[gehrig38]

What the hell?

• Our latest scouting reports came in for July.
• Some of the young bucks on the IBL roster are developing even better than we'd hoped.
• P Rick McKitrick has improved across the board and gained velocity. He's working upper 90's now.
• Nate Draper's stuff has improved and he's moved from 2 to 2.5 stars.
• Juan Chavez has improved defensively at 2B.
• Gus Garcia has exploded. Lost a step apparently but his current and potentials all jumped this month. He's gone from 2.5 to 3 stars per our scouts and they've upped his ceiling from 3.5 to 4 stars.
• The good news pretty much ends there.
• All, and I mean ALMOST all of our prospects regressed!
• SP Dan Williams went from 5 star potential to 3.5 He's 5-1 3.30 but was hurt yesterday and has been dtd for a week. He's going to sit until he is 100%.
• SP Kyle Fay went from 4 star potential to 2.5 but his velocity did kick up.
• SP Todd Barbour went from 3.5 stars to 2.5 and his potential stuff dropped from 19 to 12??? He's 5-0 2.39 at Nashville.
• SP David Arroyo dropped from 5 to 4.5 stars. Arroyo is sporting a 6.99 ERA at Nashville and had one more start. He went 7 and punched out 10 with no walks.
• SS Enrique Garza dropped from 3.5 to 3 stars but his defense got a bit better.
• SP Steve Carder saw his potential stuff drop from 18 to 15 per our scouts and he went from 3 to 2.5 stars.
• Mike Johnson is 1 for his first 12 in rookie ball, the 1 being a solo HR.
• Josh Dufault has 10 homers at Nashville.

• This is the sort of thing that gets people fired. This gets whole departments fired. You cannot, in any organization much less an expansion team in the early stages of a full-on rebuild, miss the draft, you just can't. Now I am not going to panic, though it sounds like I am. I am not going to knee jerk. I'm going to wait and see this through the end of the year where these guys land. If this is real, and these new projections hold, I will fire everyone, and I mean everyone.