Diamondbacks Bullpen

Dude if you think that top prospect translates to star player you are way off. I'd even almost back off on calling Cintron a complete washout. The White Sox gave him 1.9M for 2007. Being able to st ...

From Rick (freeport, me): any word on if Max Scherzer is close to signing?

Jim Callis: Nope. Still expect him to sign in the next couple of weeks, but not hearing anything specific and still will ...

A bit less positive from BP

......Alberto Callaspo, who had some superficially good numbers in Tucson (.337/.404/.478), but that was a batting-average heavy campaign for an oldish player with a ...

[url=http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/features/263345.html]Here's BA's online write-up of the Diamondback system. Most of the juicy stuff (scouting reports and Diamondback chat) is for m ...

...

Posted by: Jeff9444 (IP Logged)
Date: February 11, 2007 08:39AM

New onwnership and upper management are losers. But I'm 100% sure that the team will make a profit this year!

Pretty sure ...

Nice read, I read it yesterday. It echoes a lot of my sentiments.

The reader comments below the article are a bit depressing though. I hope they aren't fully representative of our fanbase.

try and think of a realistic trade that would benefit both teams and could actually happen.

You also said that.

Baseball prospectus ranks Catching Prospects.

You should add that this isn't their official ranking, but rather the straight statistical PECOTA ranking. I think they said their official Top 100 lis ...

I'd love to see it happen but won't hold my breath. [url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2007/02/02/curt_answers_given/?page=1]Here's a good read...

OK, I did my 5 minutes of research and can't find anything definitive, However, the Rule 5 changes went into effective immediately so I don't see why the draft picks wouldn't be the same. Of course, l ...

Daniel Moskos, LHP, R-L, 6’2, 200, Clemson.

Closest MLB ready pitcher, 94-96 mph fastball that runs into left-handed hitters and away from righties. His slider is also a plus pitch. Could be in ...

we would get something like the 50th pick in the draft because there are so many supplemental picks this year

I thought supplemental pick, is a pick between 1st and 2nd rounds.
If so, 11a woul ...

BTW is the Insider more worthwhile that it used to be? I had a membership there in 02 or 03 and most of the articles where straight from the free press.

Buster Olney's column is my favorite read of ...

This guy puts out one of my favorite annual prospect lists. This time writing for SI.com:

HM. Miguel Montero, C, Diamondbacks
2006 Stats (AA/AAA): .286/.373/.461, 1 SB in 423 AB

Promoted to the ...

Perry ranks pretty low on my list of columnists. I rank him below Gambo and Paola Boivin but ahead of Greg Hansen. Mad

Extremely laughable statement. I disagree with Perry all the time but would be ...

Isn't Perry a Padres fan? LOL

I think he used to work for Towers or something. Seems I've read that somewhere. I do know that he's a big Towers fan from past writings...

Incidentally, I don't t ...

FWIW, Pecota has both Hairston and Davanon at a .273 EqA and Byrnes at .267.

I like Hairston to outperform that, but if that were truly their offensive output than it seems Byrnes' defense would e ...

I would be more sanguine about this with a different manager. You know Byrnes is going to get 600+ pa's if he is around. These are going to come from Hairston and Young

Exactly my feelings. Byrnes ...

Personally, I think Byrnes is the perfect 4th OF. My main desire to see him off the roster stems from:

1) wanting to see Hairston given a real opportunity and
2) possibly picking up a nice SWAG in ...

If the cost gets higher than that, I would rather see the club use that $8-10M towards landing a Zambrano, $20M/yr, type of pitcher that is a CY candidate and bringing up a home-grown product for the ...

I watched the press conference yesterday, highly entertaining. I liked how he referred to Curt a lot.

From There was some surprise that the Yankees didn't land pitching prospect Dustin Nippert in t ...

1) After Melky Cabrera gets traded (wishful thinking, but

Maybe I'm Josh Byrnes???

Note that I posted this 3 days before the 1st post of the 51-page thread.

My proposal was for giving up a ...

Interesting to see some of the players come full circle like this. Randy is hopefully coming back to the D-backs while Vizcaino, who we indirectly acquired via the original Randy trade, is a big part ...

To gain a better purchase on what Johnson means for the Snakes, let's revisit some grim indicators from 2006:

*Johnson posted the worst full-season ERA of his career;
*He posted his worst strike ...

Was his projection of 90 wins before the RJ trade? If so I would think RJ would give us 4-5 extra wins at least.

Let's be careful not to overrate anything Will Carrol, of all people, said.