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M's struggling? Mariners blog — ... now with a little humor at Ken Griffey Jr.'s expense. Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times updates the efforts of Rule 5 draftee Kanekoa Texeira to make the roster.  

If you watched New York Yankees icon Derek Jeter dive to his left last night and come up flexing his throwing hand you probably had the same reaction I did. "Oh, no." Or something a little "rougher" than that. Jeter, however, is fine.

I asked him and he said, 'My hand's fine.' I didn't know about it until they said it [on television] in the fifth inning.   -Joe Girardi

 

Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog — John Sickels spoke with recently arrested Yankees' Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations, Mark Newman. Here's what Newman had to say about Jesus Montero and some sleepers in the system to keep your eye on: SICKELS: Can Jesus Montero catch? NEWMAN: When we signed him we knew that was going to be an issue.  

Earlier this year, dougdirt did a nice compilation, ranking the farm system's by organization using John Sickels' letter grades and Victor Wang's prospect valuation work, translated to dollar values by the good men of Beyond the Box Score. Considering that Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus uses his own ranking system to label prospects, known as the "star system", I thought that it would be interesting to see how the rankings play out with those grades. Goldstein uses two-, three-, four- and five-s  

Jeff Zimmerman at Beyond the Boxscore asks readers to project Jason Bay's performance. In the comments, he predicts Bay will struggle to hit even twenty home runs because of Citi Field. John Sickels profiles Daniel Murphy and thinks his MLB line of .275/.331/.437 is his true talent level.  

I talk about John Sickels a lot. He runs a sibling-site here on SBNation, Minor League Ball . He also has published a prospect book for the last few years that is a gold mine of data on the minor leagues.  

Even though I have added two new fantasy writers recently, I wanted to expand the content here at Fake Teams to include someone who will strictly focus on minor league prospects. SB Nation has John Sickels site over at Minor League Ball, and he has a great site, but I wanted to provide our fantasy readers with more fantasy related articles, like a daily roundup of how some of the best prospects are performing. What I am looking for is someone who:  

At any rate, with just a few days before spring training, there has been some surprisingly interesting stuff going on over the past few days. In fact, just enough for me to drag it out into a notes style post. That, of course, means bullet points.  

John Sickels did a Salty update earlier this week, talking about where he is now and why he hasn't developed as expected.