MLB Prospect Watch

Prospect Hot Sheet - 7/8

After a one-week hiatus, Baseball America returned to producing its weekly hot sheet on Friday with prospect-laden edition to take us into the major league all-star break.

• Yonder Alonso
• J.P. Arencibia
• Engel Beltre
• Dellin Betances
• Peter Bourjos
• Kyle Drabek
• Christian Friedrich
• Paul Goldschmidt
• Greg Halman
• J.J. Hoover
• Eric Hosmer
• John Lamb
• Will Middlebrooks
• Shelby Miller
• Mike Moustakas
• Kirk Nieuwenhuis
• Michael Pineda
• Dennis Raben
• Cody Scarpetta
• Blake Smith

Bringing up the rear on the not-so-positive end of the list are Jordan Lyles, Jay Austin, Josh Vitters and Casey Crosby.

Notable Prospect Performances - 5/27

• Julio Teheran is playing a game of "Anything you can do, I can do better" with Braves' teammate Randall Delgado.  Teheran earned his first Carolina League win Wednesday a day after Delgado's own dominating performance went unrewarded.  Delgado, however, is gaining recognition from team blogs and national publications alike.
• Another day, more strong pitching performances from Orioles' pitching prospects.  Wednesday's versions came in the form of 7 scoreless innings in Triple-A from Zach Britton and a complete game from Rick Zagone in the Carolina League, reports Dean Jones, Jr. of the Baltimore Sun.
• Nick Hagadone recorded his first win in two years, which the Indians hope is a sign of good things to come for the oft-injured pitching prospect they acquired from the Red Sox in last year's Victor Martinez trade.
• Mariners' prospect Dennis Raben announced his presence in the California League with two home runs in his first game.
• A few more 3-hit nights should get Tony Sanchez promoted to Double-A sometime around mid-season.
• The Padres know they will have to be patient with the very raw but talented Everett Williams, but it's nights full of line drives like he showed Wednesday that give them optimism.  His 55 strikeouts are a problem, but 2 more doubles last night give him 13 on the season in 36 games.

Baseball America Hot Sheet

Baseball America has released their weekly Hot Sheet (which they do every Friday) and there are some of the same names as there were last week.  This week's prospects recognized for their efforts include:

• Lars Anderson
• Simon Castro
• Starlin Castro
• Jarred Cosart
• Wilmer Flores
• Grant Green
• Jay Jackson
• Andrew Lambo
• Jordan Lyles
• Eduardo Nunez
• Jake Odorizzi
• Dennis Raben
• Wilking Rodriguez
• Tony Sanchez
• Jerry Sands
• Justin Smoak
• Stephen Strasburg
• Trayce Thompson
• Josh Vitters

Unfortunately, there has to be a bad part of the list each week, and this week's members are Hector Rondon, Corey Brown, Matt Sweeney and Eric Arnett.