Halos Heaven's Community Top Prospects: #4
by rghan on Aug 7, 2010 6:57 AM PDT
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PrintOur top prospects so far:
1) Mike Trout
3) Hank Conger
4) ???
So who's it going to be, and why? Which of the pitchers -- Garrett Richards, Tyler Chatwood, Trevor Reckling, Fabio Martinez Mesa -- do you think has the best shot? Or does another position prospect, Alexia Amarista or Randal Grichuk, catch your eye?
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Question for RGhan
What do you think about the Angels’ chances of signing Jesus Valdez and Josh Osich, their 5th and 7th round picks in June’s draft? It sounds like both guys are asking for big money, but the Angels just traded away a bunch of pitching prospects in July and the organization could probably use the depth.
I think they’d be worth overpaying for.
I agree - the system is thin, and adding two more arms with upside seems like a no brainer
There are two notable exceptions – Harvey and Matusz – but the Halos have actually done a pretty good job of signing every other HS pitcher drafted in the top ten rounds since 2001.
Haven’t done a count of college pitchers yet, so I’m not sure what that says about Osich.
Cool.
And thanks for all your hard work tracking the prospects and doing the write-ups. It’s a tremendous resource for Angels fans.
Gotta be Reckling
We are thin
The Halos will have no trouble repeating with the wilting Texas team phoning in the final 40 percent of the season like they did tonight.
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by monkeygonetoheaven on Aug 7, 2010 8:40 AM PDT reply actions
I voted Chatwood
better stuff than Reckling, much younger for his league than Richards
I was going to vote for Chatwood
But I was worried about his strikeout rate in AA right now at 4.3/9 innings. I suppose that could be attributed to being young for the league, but I’d like to see better than that.
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Took Chatwood also.
He’s looked impressive and is really bumping along for only his second full professional season. ETA 2012 if only because he could use a full season at AAA.
Can’t really argue too much with any of these choices. It’s like deciding on what Playboy playmate to “date”; either way you’re dating a playmate and will get to hang out in the grotto.
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Stuff wise gotta go FMM
but overall talent and grit I’m going Amarista. That dude kills it. He is like the mutated David Eckstein
Big Bats, We Don't Need No Stinkin Big Bats!
Trumbo Smash!
Puny Bourgos, fringy Reckling, slap-hitting Amarista no good as Trumbo! Trumbo top five prospect!
Consider…
>> Trumbo OPS .907. Best in system. (Except Oily-Fish-boy).
>> Trumbo BA improve every year since 2006. Next year too? Maybe.
>> Trumbo learn to take walk. Even recent 1-14 skid, walk six times. Progress!
>> Trumbo pop up less, drive ball more often, according to Rghan. (Trumbo sad not get more love from Rghan. What Trumbo have to do?)
>> Trumbo slow-twitch musculature deceptive. Trumbo good hand-eye, good arm.
Finally, Trumbo mercy-kill Rivera in off-season, clear roster spot. Be thankful not Morales! Grrr.
by GrichManPoorMan on Aug 7, 2010 11:39 AM PDT reply actions
you know i am coming around to this view too
Will Trumbo be the Angels version of Paul Konerko??? … discarded early in his career by a SoCal franchise that thought it was loaded at that position only to blossom with mash power elsewhere…
What it comes down to
Is that we are scared of our hitting prospects after seeing Wood. We’ve seen Trout walk as much as K that gives us fAith, but Trumbo has stats too eerily similar to Wood.
Time to see what Wood's got!
True
If it ended today, Trumbo’s age 24 season in AAA would be nearly identical to Wood’s: .288 / .350 / .557 (Trumbo) to .293 / .353 / .553 (Wood). Wood even had a slightly better strikeout rate. That doesn’t sound encouraging.
However, Wood’s failure wasn’t a merely matter of “translation.” Sure there is a stiff penalty for moving from the PCL to MLB, but it doesn’t turn the best AAA players into the worst major-league players. Wood has just never been in the same hitter with the Angels that he was in his minor league peak. Something happened, who knows what, and he just fell apart. We can always hope that Trumbo fares better.
^^ This ^^
These guys are human beings, and therefore unpredictable. Trumbo’s Wood-esque PCL stat line by no means makes a Wood-esque implosion in the MLB inevitable. We were unlucky with Wood, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be that unlucky with Trumbo.
Does anyone have wood?
On their fantasy baseball team?
He was a huge ‘bust’ In the face
by HalosBiggestFan on Aug 7, 2010 1:08 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Richards had a lousy outing tonight.
His K/9 and BB/K ratio were fine as was his GB rate, but the guy gave up 3 homers, 7 hits and 5 ER.
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