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December 1, 2011

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

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

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

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 31, 2011

Playoff Prospectus: Shuffling Through the World Series

by Jason Parks

A humor-tinged recap of one of the most exciting World Series of our generation

October 22, 2011

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 17, 2011

Playoff Prospectus: Still the Same: Rangers Return to the Series

by Jason Parks

The Rangers find themselves back in the World Series on the strength of their offense.

October 6, 2011

Playoff Prospectus: What to Expect When You're Expecting... Another Trip to the World Series?

by Jason Parks

The Rangers downed the Rays in four games, and are now set to defend their American League title.

October 4, 2011

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 28, 2011

BP Unfiltered: Moneyball: The Poster

by Jason Parks

A review of the Moneyball movie poster.

September 22, 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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 31, 2011

Transaction Analysis: Texas Gunslingers

by R.J. Anderson and Jason Parks

The Rangers trade for their second elite reliever in as many days.

July 30, 2011

Transaction Analysis: A New Ranger in Town

by Kevin Goldstein and Jason Parks

The Orioles deal their closer for some pitching help and an infielder.

Transaction Analysis: The Fister-Furbush Exchange

by Jason Parks and R.J. Anderson

The Tigers add a nice middle-of-the-rotation starter for a playoff push as the M's grab a couple of nice pieces for their future.