Rockies vs Red Sox
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PEDROIA WILL BE A GOOD 2ND baseman. reminds me alote of david eckstein, who is some1 where you just scratch your head wondering how he does the things he does.
ellisbury i cant see being anywhere near manny ramirez EVER. i see him like more of a Juan Pierre/Coco Crisp type player. good OF'er with speed and thats it.
ellisbury i cant see being anywhere near manny ramirez EVER. i see him like more of a Juan Pierre/Coco Crisp type player. good OF'er with speed and thats it.
Hitting pretty close to even. rockies a little deeper, but Red Sox have World Series experience and their top two are so exposive.
Defense rockies slight advantage. if only because they got bigger arms in the outfield (holliday and especially hawpe). sox only decent arm is drew.
pitching is huge in playoffs and BoSox have big advantage here over rockies
homefield advantage BoSox
Defense rockies slight advantage. if only because they got bigger arms in the outfield (holliday and especially hawpe). sox only decent arm is drew.
pitching is huge in playoffs and BoSox have big advantage here over rockies
homefield advantage BoSox
i did some research and this is what Baseball America, the premier mlb and milb scouting magazine has to say about ellsbury and pedrois, which is pretty much the same thing i said.
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/features/265085.html
World Series Preview: Rockies vs. Red Sox
Approaches to team-building not as different as it seems
By Chris Kline and John Manuel
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October 23, 2007
Ellsbury and Papelbon were more typical picks. Papelbon was a college closer at Mississippi State but followed the usual closer track record of starting throughout the minors before becoming a closer again in the big leagues. Ellsbury has become exactly what Boston hoped he could be: a premium defender with leadoff skills and speed.
"Ellsbury was on the first-round board for a lot of teams," a scout in the AFL said. "His Cape Cod was just OK, came out and started the next year and was dynamite. But right when a lot scouts made a push to see him, he had hamstring problems and fell to the latter portion of the first round.
"Pedroia is one of those guys you truly have to go see numerous times and some guys make a mistake and say, 'Dustin Pedroia's a stat guy.' I totally disagree. Because honestly, our area scout was all over him and he was a guy you needed to see multiple times to buy into his hand-eye coordination and his ability to do a lot of things athletically that can't be measured in a 60-yard dash."
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/features/263445.html
2007 Top 100 Prospects
By Baseball America Staff
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February 28, 2007
We proudly present our annual list of the best young players in the game, the culmination of our offseason prospect rankings.
#33 JACOBY ELLSBURY, of, Red Sox
Boston downplays Johnny Damon comparisons, but the parallels are hard to ignore
Opening Day Age: 23. ETA: 2008
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/features/265085.html
World Series Preview: Rockies vs. Red Sox
Approaches to team-building not as different as it seems
By Chris Kline and John Manuel
E-mail this article
October 23, 2007
Ellsbury and Papelbon were more typical picks. Papelbon was a college closer at Mississippi State but followed the usual closer track record of starting throughout the minors before becoming a closer again in the big leagues. Ellsbury has become exactly what Boston hoped he could be: a premium defender with leadoff skills and speed.
"Ellsbury was on the first-round board for a lot of teams," a scout in the AFL said. "His Cape Cod was just OK, came out and started the next year and was dynamite. But right when a lot scouts made a push to see him, he had hamstring problems and fell to the latter portion of the first round.
"Pedroia is one of those guys you truly have to go see numerous times and some guys make a mistake and say, 'Dustin Pedroia's a stat guy.' I totally disagree. Because honestly, our area scout was all over him and he was a guy you needed to see multiple times to buy into his hand-eye coordination and his ability to do a lot of things athletically that can't be measured in a 60-yard dash."
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/features/263445.html
2007 Top 100 Prospects
By Baseball America Staff
E-mail this article
February 28, 2007
We proudly present our annual list of the best young players in the game, the culmination of our offseason prospect rankings.
#33 JACOBY ELLSBURY, of, Red Sox
Boston downplays Johnny Damon comparisons, but the parallels are hard to ignore
Opening Day Age: 23. ETA: 2008
