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JACKSONVILLE - The stats bear it out. Tebow has done better in most categories with his opportunity than MJ. Russell Wilson would probably have been the better prospect long term had he chosen baseball, but he didn't. He's doing OK in his chosen profession however.
Look out NY. As predicted, the Mets are scraping the cellar and will be out of contention by September. That can only mean a call-up for Tim Tebow. The icing on the cake would be a MLB HR in his first AB.
Tebow batted ninth as the DH for the Eastern Division in Wednesday's Eastern League all-star game and went 1-for-4 with an opposite-field double. He had a chance to give his team the lead in the seventh inning, but with runners on first and second and one out he popped out to left on the first pitch.
Prior to the game, hundreds of fans waited close to an hour for his autograph. His No. 15 shirt was the only all-star player jersey available for sale at the game.
The Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback turned baseball player is hitting .241/.319/.362 in 76 games for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies. He’s smacked five home runs with 33 RBIs.
Tebow has committed just one error in 75 chances in left field.
He’s been on a bit of a tear heading into Wednesday’s game. In his previous 10 games, Tebow is hitting .353 (12-for-34).
Mets' Tebow goes yard on first pitch of '18 | MiLB.com News
I like his approach and his comments. It shows a pretty advanced understanding of the flow and culture of the game. He needs to follow up and keep producing until the end of the season to put himself in position for a call-up.
The power is legit, he is not hitting fence scrapers and the approach and the swing are fairly well put together. From the comments and prior jacks, it does look like he hunts for certain pitches/locations knowing that if he gets it he can handle it. If he can do that in spots and cover the holes in his swing, where pitchers are getting him out...we should see some improvement. AA is the level where you should be able to determine what you have, one way or the other.
The Mets do know he is a ticket/merchandise selling machine....he still has to play.
Former football star homers in first AB for second straight yearAs Yogi Berra once quipped, "It's déjà vu all over again" for Tim Tebow. A year after homering in his first at-bat as a professional, the Mets farmhand did it again Thursday, launching a three-run blast on the first pitch he saw at the Double-A level for Binghamton. Mets No. 4 prospectPeter Alonso and Jeff McNeil also went deep for the Rumble Ponies, who opened the season with a 6-0 blanking of Portland at NYSEG Stadium. The crowd of 5,247 was the second-largest for a home opener in club history. Binghamton drew 6,282 fans for the 1993 opener. With the Rumble Ponies leading, 2-0, thanks to Alonso's roundtripper, Tebow ripped Sea Dogs right-hander Teddy Stankiewicz's first pitch over the right-center field fence. The former Heisman Trophy winner reached on a fielder's choice, grounded out and struck out in his final three plate appearances. "I felt pretty good," Tebow told reporters after the game. "He walked the two batters before me, so on one hand you're probably thinking he's going to be a little bit wild and be patient. But a lot of times after a catcher makes a visit to the mound, the next pitch is probably a fastball somewhat down the middle to try and get going again. That's what I kind of anticipated, that's what it was and I felt pretty good."
The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL quarterback created a buzz wherever he played last year. He went deep in his first at-bat with Class A Columbia in 2017 and needed only one game to go yard after his June promotion to Class A Advanced St. Lucie. Tebow finished his debut season with a .226/.309/.347 slash line, 34 extra-base hits and 52 RBIs in 126 games. "It's good to see him ready," Binghamton manager Luis Rojas said. "For him to be engaged, find his pitch and deliver that homer was pretty good. ... He's got a long season ahead, but he had a great spring and he worked really hard, so it's great that he started the season this way. Knowing the history and knowing that every first at-bat he's gotten in his professional career he's done the same thing is pretty impressive." Tebow acknowledged the uniqueness of homering in his first at-bat on consecutive Opening Days, but he downplayed the significance in terms of the marathon that is the 140-game Minor League season. "I don't know, it's pretty special," he said. "But baseball's a game where it's never too high and never too low. It's just one at-bat and just one pitch, so you have to be focused. Tomorrow is another day where I have to improve. "[Today] was a great day and it was a fun day, but it was just one day. We need to be focused on the next day." McNeil connected on a solo shot in the second to cap the scoring for the Rumble Ponies, who homered three times in a game on three occasions last year. Binghamton starter Drew Gagnon allowed two hits and a walk with five strikeouts over six innings. Austin McGeorge, Adonis Uceta and 29th-ranked Mets prospect Gerson Bautista completed the shutout, combining for six strikeouts over the final three frames. Stankiewicz (0-1) surrendered six runs on four hits and four walks with three strikeouts in four innings for Portland.
