It almost feels like they take 2 steps forward and 1 step back in the Springs – they face tougher competition, but then they lose all the pitch development. They come to the show, they get roughed up a bit, and then the real talent settles in and builds on small things. It’s almost backwards, they learn to get destroyed in AAA and learn to rebound in Coors.

It should be up sometime in January, but I worry about the Rockies falling behind in what I would call infrastructure investment on the farm in general at an economic peer level. You read about teams like the Pirates (a big new DSL facility) and Rays (MLB’s first Brazilian academy) pouring a lot of money into their infrastructure, and I would consider something so simple as humidors for Colorado Springs, Casper, probably Tulsa and Modesto as part of that, but at the same time I see the complexity of pouring money into somebody else’s business. The solution is to own their minor league franchises like the Braves and Red Sox, but that’s a really expensive solution.

yeah my type guy did his work in bed at 11:30pm, hence Huston Street is suddenly ambidextrous.

So much as it was just bad habits that the MLB team couldn’t afford to let the players work out on the fly. You have to let veterans like Atkins and Helton work their issues out on the major league level thanks to the CBA, so using the options for the younger players who are struggling at the same time is an efficient way of spreading the damage off the team.

That said, I think Baylor will be better at getting veterans over their issues quicker.

I haven’t seen the uppercut tendencies from C-Springs lately besides a few players like JoKo who already had that in their swing before they got there. I guess kudos to the AAA coaching staff for that. Smith, Stewart, Tulo and Iannetta all remain solid line drive hitters.

….when Todd Helton recovered from smallpox, or when Andres Galarraga beat bubonic plague, did you?

was granted along time ago, Anti-trust exemption. The only sport, and industry (I think) that has this exemption.

BUT….baseball really needs to address this. If they want a super-level of 7 teams, then just do it, and then set up something for the rest of us to play for. The inequality is getting out of hand.

the Rockies don’t have the cash. It’s the same reason I don’t have a house in Genesse, and date model twins from UNC…like this month’s Playboy girls:

Looking over the entries, Frazier appeared on three of the ten ballots (yours, mine, and malakian’s 27). And we were the only ones to have Carlos Martinez on our lists.

Kindel was on four of the ten ballots. I cast one of those votes, but two others placed him at or just outside the top ten.

Given the way Rox Girl originally set out the voting system (and where was your list in the last vote?), we see the flaws generated by the value system assigned to each spot. Given the different ways some here view a prospect, a more equitable system should be created.