NYY Fans Summer 09 Top 30 #39

[sjkqw]

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RK

RK

RK

Name

Last

Pos

Year

Round

Bonus

Hometown

B/T

Ht

Wt

Age

DOB

Team

Team

Inj/notes

6

2

1

Jesus

Montero

C

2006

IFA

$1.6m

Venezuela

R/R

6'4

225

19.68

11/28/1989

Trenton

Charles

4

1

2

Austin

Jackson

CF

2005

8th

$800k

Denton, TX

R/R

6'1

195

22.50

2/1/1987

SWB

Trenton

27

7

3

Zach

McAllister

SP

2006

3rd

$368k

Valley, IL

R/R

6'6

230

21.62

12/18/1987

Trenton

Tam/Charles

23

6

4

Austin

Romine

C

2007

2nd

$500k

El Toro, CA

R/R

6'2

210

20.69

11/22/1988

Tampa

Charles

9

5

5

Mark

Melancon

RP

2006

9th

$600k

Golden, CO

R/R

6'2

215

24.36

3/25/1985

SWB

Tampa

TJ 10.20.06

NR

24

6

Manuel

Banuelos

SP

2008

IFA

-

Mexico

L/L

5'10

170

18.39

3/13/1991

Charles

GCL

28

NR

7

Ivan

Nova

SP

2004

IFA

-

Dominican

R/R

6'4

210

22.55

1/12/1987

SD

Tampa

45

18

8

Aroyds

Vizcaino

SP

2007

IFA

$800k

Dominican

R/R

6'0

189

18.72

11/13/1990

Charles

GCL

56

54

9

Eduardo

Nunez

SS

2004

IFA

-

Dominican

R/R

6'0

175

22.13

6/15/1987

Trenton

Tampa

32

23

10

Kelvin

DeLeon

RF

2007

IFA

$1.1m

Dominican

R/R

6'3

195

18.76

10/29/1990

GCL

DSL

11

4

11

Andrew

Brackman

SP

2007

1st

$4.5m

Cincinatti OH

R/R

6'10

270

23.66

12/4/1985

Charles

TJ

TJ 8.23.07

NR

26

12A

DJ

Mitchell

SP

2008

10th

$400k

Clemson

R/R

6'0

170

22.22

5/13/1987

Tampa

Instucts

?

7

12B

Dellin

Betances

SP

2006

8th

$1m

New York, NY

R/R

6'9

238

21.36

3/23/1988

Charles

NR

9

14

Jeremy

Bleich

SP

2008

1st

$863k

Stanford

L/L

6'2

190

22.12

6/18/1987

Tampa

Hawaii

NR

17

15

Wilkins

De La Rosa

SP/RP

IFA

-

Dominican

L/L

6'1

185

24.44

2/21/1985

Trenton

Charles

16 Jairo Heredia SP
17 Corban Joseph 2B/3B/SS
18 David Phelps SP
19 Jose Pirela 2B/SS
20 Gary Sanchez C
21 George Kontos SP
22 David Adams 2B
23A Jorge Vazquez 1B/C (DH)
24 Brandon Laird 1B/3B
25 Adam Warren SP
26 Neil Medchill LF
27 Brad Suttle 3B
28 Reegie Corona 2B/SS
29 Mike Dunn LOOGY/RP
30 Garrison Lassiter SS/3B
31A Eduardo Sosa CF
31B Brett Marshall SP
33 Kyle Higashioka
34 Christian Garcia
35 Matthew Richardson
36 Kevin Russo 2B/U
37 Dan Brewer Corner OF
38 Yeicok Calderon Corner OF

Juan	Miranda
Brad	Rulon
Sean	Black
Deangelo	Mack
Abe	Almonte
Humberto	Sanchez
Alan	Horne
Mariel	Checo
Kevin	Whelan

Next additions: Zach Kroenke, Pat Venditte, Nik Turley, Brett Gerritse, Joshua Schmidt, Anthony Claggett, Gavin Brooks, Melky Mesa, Kanekoa Texeira, Lance Pendleton, Jon Hovis, Ryan Pope, Rey Nunez, Carmen Angelini, Jon Ortiz, Colin Curtis, Jose Mojica, Mikey O'Brien, Robert Lyerly, Damon Sublett, Tim Norton

[Pokerface]

Other - Pat Venditte

[sjkqw]

We'll add the 3 lefties next. (even though Venditte isn't really a lefty)

Does anyone feel Henry Pena Ramon Flores Jackson Valera Kelvin Duran Gian Arias Ericson Leonora Anderson Felix Melvin Croussett Luis Parache or Elio de la Rosa deserve any consideration on the next additions list. I like what we have there. Rey Nunez is fair, but I am not sure about any of these.