If he shows decent numbers in AA -- which is where the Mets would need to send him to determine if a late-season call-up is warranted -- then it seems like all systems are go for Timmy to take on the Big Apple.
Callaway on former NFL star: 'He's putting some really good swings on some pitches'
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- The procession of elite starting pitchers was new to Tim Tebow last year, when the quarterback-turned-outfielder faced Rick Porcello and Max Scherzer in the same month. Tebow did not fare well in those games. His transition to baseball was still raw.
And while it's true that no one ever quite grows accustomed to facing Scherzer -- "That's challenging for anybody," manager Mickey Callaway said after Tebow struck out against the three-time Cy Young winner on three pitches Friday in the Mets' 2-1 loss to the Nationals -- it's also clear that things have changed. Tebow's ability to recover, lacing a single off highly touted prospect Erick Fedde in his next at-bat, provided the latest evidence that he is improving before the Mets' eyes.
"I just feel a lot more adjusted to the game," Tebow said. "I feel like I have a much different approach and swing, so I can be a lot more patient seeing pitches and trusting all the work I've put in."
The differences between Tebow last year and this year are plain to the naked eye. Following an offseason spent transforming his batting stance, Tebow now positions himself more athletically, with his feet closer together. His swing is shorter, more compact. Tebow's trademark power is still obvious -- particularly during early spring batting practice, when he twice clanged balls off sheds beyond the outfield fence. But there is more to Tebow's game now than mere parlor tricks.
"He has a good swing, and he's putting some really good swings on some pitches," Callaway said. "He looks comfortable at the plate. And he tells us he's feeling more and more comfortable, like he's in a much better spot than he was last year at this time."
It is a swing that Tebow spent the better part of a year revamping, working this winter with Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy and Mets assistant hitting coach Tom Slater. When Tebow arrived at camp last month, Mets players Jay Bruce and David Wright also offered advice.
Whether that translates into improved statistics from Tebow, who hit just .226 at two levels of Class A ball last season, remains to be seen. But he is at least building the foundation for the type of career general manager Sandy Alderson hinted at when he said he expects Tebow to play in the big leagues.
"I've been really comfortable," said Tebow, who finished 1-for-3 Friday to improve to 1-for-7 on the spring after missing several games recovering from a sprained ankle. "I think I'm getting more comfortable every at-bat."
Others are starting to take notice. Scherzer, who faced Tebow for the first time last March, did not attack him in quite the same way, starting the former Heisman Trophy winner out with a first-pitch curveball.
"I'm out there trying to get him out," Scherzer said. "I'm working on my instincts, what I needed to do to get him out."
Others will likewise give Tebow their best, not wanting to find themselves on the wrong side of headlines. In that sense and others, this spring is an audition for Tebow, who could advance straight to Double-A Binghamton if Mets officials see enough improvement.
It's something Tebow swears is not on his mind, even if such an assignment would put him two quick hops from the big leagues.
"I just worried about today, facing Max Scherzer," Tebow said, laughing. "We'll worry about that when I get there."
If the NFL doesn't want Tebow, then MLB does (modestly of course). If he continues developing, especially his power, he gets a late-season call-up. Especially if the Mets appear out of by late August, a more than modest possibility.
"The Mets actually have “modest expectations” that minor league outfielder Tim Tebow will eventually earn a major league call-up, Alderson revealed (Twitter link via James Wagner of the New York Times). “He’s great for baseball. He was phenomenal for minor league baseball last year,” Alderson said of the former Denver Broncos starting quarterback and ex-University of Florida football star. Prior to last season, which the 30-year-old divided between Single-A and High-A and hit .226/.309/.347 in 486 PAs, Tebow hadn’t played organized baseball since high school."
