Drafting Future Vancouver Canadians
The rule 4 MLB draft kicks off Thursday with rounds one and two on the dock. Three through ten will take place Friday and finally, on Saturday, we see the remaining thirty rounds. The changes made to the structure of the draft, how the slot system works, and penalties incurred for going over a team’s [...]
Anthony Alford a Vancouver Canadian?
In the never-ending quest to predict the Vancouver Canadians opening day roster prior to…..Opening Day, some interesting bits of intelligence are starting to filter over the airwaves. The MLB draft takes place from the 6th through 8th of June which will provide a chunk of the roster. As we get closer to the draft, the [...]
Deconstructing Daniel Norris
I’m going to admit something right off the hop here. This blog has been quite Daniel Norris centric through its short lifetime. From our first post to now, Daniel has probably (although not officially measured) garnered the most ink. So, why are we taking more time to talk about him? Well, as per my last [...]
Hey, it’s a Reunion in Lansing!
Back in December I wrote a piece trying to predict who would be the pitchers piggy-backing in Lansing to start this season. At the end of the article, I flippantly wrote that whatever the outcome, a ‘small town in Central Michigan is, once again, going to be privy to some exciting pitching prospects.’ Turns out [...]
Opening Day for Ex C’s
As I mentioned in my last post, all four of the Jays full-season minor league franchises kicked off their 2013 season Thursday night. Three of the four of them got off to winning starts. But, for the farm, more often than not, the process is more important than the results. Team success at these levels [...]
Let’s Get Going!
With Thursday representing opening day for the Jays full-season minor league franchises, the rosters were set early this week. Without going into too much detail, or looking back at all my predictions (an exercise that would only serve to confirm how little I know), a quick glance at the Lansing and Dunedin teams is in [...]
2012 Pitching Review – The Bullpen
Frequent readers of the blog will be very excited with this post. It is the last of my 2012 Vancouver Canadian player reviews. Now, the excitement may stem from the series itself, as readers look forward to each position in turn. Or it may just be a product of wanting to get the whole ordeal [...]
2012 Pitching Review – The Starters
I’m leaving this a bit late, with full season leagues starting on the 4th of April (Lansing’s at least), but after reviewing all the players that manned the eight outfield positions for the C’s in 2012, I’d be remiss not to do the same for the pitchers. Remiss, not only because it simply wouldn’t be [...]
Having Fun with Oliver
With spring training grinding its way towards its inevitable conclusion, more actual baseball stories will begin to make their way to the forefront. However, as this blog focuses on a short season club, the day to day monitoring of performances, results, et al will have to wait for an additional couple of months. Combining the [...]
A Review of the 2012 Positional Review
If you have been an avid reader of the blog yourvancs.com this may be a tad redundant, but with the new forum (and for other reasons which I will get into) I figured it would be a good time to review the 2012 positional pieces I’ve been doing the past couple of months. With minor [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Center Fielders
‘Put me in coach, I’m ready to play today……’ And, with that classic line we round out the positional review of the outfield with probably the most exciting group, the center fielders. Center, as a position, has always held a bit of mystique for me. And it’s not solely because it’s the position I am [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Right Fielders
After reviewing the left fielders in our last post, we switch around to the opposite side of the outfield, taking a close look at the right fielders to grace the hallowed turf of Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium. Ideally your prototypical right fielder will be a middle of the order power bat while displaying [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Left Fielders
After making our way around the infield we now move to the outfield. Similar to the infield, most of the players spent a bit of time at multiple positions so I’ll defer to Baseball Reference and categorize by starts. I may take some artistic license to even the posts out a bit. See how we [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Third Basemen
Third base earns the consistency prize for 2012, being manned by the same player for sixty-three of seventy-six games, or 83% of the regular season. That bests Jorge Flores who got into ‘only’ fifty-four games at short. But, before we discuss the stalwart at third, and he is worthy of a discussion as is an [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 Shortstops
Next on our 2012 positional review is shortstop. Admittedly, I thought it was going to be difficult to do a second basemen post, and believed I would have to add together with short to make a middle infield piece. After discussing three different second sackers though, I now realize that the shortfall of names will [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 2nd Basemen
Continuing the series breaking down the 2012 Northwest League Champion Vancouver Cs by position, today we look at the second basemen. But first, a housekeeping note, the 2013 schedule for yourvancs is up on milb.com. I have added June’s games into the Vancouver C’s Schedule section. Check it out. Gives us something to look forward [...]
More C’s Prospecting
This post is more of an extended postscript to my previous piece that looked at Marc Hulet’s Blue Jays top 15 prospect article. He had to add a few more names to the list as a couple were, unfortunately, subtracted when Alex Anthopolous pulled the trigger on a twelve player swap with the Miami Marlins. [...]
Vancouver Canadians on Hulet’s Radar
In between my 2012 positional breakdown, there’s been some actual news related to the Canadians. Marc Hulet, the respected prospect evaluator and writer released his prospect ‘Top 15‘ for the Blue Jays. I’m not going to paraphrase too much of the article as it is well worth a read in its own right. But I [...]
Vancouver Canadians 2012 1st Basemen
As I mentioned in an earlier piece, as news for the Canadians will be light during the off-season, I’m going to run a series of posts looking at each position, who manned it in 2012 for the C’s, and where those players may end up in 2013. I was having a think and decided I [...]
2012 Vancover Canadians Top 10 Prospects
I ran across this article the other day in Baseball America which breaks down (for subscribers at least, of which I am not one) the top twenty prospects in the Northwest League. The free article does mention that there were quite a few players who may have made the list if eligible. I can’t find [...]
Dalton Pompey a BBJ?
Right, now I am, and I don’t hesitate to admit this, thoroughly confused. So, after breaking his hamate bone in his wrist, all the reports I read assumed Dalton Pompey was done for the season. However, whilst surfing through the Jays minor league affiliates on Sunday I was pleasantly surprised to see Pompey playing for [...]
More?
Well, I wrote the Replacements thinking that may be the end of the new players the C’s would see as they make a push towards the 2nd half title. Ummm, I was wrong. I missed the news, and am a bit late talking about it, as was in the middle of a marathon drive to [...]
The Yak Attack
After my Replacements post yesterday, I toddled off to the Nat to see the 4 replacements + Taylor Cole in action. I had hoped to do a quick write up on how those 5 got on, but unfortunately work (and a little bit of life) got in the way. So now we’re 3 days removed from [...]
C’s News and Notes
I’ve updated both the hitting and pitching stats today. On the hitting side I included Dwight Smith Jr’s Bluefield stats as……. Aug. 9: OF Dwight Smith, Jr., assigned to Vancouver Canadians (Short-A) from Bluefield Blue Jays (Rookie-APP). #bluejays — Blue Jays Moves (@BlueJaysMoves) August 9, 2012 I originally pushed for Dwight’s promotion here. Now, the [...]