[yanke1313]

Miranda, Almonte, and Horne.

[CaptainCargo]

Rulon, Checo and the "other" Heredia.

Speaking of the other Heredia, he did fairly well yesterday. As did the Melvinator.


Heredia threw 5 innings of 3 hit ball while walking zip and striking out 9. His ERA now sits at 0.32 in 57IP. I'm surprised this guy isn't getting more yakity yak around here. I realize he's a little light in the wallet, but the stats are stellar.

The Melvinator is a strikeout machine now at 43Ks in 25 innings.

[primetime714]

Miranda, Horne, and Whelan.

The only reasons Miranda isn't higher on this list are his age and the fact that we have Teixeira at 1B. He's putting together another good minor league season just like he has every year since we signed him.

Horne is making his way back and should hopefully be ready to go for 2010 season when I'd expect him to be in major league training camp and in the SWB rotation to start the year. He should provide nice starting rotation depth next year and could even be a candidate to move to the bullpen where if fully recovered he'd have back-end stuff.

Whelan his stuff is about as good as almost any reliever in our system. Throughout his minor league career he has been extremely difficult to hit and strikes out a lot of batters. His one major weakness is his control which he seems to have shown some improvement on this year. He reminds me a lot of Brian Bruney not too long ago.

[McMoose]

Went with Sean Black. Former second rounder having pretty good success.

[primetime714]

Rulon, Checo and the "other" Heredia.

Speaking of the other Heredia, he did fairly well yesterday. As did the Melvinator.


Heredia threw 5 innings of 3 hit ball while walking zip and striking out 9. His ERA now sits at 0.32 in 57IP. I'm surprised this guy isn't getting more yakity yak around here. I realize he's a little light in the wallet, but the stats are stellar.

The Melvinator is a strikeout machine now at 43Ks in 25 innings.

There's a reason guys like Heredia, Croussett, Quintana, Marcano, and other DSL pitchers are still over in the DSL and its either A) cause they weren't ready and/or B) they're not as good as some of the other guys we had slated for the GCL.

When it comes to the DSL I'm going to trust our scouts over the stats. I will say though that the stats definitely have put some of those guys on my radar, but its still too early to seriously consider most of those guys. Hopefully we'll see more of them stateside next year.

[CaptainCargo]

There's a reason guys like Heredia, Croussett, Quintana, Marcano, and other DSL pitchers are still over in the DSL and its either A) cause they weren't ready and/or B) they're not as good as some of the other guys we had slated for the GCL.

When it comes to the DSL I'm going to trust our scouts over the stats. I will say though that the stats definitely have put some of those guys on my radar, but its still too early to seriously consider most of those guys. Hopefully we'll see more of them stateside next year.

No prob. But we're not talking "most of them", just three or four of them.

Or, at the very least could we consider them unseriously?

[sjkqw]

Votes are really starting to decrease again

[Yankee Steve]

It is easy to lose interest when you are on the 31st iteration of anything...

[primetime714]

No prob. But we're not talking "most of them", just three or four of them.

Or, at the very least could we consider them unseriously?

A few, not seriously? Sure, why not. My point is to put those guys down is that's merely that at this point in the voting we have a whole laundry list of pitchers getting it done in the US. We also have higher profile guys that aren't getting it done that project better.

In addition to all of the guys currently in the selection pool guys like: Turley, Ortiz, Lare, Venditte, Pendleton, Norton, and Jose A. Ramirez just to name a few deserve to be considered before any DSL pitcher that is currently in the midst of their second year there (all of the ones putting up good numbers are).

Speaking of some of those guys. Why are Trent Lare and Jose A Ramirez not even on the Next additions list? They should probably be at or near the top of that.

[sjkqw]

Trent Lare isn't really a prospect I thought. Jose A. Ramirez maybe. I don't consider him better than Mikey O'Brien though.

[yanke1313]

I like Jose Ramirez.

[primetime714]

Trent Lare isn't really a prospect I thought. Jose A. Ramirez maybe. I don't consider him better than Mikey O'Brien though.

Yea I guess Lare is on the old side, so maybe wait on him. I like both Ramirez and O'Brien. I actually think they're fairly similar. Both throw low 90's fastballs and have a curveball and changeup as their secondary pitches. Ramirez has had the better year. I also like his changeup more. O'Brien has better control though and is probably more polished. Both however should be one of the next additions