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adamf
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 Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 12:58 am Post subject: Montero:Project Prospect's No. 2 rookie catcher for 2007 |
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My writers and I ranked Miguel Montero as the No. 2 rookie catcher entering 2006.
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shoewizard
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Hey Adam, thanks for coming by and introducing your site. Lots of prospect junkies here. I am sure you will get lots of hits from people here.....especially if you keep pimping Arizona prospects. We like that!  |
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McCray
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thanks adam! a good read as always.
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adamf
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| Thanks guys. It's nice to finally find a good crowd of D'Backs fans. |
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shoewizard
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Baseball prospectus ranks Catching Prospects.Link
They have Montero #3, but there is a big dropoff from 2 to 3. Here is their comment
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Notice the huge drop-off in the scores; we’ve gone from two elite prospects to guys with a lot of asterisks pretty quickly. Miguel Montero is a known commodity who has done nothing but hit for the past two years, save for a brief stint at Tennessee in 2005. This is a very common profile for a decent catching prospect--average in just about everything but speed (none) and size (short for a contemporary ballplayer). PECOTA doesn’t see a ton of growth for Montero or necessarily a long career; like the scouts, it generally prefers players who have at least one Grade-A skill to work from. But being average-to-above throughout his arbitration years is going to be valuable. |
Even though my projections have Montero putting up better numbers than Snyder, if I were picking today for my fantasy draft, and I had to choose between Snyder and Montero, I would take Snyder.
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Just saw BP's correction, making Montero 4th, not 3rd
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Aaron
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| shoewizard wrote: |
Baseball prospectus ranks Catching Prospects.Link
They have Montero #3, but there is a big dropoff from 2 to 3. Here is their comment |
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 list (compiled almost exclusively by Kevin Goldstein) will be put online sometime next week.
Silver's PECOTA rankings are very interesting, nonetheless.
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levski
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I trust PECOTA a lot more when it has enough meaningful statistics on a player to run projections. Bryan Anderson? I mean, please...
He might be a good prospect in terms of talent and tools, but a stats-based projection system can tell me squat about him right now... |
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dirtygary
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| Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| shoewizard wrote: |
| Even though my projections have Montero putting up better numbers than Snyder, if I were picking today for my fantasy draft, and I had to choose between Snyder and Montero, I would take Snyder. |
Yes. I'm not sold on Montero, and Snyder is finally coming into his own. I think it's just bad timing for Montero, and Snyder will always be just a tad more developed. Can't ignore the minor league numbers and the age comps between them.
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