5-4 from: - http://thecollegebaseballblog.com/2010/05/04/tcbb-players-of-the-week-3 -The College Baseball Blog continues our tradition of naming National Player and Pitcher of the Week. This week we honor Andrew Clark of Louisville as our Player of the Week while Oregon RHP Justin LaTempa is our Pitcher of the Week. Clark had an amazing week, leading the Cardinals to a 4-0 record against Kentucky in a midweek showdown and sweeping Rutgers. Clark’s line for the week was a .600 BA, 3 HR, 12 RBI, 1.267 SLG. In Saturday’s second game of a double header, he went 4-4, with 2 homeruns in the first inning, and finished the game with 8 RBI. He is hitting .406 this season with 11 HR and 46 RBI.
5-3 from: - http://www.mlbbonusbaby.com/ - A third choice is Cal State Fullerton shortstop Christian Colon. Unlike with Machado, you really feel that Colon is going to be a second baseman by the time he reaches the Majors, but you believe he'll hit and will provide badly-needed leadership and accountability coming out of a rigid Fullerton program. You think he'll only needed a year and a half in the minors, and you would put him in the Arizona Fall League after signing him in August. While you don't necessarily think his tools are worth of such a high pick, you think his floor is quite high, and he'll at least give you league-average production offensively at second with above-average defense. Scott Boras is also Colon's adviser, and he says that Colon will sign for $4 million, though you think you can split the difference with slot money at $3.75 million. He might be able to sign fairly quickly as a result, which you deem important, as Tony Sanchez proved last year. No Major League contract will be needed.
5-5 from: - http://baseballbeginnings.com/2010/05/05/christian-colon-report PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Medium build, wide hips and strong lower half, low center of gravity. Sloped shoulders, average limbs. Strong hands, wrists and forearms. Average hand size. STRENGTHS: Above-average contact hitter, fast hands and bat speed. Very coordinated and balanced offensively. Spray hitter with modest pull power. Good takes, good offensive rhythm, comfortable and confident hitter. Very soft hands defensively, accurate arm, sets feet, very quick throwing release. Average runner. WEAKNESSES: Puts too many balls in air. Swing can be too armsy for me sometimes, gets away from using the whole field. Sometimes doesn’t pick up off-speed and adjust at-bat to at-bat. Slightly-below average arm strength, can go to right a little bit but would lack range and arm strength to be premium defender. SUMMARY: Should develop into very solid everyday major league second baseman. Has to be careful – has just enough power to get himself in trouble – focus on spraying gaps and not trying to be to much offensively. GRADES (Present/Future): Hit 30/60 - Power 20/50 - Run 50/50 - Arm 45/45 - Field 60/60 - Overall Future Potential: 53
5-7 from: - http://baseballdraftreport.com/ - 2010 MLB Draft : Top 30 College Catching - 25. Rice SR C Diego Seastrunk - I haven’t seen or heard this comp elsewhere, so take it for what it’s worth (not much), but Seastrunk’s scouting profile and video remind me of a lesser version of Ryan Doumit. That’s high praise. Seastrunk is the kind of player who’s overall package exceeds the sum of his parts. Of course, it’s not exactly like his parts are all that shabby. I love, love, love the way Seastrunk has transitioned to the role of full-time catcher this spring. Seastrunk’s combination of an above-average arm, gap power, and plus makeup (he’s a tireless worker and a great team player) has me believing his tools will play as a professional. He isn’t a natural behind the plate, but the instincts I’ve seen from him in going down to get balls in the dirt lead me to believe he’ll be an above-average defender before long. I eventually can see Seastrunk filling a supersub role (not unlike Doumit before he broke out).
5-7 from: - http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/MLB_Draft - While teammate Kyle Blair has garnered more media attention, Solis has quietly put up an outstanding season, going 7-1 with a 2.69 ERA in 10 starts. He's struck out 70 men in 67 innings, walking just 19. The draft-eligible sophomore opened eyes as a senior at Agua Fria (Ariz.) High School after going 25-8 and striking out 398 batters, second most in state history at the 4A division. A year later, after his sophomore year, Solis did well in the Cape Cod League in 2008, going 3-2 with a 2.41 ERA in seven starts for the Chatham Anglers
5-8 from: link - March 24th was the last time I wrote about one of my preseason sleepers breaking out this year. At the time, Tulane’s Rob Segedin was leading the nation in doubles with 17, and he also had three home runs. Since then his doubles pace has slowed (he had 24 at last report), and the rest of the nation had caught up as he’s now tied for second in the nation. He was sporting a very impressive hitting line of .439/.510/.780 and looked as though he was continuing his reputation as one of the nation’s finer hitters. He was just getting started. The batting average and on-base percentage are roughly the same now (.424/.505), but beginning in early April his power production has significantly jumped up Segedin got locked in. At the end of last weekend, he was sitting on an 18-game hit streak (which came to an end Tuesday night against Louisiana-Monroe) in which he went 35-for-65 (.538) with seven doubles, a triple and 10 home runs. He hit a home run in five consecutive games at one point during that streak, and went 10 games in a row with an extra-base knock.
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