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text: Harley-Davidson has released another "Screw it; Let's ride" print ad imploring Americans not to buy Harleys for their fuel economy. Of course, the company has the distinct advantage of having a customer base who likely ranks fuel economy at the very bottom of their purchase motivators. But still, what advertising copywriter wouldn't like to propose "MPG describes riding like biology describes sex" and see it get through legal? This message works great for Harley as its sales are image- rather than product-led. [Via About Motorcycles]


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Advisors who have watched the disruption ETFs brought about in their early days, and their explosive growth since, may be wondering if a market that in 2013 reached past $1 trillion in assets is now ready to slow down.
"Indexing has not run its course. We're just in the third inning," comes the reply from Nasdaq's John Jacobs, who, in a highly-caffeinated phone interview with ThinkAdvisor, embodied the notion that ETFs won't be slowing down if he's in a position to do anything about it.
And, as the head of the exchange's information products division, which creates and licenses indexes, Jacobs offers a key position in the ETF universe. He also manages to keep busy.
"Two years ago I had 2,000 indexes; today I have 41,000. We rolled out 13,000 last week [in the global equities space]," says Jacobs.
So what does he see, from his perch atop the Nasdaq, that gives him confidence we're just a third of the way through the game?
"We still have huge international markets to go. We have not exhausted asset classes outside of equities — in fixed income, currency and commodities. We haven't penetrated defined contribution yet — there are only a handful of 401(k) plans that accept ETFs today. And pension plans and other asset owners who traditionally have had a consultant come in to manage the money are now demanding a combination of active and passive strategies — and we provide the passive," Jacobs exuberantly details.
Nasdaq OMX is one of the titans of the indexing business, but its size has not slowed it down.
"We are probably the fastest growing of the major indexers," Jacobs says, noting a recent news report that its rival Standard & Poor's expanded by a whopping 43% last year, but helpfully adding that Nasdaq's exchange-traded product assets increased over 68%, from $54.9 billion to $92.3 billion, in 2013.
Nasdaq, whose claim to fame more than a decade ago was its QQQ index of the top 100 stocks on its high-tech-oriented exchange, has gone from that single index to 151 exchange-traded products today.
Within that large product pool, founded on traditional market-cap-weighted beta products, Jacobs says Nasdaq's greatest growth has been in the smart beta area.
"This past year, one of the hot areas for us [has been in the] the dividend achievers," he says. "We saw explosive growth as people were looking for yield. It's a huge opportunity and that's going to continue," he says, citing Vanguard and PowerShares ETFs as licensees of these indexes, which group stocks with at least 10 consecutive years of increasing annual dividend payments.
Another growth area, also for yield-hungry investors, was its launch last year of BulletShares, an innovative fixed maturity corporate bond indexes.
"Say an investor wants a corporate bond with a 2020 expiration," Jacobs explains. "A single bond involves huge risk. These are 200 bonds that all have 2020 expiration. You get same exposure you wanted, but it's far more diversified, which is the true value of an index."
Altogether, the Nasdaq's dividend and income indexes increased over 68% last year.
While the exchange's indexing chief is generally buoyant about ETF opportunities, the one area he was less than excited about was actively managed ETFs.
"I don't think it's going to grow so big; it's not going to get a big foothold," which, despite their rapid growth, remain at around $7 billion out of the more than $1 trillion in exchange-traded product assets.
Looking ahead into 2014, the index provider has about 40 new ETFs in its pipeline (both in the U.S. and abroad).
Jacobs is not saying what they'll be — he doesn't want to get ahead of his index partners like PowerShares, Vanguard, BlackRock and FirstTrust who will market the products — but he hints that "demand for nontraditional indexes is not abating at all."
He also predicts that indexing aficionados will likely see some movement in the defined contribution area in the later part of the year.
With all this index issuance, it is interesting to note that Jacobs gives financial advisors some key credit for ideas.
"One-third of the ideas that end up in the marketplace come from indexers like us [through staff researchers]; one-third from our partners [e.g. BlackRock, ProShares]; and one-third from our customers—the financial advisors, the RIAs who say 'I need this ETF.'
"We believe the financial advisor is one of the key target audiences for our indexes," Jacobs says. "They take the strategy and make them comprehensible and applicable for clients…They are the ultimate converter of thoughts about strategy into an index."
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Please welcome my first guest blogger ever! I had the pleasure of working with local artist Aaron Scamihorn on the latest NRG bout poster. When I asked him about his process he humbly replied that it's little more than 'glorified tracing'. Whatever. Take just one look at his work and you'll see Aaron's got one hell of an artistic eye and an insanely creative mind. So, without further ado…
My name's Aaron. Kate asked me to write a short blog on my process for the latest Naptown bout poster's illustration and design.
I first saw the tweet from @NaptownRG calling for illustrators back in December. My wife and I have been attending Naptown's bouts consistently for a couple years now, and I've always loved the bout poster artwork. I was extremely excited about the potential of working on one. After a few concept sketches, the marketing director suggested Dora The Destroyer and Noxious Donna to model for the piece.
I took some reference shots and got to work. See my process below:
It was a blast and is hands-down my favorite project to date. I'm really excited to attend the bout Saturday. After consistently dominating in the last few bouts, this one is sure to not disappoint as well!
Geek out over this- here are the 'tools' Aaron used for this project:
– I shoot a canon 40d with canon 17-85is lens and Canon speedlite 420ex flash.
– I start by taking the reference shots and blowing out the contrast. This piece in particular utilized a few of the photos spliced together to get the right arm positions etc.
– I work primarily in illustrator for creating the lines and shapes in layers over the reference shot.
– I then bring the illustration into Photoshop where I'll tweak the colors and texture the piece with layers of paper and grunge brushes.
– I work with a Wacom tablet on my iMac & Macbook Pro.
