http://www.scoutingbook.com/ We Keep Up on Baseball Prospects, Rookies and Closers so you don't have to. For Fans and Fantasy Players. Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:47:00 GMT Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:47:00 GMT Top/Sports/Baseball en-us http://www.scoutingbook.com/gifs/scout-rss-title.gif http://www.scoutingbook.com/ 144 36 2 Mar 2016 13:06:03 PST http://www.scoutingbook.com/blog/the-matrix-reloaded-2016-2216 http://www.scoutingbook.com/blog/the-matrix-reloaded-2016-2216 (TOP STORY) It's that time of year again. Professors, Prognosticators and just plain Prospectors are all starting to publish their own Top 100-type Lists, each purporting to be best, most accurate review of baseball's next best things. [more...] http://www.scoutingbook.com/closers/?STL439 http://www.scoutingbook.com/closers/STL#439 Update: STL -- Struggling through a June with an ERA over 10, the once-reliable Trevor Rosenthal has been removed from closing duties in St Louis, at least for now. There's no obvious replacement, but the mix of the most-trusted Kevin Siegrist, the best-stuff Seung Hwan Oh and the most-experienced (and once great) Jon Broxton will all hold down the fort until Rosenthal figures himself out again. (6/26/2016) http://www.scoutingbook.com/?rss-up11/19/2025 http://www.scoutingbook.com/?up11/19/2025 These prospects have moved up in our composite rankings recently: Jameson Taillon (#22)... Manuel Margot (#39)... Willson Contreras (#51)... Cody Reed (#55)... Seung Hwan-Oh (#95)... Billy McKinney (#117)... Rio Ruiz (#176)... Tyrell Jenkins (#219)... JT Chargois (#231)... Hunter Dozier (#300)... Santos Saldivar (#486)... Jake Reed (#612)... Elvis Sabala (#629)... Yeremy Rosario (#638)... Anderson Castro (#865)... Christian Capellan (#933)... See our detailed prospect rankings for more info. (11/19/2025) http://www.scoutingbook.com/?down11/19/2025 http://www.scoutingbook.com/?down11/19/2025 These prospects have moved down in our composite rankings recently: Alec Asher (#422)... See our detailed prospect rankings for more info. (11/19/2025) 1 Feb 2016 12:26:00 PST http://www.scoutingbook.com/ http://www.scoutingbook.com/blog/the-prospect-age-2016-12316 While the 2015 baseball season is bound to be remembered as the Year of the Rookie, it was probably a lot more than a one-time event. Instead, last season will probably be remembered as the year that rookies, and young players in general, really took over Major League Baseball. It should stay this way for many, many years to come. [more...] 19 Jan 2016 16:21:11 PST http://www.scoutingbook.com/ http://www.scoutingbook.com/blog/not-rebuilding-retooling-for-2016-12316 As our faithful readers know, we hobbled through much of 2015 while dealing with a number of back-end issues with our hosting and network providers, leading to some painful downtimes and more than a few data mishmashes as our CDN servers got out of synch. It didn't help our US readers much to know that our European readers were up-to-date when they weren't, either. [more...] 26 Jan 2015 12:26:00 PST http://www.scoutingbook.com/ http://www.scoutingbook.com/blog/2015-prospects-overhaul-soon It's time for the ice to thaw on our long winter break, which means all your favorite Scouting Book tools and info resources are about to see major updates and overhauls. [more...]