Date: 8-5-12
MLB –
Scouting scale: 20-80 – average is 50
Scores for a player's
attributes, be they the traditional five tools for a position player or
individual offerings for a pitcher, are graded on the 20-80 scouting scale. As
to why the scale is 20-80 as opposed to something seemingly more logical like
0-100, I don't have an answer for you, but I'm looking. Grades are given on a
base-5 system (40, 45, 50, 55, 60, etc.). I know of one organization that did
allow all scores (like 53 or 41), but they eventually saw it as splitting hairs
and went back to counting by fives. Some organizations got rid of the zeros and
grade players on a 2-8 scale. A score of 50 is major-league average, 60 is
above-average (also referred to as "plus"), and 70 is among the best
("plus-plus"). 80 is top of the charts, and not a score that gets
thrown around liberally. 80s in any category are rare, and the scoring system
is definitely a strong curve that regresses to around 50 at the major league
level, but lower as you move down. Very few players have a 50 score or higher
for every tool. Just being average across the board is quite an accomplishment.
When scouting a player, scores are given in two categories: Present and Future.
Present is what the player is right now, while Future is the true art of
scouting--projecting what a player will become. So an example of scouting
scores for a player might look like this – Keith Law
MLB - Mets:
Johan
Santana - "I feel good. My body had a chance to recover. I really needed
that. I threw all my pitches and commanded my fastball."
Adam
Rubin - TC's request to Wally
Backman was to play Lucas Duda at corner
outfield spots, and 1B if he was struggling, since they want him to focus on
hitting. (AL DH trade bait?)… Buffalo
announces RHP Scott Patterson has been signed by
organization and assigned to AAA. Had been pitching in AAA for Seattle… TC
already harping on Tejada getting to '13 spring training early.Tejada says
he'll comply/work out in US 2 months after season/arrive early…
Matt Harvey has 18 K's over his 1st 2 MLB games.
That's MORE than any other pitcher in Mets franchise history after his 1st two
games. - 5 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 5 K, 2 HR. 81 pitches. 50 strikes.
AAA – Buffalo:
RHP Zack Wheeler will make his Bisons and Triple-A debut
this afternoon. The 22-year old is the Mets’ #1 prospect byBaseball America. In
19 starts with Binghamton (AA), Wheeler was 10-6 with a 3.26ERA. At the time of
his promotion, he led the Eastern League with 117 strikeouts. He also topped
all B-Mets pitchers with hits 10 wins and 3.26ERA. Wheeler was an Eastern
League All-Star this season and retired a pair of batters for Team USA in the
All-Star Futures Game in KC. In his last outing, he struck out a season-high 11
batters in a victory over Harrisburg on Tuesday. In 116.0 innings of work this
season, Wheeler has allowed just two home runs. He’s allowed just nine homers
in 289.2 career innings.
A couple hours before Carlos Beltran would
play right field and bat cleanup in St. Louis, another game in a big league
career long on accomplishment, Zack Wheeler kept
running and touching cones. From the left-field foul line to the first one and
back. To the second, a little deeper into the outfield grass, and back. To the
third and back, Wheeler ran hard amid the humidity, his damp workout shirt
flopping freely outside of his baseball pants. He did this many times.About
this time last summer, Wheeler was far from here. He pitched in San Jose,
Calif., the high Class A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, but then the
Giants needed some offense, someone like Beltran. To get that, the New York
Mets said, they must relinquish someone like Wheeler. And so they did --
Beltran straight-up for Wheeler. http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8232056/new-york-mets-prospect-zack-wheeler-now-one-step-away-majors-mlb
Sunday – rained out
AA-Binghamton:
LHP Mark Cohoon (6-7, 3.58) makes his 18th start of the
season and second against the R-Phils. Since returning from a two-game stint
with the Buffalo Bisons (AAA) in early July, Cohoon has gone 2-0 and compiled a
2.77 ERA. The southpaw has not lost in his last five starts. He comes off a win
over the Portland Sea Dogs on July 29. He allowed two runs on five hits over
5.2 innings. The start snapped a streak of four-straight quality starts. Cohoon
lost to Reading on June 13 in the first game of a doubleheader. He tossed six
shutout innings before allowing three runs in the seventh to suffer the loss.
RHP Brody Colvin (0-0, 5.40) makes his second start with
the Reading Phillies and first against the B-Mets. Colvin took the no-decision
in his Double-A debut against the Richmond Flying Squirrels on July 31. The
Louisiana native went five innings and allowed three runs on nine hits in a
game the R-Phils would win 6-4. Colvin began the year with the Clearwater
Threshers (High-A), going 5-6 with a 4.27 ERA in 23 games (18 starts). Selected
in the 7th round of the 2009 draft out of St. Thomas More HS (Lafayette, LA),
Colvin is in his fourth year with the Phillies.
Sunday –
SP Mark Cohoon had an
un-quality start (5.2-IP, 5-R)
A+ - St. Lucie:
Sunday –
16 hits… three each by CF Alonzo
Harris (.282), 1B Richard Lucas (.249),
and 2B Robbie Shields (.242).Lucas also hit his
8th home run and C Kai Gronauer added his first in A+…
QS for Chase Huchingson (6.0-IP, 1-ER, 5-K, but 4-BB).
A – Savannah:
RP Brandon Sage gave up
walk-off in the 12th…
RF Charlie Thurber (.221) hit
his 3rd HR and SS Matt Reynolds (.252)
added his 2nd).
A-Low – Brooklyn:
Sunday – Win, 8-0
SP Johan Santana threw his rehab on Sunday… 3.0-IP, 0-R,
1-H, 0.00… that’ll work…
A dominating Brooklyn
win ended early due to rain… standout hitter was C Kevin
Plawecki (3-4, 2-R, double, 2-RBI, .258) who is starting to look like
the real deal more every day.
Rookie –
Kingsport:
Sunday, win 3-1
It was refreshing to
see a K-Port pitcher without the name of Steven Matz throw
a quality start. Miller Diaz was brilliant:
7.0-IP, 7-K, 1-BB, 1-R, 5-H, 3.71.
C Tomas Nido (3-4, 1-R, double, .300) continues to
impress.
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