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January 5, 2012

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: What Could Go Wrong in 2012: Texas Rangers

by Jason Parks

The Rangers have a burgeoning farm system, but what could be some stumbling blocks for their top prospects?

January 3, 2012

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: What Could Go Wrong in 2012: Oakland Athletics

by Jason Parks

The Athletics have recently padded their farm through several trades, but will their prospects pan out?

December 23, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: What Could Go Wrong in 2012: My Own Prognostications (Part 2)

by Jason Parks

Projecting prospects is a tricky business, so will our prospect guru backtrack on what he has said about players in the past?

December 14, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: What Could Go Wrong in 2012: My Own Prognostications (Part 1)

by Jason Parks

Is our prospect guru going to jump off the bandwagon on some of his top prospects of 2011?

December 1, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: What Could Go Wrong in 2012: Seeing is Believing

by Jason Parks

Before diving into his prognostications, our resident prospect guru begins an open dialogue about prospect evaluation.

November 23, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: Bear a Starter's Fruit: The Three Acts of Feliz

by Jason Parks

The Rangers' recent signing of Joe Nathan ensures that Neftali Feliz will get a legit shot at the rotation, but will he be able to succeed?

November 16, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: One of These Days, Baseball Will Come Back to Save Me

by Jason Parks

A fictionalized take on one scout's day of despair and grasp at redemption.

November 9, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: The Notebook and the Lessons Learned

by Jason Parks

A season of thoughts and observations are recorded within scouting notebooks, though sometimes those observations are misinterpreted.

October 22, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: El Califa: The 20/80 of a Taqueria

by Jason Parks

Scouting reports on the El Califa taqueria's system

October 4, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: Instructional League Report: The Best 16-year-old Hitter I've Ever Seen

by Jason Parks

After cooking in the Arizona sun, the Professor was able to digest the fact that Ronald Guzman is the best hitting prospect he has seen.

September 22, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: 2011 Minor League Awards: Pitchers

by Jason Parks

Now that the hitters have had their time in the sun, it's time for the pitchers to gain the same recognition.

September 14, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: 2011 Minor-League Awards: Position Players

by Jason Parks

Who tops the tool charts? Who was the big story down on the farm in 2011?

September 6, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: Rangers vs. Red Sox: Mexico Edition

by Jason Parks

Our prospect guru finds himself in a food coma in Mexico, taking in a televised matchup between two AL contenders.

August 23, 2011

Prospects Will Break Your Heart: The Best of the Best

by Jason Parks

With the rankings now complete, is our resident prospect man about to turn his back on who he ranked at the top of each position?

August 16, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: Positional Primacy: Right Field

by Jason Parks

While Bryce Harper is the cream of the crop in right field, as it turns out, there are other legit corner outfielders in the minors.

August 11, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: Positional Primacy: Center Field

by Jason Parks

A rare breed of player can stay at an up-the-middle position, and many of these center fielders have loaded toolboxes.

August 4, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: Positional Primacy: Left Field

by Jason Parks

Though left field may be where players head when they can't play anywhere else on the diamond, there are still some solid prospects at the position.

July 29, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: Cito Culver, Angelo Gumbs, and the Burden of Being a Tourist

by Jason Parks

A trip to see the Staten Island Yankees turns into an odyssey of self-discovery... with a scouting report thrown in for good measure.

July 19, 2011

Premium Article Prospects Will Break Your Heart: Caught Up in the Complex League

by Jason Parks

While you will burn your neck and suffer heat stroke watching prospects develop in the Arizona League, there is a small oasis of potential stars that makes the pilgrimage worth it.

July 12, 2011

Prospects Will Break Your Heart: Finding a Little Future at the Futures Game

by Jason Parks

The Futures Game allows fans the chance to dream of the best up-and-coming prospects, but it's also a time when a scout can picture his own future.

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