Rule 5 Draft Preview: Blue Jays
After a inauspicious and nondescript three days spent in Florida, the Blue Jays Winter Meetings experience will officially conclude on Thursday with the annual Rule 5 draft. What is the Rule 5 Draft? The Rule 5 draft is an annual major league player draft, designed to keep teams from stockpiling young players in their minor league affiliates, rather than promoting them within the system or to their big league rosters. How does it...
Prospect Chat with Marc Hulet, FanGraphs
As the offseason begins to hit a fever pitch and with Toronto general manager Alex Anthopoulos’ stated preference to improve his major league roster through trade rather than free agency, some fans are understandably anxious about what any potential upgrades may cost to the Blue Jays’ already depleted prospect pool. It wasn’t very long ago that Toronto was ranked by the respected baseball website FanGraphs as having...
Bird’s-Eye View: Rob Rasmussen
Rob Rasmussen Position: LHP Height/Weight: 5’9″ 160 lb. Born: April 2 1989 (Age 24) (PCL – AAA – 2013) 12g 10gs 0-7 6.46era 54.1ip 64h 10hr 32bb 37so (SOULL – AA – 2013) 16g 14gs 3-4 2.55era 81.1ip 60h 5hr 28bb 76so Overview: Traded along with backup catcher Erik Kratz from the Phillies in exchange for Blue Jays reliever Brad Lincoln. Background Not quite a journeyman even by baseball standards...
Prospect Showdown: American League West
It’s Black Friday and shoppers won’t be the only ones looking for deals in the near offing. Restless baseball fans sitting through a slow start to the offseason will also be waiting for some trades to happen, hopefully in advance of next week’s winter meetings. If you’ll recall in Parts I and II of my feature I discussed prospects from the AL East and Central who could find themselves the subjects of such...
The Expendables
If you’re wondering why my first two prospect features have been named after Hollywood B movies, it’s because the prospects I plan on discussing are not of the primetime variety (at least not yet). B movies are by definition unheralded, less-publicized, intended as a second feature on a double bill. The same also seems to hold true of some prospects. If you’ll recall in Part I of the feature called “The Other...
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