week.  Great Falls begin on the 12th against a TBD opponent.  Kannapolis start against Lakewood on the 9th.  Winston-Salem also go ...

Appreciating Javier Vazquez
Amazin' Avenue — ... in any way?  Not really, except that Omar Minaya didn't seriously pursue the very available Vazquez this past offseason.  Ozzie Guillen basically ran him out of town for not being clutch or some other nonsense.  The Braves stepped in and acquired him for what amounts to a B prospect, hard hitting catcher Tyler Flowers.  Vazquez is still underappreciated in the mainstream but has been a sabermetric darling for some time now.  He's the anti-Ollie Perez: a pitcher with great peripherals who hasn't look as good as he is because of ...

Game Thread: September 28, 2009
Let's Go Tribe! — ... Lineups: INDIANS (64-91): 2B Jamey Carroll, SS Asdrubal Cabrera, RF Shin-Soo Choo, 3B Jhonny Peralta, DH Travis Hafner, LF Matt LaPorta, 1B Andy Marte, C Lou Marson, CF Trevor Crowe. LHP Aaron Laffey (7-7, 3.93). WHITE SOX (75-81): RF DeWayne Wise, 3B Gordon Beckham, LF Carlos Quentin, DH Paul Konerko, CF Alex Rios, 1B Josh Fields, C Tyler Flowers, 2B Jayson Nix, SS Brent Lillibridge. LHP John ...

The Official SSS Top Ten White Sox Prospects
South Side Sox — ... , ready for opening day in 2010.  Where the White Sox have improved is position player talent up the middle.  Tyler Flowers looks like a legit catcher to me.  And ...

Braves Top 5 Catching Prospect
Sports Page Atlanta — Coming into 2009 Baseball America ranked 3 catchers among the Braves top 30 prospects Braeden Schlehuber (no. 18), Matt Kennelly (20) and Christian Bethancourt (30). Historically, catcher has been a position of strength for the Braves as they have produced Brian McCann, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Brayan Pena, Tyler Flowers, Max Ramirez and even Clint Sammons all in the last 5 seasons. This year saw the emergence of maybe the Braves next big prospect at catcher (and maybe any position) ...

Talking Chop Round Table: Braves Catchers
Sports Page Atlanta — ... CBW: Just looking at the other lists, it's pretty rare that we're going to be uniamous on many selections, but we all had Bethancourt 1 and Kennelly 2. After finally getting to see Bethancourt this year in Spring Training, I became a believer and a huge fan. He's a big, solid kid, but isn't bulky like a guy like Tyler Flowers, so you can see him staying behind the plate. His defense is good and had a surprising season for a 17 year old. You have to believe if he has a good ST this year, he's in line to go to Rome as an ...

2010 Bill James Projections: White Sox Hitters
South Side Sox — ... 571 85 149 30 1 30 92 57 123 2 1 .261 .333 .480 Tyler Flowers 67 243 40 75 ...

The Rise in the Fall of Nevin Ashley
DRaysBay — ... AB Before Pre-OPS Now Post-OPS Tyler Flowers 2008 22 ...