Thursday, August 12, 2010

Best Tools

Update: No Bowling Green prospects were selected in the low-A portion.

As voted on by league managers, BaseballAmerica is running their "Best Tools" feature for each league. They've done AAA, AA, and high-A, so I'll update this when low-A is done, but for now, here's the Rays who have gotten recognition:

AAA (International League)
Best Baserunner - Desmond Jennings
Best Pitching Prospect - Jeremy Hellickson
Best Changeup - Jeremy Hellickson
Best Defensive Outfielder - Desmond Jennings
Most Exciting Player - Desmond Jennings

AA (Southern League)
Best Changeup - Alex Torres
Best Manager Prospect - Billy Gardner

High-A (Florida State League)
Best Pitching Prospect - Matt Moore
Best Breaking Pitch - Matt Moore
Best Reliever - Zach Quate
Best Defensive First Baseman - Mike Sheridan
Best Manager Prospect - Jim Morrison

Two "best manager prospects" for the Rays organization out of three leagues so far. I'm still not sure how Jeremy Hellickson didn't earn "best control" for the IL; that honor went to Dan Hudson. Alex Torres getting "best changeup" is a surprise considering that the reports are his breaking stuff was ahead of his changeup coming into the season.
-- By Kevin G at 12:26 PM

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 3:12 PM

    Could you provide any additional details on Mike Sheridan's recognition? Thanks.

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  2. DougAugust 11, 2010 at 4:08 PM

    Here is the link on Sheridan, but it's subscriber only.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 11, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    Doug - I am not a subscriber. I was hoping you could cut and paste the text from the BA website. Thanks anyway.

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  4. DougAugust 11, 2010 at 5:40 PM

    Oh, there isn't any text, just a table with the league's as columns and the Best... as rows. Sheridan is just listed as Kevin posted it, you aren't missing anything.

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