2015-16 Prospect Season

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Centerfield wrote: Fullmer sounds pretty good. That was not fun at all. Eh, I'd still do the deal again in a second. And he's also not there yet. Don't skip over the usual caveats about how if he DOESN'T develop as hoped they predict a good career as a solid bullpen arm ... So, yeah, he'll be a top 50 prospect this winter (prolly even top 25 and top 10 among RHPs) and may go on to have a great career.

Turns out I over-exaggerated the feeling on Fulmer.
Averaging out a mash-up from five off-season lists (ESPN, BA, BP, MLB, John Sickels) Fulmer winds up as the 59th best prospect and 15th among RHPs and doesn't look like he'll be on Detroit's OD roster. In fact, he's not even the best Fulmer on the prospect lists. The un-related Carson Fulmer, a RHP for the ChiSox, is a couple of notches higher.

It's actually the other pitcher we sent away in that deal, Luis Cessa who the Tigers wound up trading over the winter, who may wind up making the Yanx bullpen to begin the season.

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Finally someone focuses on what's truly important: listing the Top-100 prospects based on coolest names
This is a list so cool that even former NYM draft pick Damien Magnifico doesn't even crack the top half!!

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Amed Rosario porn

[Edgy MD]

As for his first name, Amed, as he told The News Press in Fort Myers, Fla., in May, Rosario said his father gave him that name because it came from an Iranian soap-opera character his father enjoyed watching.

That was going to be my second guess.

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As the team's one true "hot" prospect, this is quickly becoming the all-Amed Rosario thread.

I was going to wait until he notched 100 ABs at Bingo before touting the fact that he's currently hitting .424 with a 1062 OPS since his June promotion to AA (59 ABs) which followed his .309/.359/.442 start at St Lucie.
But between my own impatience and then seeing that BP just named him #15 on their mid-season Top-50 prospect rankings (taking out all those who graduated since the pre-season lists - BA named him #18 on their similar mid-season update) well, I didn't wait.


From BP:

#15 - Amed Rosario, SS, New York Mets
Why He’ll Succeed: Rosario keeps getting better, every season. His ability to put on good weight without sacrificing athleticism enables him to stick at the six and rake at the plate, making him a threat on both sides of the ball.

Why He Might Fail: Still a work in progress, the approach and an unusual hand path could falter against better arms and better spin. If the bat doesn’t develop as anticipated, it is still a major-league package, but not an impact one.


Unmentioned there is that he won't turn 21 until November.

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John Sickels' Mid-Season Prospect Report
Keep in mind that, as always, this is not a new or re-ordered list but merely last winter's list with updates on the half-season since.

As expected the most glowing review is of Rosario:
3) Amed Rosario, SS, Grade B:
Breakout; hitting combined .330/.377/.472 between High-A and Double-A, 14 steals, still just 20 years old; good defense, too; Mets version of Xander Bogaerts? Grade A- prospect at this point and maybe more.