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... though as usual, you had to go to the comments area to read it :- )
"Not on the radar - could surprise" is one thing, an active "no prospect - can't succeed" grade is another.
To go from that, to #1 position player in the org, in a few months, that's not something you want to have happening, if your gig is player grades ...
Catricala has not revamp'ed his game, has not developed revolutionary handspeed this summer, etc ... G-Money, Spec etc. simply understood his game when others didn't.  (Me personally, it wasn't until about this May-June that I saw the vids and all.)  
No bad on those who didn't "see" Catricala, but I'd like to see a lot more credit given to the "amateurs" in the M's blog-o-sphere.  I'll take G-Money's grade of a Mariner farmhand before I'll take Jim Callis' or John Sickels'.  Also love to get Spec's grades, Lonnie's, and others'.
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Catricala's specialness is in the same category as Casper Wells':  he takes a very compact route to the ball, and yet hits with the authority as though he had a much longer swing.
The results are obviously beginning to convince some scouts.