– I listened to a lot of Pomplamoose during this project.
– I drank a lot Iced Quad Venti Skinny lattes.
You can see more of Aaron's work here: www.ronlewhorn.com


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Feast on this hearty stew which gets a background flavour from crunchy celery.
Serves 4-6
Preparation time: 15 minutes, plus soaking the beans overnight
Cooking time: Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
2 tbsp olive oil
6 shallots, sliced
250g chorizo, cut into 2cm slices
2-3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tsp smoked paprika
½ head Fenland celery, each stalk cut into 3 pieces, plus a few leaves for garnish
1.5 litres chicken or vegetable stock
500g dried cannellini beans, soaked overnight in cold water
2 bay leaves
Salt & freshly ground black pepper
Small bunch flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped
How to make
Heat the oil in a large saucepan and sweat the shallots until soft and translucent but not coloured at all.
Add the chorizo, turn up the heat a little and continue frying until the chorizo and shallots are lightly caramelized.
Add the garlic, smoked paprika and Fenland celery and fry for a further minute before pouring in the stock.
Finally add the drained beans and tuck in the bay leaves. Bring up to the boil and simmer steadily until the beans are soft and tender. This could take anything between an hour and an hour and a half depending on the dryness and age of the beans. Keep an eye on it and add a little cold water if it looks a bit dry at any stage.
When the beans are cooked, stir through the flat leaf parsley and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Serve in deep bowls scattered with a few celery leaves.
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Cranberry Tart
Doesn't this just look like Christmas? I love anything with cranberries during the holidays and this tart fits right in. It's made with an easy tart dough that you can just press right into the pan. It's then filled with a creamy, cheesy filling and topped with a cranberry/orange topping that's delicious.
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If you've never made a tart before, don't be afraid of it. You don't really even have to roll out this dough like a pie dough - you can just takes pieces of dough and press it right into the pan. I roll out the dough a little and then just lay it in the pan and start pressing it over the bottom and up the sides. Easy as can be.
Cranberry Tart
Makes one 11" tart
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For the dough:
- 1-1/2 cups flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1-1/2 sticks of butter (3/4 cup or 12 tablespoons), cut into slices
- 3 drops almond extract
- 3 drops vanilla extract
- 2-1/2 tablespoons ice water
For the cheese filling:
- 16 ounces mascarpone cheese (or cream cheese) room temperature
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon orange zest
For the cranberry topping:
- 1 12-ounce bag fresh cranberries
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 1-1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
For the tart dough: Put the flour and sugar in a food processor. Process til blended. Add the butter in slices and process. Add the extracts and just enough water that it gathers up into a ball when you process it. Flatten the dough into a disc and wrap in plastic wrap with a little flour to prevent sticking and chill for at least 30 minutes or until you are ready to use it. Then take it out and let it sit at room temperature for about 5-10 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Roll the dough out into an 11-inch tart pan. This dough does not roll out easily like a pie dough - it is easier to press it into the tart pan. Press it evenly over the bottom and up the sides and then prick the bottom with a fork. Bake for about 15 minutes. Allow to cool for about 15 minutes before filling.
For the cheese filling: Lower oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Beat all ingredients in a mixer until smooth. Pour into tart shell. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove and allow to cool completely before adding topping.
For the cranberry topping: Boil first 5 ingredients in a saucepan until sugar melts. Simmer for about 5 minutes. The cranberries will start to burst. Remove from heat and stir in orange zest. Let cool completely. Pour onto top of cooled tart and spread evenly over top.
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The SCLC Collection
|Elaine Tomlin, Joseph Lowery leading a prayer during the 1982 Pilgrimage to Washington for Voting Rights, Peace, Economic Justice, North Carolina, 1982. Courtesy of SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
Founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, including Ralph David Abernathy, Ella Baker, Joseph E. Lowery, Bayard Rustin, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Charles Kenzie (C.K.) Steele, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference grew out of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Its initial intention was to secure the desegregation of transportation systems throughout the South. However, the SCLC quickly expanded the scope of its mission to ending all forms of segregation through nonviolent direct action. The organization was central to much of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, including voter registration drives in Mississippi and Alabama, the March on Washington, and establishing citizenship schools in the South.1
Well-documented with regard to King's leadership, the story of SCLC in the years after 1968, and its continuing pursuit of nonviolent direct action as a remedy for social injustice, remains largely unexamined.2 The long inaccessibility of SCLC's records from this period has now ended, and, after three years of processing made possible by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, the organization's archive is available at MARBL.3
Comprising 918 boxes of administrative documents, photographs, printed and audiovisual material documenting the SCLC, the collection includes records dating to the founding of the organization in 1957. The vast majority of material covers 1968–2007.4 The SCLC records at MARBL primarily document the presidencies of Ralph David Abernathy (1968–1977) and Joseph E. Lowery (1977–1997). The collection holds some material from the presidency of Martin Luther King, III (1997–2003). The records starkly display the differences in leadership styles, particularly between Abernathy and Lowery. Researchers can also chart the SCLC's activities through the 2000s.
The SCLC collection enables a deeper understanding of the ongoing struggle for social justice and provides new knowledge of the many women and men whose daily work advanced the movement. These records document the activities of numerous staff members throughout SCLC history.
Figures in the SCLC
|Elaine Tomlin, Fred Taylor at his desk at SCLC, circa 1970s. Courtesy of SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
Among the SCLC staffers represented in the collection is Fred Taylor, who worked for the organization for nearly forty years with significant responsibility for daily management. Born in Prattville, Alabama, in 1942, Taylor was raised by his grandparents who moved to Montgomery in 1953. He became involved in the Civil Rights Movement at age thirteen, handing out leaflets during the Montgomery Bus Boycott under the direction of his pastor, Ralph David Abernathy. Taylor graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery and went on to Alabama State University, finishing his BA degree in 1965. In 1969, Taylor graduated from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, with a Master of Divinity degree and began working for SCLC under Abernathy's direction. Taylor worked his way from research assistant to the directorship of the department of chapters and affiliates.
