Scouting Video: Josh Ludy, C, #278, Phillies (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
August 3, 2012
Josh Ludy is a guy I saw once, here he is. Enjoy. His name reminds me of “Judge Judy,” but please don’t call him that from the stands.
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Scouting Video: Bralin Jackson, OF, #182, Rays (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
August 1, 2012
Bralin Jackson is a guy I remember I liked. Upside. Send him to player devlopment, please. Can someone please explain to me why all these black kids with loose, fast bodies and bat speed all fall in the draft and go lower than these slower showcase travel ball goons? I’m not going to say it’s a race thing but I am going to say it’s a bad baseball mind thing and horseshit scouting. This game has been talking for years that there are no black players — really? OK, yes there are, so either the industry is nit-picking or there’s some old shit going on here. Are they ALL really asking for obscene money? ALL of them? Which one is it? PS – good work, RJ & area guy. Hope he pans out. Signed — guy who wrote books about Mays and Aaron.
Scouting Video: Steven Golden, OF, #428, Phillies (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 30, 2012
The Phillies hope Steven is Golden and Andrew is Pullin, so down the road, the lineup card may read Golden Pullin.
Scouting Video: Theo Alexander, OF, #236, Dodgers (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 27, 2012
Theo Alexander is a guy whose scouting fortune cookie reads: Left-Handed power. I remember that I liked him at AC, which more than a year later, given everything in my memory, is saying something.
Scouting Video: Andrew Pullin, OF, #188, Phillies (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 25, 2012
Andrew Pullin is hopefully Pullin the Ball, not Pullin off the ball, so Phillies fans will be Pullin for him to become Phillie Pullin.
Scouting Video: B.J. Boyd, OF, #139, Oakland A’s (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 23, 2012
B.J. Boyd is a guy I only saw a little bit of. I bet I have my notes somewhere. Don’t feel like looking for them. Press play.
Scouting Video: Kieran Lovegrove, RHP, #110, Indians (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 20, 2012
Kieran Lovegrove is one of those arms I would bet my book career that the Indians’ area guy was thrilled got to him. I knew a lot of people who thought there was a lot of upside to this guy. So we will see. I saw him in Summer and Winter but never had the time to go see again in Spring, so I don’t know if he began learning how to pitch with his body and not just his arm. He was pitching so upright in this first clip that it looked like a guy was holding a gun to his back. But you could see the arm strength and the loose arm, so that’s what you take the flyer on.
Scouting Video: Joe Munoz, 3B, #90, Diamondbacks (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 18, 2012
Joe Munoz is seen here taking BP. Loose, athletic body, whippy swing, so on and so forth. Is that leg kick all the way gone yet?
Scouting Video: Nathan Mikolas, 1B, #124, Yankees (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 16, 2012
Dear Oppenheimer — Hey, I liked this guy a lot last summer. I did. So here’s a Wisconsin kid being drafted by the Yankees while my book about the Milwaukee Braves beating the New York Yankees is on the shelves. Oh, man, you gotta love the irony. I could start cracking Bob Zuk jokes that only you and I would understand, you know, the joke about John Young’s hat, but only you, I and three other scouts would get the joke. We’ll just let the rest of the baseball world guess, which is what Bob would love. You know it as well as I.
Dear Nate — Dude, I think you can hit. Make me right. This post is not affiliated with the Yankees, but it is sponsored by my witty sense of humor. Get to it, Wisconsin.
Scouting Video: Austin Aune, OF, #89, Yankees (2012 Draft)
By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
July 13, 2012
Austin Aune is an Oppenheimer guy, high school guy with high offensive ceiling. So Opp breaks out the old man’s checkbook and takes the chance. It’s really the old Atlanta Braves way — um, the OLD Atlanta Braves way, ahem — you go hard at high school bats and build long term. Or you trade the dude away for bullpen help in three years, whatever comes first.
