First look: 2010 Draft Prospects (High School pitchers)

By John Klima
September 22, 2009

Baseball Beginnings is pleased to unveil our first NATIONAL look at the June 2010 draft here in September, 2009, eight months before the first name is called.

In the scouting world, every quality player is on a follow list. It’s a good bet that most of these players are already on such lists, but it’s important to remember that things will change over the next eight months – no list, no matter this one or one by a team should be considered definitive at this time of year, but should instead be regarded as a road map.

Some players who are not on this list will be hot and others who were hot in summer and fall will lose some luster in spring. That’s why you won’t see rankings here, because Baseball Beginnings works like a major league team. We’re not ranking players right now. And when we do, we keep them in-house. The world is full of people who will rank players. A good scout NEVER tells.

Every single player on this list has been seen by our scouting staff IN PERSON, meaning we don’t take our information from secondary sources. It’s on us.

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Area Codes Day 2, Game 4: Brodzinski Bounces Back

By John Klima
August 6, 2009

Catcher Greg Brodzinski took a fastball from A.J. Vanegas off his hand, but stayed in the game. In his second at-bat, Brodzinski showed some of the muscle he showed in BP on Wednesday when he made firm contact on a line drive base hit to left field. Brodzinski took second base and Sean Coyle, a speedy if sleight 5-9 right-handed hitting second baseman, went from first to third.

Brodzinski never got a chance to get a good swing against Vanegas (Redwood Christian HS, Alameda, Calif.), a hard-throwing right-hander who worked from 89-94 with his fastball and threw a 79-81 slider. Vanegas, who has a durable frame (6-3, 200), did a nice job staying in his mechanics and producing power and will be a draft quality talent out of high school.

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