'Tebow Effect' Paid Off For Sally League Clubs | BaseballAmerica.com
No denying that there was a purely business component to this signing right from the get-go, primarily from the Mets standpoint. But when are people going to give this guy credit for his accomplishments?
He's doing even better in High-A than he was in the Sally League, showing legitimate power, even to the opposite field, after putting the game down for ten years.
Remember that was supposed to be a lark for Timmy. He was going to make a fool of himself and major league baseball. Hasn't happened. Time to give credit where credit is due.
If the Mets are out of it and bring him up in September, so what? He's earned it.
The same fools that hate this guys and ran him out of the NFL now want us to feel sorry for Colin Kaperdink.
F-you, ESPN, NFL, SJW's of all stripes and especially BLM ass-hats. You folks, and your ilk, ran Tebow out of the league for kneeling to God and now you want this POS Kapershit back in the league for kneeling to piss on the flag and this country?
Don't need y'all and don't miss y'all and apparently neither does Tim Tebow.
Tim Tebow has brought in tens of thousands of extra fans to South Atlantic League games this year.
Tim Tebowhas been promoted to the Florida State League and has played his last game in the South Atlantic League. On pure baseball terms, it's fair to say that a 29-year-old outfielder who hit .220/.311/.336 is as forgettable as a prospect could be.
But at the box office, Tebow is the greatest star the South Atlantic League has ever seen.
When we first wrote about the "Tebow effect" on fan attendance a little over a month ago, we calculated that Tebow was worth roughly 2,200 fans per game whenever the Columbia Fireflies hit the road. Since then, the Tebow Effect grew.
In comparing what teams have drawn in games where they played host to Tebow teams versus the rest of their home schedule without Tebow, it now appears that Tebow was worth 2,591 fans per game when the Fireflies were on the road.
To explain it more simply, there are 14 teams in the Sally League this year, but through Tebow's final game on June 25, nearly one of every four fans who have walked through the gate at a Sally League game has done so to see Tebow's Columbia Fireflies play.
This is a sober, fair and honest assessment of the pluses and minuses of Tim Tebow's effort. It does not include any of the usual histrionics, hysterics and biases that most commentators bring to their assessments. It shouldn't coming from a professional scout. They make their bones being correct about their opinions, not politically correct.
This is just a very professional analysis of the kids skills and chance to succeed. And if you don't think Michael Jordan wouldn't have gotten a call up by the White Sox back in the day, whether he "deserved" it or not, you're being naive and disingenuous.
COLUMBIA, S.C.—Baseball America provided readers with a scouting report of basketball star Michael Jordan in March 1994 before the beginning of what turned out to be his one season in professional baseball in the White Sox system.
Jordan, who was 31 at the time and had just claimed three consecutive NBA titles with the Chicago Bulls, hit .202/.289/.266 in 127 games at Double-A Birmingham.
Tim Tebow may not be as accomplished as Jordan, but his celebrity immediately translated into robust crowds for the Mets, who signed the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner last September. Fans flocked to see Tebow, whether at instructional league or the Arizona Fall League last year or at big league camp or in the low Class A South Atlantic League this spring.
Through his first 25 games at Columbia, the 29-year-old Tebow hit .236/.313/.360 with two home runs and 25 strikeouts. A major league scout who requested anonymity furnished BA with the following scouting report of the former University of Florida quarterback.
BATTING Tebow shows some bat speed, but his swing is stiff. He is a physical specimen in the box (listed at 6-foot-3, 255 pounds) with good balance in his swing. He is just stiff, but I understand he has loosened up.
His limited pitch recognition is his issue. That is going to probably be his demise, just because of him being out of baseball for so long.
What he is doing is really difficult, but if somebody is going to (succeed), it is definitely going to be him.
POWER Tebow has slightly above-average raw power. When he gets on plane and on time in batting practice, he can hit the ball as far as any big leaguer.
He is probably going to hit for a little better power once he gets a better feel for the strike zone.
He is probably going to be a high-strikeout, low-walk guy because he has an amateur approach, which is understandable.
