Forgotten Prospects

[Webster11]

Who are some prospects who were once highly regarded but have since struggled but could still hold some value? Im looking for guys like BJ Upton, Gavin Floyd, Dan Meyer, preferably players with less than 150 ab or 50 ip though. Thanks

[hybrid]

Well Upton hasn't struggled, just hasn't been able to get over his errors. As far as highly thought of prospects that have dimmed: Greg Miller, Cole Hamels, Adam loewen, & Dustin McGowan. Most of those are more due to injury than struggles though.

[Webster11]

Well Upton hasn't struggled, just hasn't been able to get over his errors. As far as highly thought of prospects that have dimmed: Greg Miller, Cole Hamels, Adam loewen, & Dustin McGowan. Most of those are more due to injury than struggles though.

Well I guess what I meant by struggling is struggling to get to the big leagues and make an impact. Thanks for the info

[speedy27]

Both Edwin Jackson and Joey Gathright come to mind. as does Michael Hincklely...

[JohnR]

as I read the question, Edwin Jackson immediately came to mind. I scrolled down through the posts and saw speedy already said him, but there ya go

[thedude]

Adrian Gonzalez is kinda forgotten, though he isn't really a prospect anymore.


A couple of guys come to mind:
Chris Nelson-Rockies
Kubel-Twins

Both good prospects and still talked about, but are a being underrated.



Here is Baseball Americas old top 100 lists.
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/features/at100.html

[Jenkins]

Fernando Cabrera

[sagecoll]

Jesse Foppert

[rhd]

F. Gutierrez
J. Loney
S. Choo
C. Snelling
M. Aubrey
J. Stokes
B. Dopirak
B. Nelson
J. Capellan
C. Everts
A. Guzman
C. Nageotte
B. Bullington

[Niffoc4]

F. Gutierrez
J. Loney
S. Choo
C. Snelling
M. Aubrey
J. Stokes
B. Dopirak
B. Nelson
J. Capellan
C. Everts
A. Guzman
C. Nageotte
B. Bullington

That's a pretty good list of struggling/injury prone prospects... someone who I am keeping my eye on is Justin Huber in KC... I don't think they'll go the whole year with Mientkievicz, and Huber has great numbers at AAA (though he didn't do quite as well in the Majors last year)