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Sberl wrote: EDIT: notizie sui nostri high-schooler?

rene144 wrote: C'è il loro gruppo su FB. Loardi 16 K in 6 IP!!!

Pablets wrote: Lo posto qui.

Coming into this spring, Bryce Harper was universally seen as the top player in the draft, but the chances of Washington taking him with the first pick were initially handicapped as a 50/50 proposition. Harper's performance so far at the College of Southern Nevada has changed those chances significantly, as he's basically given the Nationals no excuse to pass on him by batting .401/.494/.866 with wood bats in a junior college league at the age of 17. He's crushed 17 home runs (the team has just 45) in 142 at-bats.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/artic ... leid=10611

kromfel wrote: Match up gustoso , con Ranaudo che affronta Drew Pomeranz. Entrambi probabili top 5 picks al prossimo draft

Pablets wrote: Lo posto qui.

It's impossible to find any talent evaluator who isn't blown away by Harper's ability on the field, but it's equally difficult to find one who doesn't genuinely dislike the kid. One scout called him among the worst amateur players he's ever seen from a makeup standpoint, with top-of-the-scale arrogance, a disturbingly large sense of entitlement, and on-field behavior that includes taunting opponents. "He's just a bad, bad guy," said one front-office official. "He's basically the anti-Joe Mauer."

Harper is listed at 6-foot-3 and 205 pounds, but most think he's about an inch taller and 10 more pounds than that. To be fair, Harper is a chiseled athlete, with no complaints about his current frame, but some wonder just what he will look like when he's 25. There's an excellent chance that he looks like Joe Mauer (6-foot-5 and 230) or Matt Wieters (also 6-foot-5, and 225), but there is some fear at the outside chance of him ending up like Adam Dunn, who at this point is 6-foot-6 and is listed at 287, and is a slow, range-less behemoth. That was not always the case: Dunn was 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds coming up through the Reds’ system, and had back-to-back 20-steal seasons in his first two full years. Like Dunn, Harper is so big so early in life that it has to be at least a minor concern.

Luca10 wrote: C'è una differenza però: Harper è (nettamente) il più forte dei giocatori con cui si confronta e non solo. Per cui può permettersi di prendere per culo l'avversario e/o di fare lo strafottente.

Balotelli no.

Luca10 wrote: Nel prossimo fine settimana al Jackie Robinson Stadium c'è LA serie; la serie più importante, con tutta probabilità, di tutto l'NCAA baseball 2010: Arizona State @ UCLA.

I match-up dovrebbero essere venerdì Gerrit Cole (So) vs Seth Blair (Jr); sabato Trevor Bauer (So) vs Merrill Kelly (Jr) e domenica a chiudere Rob Rasmussen (Jr) vs Jake Borup (che teoricamente è un sophomore ma tra redshirt e missione ha, in realtà, 23 anni).