So Pedro Alvarez has been hyped up for years.  He was the 2nd pick overall in the draft last year after a loud career at Vanderbilt, had the famous contract problem and eventually signed with the Pirates later than the last minute.  He got a bunch of bad press, but came into spring training and seemed to turn it all around, hitting homers and impressing just about everyone in camp.  Now in High A ball, Alvarez is off to a .245/.341/.494 with 14 homers and 55 runs batted in and a 69/36 strikeout to walk ratio which equates to striking out at 25% of the time rate.  He seems to either suck completely or blow up with a 6 RBI game.  Has anyone seen him in person this year, or does anyone have any deeper insight as to what the future may hold for Pedro? Is it going to be a Mousatakas type of thing where he blows up in the second half and goes on a tear or is there someone out there convinced he'll never do much in the batting average department?  I'd like to hear what people think....

Has a fracture in his wrist and will miss 6-8 weeks.

That stinks, he is one of the prospects I was really looking forward to following this year, I guess the silver lining is that he will not be out for the season.  Hopefully he comes back earlier and picks up where he left off.

 

Double-A Jacksonville's Logan Morrison is expected to miss 6-8 weeks due to a small fracture in his right wrist.

Morrison was injured when he reached for a throw at first base and got his arm tangled up with the baserunner. The injury lessens the chances that we'll see him in the majors during 2009.

Anybody catch Cahill's major league debut vs Anaheim? I see he had 5 walks and only 1 strikeout, which are both pretty bad, but interested in hearing how he looked otherwise.  What was his velocity?  The break on his pitches? His secondary stuff? I live on the east coast and didn't get a chance to see the game.  I tried to go on Oakland message boards but they weren't talking about the game, just crying about last year and a bunch of other crybaby crap

I have been reading about Price and all his wonderful attributes for so long that it seems like so many on this site feel that it's a foregone conclusion that the guy is going to be the next Sandy Koufax or something.  Let me first say that I own him in my main keeper league AL only, so I hope all you fanboys are right, but I still want to pose this question to everyone.  What do you NOT like about David Price?  What about him says to you that he will not be successful or what will cause his downfall? I'm not talking about injuries, injuries can happen to anyone.  I mean from what you've seen so far, what do you not like.  Discuss....

I know Baseball America normally puts up a page where it lists the picks in order of round and then puts in bold if they have signed their with the teams that drafted them yet.  Is that page up yet?  Have any of the newly drafted 2008 players signed on with the teams that drafted them yet or is it still too early?  I remember last year there were a few guys who signed the day after the draft, and I'd be interested to follow players from this years draft who have already signed their first contracts.  Lemme know if there's such a page yet or if anyone knows if any of the 2008 draftees have inked a contract yet.

7 1/3 Innings

1 Hit

No Runs

No Walks

8 Strikeouts

58/90 pitches went for strikes

 

Hopefully Kennedy can just gain some confidence down in AAA and come back and perform well on the big stage in NY.  I for one am rooting for him.  Maybe he just wasn't trusting his stuff with the Yankees and went back to it tonight?  In any event, Kennedy will be back up in the big leagues in no time if he can keep progressing like he did tonight.  Big first step for him.  I didn't think he should have been sent down in the first place