A look back: top 10 prospects from 2011

[weams]

 

[weams]

Just now, weams said:

 

I think Ryan Adams was the leader of that heroin ring. 

[backwardsk]

15 minutes ago, weams said:

 

Whatever.  Look at other lists in the AL East.  How many collectively produced more than the three Orioles that made it?

[Frobby]

4 minutes ago, backwardsk said:

Whatever.  Look at other lists in the AL East.  How many collectively produced more than the three Orioles that made it?

Honestly, any list with Manny, Schoop and Givens isn’t half bad.   

As I recall, Tony thought the inclusion of Pelzer on this list was laughable.  

[weams]

27 minutes ago, backwardsk said:

Whatever.  Look at other lists in the AL East.  How many collectively produced more than the three Orioles that made it?

Brandon Snyder had an off an on MLB career for half a decade. Trey Mancini is not there yet. That list has a whole bunch of WAR on it. 

[interloper]

We were all very excited about Xavier Avery for awhile.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, interloper said:

We were all very excited about Xavier Avery for awhile.

He has a very exciting name.

[Frobby]

1 minute ago, interloper said:

We were all very excited about Xavier Avery for awhile.

I always liked Hoes better.    Had tons of debate about their relative merits on the board.   They both ended up being extremely marginal.   

[weams]

3 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I always liked Hoes better.    Had tons of debate about their relative merits on the board.   They both ended up being extremely marginal.   

Hoes got suspended. 

[Frobby]

7 minutes ago, weams said:

Hoes got suspended. 

Yeah, eventually.    But by that time he’d already fizzled in the majors.  

[LookinUp]

1 hour ago, Can_of_corn said:

He has a very exciting name.

I liked Hoes better too. Avery didn't seem to have baseball instincts, IIRC. I do remember that he went off for 4-6 weeks and that had a lot of people here believing he was a stud prospect. I always think of him and temper my optimism about any prospect who has a 4-6 week hot streak. 

[ChuckS]

I do not remember Mahoney ever being that highly regarded.  No. 3?  He was a sixth round pick and always old for a prospect at whatever level he was playing at.  A poor-man's Mancini. 

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, ChuckS said:

I do not remember Mahoney ever being that highly regarded.  No. 3?  He was a sixth round pick and always old for a prospect at whatever level he was playing at.  A poor-man's Mancini. 

With speed!

[now]

3 hours ago, LookinUp said:

I liked Hoes better too. Avery didn't seem to have baseball instincts, IIRC. I do remember that he went off for 4-6 weeks and that had a lot of people here believing he was a stud prospect. I always think of him and temper my optimism about any prospect who has a 4-6 week hot streak. 

Jim Traber says hi. (Okay, maybe that was 4-6 games).

And Jake Fox. (Yeah, I know--spring training doesn't count).

[Ohfan67]

5 hours ago, weams said:

Brandon Snyder had an off an on MLB career for half a decade. Trey Mancini is not there yet. That list has a whole bunch of WAR on it. 

Agree about the WAR. That is not a bad list at all. 

 

Mancini has accumulated about 5.5 times as many at bats as Snyder. WAR is 2.5 versus .1. The 8th round pick smoked the first round pick.