By 1984, Taylor was responsible for coordinating efforts such as the 1988 Martin Luther King Pilgrimage for Economic Justice and the 1985 boycott of Winn-Dixie supermarkets, as well as intervening on behalf of citizens' experiencing racial discrimination and hardships. He helped plan many direct actions, including the southern leg of the 1976 Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice.
The SCLC records document that between 1969 and his retirement in the mid-2000s, Taylor was involved in every major action launched by the organization. He was a board member of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice throughout the 1980s and 1990s (working closely with Anne Braden and Ben Chavis) and a vocal member of the anti-death penalty movement. Taylor maintained an active speaking and ministerial schedule outside of the SCLC.5
The SCLC records also reveal the problematic relationships SCLC had with women in the Movement. Although Ella Baker was a founding member, the first staff person hired by SCLC, and interim executive director for two years, her relationship with King and other men in the organization was notably fraught.6 For years, the women of SCLC were relegated to stereotypically "female" positions within the organization, serving mainly as secretaries and assistants. Those who headed departments found themselves in charge of education and student and youth outreach. Despite the enormous contributions women such as Septima Clark, Dorothy Cotton, and others made to the organization and the Civil Rights Movement, they filled traditionally defined female roles.
SCLC's relationship with women outside the organization was equally complicated, and the collection captures this as well. From 1967–1979, SCLC produced a half-hour radio series, Martin Luther King Speaks. Bookended by excerpts from Dr. King, the program featured speeches by men such as Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young. Martin Luther King Speaks addressed such controversies as the student movement, poverty, Black Power, and the Vietnam War. The radio series included women activists such as Angela Davis, Dorothy Height and Eleanor Holmes Norton. Following the publication of their controversial book Abortion Rap (1971), both Florynce Kennedy and Diane Schulder appeared on the radio series to discuss the book and the court case that spawned it, as well as reproductive rights, sex, and the roles of the church, media and government in the oppression of women.7 The SCLC collection contains audio recordings of these radio programs, transcripts of aired interviews, and unedited production transcripts.
Feminists often expressed reservations and concerns about the position of women within SCLC. In the unedited transcript of an interview recorded in Boston on November 1, 1970, lawyer and activist Pauli Murray expressed her ambivalence toward the organization:
While I am recording this material on behalf of SCLC, . . . for quite some time, I've had grave reservations about the policies of . . . SCLC which date back to my observations of . . . the late Dr. Martin Luther King. . . . [I]t was my impression from observing him, things that I heard and also from his general . . . policy with respect to his organization that Dr. King either had a . . . blind spot where women were concerned or did not feel . . . they were important enough to . . . make them significant . . . and equal parts of his organization and it seems to me that that same policy is being carried out . . . with the present structure of SCLC. . . . I cannot help but think that an organization which ignores half of its . . . potential membership or half of the population today in its particular struggle . . . is doomed.8
Murray drew parallels between current struggles of women to achieve equal rights with the ongoing struggle of African Americans:
I will go further and say that it may well be that we will not be able to eliminate race discrimination until we have eliminated sex discrimination because of the fact that in the subordinate position of women, we cut across all racial, class, social, economic lines and . . . so vast a segment of the population is involved that even with the best of intentions to try to resolve the racial question . . . you will never know whether you have solved it as long as half of its . . . membership, half of the non-white population, is left in this subordinate position.9
SCLC After Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real strength of the collection housed at MARBL lies in its documentation of the SCLC since 1968. The organization floundered in the years immediately following King's assassination. Financial difficulties abounded. Abernathy's first project as president was the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, DC, intended to dramatize and highlight the ongoing problem of US poverty. In May 1968, demonstrators traveled by mule train from around the country to the National Mall where they constructed a settlement, Resurrection City, and demanded better access to jobs, jobs training, housing, and food stamps. Intended to embody SCLC's vision for the nation, Resurrection City was also meant to be a stark example of the plight of the poor.
|Selected page from Ralph David Abernathy's Letter from a Charleston Jail, April 1969. Courtesy of SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
Resurrection City leaders met with staff at the departments of agriculture and labor while protestors demonstrated outside. Plagued with a variety of problems, the settlement ultimately melted under heavy rains and mud. Its culminating moment was a Solidarity Day rally on June 19, featuring a march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial and speeches from civil rights leaders and politicians. Continued demonstrations at the Department of Agriculture on June 23 erupted in violence, which spread to Resurrection City and ended with police throwing tear gas into the camp. On the morning of June 24, as police evicted the remaining citizens and began to dismantle the plywood town, Abernathy and many others were arrested during a sit-in in front of the Capitol.
Although Resurrection City had ended, the Poor People's Campaign would be resurrected for several months in 1969 as part of an ongoing emphasis on economic justice and the rights of workers.10 The SCLC collection contains materials relating to the efforts of Charleston, South Carolina, hospital workers to unionize. Abernathy, along with other civil rights leaders, conducted nonviolence training workshops for demonstrators, spoke in churches and led rallies to protest the firing of pro-union workers. He was arrested twice and spent several weeks in jail.
Abernathy saw the action in Charleston as a test of his leadership abilities:
The Poor People's Campaign had been conceived and planned under Martin's leadership, and whatever positive gains we made were attributed to him, while the failures were attributed to me. But the Charleston campaign had been planned and executed under my leadership, and some of the remaining doubters had been silenced. For the first time people were beginning to believe that the SCLC would have a life and a purpose beyond completing the projects already begun by Martin.11
Abernathy continued to focus the organization's efforts on the plight of the poor throughout the 1970s. He also spoke out against the war in Vietnam and kept up a rigorous schedule of promoting SCLC's work and garnering new supporters. Financial problems and internal tensions ultimately led Abernathy to resign.12 He was succeeded by Joseph E. Lowery.