There are a lot of things he does not have. Because he plays left field, he is going to have to hit, and hit a lot. He is going to run into a ball every now and then because he is extremely strong and is a physical specimen.
But being able to get into the batter's box against a Max Scherzer in a playoff game—that is not going to happen.
SPEED He is an average to slightly above-average runner, but at times he does not give effort and just kind of goes through the motions. That is what you see in a lot of players . . . Nobody runs a hard 90 feet all the time anymore.
At times, he will show a little burst, but he is a side-to-side runner. He runs hard and runs strong. You know what he is. You have seen him on TV playing football. He runs the same way. He's an aggressive, athletic runner with a super athletic body.
That is not going to translate, especially after his body breaks down over 140 games in the minor leagues. He is not going to be a plus runner.
DEFENSE Defensively, Tebow has choppy footwork (in left field). His first step is slow. He will get to the routine play, but he is not going to win you a ball game there and potentially could get you beat. He is a left fielder only, and that is being generous in the evaluation.
ARM Tebow has a below-average arm with a below-average arm action.
MAKEUP Tebow has unbelievable makeup. You want your son to be him when he grows up.
He is the type of guy you want to have around young players. He is a plus in every department on the makeup side, from his work ethic to who he is deep down inside to who he is as a teammate. He's just an absolutely good person.
His motto is "pursuing your dreams in any way possible," and I tip my cap to him.
SUMMARY I believe Tebow is an organizational player. I do not think he is a major leaguer. But if he progresses like he has at low Class A and continues to hit at other levels, then if not this September, it will be next September—if the Mets are out of playoff contention—that he will (receive a callup), just as a marketing, public relations thing.
But if you are looking at him, without looking at those things, he is a mid-level organizational player. I would not recommend him to our club because we try to scout to build a championship club. He does not check those boxes for me.
So rather than have a feel-good story, the NFL PR machine would once again rather play the fool and the bad-guy. This precedent may have started when they pre-empted Tim Tebow's eye black back in the day and to a lesser extent, Jim McMahon's headband.
So blame those two wild and crazy guys for Heyward's recent dust-up with the NFL.
It almost seems like they would prefer wife-beaters, whore chasers and degenerate gamblers both on the field and in the stands. Not to mention as sponsors,
Maybe the NFL is the national pastime after all. And ESPN, their head cheer-leader.
A recent report from the Palm Beach Post described how the NCAA Rules Committee is proposing a ban on wearing special messages on a player's eye black – the rule could be known as the Tim Tebow Rule. During his final season, Tim Tebow wore a new Bible verse under his eyes for every game. It became very popular… in fact, I created a special page here on Tebow Zone just for fans to keep track of what verse he wore on what day: Tim Tebow's Eye Black.
The eye black generated a lot of buzz, some 92 million people Googled "John 3:16″ after Tim wore it during the 2009 BCS Championship Game. The messages were highly effective, but if the new rule passes players will not be allowed to wear them. The report goes into how Urban Meyer had to be an "eye black cop" at times…always policing what his players were writing to make sure there was nothing bad and damaging to the University's image.
The rule was proposed on Thursday and if passed will become official for the 2010 season. I think that it will pass – there is just too much extra stuff going on and the whole monitoring thing to deal with. They will probably require all players on a team to wear the same eye black.
The NFL already enforces this rule, so Tim Tebow will have to abide by it once he signs on with a team.
Tebow goes from a low-class team to a high-class team and the Jets are who we thought they were. Still LOSERS!! It will be interesting to see how the Pats and Josh McDaniel implement him in the offense.
After listening to the recent debate between the Hawk and ESPN's Brian Kenney (YouTube below), I couldn't help but think that maybe the Hawk has a point, maybe two. Whether you call it TWTW or GRIT or whatever, intangibles are a quality that by definition do not lend themselves to being quantified by definition, but you know them when you see them.
Some guys have that quality of making the other guys around them better. They make the total of the team greater than the sum of its parts. They are leaders and chemistry builders. And some guys are the opposite. Winners have the intangibles!!! And like many things, you don't appreciate what you've got until after it's gone. Then you realize the hard to quantify value-added that these guys provide after they are missing from the equation. Then the team is equal to ( mediocrity ) or maybe even less than the sum of its parts ( under-achievers ). Of course, then it's too late.
