{"id":2556,"date":"2011-01-13T18:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2011-01-13T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:59:53","slug":"the-golden-sombreros-top-50-prospects-41-zach-lee-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2556","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Sombrero&#8217;s Top 50 Prospects: #41 &#8211; Zach Lee (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zachleedodgers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2557\" title=\"zachleedodgers\" src=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zachleedodgers-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zachleedodgers-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/zachleedodgers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#41 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/minors\/player.cgi?id=lee---001zac\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zach Lee<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Los Angeles Dodgers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">RHP<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DOB: 9-13-91<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ETA: 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At just 19, Zach Lee has yet to throw a professional pitch outside of instructional league.\u00a0 That has not prevented scouts from ranking him at the top of the Dodgers organization.\u00a0 Like a great deal of Texan righties before him, Lee throws very hard (up to 95 mph before the draft) with a very repeatable delivery, an excellent frame that projects, a 50 breaker, and outstanding feel for a changeup that already grades as plus.\u00a0 It took $5.25 million to convince Lee not to play football at LSU, but the contract is structured such that payment is spread out over a half a decade.\u00a0 Somehow this is easier on the Dodgers checkbook.\u00a0 As an athlete, Lee is in a class of his own amongst Minor League arms, and he could be in L.A. by September of 2013 if he has no hiccups along the way.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cK8-Z4BpMek?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cK8-Z4BpMek?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1bVz-dQhALY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1bVz-dQhALY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#41 Zach Lee &#8211; Los Angeles Dodgers RHP DOB: 9-13-91 ETA: 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1300,8,6,9,11,13,10,14,1616,775],"tags":[1675,559,1674,3463,1673],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}