Project Prospect continued their Top 100 prospect chat last night. They tackled some Reds questions, so you should go read the entire thing, but here is one that stood out from last night:
[Comment From SpindleSpindle: ]
Can Yasmani Grandal become the next Victor Martinez, with a better arm?LHamilton:
It’s possible, Grandal certainly has a better arm than V-Mart but that’s a really high mark for a young player to live up to. V-Mart’s one of the best hitting catchers of all-time…I know Steve is a fan of GrandalSteve Carter:
As sexy as that sounds, I don’t think Grandal has the hit tool that Victor does. I’m hesitant to put that amount of praise on anyone.LHamilton:
I see Grandal as an above-average hit and power guy who’s a solid-average defender at catcher with patience. That’s a heckuva playerSteve Carter:
Concur with what Lincoln said.
Later on in the chat, it seems that both Steve and Lincoln believe in Grandal long term over Mesoraco, which is interesting to me given that Mesoraco was rated much higher.
An old site is back again, for now at least, and one of their first prospect articles is on Dave Sappelt. I clearly have been the highest on Dave Sappelt all offseason, but even I think that the writer is going a little overboard when he says this:
I believe that Sappelt’s peak output would be a triple slash of .310 / .365 / .490 while sprinkling in about 25 stolen bases.
That kind of line from Sappelt, with his defense, would likely make him an MVP candidate. I just don’t see it (particularly power wise).
Lately I have been doing a scouting segments on Tuesdays, but I spent 5 hours doing the chat earlier today that I usually spend working on those articles, so I don’t have one for today.