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The Arizona Fall League has finished its season, and so has Tim Tebow
Sunday’s Say Hey, Baseball found more baseball happening somewhere, and it involves prospects! Plus, Brett Cecil says goodbye (and then hello), and the Rockies are losing losers.
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Until yesterday, there was still baseball happening somewhere, and that baseball was the Arizona Fall League. The AFL had its championship game on Saturday between the Mesa Solar Sox and the Surprise Saguaros. (Awesome team names.) With those two teams playing, prospects from 10 major league teams were showing their stuff. The Solar Sox have players from the Cubs, Indians, Marlins, Athletics, and Blue Jays. The Saguaros have players from the Red Sox, Royals, Twins, Pirates, and Rangers.
The Solar Sox won the game 6-1, and it was the Cubs’ No. 1 prospect, Ian Happ, who impressed the most. He was No. 21 on the MLB Pipeline prospect list, and he showed why with home runs from both sides of the plate. It was the first time he’d ever done that, and he said it was “awesome.” He wasn’t the only guy to make a difference for the Solar Sox, though. Marlins No. 4 prospect Brian Anderson hit a three-run homer in the first inning to start things off right, and those hitters backed up a strong performance on the mound from Athletics pitcher Dylan Covey.
There’s one prospect who didn’t appear in this game, and that’s Tim Tebow, who played on the Scottsdale Scorpions. And calling him a prospect might be an insult to all prospects everywhere. He’s done really, really badly in the AFL. Over 19 games and 62 at-bats, he hit .194/.296/.242 with 12 hits, three doubles, six runs scored, eight walks, and 20 strikeouts. He wasn’t the worst in the AFL, but he was pretty close.
Scouts had nothing nice to say about him. “Awful.” “Stinks.” “Ugly.“ Yikes. Don’t hold back, guys. So what’s next for America’s favorite failed quarterback? He’s staying in Arizona to work with the Mets hitting coach, and New York’s general manager Sandy Alderson doesn’t know if Tebow will get an invitation to major league spring training. So no matter what, this isn’t the last time we’ll hear about Tim Tebow playing baseball. Try to contain your excitement.
- Try to contain your sadness, Blue Jays fans. Brett Cecil has been signed by the Cardinals, and all your weeping is incredibly unseemly.
- But Cecil may not be enough for the Cardinals, and Viva El Birdos imagined a blockbuster trade with the Rays.
- Bleed Cubbie Blue has written an open letter to Cubs fans who write open letters to Cubs fans. Wrap your brain around that.
- The Yankees are ready to stop playing it safe with pitching prospects and want to take some risks on guys with high ceilings.
- The Rockies are losers, and Purple Row is saying so out loud so everyone can hear it. Or read it.
- The Brewers’ new-ish GM David Stearns may have made a few mistakes with the 40-man roster leading up to the Rule 5 Draft.
- Athletics Nation has five good reasons why the A’s need Brandon Moss around.
- The Yankees have some shiny new prospects from the Astros, and Pinstripe Alley has a breakdown of just how shiny they all are.
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