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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Insanity . Jose Tabata is now 6-for-6 with two doubles in Scottsdale's game against the Peoria Javelinas. Also, Chase D'Arnaud has reached base five times in the game. Scottsdale leads 17-8. None of the Pirates ' pitchers have entered the game, fortunately. Tabata is now hitting .395 in the AFL. His status as a prospect has improved a bunch in the past few weeks. I want to say that it's time to start...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Arizona Fall League is close to wrapping up its season, just in time for the hot stove to get started once the free agent signing period begins on Friday. John Sickels from SBNation's Minor League Ball prospect site ( www.minorleagueball.com ) is working on the Top 20 prospects in each organization. Before taking a look at yesterday's performances, be sure to check out John Sickel's Top 20 Washington...
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SimonOnSports (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Blogging the Offseason is a 30 team series in which I ask a blogging representative from each MLB team a series of ten questions about their desires and thoughts surrounding the offseason. Check out all of them here. Today's team NL is the Pittsburgh Pirates and our guest is Pat from the Pirates Blog, Where Have You Gone Andy Slyke? . 1. Do you foresee the Pirates making any significant offseason moves...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
There were 39 runs and 39 hits in the game between the Javalinas and Saguaros on Tuesday afternoon with Mariners outfield prospect Dustin Ackley leading the way with 4 hits, 3 runs scored and 3 RBI. Ackley was the Mariners first round pick in the June 2009 first year player draft and has a bright future with the Mariners. Here is what John Sickels from SB Nation's Minor League Ball site had to say...
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Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Scottsdale Scorpions 5, Phoenix Desert Dogs 4 box Two throwing errors and three walks nearly handed the Desert Dogs the win in the 9th inning of Tuesday’s AFL action. Japan’s Tooru Murata held on to get the final out, though, and preserve the victory for the Scorpions. CF Jose Tabata singled three times for the Scorpions [...]
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The AFL was back in action and the Nationals Danny Espinosa helped Phoenix win the East division title by driving in four runs on Monday. If you have an ESPN Insider subscription, check out Jason Grey's article from Monday. Here is Grey on the Giant's prospect Thomas Neal: Thomas Neal, San Francisco Giants : Was Neal's breakout season (.337, 22 homers, 1.010 OPS) in the hitting-friendly Cal League...
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Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Scottsdale Scorpions 9, Peoria Saguaros 2 box game story featuring Chase d’Arnaud The Scorpions poured it on, scoring 7 runs in the last two innings, to defeat the Saguaros in Friday evening’s AFL play. 3B Chase d’Arnaud led the way with 3 hits and 2 RBI, while 2B Brian Friday and CF Jose Tabata contributed one [...]
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Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Phoenix Desert Dogs 12, Scottsdale Scorpions 3 box Two four-run innings helped the Desert Dogs take a bite out of the Scorpions in Wednesday evening’s AFL action. Despite two hits each by CF Jose Tabata and SS Brian Friday, along with another two hits by RF Domonic Brown (Phillies), the Scorpions could not keep up. [...]
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The AFL was back in action on Monday following a day off on Sunday. The Rising Stars game was very exciting for those who watched as the Indian's catching prospect Matt McBride hit a two-run homer off of Nationals pitching prospect Drew Storen. Let's take a look at the performances from Monday's games: Jose Tabata , OF, PIT-0-4, (.349) Buster Posey , C, SFG-1-3, BB, K (.224) Brandon Allen , 1B, ARI-1-4,...
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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
First, the good news from last night's AFL Rising Stars game : Chase D'Arnaud and Jose Tabata both went 2-for-3. Neither of Tabata's hits left the infield, and the first of D'Arnaud's was a shallow fly that no one could get to, but Tabata looked good on the basepaths, and D'Arnaud's last hit was stung. Daniel Moskos , though... the poor guy has nothing. The announcers said that the stadium gun had...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I did not get a chance to watch the Rising Stars game last night as I attended a Dark Star Orchestra (Dead cover band) concert in Philadelphia. As it turns out, both were good shows. Funny, I wore my Dodgers long sleeve T to the show, how Phillies fans still talk junk after getting their asses handed to them by the Yankees in the World Series. Back to the Rising Stars game. The AFL East squad jumped...
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Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Jose Tabata , Chase D'Arnaud and Daniel Moskos will be in the AFL's Rising Stars Showcase here soon (at 8:15 EST), and it'll be free to watch at MLB.com. Since I've been sick all week I've rented about nine movies, which is nine more than I did in the past three months or so before that. I stumbled into one called Sugar that I was shocked I didn't know about. Maybe most of you are familiar with it...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Let's see how some of MLB's top prospects performed the day before the Rising Stars game after the jump: Chase D'arnaud-2B, PIT-1-3, RS, RBI, SB (.261) Jose Tabata , OF, PIT-1-4, RBI (.366) Cole Gillespie , OF, ARI-1-4, RBI (.327) Domonic Brown , OF, PHI-0-4, RBI, BB, 2 K (.256) Willin Rosario, C, COL-2-4, 2 RS, HR, RBI (.303) Thomas Neal, 1B, SFG-2-5, RS, 2B, SB, RBI (.313) Donald Veal , SP, PIT-4...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The 2009 AFL Rising Stars game rosters are listed below for those of you who get the chance to see some of the best prospects in MLB in one game tonight at 8:15 on the MLB Network. Unfortunately, the Nationals pitching prospect Stephen Strasburg will not be making the start in this one with a "sore neck". What timing. But you will get the chance to see Buster Posey, Starlin Castro, Josh Vitters,...
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Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It will be interesting to see where Jim Callis ranks the Cubs SS Starlin Castro in the Baseball Prospect Handbook that comes out in early 2010. Castro is certainly getting alot of hype. Let's have a look at the top performances in the AFL on Wednesday after the jump: Matt Dominguez , 3B, FLA-1-4, HR, 2 RBI (.140) Chris Singleton , 2B, MIN-3-5, 2B, 2 RS, RBI (.319) Ryan Kalish , OF, BOS-2-3, RS, 2B,...
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