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Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: Kanekoa Texeira by Jon

Jon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:05:42 +0000

It’s fine. When you commented I thought “Wait.. is he Hawaiian or am I confusing him with someone else?” and looked it up.

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: Kanekoa Texeira by section331

section331 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:52:56 +0000

Oh, I wasn’t calling you out or anything – I genuinely didn’t know. I’d seen a handful of photos and he didn’t look Pacific Islander, so it was a question out of curiosity.

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: Kanekoa Texeira by Jon

Jon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:09:43 +0000

Will edit. League was born in California, resides in Hawai’i.

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: Kanekoa Texeira by section331

section331 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:05:43 +0000

1.) “Debilitatingly” is a word. I looked it up.
2.) The video doesn’t show the same arm position as the pic you posted a while back, but I’ll take it.
3.) Groundballs, yay!
4.) Brandon League is Hawaiian?
5.) If the bullpen is doing Kalua pig, I will pay extra admission.

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: Ian Snell by 200tang

200tang — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:14:08 +0000

I actually have quite a bit of hope in Snell. No idea why, but I think he’ll have a good year.

Comment on Thanks, Lighting Guy by Dustin Shires

Dustin Shires — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:58:33 +0000

Felix Hernandez looks 100% like my buddy who played baseball at the UW. Scary.

And Ichiro’s picture made me DIE laughing. So glad you posted these… Actually, so glad I stumbled upon them 2 weeks after posting.

Comment on Thanks, Lighting Guy by JAC

JAC — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:14:48 +0000

And then they snap the better lit shots but do it right after the players got dome running burmas for an hour followed by 40 minutes in the sauna…

http://prospectinsider.com/images/Felix10.JPG

http://prospectinsider.com/images/Ichiro10.JPG

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: R. Rowland-Smith by section331

section331 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:35:48 +0000

I edit a lot too; and most of what I write could rightfully be considered fluff. But it’s focused and honed fluff, dammit!

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: R. Rowland-Smith by maqman

maqman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:13:48 +0000

A good piece Jon, thanks. I’m still a bit surprised to see an Aussie in MLB. I lived down under in 1976 and 1977 and traveled all over the country and can’t recall anyone ever even mentioning baseball. I do recall the World Series only got 3 or 4 column inches in the Melbourne daily newspaper, about as much as the Super Bowl. Obviously things have changed. (You start to notice that after your clock passes 73.)

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: R. Rowland-Smith by Jon

Jon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:12:18 +0000

And normally I would try to hack it down a bit because I imagine that, like me, people are turned off of long posts, but given that we’ve still got 24 players to go I wanted to move on.

Ian Snell!

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: R. Rowland-Smith by Conor Dowley

Conor Dowley — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:08:00 +0000

I have the same problem, only I look at my 2000 words, think most of it is Crap, then hack it down to 1000 or so.

RRS is a pitcher who has always struck me as someone who could be a Petite-lite if things work out. Word of his developing cutter only strengthens that thought if the cutter sticks in his repertoire. This will be more interesting than usual to follow for the rest of Spring Training, to be sure.

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: R. Rowland-Smith by Jon

Jon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:58:39 +0000

I think that’s how it goes. If I know what I want to say, I can get right to the point. If I’m unsure of what route I want to take, I’ll ramble for nearly 2000 words.

Hmm..

And onto the next!

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: R. Rowland-Smith by Jon

Jon — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:57:37 +0000

You are correct. I can’t believe I left this out!

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: R. Rowland-Smith by Coug1990

Coug1990 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:59:54 +0000

Jon, thanks for the article. My favorite part was, “As far as Spring Training stories go, the ones about a pitcher experimenting with a new pitch aren’t much lower than the ones about a player showing up to camp in the best shape of his life on the fluff-o-meter.”

I remember when Brett Boone said that he got laser eye surgery and could finally see the ball again. He was positive that he was going to have a comeback year. I am not sure what he came back to, but it was not good baseball.

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: R. Rowland-Smith by section331

section331 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:03:23 +0000

For someone who was complaining that you were having trouble figuring out what to say, you sure spit a lot out here.
I actually got pretty geeked to hear he was trying the cutter out again, especially after having read a little about Lee’s in the Mariner Annual. I do hope it sticks. And yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s Bard – the only other catchers we have that wears hockey-style gear is Quiroz and Oliveros, and that guy doesn’t look like either of them.

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: R. Rowland-Smith by Slurve

Slurve — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:42:40 +0000

While his Kper9 might be low his Sexinessper9 is amazing.

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: Edward Paredes by Coug1990

Coug1990 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:56:56 +0000

I second that. Thanks Jon for doing this rundown. You always do interesting work and that is why I come here every day.

Comment on 40-man, Player by Player: Edward Paredes by Lonnie

Lonnie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:32:02 +0000

I love “Lucky Eddie” Parades! He always seems to be right at the cusp of being something special, but not quite reaching it. I think this bullpen gig will get him to the bigs in the near future.

Lonnie

Comment on Starting Pitcher Prospect Rankings Update by Jon

Jon — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:22:49 +0000

I still think Pineda is overrated.

Comment on Starting Pitcher Prospect Rankings Update by harrison

harrison — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:09:50 +0000

Good to see you upgrade Michael Pineda. I’ve told you before I don’t think very highly of Dan Cortes. I still maintain him #3 on my list with Robles in front.