Monday Update: More Prospect Guides Available

A few quick updates and some notes today:

I just finished a 2010 Cleveland Indians preview in a “Playing Pepper” piece with C70 At The Bat, a St. Louis Cardinals site.  Check out the writeup here.  In the piece Nino Colla of The Tribe Daily - who will also be writing about the Akron Aeros here on IPI this spring and summer - and I give our thoughts on some questions about the Indians as the 2010 season nears.

Here is just another mention that the 2010 Cleveland Indians Top 100 Prospects & More book is available.  The feedback on the book has been very positive so far based on some of the e-mails I have received, and to see some of the public reaction check out the site message boards.  To order online by check or credit card, please use the order form on the site.  Or, if you prefer to pay by money order or check by mail, please contact me to place an order.  Thanks again for the support!

For fans of other prospect lists, I suggest you check out the 2010 Digital Prospect Guide which can be found at http://www.projectprospect.com/.  There are a lot of prospect guides out there - some well known and some not so well known - and they all offer up something different.  The Digital Prospect Guide is one of those top prospect guides that offers up something different, mainly because it incorporates video into the guide.  Whereas most other guides you can purchase and print, the guide is actually a digital file you download that you can purchase and save to your computer.  It is a unique prospect guide which profiles anywhere from 100-300 players depending on the guide you choose, with video for every player.  To check out a few samples, go to the site.  It’s an awesome idea which allows fans to “see” what all these scouting reports say, and is very well put together.  Check it out!

Keeping with the prospect list theme, Diamond Futures recently completed their 2010 Prospect Guide which is available for purchase electronically in PDF format.  The Prospect eGuide is a fact filled analysis of the Minor Leagues and the 2009 season which over its nearly 300 pages of analysis includes prospect profiles on nearly 600 players, prospect grades on more than 1500 prospects, 2010 rankings of the Top 500 prospects in Minor League baseball, organizational strength rankings, individual team rankings of at least 50 prospects, prospect rankings by position, a pre-season look at the Top 100 Prospects for the 2010 Amateur draft, and more.  Diamond Futures is a site that has been around for over a decade and uses a unique blend of analytical tools to strip away the ‘hype’ and uncover the substance that lies behind prospective Major League players. They have developed a probabilistic methodology that recognizes that no analytical system can accurately anticipate the unique nuances inherent in predicting future performance of human players. So they don’t deal in ‘absolutes’, rather they deal in definable ‘likelihoods’.  Be sure to check out this unique guide which offers an interesting and valuable viewpoint which differs but yet complements other guides well.

Also, the site MLB Fantasy Prospects just listed the Top 15 prospects in each of baseball's six divisions.  Feel free to check it out here.  This is a good way to see where Carlos Santana and others rank up to the rest of the AL Central.

Last, be sure to go over to http://www.seamheads.com/ for some very good baseball writing and insight.  I have started to become a contributor there, a site that was launched two-and-a-half years ago.  Seamheads.com is 64 writers strong, many of whom are members of The Society For American Baseball Research (SABR), are published authors, and have worked for newspapers, radio station, and in Major League Baseball.  As a group, the Seamheads.com writers have written 47 books about baseball and their work has appeared in 73 publications, including Baseball Digest, The Baseball Research Journal, the Boston Globe, Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati Post, Detroit Free Press, Elysian Fields Quarterly, ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, ESPN The magazine, El Nacional in Venezuela, Houston Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, The National Pastime, the Oregonian, and Philadelphia Daily News, Sporting News, Total Baseball, the Washington Post and Washington Times; and on 19 web sites, including Fox Sports, Baseball-Reference.com, and Sportingnews.com.  It is an impressive stable of writers, so if you have yet to check the site out or have not bookmarked it so you check it regularly, I suggest you do.

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