That's what Hawk is trying to explain to the geek squad here, IMO. from The Big Lead:
The first example that came to my mind was Tim Tebow in 2011 with Denver.
Artistically, not a QB work of art.
Statistically, not a work of art.
But his teams win consistently.
It took the Jets to break the streak and that says more about the Jets than it does Tebow. The Jets have been
a cesspool of bad personnel decisions and Tebow was supposed to come in and be the team plunger how?
By holding a clipboard?
Anyway, I thought I would take a look at the 2011 year in quarterbacking in the NFL and began with the
premise that the better the QB statistically, the better the teams record would be.
So, I wanted to see the correlation between the ESPN total QB rating and winning.
In addition, I wanted to see if there were any examples like Tebow of QB's who violated the statistical model,
so to speak. Who won sometimes in spite of their liabilities as a QB as defined by the statistical metric.
They were "bad" QB's who just won ball games.
Here is the metric and how they determine the QB rating.
There were some interesting results (shown below).
PASS EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added on plays with pass attempts.
RUN EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added through scrambles, designed rushes and fumbles/fumble returns on running plays.
SACK EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added (lost) on sacks.
PEN EPA: Clutch-weighted expected points added on penalties.
TOTAL EPA: Total clutch-weighted expected points added.
ACT PLAYS: Plays on which the QB has a non-zero expected points contribution. Includes most plays
that are not handoffs.
QB PAR: Number of points contributed by a quarterback over the season, accounting for QBR and
how much he plays, above the level of a quarterback who plays very rarely and is on the fringe of the NFL.
QB PAA: Number of points contributed by a quarterback over the season, accounting for QBR and how much he plays, above the level of an average quarterback.
TOTAL QBR: Total Quarterback Rating, which values quarterback on all play types on a 0-to-100 scale.
A quick primer on the fundamentals of Total Quarterback Rating: Scoring: 0-100, from low to high. An average QB would be at 50. Win Probability: All QB plays are scored based on how much they contribute to a win. By determining expected point totals for almost any situation, Total QBR is able to apply points to a quarterback based on every type of play he would be involved in. Dividing Credit: Total QBR factors in such things as overthrows, underthrows, yards after the catch and more to accurately determine how much a QB contributes to each play. Clutch Index: How critical a certain play is based on when it happens in a game is factored into the score.
For the W-L data for each QB, I used CBS Sports NFL data. The W-L data includes only games where the
QB started and includes playoff games if the team advanced that far. (TWTW)
The correlation between the Total QBR and the QB winning percentage (W_Pct) as a starter was 0.64.
No surprise, the NFL is a QB driven league nowadays.
Based on this small sample, the correlation number implies that about 40% of a teams winning percentage is
derived from the play of their quarterback.
The first thing that jumps out are the names at the top of the list are WINNERS. The creme de la creme of
the NFL. Aaron Rogers, Drew Brees, Tom Brady, Tony Romo and Matt Ryan are the top five and win at
about the rate that their stellar play implies
The bottom of the list gives us Blaine Gabbert, Curtis Painter, Sam Bradford, Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez.
Painter and Gabbert won at about the level of play their QBR would indicate. Sam Bradford seemed to just
have one of those miserable season where everything went wrong for him and his team. But Tebow and Sanchez both out kicked their coverage so to speak.
Sanchez had a QBR of 33.6 and an W_Pct of 50.0% for a plus 16.40 score.
Tebow came in with a 29.9 QBr and a W_Pct of 61.5% for a plus 31.64 score.
The list of over-achievers, possessing dare I say TWTW, were:
John Skelton @ +39.90
Alex Smith @ +31.98
Tim Tebow @ +31.64
Mark Sanchez @ +16.40
Joe Flacco @ +12.52
Tom Brady @ +10.63
Jay Cutler @ +10.20
The interesting name on the list was Skelton who out-performed a more highly regarded QB in Kevin Kolb
( 34.4 QBR - 33.33 W_Pct) for the same Arizona Cardinal team. Apparently, Skelton may have had had
that je ne sais quoi, the TWTW that Hawk is alluding to and he was able to rally the team around him as
Tebow did the Broncos in relief of Kyle Orton.
