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<\/a><\/p>\nAs usual, the Flagrant Fan continues to churn out impressive work.\u00a0 One of my daily must-read sites, the Fan also does a great job maintaining order as the President of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance\u2019s General Chapter<\/a>.\u00a0 Yesterday he wrote about the Yankees\u2019 catching situation<\/a> and how Jesus Montero<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s bat needs to be in the everyday lineup in 2012.\u00a0 And you know what? I couldn\u2019t agree with the Fan more.<\/p>\n Mike Newman of Scouting the Sally<\/a> and FanGraphs explores Bill James\u2019s 2012 projections for Paul Goldschmidt<\/a><\/strong>\u2014a player Newman\u2019s personally scouted\u2014and more specifically, his .382 wOBA<\/a>, which would place him in elite company.\u00a0 Keep your eyes peeled for an upcoming Q&A with Mike, who has scouted many of baseball\u2019s most exciting prospects in the Sally.<\/p>\n Also at FanGraphs, you can read a Q&A<\/a> with Eric Hosmer<\/a><\/strong> in which he thoroughly discusses his swing and overall approach to hitting. (Sometimes I have to resist the urge to post links to every FanGraphs article; what an absolutely phenomenal site.<\/p>\n As we gradually unveil our Post-2011 Top 50 Prospects<\/a>, I\u2019d like to draw attention to Seedlings to Stars<\/a>, who are also in the midst of their own prospect countdown.\u00a0 However, their Top 100 is a bit more ambitious and really well done.\u00a0 Just today we named Zack Wheeler<\/a><\/strong> as our No. 41 prospect<\/a>, while at S2S, he was just ranked No. 51<\/a>. I\u2019m excited to see how our Top 50 rankings compare.<\/p>\n One of my colleagues and good buddies MJ Lloyd\u2014a fellow staff writer at\u00a0Tomahawk Take<\/a> and a newly appointed staff writer at Halo Hangout\u2014shares his thoughts on Mike Trout<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s loss of rookie status for 2012<\/a>.\u00a0 As he contends, it really doesn\u2019t matter. Trout will be an impact player whether he\u2019s considered a rookie or not. As usual, the Flagrant Fan continues to churn out impressive work.\u00a0 One of my daily must-read sites, the Fan also does a great job maintaining order as the President of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance\u2019s General Chapter.\u00a0 Yesterday he wrote about the Yankees\u2019 catching situation and how Jesus Montero\u2019s bat needs to be in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,9,11,13,1779,10,14],"tags":[882,1429,1536,2934,1358,653,2932,1267,71,2581,2933,2936,2935,3463,2927],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5528,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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