Top 10 prospects - 1992
Brian Perry
In a fit of weekend cleaning, I came upon a 1992 Baseball Weekly with
the top 10 NL West prospect reports. Here are the Giants top 10 for
1992:
1) Royce Clayton
2) Salomon Torres
3) Steve Hosey
4) Derek Reid
5) Joe Roselli
6) Kevin McGehee
7) John Patterson
8) Kevin Rogers
9) Rick Huisman
10) Eric Christopherson
Their projected 1995 opening day Roster was:
C - Christopherson
1B - Will Clark
2B - Patterson
3B - Williams
SS - Clayton
LF - Ted Woods!
CF - Reid
RF - Hosey
P - Torres
For contrast, here are 1996 & 1997:
1996 1997
1) Shawn Estes Joe Fontenot
2) Joe Fontenot Dante Powell
3) Jacob Cruz Mike Caruso !
4) Jay Canizaro Mike Villano
5) Dante Powell Russ Ortiz
6) Steve Soderstrom Steve Soderstrom
7) Rich Aurilia Darin Blood
8) Marcus Jensen Jacob Cruz
9) Russ Ortiz Jason Brester
10) Jesse Ibarra Keith Foulke !
Why is Cruz falling? Too little power? Getting old? If Hill is
staying, why not use Cruz instead of Benard as the extra OF?
Brian
Jonathan Bernstein
Gregg Pearlman (gre...@leland.stanford.edu) wrote:
: Anybody else hear this?
: Got an e-mail yesterday saying that Torres had retired. I said, "Are you
: sure?" And he said, "Yeah. Went to Ottawa after being waived by
: Montreal. Pitched one game, then retired."
: Wow.
On the other side of the ledger, apparently Trevor Wilson has begun a
comeback attempt, and is now pitching with a low-minors affiliate of the
Angels.
JHB
gle...@phxa.com
In article <33E739...@binghamton.edu>,
bpe...@binghamton.edu wrote:
>
> In a fit of weekend cleaning, I came upon a 1992 Baseball Weekly with
> the top 10 NL West prospect reports. Here are the Giants top 10 for
> 1992:
>
> 1) Royce Clayton
> 2) Salomon Torres
> 3) Steve Hosey
> 4) Derek Reid
> 5) Joe Roselli
> 6) Kevin McGehee
> 7) John Patterson
> 8) Kevin Rogers
> 9) Rick Huisman
> 10) Eric Christopherson
>
> Their projected 1995 opening day Roster was:
>
> C - Christopherson
> 1B - Will Clark
> 2B - Patterson
> 3B - Williams
> SS - Clayton
> LF - Ted Woods!
> CF - Reid
> RF - Hosey
> P - Torres
What happened to these guys? I know that Patterson faded from sight, but
I've lost track of Christopherson, Wood (the modern day Mark Leonard) and
Hosey. Didn't even know about Reid.
> For contrast, here are 1996 & 1997:
>
> 1996 1997
>
> 1) Shawn Estes Joe Fontenot
> 2) Joe Fontenot Dante Powell
> 3) Jacob Cruz Mike Caruso !
> 4) Jay Canizaro Mike Villano
> 5) Dante Powell Russ Ortiz
> 6) Steve Soderstrom Steve Soderstrom
> 7) Rich Aurilia Darin Blood
> 8) Marcus Jensen Jacob Cruz
> 9) Russ Ortiz Jason Brester
> 10) Jesse Ibarra Keith Foulke !
>
> Why is Cruz falling? Too little power? Getting old? If Hill is
> staying, why not use Cruz instead of Benard as the extra OF?
Maybe cause the system as a whole has gotten better? I'm more interested
in why Aurilia and Canizaro fell out of the top 10, but Soderstrom stayed
at #6. Interesting also that Erik Simpson's man, Jesse Ibarra, was #10
in 1996.
As for Cruz, he's not a star prospect in RF IMO because he lacks HR
power, but I bet he could be an above average RF. I remember him being
pretty good in RF except for one really ugly error last year in
September.
Greg Lentz
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Gregg Pearlman
Good for Trevor. Hopes it works out. Especially if it helps the Giants
somehow, like he makes the start on August 31 and we hammer him....
Gregg
Lenny DiFranza
> In article <33E739...@binghamton.edu>,
> bpe...@binghamton.edu wrote:
> >
> > In a fit of weekend cleaning, I came upon a 1992 Baseball Weekly with
> > the top 10 NL West prospect reports. Here are the Giants top 10 for
> > 1992:
> >
> > 1) Royce Clayton
> > 2) Salomon Torres
> > 3) Steve Hosey
> > 4) Derek Reid
> > 5) Joe Roselli
> > 6) Kevin McGehee
> > 7) John Patterson
> > 8) Kevin Rogers
> > 9) Rick Huisman
> > 10) Eric Christopherson
what a great post. i had been wondering what happened to trevor wilson
(glad to hear he's still trying). also curious about gunderson, hickerson,
mcclellan. now we can add hosey, roselli, rogers and huisman. anybody
know?
Red Line Motorsports Webmaster
of my friends played with him. Eric Gunderson was playing with the Mets
at trhe begining of the season, and McMlellan, who the hell knows?
Steven Chan
gle...@worldpassage.net (Greg Lentz) wrote:
: Brian Perry <bpe...@binghamton.edu> wrote:
:
: : Lenny DiFranza wrote:
:
: : > what a great post. i had been wondering what happened to trevor wilson
: : > (glad to hear he's still trying). also curious about gunderson, hickerson,
: : > mcclellan. now we can add hosey, roselli, rogers and huisman. anybody
: : > know?
:
: : Gunderson is in the majors some where I think. Rogers is in A ball
: : somewhere and Huisman is at the Astros AAA.
:
: Really? I forget how we lost Gunderson. I remember being really excited about
: him when he first came up and pitched great his first game, then fell apart
: later. Anyone know where he is now?
Gunderson is currently on the roster of the Texas Rangers.
- S.
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Steven Chan
Red Line Motorsports Webmaster <rdlinem...@hotmail.com> wrote:
: Lenny DiFranza wrote:
: ... Eric Gunderson was playing with the Mets
: at trhe begining of the season, ...
Actually, he signed with Texas on January 24 (my birthyday!), 1997.