Prospect Comparisons
The combination of an enormous amount of top prospect lists being published over the last few weeks and a similarly large amount of free time on my hands led me to creating a Fanpost about MLB Comparisons for our top prospects. I used to follow Red Sox prospects quite a bit, and soxprospects.com always had a MLB comp for each of the prospects listed. I always found them quite interesting and somewhat useful, so I decided to see some comps for our guys generated by the informed readers of BCB. I'm going to list my prospects for the first 10, according to BA's rankings, and a few others for whom I can come up with a good comp.
These are really more just for fun and to pass time until ST, so I won't be basing mine solely off stats, more off of scouting reports I've seen. And also, I realize that our list will probably end up having 15 or so prospects with All-Star MLB comps, but they're just for fun, and these comps usually end up being best case scenarios anyways.
Alcides Escobar - Derek Jeter - JUST KIDDING! I think a good comp is tough to determine, because he's got so much more offensive development, but I'll go with Yunel Escobar with much more speed.
Mat Gamel - Here's one where I'll use stats: Nick Markakis. Go look at their ML stats. Same ages at same levels, and slash lines are eerily similar. Gamel might end up in RF anyway.
Brett Lawrie - I can't think of one for him yet, all the reports I've read are pretty general: A great, polished hitter.
Jeremy Jeffress - Ervin Santana
Angel Salome - Pudge Rodriguez, only comp I could come up with since Angel's so unique.
Lorenzo Cain - Matt Kemp. I like this one a lot
Cutter Dykstra - Couldn't think of a good one. Maybe Brian Roberts minus some SBs.
Taylor Green - Stephen Drew with obvious position difference
Cole Gillespie -Corey Hart, though I really think Cole will max out as 4th OF, so a lesser version of Corey Hart
Jonathan Lucroy - Ramon Hernandez
Zach Braddock - Scott Kazmir. Obviously, a long way to go, but his stuff sounds very similar with the low 90s fastball and sharp slider.
Omar Aguilar - Juan Cruz, but bigger.
Caleb Gindl - Pretty obvious - Brian Giles, I can't take credit for that one, I've seen it all over.
Remember, these are best-case scenario, because just as I suspected, this would be a team full of All-Stars, oh well.
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Cutter Dykstra — Lenny Dykstra
Taylor Green — a shorter version of Corey Koskie? (both Canadian, both bat left and throw right). I’d be happy with that.
Cole Gillespie — how about (shudder) Jeffrey Hammonds? or a right-handed Todd Hollandsworth
by cmow on Jan 23, 2009 11:13 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Gindl always reminded me of Dustin Pedroia...
…except in the OF. They’ve got the exact build and fairly similar stats except Gindl strikes out way more.
"my goodness"
by BrewHaHeather on Jan 24, 2009 10:10 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Jeffress
I continue to say this. Jeremy Jeffress is Doc Gooden with a ganja problem. And wouldn’t Gillespie’s best comp be Jason Bay? Corey Hart doesn’t have Gillespie’s plate discipline.
Also, what would good comps be for Peralta and Periard?
by ILuvDaBush on Jan 29, 2009 1:59 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
All good points
Periard reminds me of a Garland/Marquis-type with a heavy fastball with good velocity, but not too high-ceiling. I can’t say I know enough about Peralta, he sounds like a generic power arm (I don’t mean that in a bad way) with a good fastball and nasty slider…Marmol?
One other comparison I’d like to make is Manny Parra to Jon Lester. Both have very good left arms- although they have different repertoires- but struggled with control early on in their careers. I hope Parra can start attacking hitters this year and show the improvement that Lester displayed this year.
by marty22 on Jan 30, 2009 3:07 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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