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Arizona Instructs Notebook, Part 1

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October 30, 2010

Time to open the notebook and have a look at the Arizona Instructional League. These are players I saw that I liked for various reasons. Sometimes they are playing out of position from what they are typically listed as. We’ll go team by team. These aren’t going to be exhaustive because I didn’t see every single guy. These will be the guys who stood out or guys we have previously seen on this site. You also have to consider that guys are gassed at this time of the year. Many of these players have just finished their first full-length pro season. What you want is the pure tools, even if the guy is beat. In this environment, the tools won’t usually hide. To the backfields we go:

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Baseball Beginnings on Kaleb Cowart, No. #18, (Los Angeles Angels)

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June 7, 2010

Today the Los Angeles Angels selected Kaleb Cowart in the first round (#18 overall) in the 2010 MLB Draft. Baseball Beginnings has scouted Cowart. Enjoy links to the content we have published on him through the year.

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Scouting Report: Kaleb Cowart, RHP, Cook County (GA) HS (2010 Draft)

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February 17, 2010

Kaleb Cowart will be a first-round pick from a strong class of right-handed high school starting pitchers. His college commitment is to Florida State. If he were to get there, it would be a huge score for the Seminoles. If not, he’s going to walk onto his new organization’s top-10 prospect list. I like Cowart to go inside the first 12 picks.

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First look: 2010 Draft Prospects (High School pitchers)

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September 22, 2009

Baseball Beginnings is pleased to unveil our first NATIONAL look at the June 2010 draft here in September, 2009, eight months before the first name is called.

In the scouting world, every quality player is on a follow list. It’s a good bet that most of these players are already on such lists, but it’s important to remember that things will change over the next eight months – no list, no matter this one or one by a team should be considered definitive at this time of year, but should instead be regarded as a road map.

Some players who are not on this list will be hot and others who were hot in summer and fall will lose some luster in spring. That’s why you won’t see rankings here, because Baseball Beginnings works like a major league team. We’re not ranking players right now. And when we do, we keep them in-house. The world is full of people who will rank players. A good scout NEVER tells.

Every single player on this list has been seen by our scouting staff IN PERSON, meaning we don’t take our information from secondary sources. It’s on us.

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Wolters wheels, wills West

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August 16, 2009

Bryce Harper, the made for TV prospect, went hitless. Anthony Wolters, an undersized shortstop who can run and play defense, showed he also will place himself in the running to be a top-round pick next June on Sunday night at the Aflac game at Petco Park in San Diego.

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