The SCLC papers document a renewed vigor in the organization under Lowery's tenure, as well as a greater willingness to court controversy in the interest of furthering the organization's goals. In 1979, Lowery and a delegation of Civil Rights leaders traveled to Lebanon to meet with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and present a cease-fire proposal. The delegation met with President Elias Sarkas and PLO chief Yasser Arafat, as well as private citizens. The move was unpopular, and SCLC received much criticism from figures such as Bayard Rustin and Vernon Jordan. SCLC also received a significant amount of correspondence, some in support of the trip and some from former SCLC supporters vowing never to contribute to the organization again. Lowery defended the trip as he sought to position SCLC as a voice of Christian conscience in foreign affairs.13 Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Lowery kept SCLC involved in controversies ranging from ending apartheid in South Africa to the conflict between the Sandinistas and the Nicaraguan government.14
In September 1985, SCLC launched a successful boycott of Winn-Dixie Grocery Stores for selling products grown or manufactured in South Africa. Lowery and SCLC equated the practice of apartheid in South Africa to the practice of racism in the southern United States. In a letter to SCLC's membership, Lowery described Winn-Dixie's business in South Africa as an insult to the grocery chain's African American customer base and condemned what he saw as endemic racism in the company.15
|Draft of Wings of Hope Implementation Manual, circa 1995. Courtesy of SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
The SCLC papers show that the organization received broad support for the boycott from citizens and legislators. Andrew Young and Walter Fauntroy joined the picket line. Georgia Representative Bob Holmes, along with seven other state representatives, applauded SCLC's efforts and not only called for Winn-Dixie to pull South African products from their shelves but also encouraged them to hire more African Americans.16 The boycott resulted in meetings with Winn-Dixie leadership and ultimately led the company to cease business with South Africa and pull the country's products from grocery store shelves.17
SCLC also addressed urban violence, access to health care among minority populations, and drug abuse. The Stop the Killing, End the Violence initiative of the 1990s involved a gun buyback component in which SCLC partnered with other organizations to purchase guns from residents of crime-ridden neighborhoods.18 The Wings of Hope Anti-Drug Program focused on training clergy and the Black church to combat drug abuse and addiction.19
In 1984, SCLC spearheaded a series of hearings called the Crisis in Health Care for Black and Poor Americans, a result of Reagan-era budget cuts that targeted services in poor and minority neighborhoods. Hearings were held in eleven cities, and testimony collected from citizens, medical professionals, and lawmakers detailing the difficulties of minorities in obtaining adequate health care.20 SCLC argued that traditional principles and tactics of nonviolent direct action could be successfully brought to bear under any number of circumstances adversely affecting the quality of life of minorities in America.
A rich historical resource for the movement for social justice between the late 1960s and the early twenty-first century, the SCLC collection opened to researchers on May 1, 2012 at Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library.
- 1. David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1986), 83–125.
- 2. For organizational histories of SCLC post-1968, see F. Carl Walton, "The Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Beyond the Civil Rights movement," in Black Civil Rights Organizations in the Post-Civil Rights Era, ed. Ollie A. Johnson, III and Karin L. Stanford (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002), 132–149; and Thomas R. Peake, Keeping the Dream Alive: A History of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from King to the Nineteen-Eighties, (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1987).
- 3. This article makes use of some material originally published in the Robert W. Woodruff Library Blog.[http://web.library.emory.edu/blog/tag/tags/southern-christian-leadership-conference-records]
- 4. Records from the first ten years of the organization can be found either at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change or as part of the Morehouse King Collection at the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center.
- 5. Fred Taylor resumes, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) records, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), Emory University.
- 6. Garrow, 141. See the discussion of SCLC leadership in Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
- 7. Program 7126, "Abortion Rap," "discussion with Florynce Kennedy and Diane Schulder," June 27, 1971, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
- 8. Pauli Murray interview, Boston, Massachusetts, November 1, 1970, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
- 9. Ibid.
- 10. Abernathy, 499–539; Peake, 237–242.
- 11. Abernathy, 575.
- 12. Ibid., 579–586.
- 13. Peake, 371–373; Correspondence, September–October 1979, President Joseph E. Lowery files, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
- 14. President Joseph E. Lowery files, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
- 15. Letter to SCLC members from Joseph E. Lowery, October 22, 1985, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
- 16. "Legislators Join SCLC Boycott of Winn-Dixie," The Atlanta Voice, October 26–November 1, 1985, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
- 17. Winn-Dixie boycott, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
- 18. Stop the Killing, End the Violence records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
- 19. Wings of Hope Anti-Drug Program records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.
- 20. Crisis in Health Care for Black and Poor Americans records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University.


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November 15, 2012
Prospects Will Break Your Heart
Minnesota Twins Top 10 Prospects
State of the Farm: "If you put your trust in me I'll make bright your day. Look into these eyes now, tell me what you see."
The Top Ten
1. Byron Buxton
What Happened in 2012: Drafted second overall and viewed by many as the top talent in the entire class, Buxton didn't disappoint in small-sample professional viewing, flashing all the tools that helped secure him a $6 million signing bonus.
Strengths: Massive potential on both sides of the ball; elite run; uses speed well in game action; hit tool has plus projection (at least); impressive bat speed; strength in swing; big raw power that should at least achieve average utility; arm is a 7; overall defense package could be high-6/low 7; strong work ethic.
Weaknesses: Mixed opinion on future of hit/power tools; some only see average game utility at maturity; wide gap between present/future; limited professional sample; swing has some length; hasn't faced enough quality velocity; approach is still immature.
Overall Future Potential: 7; all-star.
