Saturday, September 24, 2011

News and Notes

BA has their NWL Top 20 Prospects list out. Joe Panik was #4 and Jesus Galindo was #9. I was pleasantly surprised Galindo was that high. BA loves his speed. Compares him to Rickey Henderson. His bat from the left side made a lot of progress too. The scouts seem to think Panik can stay at SS where his bat would be a plus. It would be average at 2B.

Some love for Kendry Flores and Shawn Payne in the chat. They were both near misses. A bit of a downer on Chuckie Jones re. pitch recognition and catching up to good FB's.

No mention of the catching trio of Murray, Staley and Burkhart. They are old for the level, but I think they have hope of becoming reserves in MLB in the future.

Baggs is reporting that Buster Posey is starting to catch balls from the pitching machine in a crouch. That's great news! The plan is for Buster to be the starting catcher next season.

2 comments:

  1. all the kids at instructional are at the game tonite

    and surkamp is getting squoze


    i like murray...i think he has a future

    good thing to develop backstops who can take the pounding

    what i see right now is that stewart i gonna get a year contract as backup...with sanchez in waiting

    2013 will be very interesting, with at least 4 guys fighting it out for the starting job

    the depth at catcher also brings up interesting trade possibilities

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  2. Lot of depth at catcher. Is every prospect the Giants sign out of VZ a switch hitter? Do they grow them on trees?

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