By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
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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By Jen Marder
June 7, 2010
Today the Seattle Mariners selected Taijuan Walker in the compensation round (#43 overall) in the 2010 MLB Draft. Baseball Beginnings has been scouting Walker from the start of the draft cycle. Enjoy links to the content we have published on him through the year.
Visit Taijuan Walker Photo Store
Read Updated Taijuan Walker Scouting Report
Read Taijuan Walker Scouting Update
Watch Taijuan Walker Video
Read March Taijuan Walker Scouting Report
Read Taijuan Walker Q&A
Read March Taijuan Walker Scouting Update
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By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
May 31, 2010
This updated report comes from Taijuan Walker’s outing on May 21, 2010, and is a follow up to our report we filed in March at his season debut.
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By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
May 24, 2010
Taijuan Walker certainly helped his draft value in his playoff outing Friday.
The first thing I noticed was that Walker looked a touch stronger and more filled out than when I saw him in February. This was the best outing I have seen from him since his last look in the Fall. In this stint, Walker was poised and confident. He hit 95 a few times in the first inning and threw several 94 mph fastballs with hard life low in the strike zone. He’s a legit 6-foot-6. Walker is a big arm without question, showing plane and power.
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By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
May 11, 2010
Taijuan Walker has maintained his stuff and draft value with a sound spring. He won’t go in front of Tago, but he’s going to be the next best thing in terms of body type, power and projection.
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By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
March 25, 2010
Taijuan Walker has a great right-handed frame and untapped natural arm speed and power. As far as projection pitchers go, Walker is an imagination’s delight. His frame is the first selling point. Long, loose, lean and fast, there’s clearly an abundance of physical projection. Translation: he touches 93 today, look for him to pitch at 94 tomorrow.
Beyond that, Walker is in the infancy stages of developing himself as a pitcher, but all the building blocks are there for him. These parts include the beginnings of a power curveball. There’s also one other aspect about Walker. You have to see it in a game, but the guy shows the ability to figure out how to make a pitch when he needs to. You wouldn’t put a grade on it and the gun won’t tell you. Nobody will text it to you. Better be watching.
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By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
March 22, 2010
At this time a year ago, Taijuan Walker was an unknown commodity, not just to baseball, but to himself. A tall, long, lean and agile athlete who saw his future on a basketball court, Walker found himself on the mound one day. Baseball, it seems, found him.
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By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
March 11, 2010
Taijuan Walker made his 2010 season debut Tuesday afternoon at Palos Verdes, working three innings in which he showed what he’s got to offer, what he’s learning, and where he may be going.
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By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
November 26, 2009
Today concludes our two-part look at the 2009 Angel Elite season with our player summaries. As we mentioned Wednesday, this list does not represent rankings and follows the professional scouting model, where at this time of the year you are simply following players between summer and spring.
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By The Baseball Beginnings Guy
November 23, 2009
Right-hander Taijuan Walker helped himself this fall, putting himself and his stuff in the right light for the radar guns and those imaginative enough to see the projection in that body.
Walker’s outing Wednesday at Angels Elite was one of his best of the fall. His fastball sat at 91-92 with hard, late life low in the strike zone. He delivers the ball from a whippy frame and generates productive torque with his across-the-body motion. Walker mixed in a curveball at 82, with signs of shape and depth, and was more consistent with it than when I first saw him in September. His change-up at 80 also has promise, though it isn’t ready to take into a pro game just yet. Have a look.
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