Baseball Prospect Report

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.

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Tags: Bralin Jackson, Bralin Jackson Video, Tampa Bay Rays

By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
August 8, 2011

By the end of the fourth game of the day, my hand was molded in the shape of a stopwatch grip. My finger was pressing the button with each pitch. One problem — no stopwatch in the hand. That’s what 29 innings in one day will do to a guy. It took three phantom timings for me to realize, oh, my watch is on my lap, not in my hand. It’s time to time out.

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Tags: 2011 Area Code Games, Austin Rei, Braden Bishop, Bralin Jackson, CJ Saylor, Clint Coulter, Cody Poteet, Drew Jackson, JP Crawford, Kyle Twomey, Mitchell Aker, Rio Ruiz, Shane Watson, Tim Lopes, Trevor Megill, Tyrone Taylor, Vance Vizcaino, Zach Green