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January 31, 2012

Prospects Will Break Your Heart: What Could Go Wrong in 2012: Los Angeles Angels

by Jason Parks

Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect to Mike Trout and his supernatural powers.

January 26, 2012

Prospects Will Break Your Heart: What Could Go Wrong in 2012: Seattle Mariners

by Jason Parks

Jason makes Jesus Montero an offer he can't refuse and goes skeptical on Guillermo Pimentel in his latest installment.

January 24, 2012

Prospects Will Break Your Heart: A Little Ditty About Life, Death, and Finding Perspective

by Jason Parks

While mortality can remind of us of the most important things in life, baseball can help us pull through our struggles.

January 12, 2012

Prospects Will Break Your Heart: One-on-One with Professor Parks, Part II

by Jason Parks

The Professor is questioned about scouting, his favourite prospects, and his identity.

January 10, 2012

Prospects Will Break Your Heart: One-on-One with Professor Parks, Part I

by Jason Parks

Professor Parks takes on his most difficult journalistic assignment yet: Interviewing Professor Parks.

January 5, 2012

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

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

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

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 12, 2011

A Visit with Verducci: A Winter Meetings Fiction

by Jason Parks

A certain prospect writer went to the Winter Meetings on a quest to meet The World.

December 9, 2011

Winter Meetings Update: Collection of Cool

by Jason Parks

While roaming the floors of the next Winter Meetings, be sure to take this handy guide to coolness to let you know where to flock.

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.