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FFA August 28th – Sept 4th

The minor league regular season ended last night so I thought I’d wait a day and get a final Farm Factory Award in with eight days instead of seven.  The final eight days had quite a few notable performers so without further ado The Contenders: Yusniel Diaz – AA/Tulsa – Diaz had four multi-hit games, …

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Arizona Fall League for 2017

Last year the Dodgers Arizona fall league was loaded with Cody Bellinger, Willie Calhoun, and Alex Verdugo.  Willie Calhoun would win the AFL All-Star game MVP while Cody Bellinger let everyone know he was going to be a player to be reckoned with in the summer of 2017. This year the team looks a little light …

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FFA for Week August 7th – August 13th

Contenders: Wilmer Font – SP – AAA/OKC – Font started two games last week, went twelve innings, gave up nine hits, two earned runs, walked two, and struck out fourteen. Over his last seven starts, he has pitched 41 innings, giving up just six earned runs, twenty-eight hits, walked eight and struck out fifty-four. Tim …

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Reviewing Baseball America MidSeason Prospect Rankings

Earlier we took a look at the original 2017 Baseball America Ranking and found some hits and misses.  Now we will look at the midseason ranking that Baseball America came out with a few weeks ago. In the table below the number in parenthesis is the original 2017 ranking. Walker Buehler couldn’t crack the top ten …

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Dodgers place 6 in revised MLB Prospect top 100

MLB finally released their midseason top 100 prospect list and six Dodgers made the top 100 list.  Walker Buehler at 13 – preseason rank was 93 – big jump Alex Verdugo at 28 – preseason rank was 61 – big jump Yadier Alvarez at 51 – preseason rank was 49 – not much movement Willie …

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Willie Calhoun makes MLB Pipeline Prospect Team of the Week

Dodger 2nd base prospect Willie Calhoun made the latest MLB Pipeline Prospect Team of the Week for the week ending July 16th. This is the fourth week in a row that at least one Dodger prospect has made the MLB Prospect Team of the Week. Prior winners had been Yusniel Diaz, Keibert Ruiz, and DJ …

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Yusniel Diaz makes BA June Prospect Team of the Month

Yusniel Diaz had a tough start to the 2017 season and made my list as the most disappointing prospect by the end of May.  Since his dreadful May, Diaz has turned his season around and Baseball America named him to their June Prospect Team of the Month.   OF Yusniel Diaz • Dodgers High Class A Rancho Cucamonga (California) …

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LAD FFA June 19th-June 25th

Contenders for the LAD Weekly Farm Factory Award for the week ending June 25th: Alex Verdugo collected twelve hits, including five multi-hit games, and walked four times to boot. Over his last ten games, Alex has gone 21 for 42. He’s now pushed his June OPS to 1.043 and overall OPS to .880. Walker Buehler …

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Two Cubans take the FFA for week of June 12th

Multiple Dodger prospects had huge hitting performances for the week ending on June 18th. It was a tough call who to pick for the weekly FFA award and ultimately I had to split the award between our Cuban positional prospects Yusniel Diaz and Jose Fernandez.   Both Cubans have gotten red hot in June and …

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Dustin May wins June 4th FFA

There was some heated competition for the Dodger Farm Factory Award for the week ending on June 4th but it involved mostly pitchers and Nineteen-year-old Dustin May got the nod. Wilmer Font had the best game of the week when he struck out ten in a six-inning two-hitter. Trevor Oaks had the most interesting game. …

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