Skelton and Tebow are interesting because they took over the same team, with the same defensive squad
and rallied them from depths to heights. That result defines what Hawk is speaking about. We're just not
certain how to identify it in advance, but we can generally spot it after the fact pretty well.
The rest of the overachiever names you can generally say had good to excellent defensive teams around
them. How much of the teams performance can be attributed to good defense and how much of the
defensive performance is aided by good QB play (keeping them off the field, playing from ahead more
often than from behind, etc.) is fodder for another post.
Hindsight and many forms of statistical analysis are always 20/20. I think that is the Hawk's frustration
with the SABR crowd and it is well placed in some instances.
Looking at the other end of the scale, the under-achievers yields some interesting names. These guys
QBR was significantly higher than their team record for whatever reason. Maybe they were stat
gatherers and not team motivators. maybe they were on bad teams.
Kyle Orton @ -29.80
Tony Romo @ -21.40
Josh Freeman @ -18.63
Sam Bradford @ -18.60
Carson Palmer @ -18.16
Matt Schaub @ -17.50
Cam Newton @ -17.50
Some of these guys were on good teams, with good defenses, soooooooooo.......IDK.
Lets just say I would score this one in favor of Hawk Harrelson over Brian Kenney
and Harold Reynolds by a TKO. STOP THE FIGHT!!
And they can roll their eyes and snicker amongst themselves all they want.
TWTW
Total QBR
W-L
W_Pct
W_Pct
Diff
Player
86.2
15-2
88.2%
88.24
2.04
Aaron Rodgers
84.0
14-4
77.8%
77.78
(6.22)
Drew Brees
72.7
15-3
83.3%
83.33
10.63
Tom Brady
71.4
8-8
50.0%
50.00
(21.40)
Tony Romo
69.1
10-6
62.5%
62.50
(6.60)
Matt Ryan
67.5
5-5
50.0%
50.00
(17.50)
Matt Schaub
65.5
10-6
62.5%
62.50
(3.00)
Matt Stafford
64.4
7-6
53.8%
53.85
(10.55)
Michael Vick
63.6
11-5
68.8%
68.75
5.15
Ben Roethlisberger
62.8
9-7
56.3%
56.25
(6.55)
Matt Hasselbeck
62.7
8-8
50.0%
50.00
(12.70)
Philip Rivers
62.6
4-5
44.4%
44.44
(18.16)
Carson Palmer
59.8
7-3
70.0%
70.00
10.20
Jay Cutler
59.7
13-5
72.2%
72.22
12.52
Joe Flacco
59.4
12-7
54.5%
54.55
(4.85)
Eli Manning
56.6
6-6
50.0%
50.00
(6.60)
Matt Moore
55.0
6-10
37.5%
37.50
(17.50)
Cam Newton
51.2
4-5
44.4%
44.44
(6.76)
Matt Cassell
50.5
6-10
37.5%
37.50
(13.00)
Ryan Fitzpatrick
49.8
1-4
20.0%
20.00
(29.80)
Kyle Orton
45.8
9-7
56.3%
56.25
10.45
Andy Dalton
45.8
14-4
77.8%
77.78
31.98
Alex Smith
45.3
4-11
26.7%
26.67
(18.63)
Josh Freeman
43.9
5-8
38.5%
38.46
(5.44)
Rex Grossman
40.1
4-9
30.8%
30.77
(9.33)
Colt McCoy
37.7
7-8
46.7%
46.67
8.97
Tarvaris Jackson
35.1
6-2
75.0%
75.00
39.90
John Skelton
34.4
3-6
33.3%
33.33
(1.07)
Kevin Kolb
33.7
2-9
18.2%
18.18
(15.52)
Christian Ponder
33.6
8-8
50.0%
50.00
16.40
Mark Sanchez
29.9
8-5
61.5%
61.54
31.64
Tim Tebow
28.6
1-9
10.0%
10.00
(18.60)
Sam Bradford
22.5
2-12
14.3%
14.29
(8.21)
