JAMESON TAILLON RUMORS
Prospect Watch: Kingham and Taillon Have Good Starts While Cole Gets Hammered
TOP OF THE SYSTEM
A look at how the current top 20 prospects did today. Note that this list doesn’t include players currently in the majors. If a player is in the majors, he will be removed, everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new player will be added to the bottom of the list. Rankings are from the pre-season rankings, and links to each prospect writeup can be...
P3 Episode 4: Are the Pirates For Real? Plus a Jameson Taillon Interview
Episode three of The Pirates Prospects Podcast can be downloaded or streamed below. This week’s episode includes analysis from Tom Bragg (@TomBraggSports) and James Santelli (@JamesSantelli) on the Pirates, John Eshleman (@John_Eshleman) on Altoona, John Dreker (@JohnDreker) on the draft, an interview with Altoona pitching prospect Jameson Taillon (@JTaillon19), and more. Highlights...
Prospect Notebook: When Should Taillon and Pimentel Be Promoted to Indianapolis?
After losing 6 of 8 games last week (through May 8th), the Altoona Curve had more success this week going 4-1. Of particular note, the team has scored more runs, a sign that the offense is starting to turn it around, but they still only managed 4.2 runs per game on average (up from 2.4 the week before). The team also benefited from several strong pitching performances, including...
Danny Salazar Outshines Jameson Taillon
It’s always fun to stumble upon a great pitching duel. Recently, I was able to take in the game between two top pitching prospects at the Double-A level on May 2: Cleveland’s Danny Salazar and Pittsburgh’s Jameson Taillon. Both hurlers come from very different backgrounds. Salazar signed as an amateur free agent out of Venezuela in 2006 but saw his career derailed by injuries...
Prospect Watch: Taillon and Glasnow Get All the Strikeouts
TOP OF THE SYSTEM
A look at how the current top 20 prospects did today. Note that this list doesn’t include players currently in the majors. If a player is in the majors, he will be removed, everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new player will be added to the bottom of the list. Rankings are from the pre-season rankings, and links to each prospect writeup can be...
A few words about Jameson Taillon in the WBC
Yesterday afternoon, there was a pretty interesting subplot for Pirate fans in the USA/Canada World Baseball Classic game: Jameson Taillon, dual US/Canadian citizen, was on the mound for Team Canada with a spot in the WBC's second round on the line. When I wrote about Taillon last Monday, I noted that Taillon's numbers in the minors haven't been great, but that all of...
Jameson Taillon making crucial WBC start
If you haven’t been paying attention to the World Baseball Classic (and I honestly can’t blame you if you haven’t), you’ve actually missed some pretty entertaining games. The United States team lost to Mexico on Friday night but bounced back with a win over Italy yesterday. Italy (2-1) is the surprise of the tournament and is already through to the next round. To join them...
30 Prospects in 30 Days: Jameson Taillon – SP – Pittsburgh Pirates
Jameson Taillon is a 6-foot-6, 225-pound right-handed beast of a pitching prospect. Drafted second overall out of high school in 2010, Taillon, 21, isn’t as polished as fellow Pittsburgh pitching prospect Gerrit Cole, but he still offers tremendous upside as a future major-league starter.
Photo credit: Associated Press
Taillon has pitched well at all three stops in his minor-league...
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