Jim's Prospects May 3, 2008

Jimbo has 2 members in his farm system in Wieters and Rasmus.

Wieters- See Photo on left. After being named the Carolina league Player of the Week on 4/14/08, he really cooled off. In his last 10 games he is only hitting .229 with 1 SB. He still is hitting a ridiculous .338 with 5 HR for the season. He is a switch hitter who can rake off both lefties and righties equally, .375 vs. left handed pitching and .328 vs. right handed pitching. Attention category players out there, he has a .986 OPS thus far. The one aspect of his game that hasn't come around yet is his speed. He has the potential to swipe 15 bags a season and he only has 1 SB this season with 1 CS. He can be compared to Russell Martin with more pop in his bat.

Rasmus- Every magazine loved him before this season and so far he has shit the bed. He is hitting a whopping .204 with a OBP of .310. He does have 5 HR but that only translates to 12 RBIs and a pathetic Slugging % of .361. He has 19 SO vs. 17 BB and with the performance of the St. Louis OF so far this season, it looks like Colby will spend the whole year in Memphis, barring any injuries, to fine tune his hitting. Interesting note: he bats left but hits lefties at .269 and righties .183. He has over 100 ABS already but you would expect those numbers to normalize as the season progresses.