https://www.minorleagueball.com/2018...pects-for-2018
10 Braves in the top 100.
Pache at 162, no Muller.
https://www.minorleagueball.com/2018...pects-for-2018
10 Braves in the top 100.
Pache at 162, no Muller.
“Wentz and Wilson are a rare type: Braves pitching prospects who may actually be under-rated.”
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
JohnAdcox (03-15-2018)
Grade A
Acuna 1
Grade A-/A
Gohara 12 COMMENT: I think I like Gohara better than other analysts.
Grade B+/A-
Wright 30
Soroka 31
Grade B+
Allard 49
Fried 62
Anderson 66
Grade B+/B
Riley 74
Wentz 78 COMMENT: Wentz and Wilson are a rare type: Braves pitching prospects who may actually be under-rated.
Wilson 79
Grade B
Touki 135 COMMENT: Who knows with Touki?
Pache 162 COMMENT: Pache is all projection guess.
Go get him!
Founding member of the Whiny Little Bitches and Pricks Club
He's the highest on Gohara (12). Has him ranked well above Wright (30) and Soroka (31). Still has Allard in his top-50.
He doesn't have 2016 #1 pick Mickey Moniak on his list at all.
jpx7 (03-15-2018)
Didn’t see Maitan. How could he fall that far.
Coppy
JohnAdcox (03-15-2018)
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
jpx7 (03-15-2018)
Some Ian Anderson notes from a prospects writer watching him today: #braves Ian Anderson, 3/15: FB 91-95 (93) w/ lively ride elevated and late tail when spotted low. Worked on CH 83-5 more than CB 75-9 first time through, showing some good cambios w/ arm-speed and late fade. CB was the usual hard, sharp breaker.
Here's a video he posted of Anderson facing a few hitters: https://twitter.com/wa_mcinturff/sta...32913469845505
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50PoundHead (03-16-2018)
The number of folks putting dirt on Maitan is somewhat surprising to me. Maybe the adjustment downwards was appropriate due to the volume of hype, but it would seem to me he's still a really, really good prospect who might now have somewhat realistic expectations. It seems as though his failure to be a sensation in his first summer stateside was taken as a major failure and there are just too many things that might have played into that to be as dismissive as some have become.
I will say that two or three of the other guys the Braves loss were guys that were tracking pretty well, I thought.
Go get him!
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It seems to me I read that a lot of reports on him when he came stateside is that he had gained a fair amount of weight which led to concerns that he spent all of his contract on Big Macs. Could have been a lot of sour grapes by other scouts (which many scouts don't bother hiding). I think the other thing is that the Braves rushed him stateside (along with most of the other 2016 signings). It wouldn't have hurt to have him and the other guys start the season in the Dominican Summer League and then graduating to the Gulf Coast League a bit later.
I see some similarities here (although it's way to early to tell on Maitan) with the Olivera fiasco. Olivera (like Maitan) was highly thought of by a lot of scouts and the Dodgers signed him to a pretty lucrative deal. You can never tell with these guys until they hit the field.
jpx7 (03-16-2018)