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Taylor Williams and Barrett Astin showing on the Helena roster, per MLB.com

Tucker Neuhaus, Devin Williams, and Josh Uhen are showing up on the Maryvale roster now, per MLB.com

Ramirez to the DL, no specifics other than a sprained knee. Josh Prince recalled.

This really just comes down to how any given individual prefers to evaluate talent. I, like others, prefer to weight potential more heavily and would tend to agree that Roache is a better prospect than Morris. However, there is also some merit to a guy actually playing before you assign a value. From the dozens of prospect rankings I have seen, most pundits agree that they need to see something from Roache before they are willing to rank him very high.

Has anyone heard anything on Jose Pena?

Jean Segura Mark Rogers Johnny Hellweg Tyler Thornburg Wily Peralta Ariel Pena Jimmy Nelson Victor Roache Cody Scarpetta Clint Coulter Orlando Arcia Tyrone Taylor Hunter Morris Taylor Jungmann Mitch Haniger Gian Rizzo Juan Santiago Scooter Gennett Chris McFarland Eduard Reyes Fautino De Los Santos Michael Reed Khris Davis Yadiel Rivera Logan Schafer Jorge Ortega Caleb Gindl Milton Gomez Hiram Burgos Jose Pena Edgardo Rivera Nick Bucci Jason Rogers Jorge Lopez Zach Quintana Cameron Garfield Drew Gagnon Damien Magnifico Jose Sermo Alan Williams Carlos Sosa Brandon Macias Tyler Wagner Jed Bradley Kentrail Davis Jim Henderson David Goforth Santo Manzanillo Seth Harvey T.J. Mittelstaedt

First off, outstanding work. I truly appreciate the time and effort you had to put into this. I do have a couple of questions. When you say player X rates Y n the 20/80 scale, where are you getting that from? Do you have access to scouting reports? Are piecing together things you read and forming an opinion? Where exactly is that from? Also, some of these reports seem very inconsistent. For instance, someone brings up Ross and your curt response roughly describes a half dozen guys on your list (Heckathorn, Hall, Otterman, Lavandero, Arnett, Lopez) including some ranked into the 30's. You call guys like Thornburg and Pena homer prone when thier career HR/9 are essentially identical to Nelson, Hellweg, Rogers, and Peralta and are right in line with the vast majority of the top pitching prospects in the game. You push Pena to the back the rotation because of his HR rate (which I already explained is not out of line at all) but Peralta and Nelson have #2 potential. This strikes me as strange because you would have a hard time telling the difference in career numbers between Nelson, Pena, and Peralta. Every report I have read says that Pena has just stuff that is maybe more fitly than Peralta or Nelson (including an effective sinker that is not in your report). Then there is the whole Khris Davis debate. I'm not trying to knock your effort. I just seems as though you have formed opinions on certain players and offered reports based on those preconceived notions and then pass them off as a scouting report. This, of course, leads me back to my original question of where it is that you are getting your reports from.