Curtis Painter
20.6
4-11
26.7%
26.67
6.07
Blaine Gabbert
0.641328597
Correl
OBR - W_Pct
GUILFORD’S SUGGESTED INTERPRETATION FOR
CORRELATION COEFFICIENT VALUES
Value
Interpretation
Less than
.20
Less than .20 Slight, almost
negligible relationship
.20 - .40
.20 - .40 Low correlation; definite
but small relationship
1. Joey Bart 6-2, 215 C Power arm and a power bat, playing a premium defensive position. Good catch and throw skills.
2. Heliot Ramos 6-2, 185 OF Potential high-ceiling player the Giants have been looking for. Great bat speed, early returns were impressive.
3. Chris Shaw 6-3. 230 1B Lefty power bat, limited defensively to 1B, Matt Adams comp?
4. Tyler Beede 6-4, 215 RHP from Vanderbilt projects as top of the rotation starter when he works out his command/control issues. When he misses, he misses by a bunch.
5. Stephen Duggar 6-1, 170 CF Another toolsy, under-achieving OF in the Gary Brown mold, hoping for better results.
6. Sandro Fabian 6-0, 180 OF Dominican signee from 2014, shows some pop in his bat. Below average arm and lack of speed should push him towards LF.
7. Aramis Garcia 6-2, 220 C from Florida INTL projects as a good bat behind the dish with enough defensive skill to play there long-term
8. Heath Quinn 6-2, 190 OF Strong hitter, makes contact with improving approach at the plate. Returns from hamate bone injury.
9. Garrett Williams 6-1, 205 LHP Former Oklahoma standout, Giants prototype, low-ceiling, high-floor prospect.
10. Shaun Anderson 6-4, 225 RHP Large frame, 3.36 K/BB rate. Can start or relieve
11. Jacob Gonzalez 6-3, 190 3B Good pedigree, impressive bat for HS prospect.
12. Seth Corry 6-2 195 LHP Highly regard HS pick. Was mentioned as possible chip in high profile trades.
13. C.J. Hinojosa 5-10, 175 SS Scrappy IF prospect in the mold of Kelby Tomlinson, just gets it done.
14. Garett Cave 6-4, 200 RHP He misses a lot of bats and at times, the plate. 13 K/9 an 5 B/9. Wild thing.
2019 MLB Draft - Top HS Draft Prospects
1. Bobby Witt, Jr. 6-1,185 SS Colleyville Heritage HS (TX) Oklahoma commit. Outstanding defensive SS who can hit. 6.4 speed in 60 yd. Touched 97 on mound. Son of former major leaguer. Five tool potential.
2. Riley Greene 6-2, 190 OF Haggerty HS (FL) Florida commit.Best HS hitting prospect. LH bat with good eye, plate discipline and developing power.
3. C.J. Abrams 6-2, 180 SS Blessed Trinity HS (GA) High-ceiling athlete. 70 speed with plus arm. Hitting needs to develop as he matures. Alabama commit.
4. Reece Hinds 6-4, 210 SS Niceville HS (FL) Power bat, committed to LSU. Plus arm, solid enough bat to move to 3B down the road. 98MPH arm.
5. Daniel Espino 6-3, 200 RHP Georgia Premier Academy (GA) LSU commit. Touches 98 on FB with wipe out SL.
2019 MLB Draft - Top College Draft Prospects
1. Adley Rutschman C Oregon State Plus defender with great arm. Excellent receiver plus a switch hitter with some pop in the bat.
2. Shea Langliers C Baylor Excelent throw and catch skills with good pop time. Quick bat, uses all fields approach with some pop.
3. Zack Thompson 6-2 LHP Kentucky Missed time with an elbow issue. FB up to 95 with plenty of secondary stuff.
4. Matt Wallner 6-5 OF Southern Miss Run producing bat plus mid to upper 90's FB closer. Power bat from the left side, athletic for size.
5. Nick Lodolo LHP TCU Tall LHP, 95MPH FB and solid breaking stuff.
February 15th, 2010 
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