Explanation of Risk: Extreme risk; massive toolshed with makeup, but has boom or bust potential because of wide gap between present and future hit/power tools.
Fantasy Future: One of the best players in the game if he reaches his potential; could hit for high average, show high-end secondary skills (SB, HR, OBP) while playing a premium position at a high level. He has MVP-level raw tools.
The Year Ahead: With high ceilings come high expectations, so Buxton will be expected to rise to the challenges of full-season ball and emerge as one of the premier prospects in the game. While its possible that he explodes in 2013 and becomes a top-10 player in the minors, it's more likely that the tools need a few seasons to develop their game function, and as a result, Buxton will flash his promise more often than sets fire to it. He will be facing the best pitching of his life, and if the swing isn't ready for the spotlight, he could struggle at the plate. Just be patient. If he develops to his potential, it's a game changer.
Major league ETA: 2016
2. Miguel Sano
What Happened in 2012: The 19-year-old Dominican moved up to the full-season level after two short-season stints in rookie ball and crushed 60 extra-base hits in 129 Midwest League games, including 28 home runs.
Strengths: Godfather power; raw grade is an 8; current swing has all the necessary characteristics for game power (strength, loft, backspin); did we mention the power?; shows some secondary on-base ability; arm is well above-average; will play at hot corner or right corner; athletic for size (at present).
Weaknesses: Swing is long and leveraged; features big swing-and-miss; pitchers with a plan can beat him; questions about hit tool utility; might not be an average (5) hitter; defense at third base is fringe; stiff actions; big kid at present with the frame to hold more weight/bulk as he physically matures; might be one-tool dependent.
Overall Future Potential: High-6; first-division player with a few all-star seasons
Explanation of Risk: High risk; performed well in full-season ball as a teenager, but profile is game-power dependent, and deficiencies in the hit tool/approach could limit full utility of raw power.
Fantasy Future: Middle-of-the-order monster if everything clicks, with big over-the-fence numbers and big strikeout numbers, most likely from right field or first base.
The Year Ahead: Sano's big swing-and-miss tendencies might survive the Florida State League, as he can still feast on the mistakes of the unrefined or inadequate arms at that level. But pitchers with a plan can beat his swing, either with stuff inside or soft and spinning outside, so the real test might not come until he reaches the Double-A level. We all know Sano has crazy raw power, but his prospect status will drink a Jolt cola if he learns to make more consistent contact without sacrificing too much of the power identity.
Major league ETA: 2015
3. Aaron Hicks
What Happened in 2012: After a disappointing 2011 season at High-A Ft. Myers, Hicks responded with a bounceback year at a superior level, giving some of his doubters hope that the toolsy dream might feature a little reality.
Strengths: Owner of a high-end toolshed; arm is very strong; plays as true weapon in center field; above-average speed; above-average defensive profile at position; possess above-average raw power; above-average on-base ability; showing signs of refinement.
Weaknesses: Game still features the inconsistencies of a young player; hit tool receives fringe grades; bystander offensive approach often gives pitcher advantage; power potential is slow to play in games; swing can get long from the left-side, and he struggles to turn around quality velocity.
Overall Future Potential: 6; first-division player
Explanation of Risk: Moderate risk; Hicks is eventually going to play in the majors, either as a starter or as a bench outfielder. The tools aren't fully mature, so there is still a gap between the present and the future; hit tool deficiency could limit ceiling.
Fantasy Future: If Hicks achieves his ceiling, he could provide 15-20 HR pop, 25-plus steals, good on-base ability, and above-average defense in center.
The Year Ahead: After a solid 2012 season at the Double-A level, Hicks is inching closer to the final level, but a stop in Triple-A would be beneficial to the 23-year-old. The evolution of his hit tool against quality pitching will ultimately determine his fate, and another step forward in 2013 could put him in a position to take hold of the major-league job as early as 2014. His approach has often been described as timid or passive, and despite the walks, Hicks needs to take advantage of opportunities when they are presented, and turn balls back with authority. He has a tendency to hit with a hose instead of a sledgehammer, despite owning legit power. He has a chance to be a first-division talent, but his secondary skills will provide value even in a reserve role.
Major league ETA: 2013
4. Oswaldo Arcia
What Happened in 2012: Arcia really stepped up his offensive game, crushing in the Florida State League and then really crushing after a promotion to Double-A, hitting for both average and extra-base power.
Strengths: Good natural bat-to-ball ability; strong wrists; controls the bat very well; shows above-average bat speed; power plays to all fields; uses the gaps; projects for both plus hit and plus game power; feasts on fastballs, especially from right-handers; can square plus velo; arm is at least solid-average; will play in right field.
Weaknesses: Good athlete for his size, but lacks average run; limited to a corner spot; bat will play at position, but lacks high-end impact (lacks plus-plus offensive tools); raw power has yet to fully translate to game action; might play under raw projection, limiting ceiling.
Overall Future Potential: 6; first-division player
Explanation of Risk: Moderate risk; Arcia is a mature talent, possessing major-league quality offensive tools; some risk in reaching full potential, which is necessary to achieve 6 role projection at corner position.
Fantasy Future: Could be a prototypical corner bat, with .285-plus batting average and lots of doubles and 17-25 home runs. Speed will not be a factor in his offensive game.
The Year Ahead: Arcia is ready to push for a major-league job, but could start the year in Triple-A until the time is right for both parties. As a minor leaguer, he has proven capable on the offensive side of the ball, showing both a quality hit tool and power potential. In order to take that next step, Arcia needs to face high-level pitching in a high-level environment, and those conditions can't be replicated in the minor leagues.
Major league ETA: 2013
5. Kyle Gibson
What Happened in 2012: After losing time to Tommy John surgery, Gibson got his feet wet at three spots at the end of the season, before heading to the Arizona Fall League in preparation for a roster run to start 2013.
Strengths: Fastball will work from 88-94 and touching higher, often finding consistency in the 90-92 range; pitch shows good vertical movement/weight; has command of the offering; all pitches on good angle to plate; slider can be an above-average offering, thrown with good velocity and sharp tilt; changeup is second above-average sec; some fading action, but plays well off fastball arm speed; advanced pitchability to go along with a plus arsenal and a big, strong frame.
Weaknesses: Before injury, stuff had a tendency to play down; was hittable in the zone; struggled to put away hitters; fit into command/control box; sources have called the overall profile a "soft no. 2 starter," or a "paper no. 2 starter, not a game no. 2"
Overall Future Potential: Low 6; no. 3 starter
Explanation of Risk: Moderate risk; injury history to arm; performance recovery not guaranteed; would be low risk without injury on resume; solid bet to be quality major-league starter.
Fantasy Future: If healthy, should be able to log innings, achieve (at least) a league-average ERA, good command/control profile (BB/IP), doesn't profile as high strikeout arm.
The Year Ahead: In a strong performance in the AFL, Gibson's velocity was back to pre-injury range and his slider once again had a sharper break. Command is often the last thing to return to the field after Tommy John, but Gibson's overall feel for throwing strikes seems to back already, and that puts him on track to compete for a big-league job this spring. Gibson has all the attributes of a no. 2 starter, but pitches under the mark, as the stuff is often more hittable than it would appear and the dominance factor is lacking. All the ingredients are present to emerge as an above-average major-league starter, and Twins fans won't have to wait years before sampling the dish.
Major league ETA: 2013
6. Eddie Rosario
What Happened in 2012: Rosario's full-season debut was a rousing success, as the bat continued to make hard contact, spraying 32 doubles in only 95 games.
Strengths: Plus athlete; sweet swing from the left side; can barrel balls to all fields; shows ability to hit velocity and off-speed stuff; bat has more punch than size suggests; hit tool projects to 6; above-average speed.
Weaknesses: More raw athlete than instinctual baseball player; defensive development at second was shaky; better profile in outfield, where speed can help minimize errors; despite pop, some scouts aren't sold he will approach game power in the plus range; poor speed utility on the bases at present.
Overall Future Potential: 5; second-division regular
Explanation of Risk: Moderate risk; lacks high-end tools, but has enough athleticism and hit tool to reach highest level; questions about feel raise some questions about ultimate ceiling.
Fantasy Future: Whether or second or center, Rosario will need to hit; bat has the potential for high contact and batting average; some game pop (doubles/triples); should steal some bases; number two hitter profile.
The Year Ahead: Rosario will take his talents to High-A, where his brand of hearty contact will continue to play in game action. He needs to take steps forward on defense (wherever he plays) and on the bases, where his speed is plus but the utility is far from it. The bat isn't special, but it has enough punch to profile at the highest level, and a little overall game refinement will go a long way to making sure that becomes a reality.
Major league ETA: 2014
7. Jose Berrios
What Happened in 2012: Berrios was selected in the first round; Berrios spent a total of 30 innings at two rookie-level spots; Berrios missed a lot of bats; Berrios made a lot of new fans; Berrios is legit.
Strengths: Lacks ideal height, but pitches athletic and strong; fastball has zip, working at 92-94; touching higher; arm is very fast; good movement to fastball; easy plus offering; flashes two quality secondary offerings; hard curveball with two-plane break and a low-80s changeup with good pronated action; easy delivery allows for control; feel for command; pitches with purpose.
Weaknesses: Limited arsenal/physical projection; needs to work low in the zone to create quality plane; breaking ball can get loose and slurvy; pace can get erratic; general refinement necessary across the board.
Overall Future Potential: Low 6; no. 3 starter
Explanation of Risk: High risk; 18-years-old; limited professional record; limited projection; present stuff has to carry load.
Fantasy Future: Has electric arm, and arsenal profile to miss bats; profiles as a starter, but could eventually end up in the bullpen in a late-inning capacity.
The Year Ahead: Berrios will start the year as an 18-year-old, so it remains to be seen if he is kept at the team complex after spring training before embarking on a full-season assignment. The arm works very well, and the delivery is both strong and athletic. Size will always be an issue for some, but the arsenal is deep for his age, and his overall feel for pitching has received positive reviews, so he should be able to develop as a starter. His prospect star is on the rise, and the limited professional record and subsequent risk are the only reason he isn't higher on the list. The kid is legit.
Major league ETA: 2016
8. Max Kepler
What Happened in 2012: Kepler repeated the Appy league and took a big step forward, going from that toolsy European kid that received $800k to a legit top 10 talent in the system.
Strengths: Plus athlete; great size; improving strength; looks the part; has good run for his size; plays with balance and coordination; good hit tool; makes quality contact; swing is fluid and repeatable; power potential in the swing; gamer who can make adjustments.
Weaknesses: Good instincts, but doesn't have above-average profile in center; range is fringe; arm is fringe; swing can get long; some velocity concerns; profile problem if he can't stick in center; bat would need several grade jumps for corner profile.
Overall Future Potential: 5; second-division player
Explanation of Risk: High risk; wide gap between present and future of tools; big makeup is a positive; limited track record with European youth development
Fantasy Future: Profiles best in left field; bat falls short of the prototype, but could play if power shows up in games; hit tool should allow for some average; 15-plus home run pop; good doubles; stolen bases most likely not part of game at maturity.
The Year Ahead: Kepler will move to full-season ball and the biggest test of his career. He's a very good athlete, and at times, can look like a very good baseball player. But his profile is a problem for some, as he isn't an ideal fit for center field because of the limited range, and his bat has so many unknowns that it's hard to accurately peg his offensive future for a corner. At the present, he is starting to look like an outfielder tweener, but the tool gap is wide and a lot of things can happen over the next few years. 2013 and the full-season experience will start to paint that picture.
Major league ETA: 2016
9. Travis Harrison
What Happened in 2012: Harrison started his professional journey with a 60-game clip in the Appy league, where the then-20-year-old showed the offensive potential that made him the 50th overall pick in the 2011 draft.
Strengths: Tons of raw power; batting practice prowess to draw crowds; bat speed is very strength-driven at present; projects to hit for at least plus game power; hit tool has some backers; makes hard contact to all fields; hands and hips work very well.
Weaknesses: Doesn't profile at third base; fringe athlete; below-average run; swing can get hitchy and tied up against velocity; game is tied to power potential.
Overall Future Potential: 5; second-division player
Explanation of Risk: High risk; bad defensive profile puts all the pressure on the bat; has yet to face full-season pitching
Fantasy Future: Profiles as a power-hitting first baseman, although more of a down-the-lineup bat rather than a middle-of-the-order monster; could hit for some average; game power could easily play 6+, with 25-plus homers annually.
The Year Ahead: Harrison can sting a ball, but full-season pitching will present a challenge, as the young hitter will face better sequencing and better secondary arsenals. He has obnoxious raw power, but he will need to bring that power into game action, and that will start with his hit tool and approach. Those who believe in the bat see both plus hit and plus power, giving Harrison a more optimistic profile than the one suggested here. If that proves to be the case, his prospect status will be on the rise in 2013.
Major league ETA: 2015
10. Jorge Polanco
What Happened in 2012: After two years of complex-league action and poor offensive results, Polanco erupted in 2012, posting an OPS over .900 in the Appy league.
Strengths: Versatile; athletic; receives solid-average marks on hit tool future, his glove, his run, and his arm; bat has some juice in it; line-drive stroke; uses the entire field; gamer mentality
Weaknesses: Lacks plus tool; doesn't profile as plus defender on left-side of infield; contact heavy approach; limited power potential; slappy at times; needs more strength in swing.
Overall Future Potential: 5; second-division player
Explanation of Risk: High risk; wide gap between present and future hit tool; doesn't have ideal left-side profile; only a teenager; yet to play full-season ball.
Fantasy Future: Could do a little of everything, including some batting average, some extra base hits, some steals, but won't hit for much power and won't excel in any one category; better utility profile.
The Year Ahead: Polanco will make the jump to full-season ball, where the weaknesses in his offensive game could be exposed by the pitcher friendly environments of the Midwest league. Without much present strength, pitchers won't hesitate to challenge him over the plate, putting all the pressure on his bat to step up and keep stinging the ball. The defensive profile is still unknown, as development on that side of the ball can take time and we have yet to see Polanco stick at any one position for an extended period of time. He can play all over the diamond, and that sort of versatility can find a home if the bat can pack a punch.
Major league ETA: 2016
Prospects on the Rise:
1.SS Niko Goodrum: Projectable shortstop with some power potential, 20-year-old Niko Goodrum is another name to keep an eye on from that impressive Elizabethton crop of talent. It remains to be seen if he grows off the position, but he has quality actions, and his arm is very, very strong. If the bat steps up, this is a prospect who could easily jump into the top 10 in this system.
2.RHP J.T. Chargois: Relievers don't often make the best prospects, but guys who can throw in the mid-90s and flash plus-plus sliders are worth monitoring. Chargois, taken in the 2nd round last year from Rice, can really bring the funk from a max-effort delivery, and he profiles as a late-inning bat-misser who should move through the minors quickly.
3.OF Romy Jimenez: Because of injury, Jimenez had only eight games of stateside baseball under his belt heading into the 2012 season, but the 21-year-old Dominican got right to work, hitting .347/.439/.669 in 35 games of action at Elizabethton. With an easy swing and a natural feel for contact, Jimenez will be yet another quality prospect to watch as he moves up to the Midwest League.
Factors on the Farm (Prospects likely to contribute at the ML level in 2013)
1.OF Joe Benson: A very disappointing 2012 season for Benson has crushed his once lofty prospect status, but the multi-tooled outfielder could still be in the mix for a major league opportunity at some point during the season. The bat failed him at all stops last year, but if he can regain his confidence and stay healthy, he has the baseball skills to contribute at the highest level.
2.RHP Michael Tonkin: After finishing the season in High-A, Tonkin is likely to start in the Double-A 'pen, and could be wearing a Twins jersey at some point in the season. The 6'7'' power arm can be nasty, throwing in the mid-90s and missing a high number of bats.
3.RHP B.J. Hermsen: A sixth-round pick in the 2008 draft, Hermsen has been slow and steady up the professional chain, and after a solid (but not spectacular) Double-A campaign in 2012, he is in a position to contribute to the major-league squad in 2013. Not armed with a plus arsenal, Hermsen gets by on location and changing speeds, keeping hitters off his fringe fastball by throwing his secondary pitches for strikes and sequencing. The margin of error is small, and the ceiling is limited, but he could probably hold his own at the back of major-league rotation until better options present themselves.
Top 10 Talents 25 and Under (born 4/1/87 or later)
1. Byron Buxton
The Twins finished the 2010 season with 94 wins and a second straight first-place finish in the AL Central, but the defending division champs were becoming an increasingly elderly team, with Delmon Young the only 25-man-rostered player qualifying for BP's 25 and Under list. Two years, just 129 total wins, and two last-place finishes later, the organization still features a major-league roster with little in the way of contributing youth. Ben Revere has grown into a fine defensive outfielder who offers positive value on the bases but negative value in the batter's box, profiling best as a second-division starter. Outside of Revere on the positional side, Chris Parmelee is the epitome of a replacement-level player, capable of providing some utility off the bench but likely exposed as a subpar producer if pressed into daily service. The outlook is similarly bleak on the mound, where only Liam Hendriks profiles as a potentially useful regular (most likely as an arm at the back-end of a rotation). Both Alex Burnett and Tyler Robertson could carve out roster space as mop-up/middle guys in the pen. Though time still remains for each to develop, the struggles of back-to-back first-round disappointments Alex Wimmers and Levi Michael have helped to create a hole at the middle levels of the system, though there is some hope that the wave of talent at the lower-levels could help pull Minnesota out of its tailspin a few years down the line. —Nick Faleris
A Parting Thought: The Twins could have as many as six players in the BP 101, and at least two prospects that profile in the top 25. The system isn't crazy deep, but the graduating class from the Appy league could provide prospect fruit for a long time.
Link to last year's Twins rankings.
*Special thanks to Nick Faleris, Jason Churchill, Mark Anderson, Chris Mellen, and Hudson Belinsky for their input and influence on this list.
Jason Parks is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @ProfessorParks
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Love the new format Jason, I know comps aren't that useful, but reading Sano's profile reminded me of the Brandon Wood "bring me the head" series. Does Sano have better pitch recognition than Wood to survive at higher levels?
Nov 15, 2012 06:01 AM
Great job on this one JP. One question about Sano. We all know about the lack of prospects currently in the Minors that have the potential to mash in the middle of a lineup at a first division level. Any discussion of those guys probably starts with Sano. How does this "power void" for lack of a better term, affect Sano's overall value going forward? Could his trade value be at its peak right now, while his swing-and-miss tendencies have yet to have been completely exploited? And most importantly how does the lack of power in the minors right now affect the way you scout and evaluate (not rank) Sano?
Nov 15, 2012 07:24 AM
If it's of any consolation to anyone, Eddie Rosario turned into a monster in my OOTP league :)
Nov 15, 2012 07:33 AM
It seems a bit early to call Chris Parmelee (not Parmalee) "the epitome of replacement-level players." He destroyed Triple-A pitching and will only be 25 in spring training. His struggles in the majors are likely related to the fact he didn't get consistent playing time anywhere and was asked to play RF, something he's hardly ever done in the minors.
Nov 15, 2012 07:35 AM
The language may be a bit harsh; fair point. But it was a statement made from an evaluative standpoint rather than based on MLB performance. To my mind he doesn't project well to an OF corner, and the bat is good but not impactful. There's a non-zero chance he hits enough to be a second-division starter type, but it will require more growth.
Nov 15, 2012 07:51 AM
Two Questions Regarding the Twins List. First of all, once again, you guys continue to provide quality information and the depth of analysis is really second to none.
Nov 15, 2012 07:44 AM
#2 seems like a terrible idea given how fresh off TJ Gibson is and how it would impact his team control. The starting rotation is going to be a disaster next year whether Gibson's on it or not. Might as well give him at least a few months in the minors rather than pushing it.
Nov 15, 2012 17:22 PM
Brandon R. Warne
Local media types seem to suggest Gibson could start the season in the pen to keep his innings in check.
Nov 16, 2012 08:07 AM
Im not sure why it seems like a "terrible idea"...what would you rather have him do? Not pitch at all? Pitch in Triple-A? what else does he have left to prove in the minors...and while Im not a Twins fan, if they can somehow sign a Shaun Marcum, and maybe a Carlos Villanueva, and then trade Span to a team like the Braves for Delgado, i dont think a starting rotation of Marcum, Diamond, Delgado, Villanueva, and Gibson would be a "disaster"...certainly would be much much better than the rotations of the Astros, Pirates, Padres, Rockies, Royals, Twins, and Indians from last year.
Nov 16, 2012 08:58 AM
I would love to see some of the discussion around ranking Hicks over Arcia. Arcia's minor league hitting stats would suggest him being the higher ranked one.
Nov 15, 2012 07:52 AM
So Kepler and Harrison are not only Twins but they also appear to be "twins".
Nov 15, 2012 07:52 AM
At two years the senior of Arcia and Rosario, I'm also surprised to see Hicks that high. Is it saying a lot of bad things about the aforementioned duo, or good things about Hicks?
Nov 15, 2012 07:56 AM
Good things about Hicks. It's the overall profile that helps with the ranking. Hicks can play CF at a high level and he has good secondary skills. That's a sexy combination. Will he get there? Not sure. I will assume Arcia's bat will play better, but Hicks still has the chance to be a bigger impact player because of his position.
Nov 15, 2012 08:04 AM
Mark Anderson
BP staff
I was one of the strongest advocates for Hicks in the #3 spot, though I don't think it took a lot of convincing given his progress at Double-A in 2012 and his up-the-middle profile.
Nov 15, 2012 08:18 AM
Matt Commins
Nov 15, 2012 08:29 AM
Matt Commins
Apologies for my sticklerness; noticed sometimes it says raw and other times it says raw power.
Nov 15, 2012 08:43 AM
Levi Michael a sunk cost at this point?
Nov 15, 2012 08:34 AM
I received utility futures on him, and those were optimistic.
Nov 15, 2012 08:39 AM
I guess it depends on what you were expecting out of Michael. I was shocked by some of Michael's hype leading up to the draft -- he is and always has been a guy that can do a little bit of everything in the infield but doesn't really stand out for any of it. Runs well, some secondary skills at the plate, but nothing jumps out as impact. I could see a utility future as Jason points out; is that a disappointment?
Nov 15, 2012 08:47 AM
Man, it's a bummer when your only top talents under 25 who are actually in the majors are Ben Revere and Liam Hendricks.
Nov 15, 2012 08:43 AM
It's pretty clear that the MLB team remains in rebuilding gear for the near future, but the good news is that the effort seems to be working. Once this top-ten is major-league ready, they should be a strong core for a contending team. The Twins should add to that core with a high pick in next year's draft and, I would bet, a trade or two of our current MLB outfielders.
Nov 15, 2012 17:16 PM
How is Levis Michael's "grit-factor"? