Defensive Indifference

Following in the footsteps of Kendry Morales, Livan Hernandez, and others before him, top Cuban baseball star Dayan Viciedo has recently defected to the United States, joining relatives in Miami.
Despite being only 19 years old, Viciedo is apparently considered the best baseball player in all of Cuba. He started playing in the top Cuban league […]

Now that enough of the season has been played so that sample sizes are starting to be somewhat meaningful, I thought I’d write about a few minor leaguers who have come out of nowhere and potentially catapulted themselves from obscurity to the land of legitimate prospect-dom. These are all players who were either unranked by […]

When third base prospect Evan Longoria was sent down to AAA Durham to start the season, a popular interpretation was that the Rays were simply trying to delay starting Longoria’s abritration clock so as to save money in the long term at the (possible) expense of performance in the short term.
Following Willy Aybar’s injury about […]

So I’m amused by the fact that Brian Bocock could be the Giants’ starting shortstop. I hear it was quite the battle between him an Barry Bentwang for the job, though.

I’d just like to say right now to Mr. Kershaw, please don’t go all Greg Miller on us and blow out your shoulder, because if you can do what you do here, you’re going to be a joy to watch for many, many years — so what if it’s Sean Casey, that thing would have […]

Maybe it’s the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, but the burning question out of this prospect season seems to be which pitcher is better — Clay Buchholz or Joba Chamberlain? Sure, I think it’s partly the rivalry, but mostly I think it’s just hard to differentiate between the two. There’s just no shape of a consensus on […]