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Sandy,
I've done a lot of work over the course of the last three years concerning the minors, and I believe that for the most part I fall into the catagory that you describe.  I've shown what a prospect has done, and what they need to do, but hardly ever have I shown where they have made improvements.  In the last 6 months or so I've been trying to rectify that since we finally have some guys in the system who lack that fatal 6th tool; intelligence.  There really are just two position players that I feel comfortable talking about who have been in the system for more than three years, and that is Mangini and Liddi.
One of the big problems HAS been a real lack of baseball talent in the system up until the last two years.  We have had waaaaayyyy tooooo many Carlos Triunfel's, and not nearly enough Alex Liddi's.  Now we have a growing amount of baseball guys to look at like Nate Tenbrink, Johermyn Chavez, and many others.
You darn sure can expect more of this kind of work out of me in the future!
Lonnie