Now that we are approaching the half way point of the season, how would you grade David Hernandez at this point.  In your Baltimore Orioles Top 20 you have numerous pitchers ahead of Hernandez such as Spoone(injury should get a mulligan), Hoey, Beato, Bascom, Erbe(even though it seems he is back on track with his last 2 performances), Bierd, Bergeson(who has been holding his own with a team leading ERA at Bowie) and McCrory ahead of DHernandez.  In David's last 2 starts he has gone 12 innings and has allowed only 1 hit, with 9 K's and has lowered his ERA to 2.83 for the season.  He also has 87 k's  and is bouncing back and forth  in leading the Eastern League in strikeouts.  In my eyes it looks like he has held his own in AA ball and his status should improve from being a sleeper to high prospect.

I finally rec'd my copy.  Thanks!!  After reading some of it.  Mostly on the Orioles prospects, you have David Hernandez velo at 88-90mph, which was odd to me.  He was doing that when he was in high school.  David is currently sitting at 91-94mph and touches 96 mph.  Where do you get your info? BA, Scout.com, Baseball Prosectus have it at 91-94mph range.  Just curious....