Jeff (Ozzie Ball) is wrting a series of positional previews, a State of the System type look. The first one is up: Catchers.

 

Feel free to discuss, and we'll put links to the new articles in the series here as they go up.

 

Get the depressing ones out of the way first, I see.

Get the depressing ones out of the way first, I see.

If the season goes according to plan, they'll need to update this one in a good way at midseason.

Corner Infield went up a couple days ago, here it is.

 

And Middle Infield.

 

Good stuff there. Not sure how I missed the Corner IF and Catcher ones earlier, so I'm glad you posted this.

Very good stuff. keep up the great work!

^Thanks and thanks.

 

Outfield now up

http://ow.ly/vsJwA

And relief pitching.

Excellent stuff. I haven't kept up with the minors as much as I used to, so I now feel a lot more educated.

Jeff is one of the best in the business (along with Dan) on that futuresox staff. Very insightful as always. Also rivals DBAH0 with his thick accent.

Excellent read thanks.

Excellent stuff. I haven't kept up with the minors as much as I used to, so I now feel a lot more educated.

Yes, excellent as always. One nitpick would be no mention of Winiarski, who I think the org likes, and may make it to the South Side before several of the mentioned. He's well ahead of Molina in the hierarchy at this point, imo.

And Starting Pitching

 

Will possibly do some kind of recap/system overview type post to round out the series, but otherwise this will be the last... until next year.

Yes, excellent as always. One nitpick would be no mention of Winiarski, who I think the org likes, and may make it to the South Side before several of the mentioned. He's well ahead of Molina in the hierarchy at this point, imo.

Thanks, and yeah you're right on Winiarksi. Someone brought him up in the comments too. I should have included him but just overlooked him.

 

Also, I went back to the middle infielders and added Rondon, decided his glove alone makes him notable enough.

Thanks, and yeah you're right on Winiarksi. Someone brought him up in the comments too. I should have included him but just overlooked him.

 

Also, I went back to the middle infielders and added Rondon, decided his glove alone makes him notable enough.

Cool. Yeah, just gotta hope Rondon can hit enough.

And Starting Pitching

 

Will possibly do some kind of recap/system overview type post to round out the series, but otherwise this will be the last... until next year.

I can't believe how many names I hadn't heard of. At least 3 or 4 on that list. Didn't realize I was quite so out of the loop. Thanks Jeff. Again, excellent stuff.

Ya this is excellent stuff per usual.

I can't believe how many names I hadn't heard of. At least 3 or 4 on that list. Didn't realize I was quite so out of the loop. Thanks Jeff. Again, excellent stuff.

Thanks, and yeah there were a bunch of lower minors guys that seemingly came out nowhere last year. A few of them may be marginal prospects, but they're all at least semi interesting.

Final Recap of the series with a nice overall look at system depth from Jeff. Includes links to each area's article at the bottom, but the recap article itself has some really great stuff in it.