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FreeRedbird

Jan 19, 2009 May 30, 2012 2 165

I'm Korean, living in Seoul, Korea. I've been following the Cardinals since 2000. I don't have any rational reason why I became their fan; I was just a typical Korean MLB fan who had interest only in Korean MLB players, however, one day I suddenly found I got hooked on the Cardinals. That's all.

This screen name, FreeRedbird, came from the title of the legendary song of Lynyrd Skynyrd. When I was trying to register on SBN, I was listening to the song. I stole the title, and inserted "Red" in other to give an identity as a Cardinals fan. "RedFreebird" might have been better, I dunno.

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(ALERT: all materials were written in Korean. The google translator is pretty sloppy when translates Korean into English. If you have any question, please ask me via comments.)

The link above is the final post of the five-article series. The other links are below:
#1-#5 (contains an excel file)
#6-#10
#11-#15
#16-#20

Five fans(all Korean) voted and wrote comments for the list. This is a simple list calculated from five individual rankings, however, there is one notable rule there: NR=30th. Here comes an example:

Prospect A : voted as 24th, 24th, 25th, 25th, 25th by five voters = 24+24+25+25+25 = 123
Prospect B : 19th, 22nd, 23rd, NR, NR = 19+22+23+30+30 = 124

In this case, Prospect A gets a higher(better) ranking. This rule effectively blocks prospects who are strongly suppoted by only one or two voters while other voters think they don't even deserve to make the list. Scott Gorgen, ranked as high as 10th by one voter while failed to make other individual lists, could not make our final TOP 20, mainly due to the rule.

The list is, as you can see through the link,

1. Shelby Miller
2. Zack Cox
3. (Tie) Carlos Martinez, Eduardo Sanchez
5. Tyrell Jenkins
6. Matt Carpenter
7. Lance Lynn
8. Seth Blair
9. Adron Chambers
10. (Tie) Deryk Hooker, Oscar Taveras
12. Daniel Descalso
13. Adam Reifer
14. Bryan Anderson
15. Joe Kelly
16. Aaron Luna
17. Jordan Swagerty
18. Nick Longmire
19. (Tie) Tony Cruz, Tommy Pham

This is the second time that we Korean fans published our own list. You can see the pre-2010 TOP 20 prospects list here and here.

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Viva El Birdos OT: Kelvin Jimemez an all-star in Korea

Occasional Kelvin Jimenez update for DanUp and other Jimenez fans...

 

Kelvin Jimenez is an all-star in Korea...!!

The all-star game was held on last Saturday. He pitched scoreless 1 1/3 innings.

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Jimenez(left) talks with Karim Garcia, a former major leaguer.

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He seems to enjoy the game as much as anyone, doesn't he?

 

Jimenez was pretty mediocre for the first two months. However, in his last 7 starts he has been exceptional, allowed just 4 ER in 47 innings. His season stats so far:

19 G, 18 GS, 108.2 IP, 12 W(2nd in the league), 3 L, 43 BB, 64 K, 3.23 ERA(5th), 4.01 FIP(7th)

 

He isn't overpowering hitters; he throws strikes, gets ahead in counts, and generates groundballs. Looks like he executes Duncan's game plan well now.

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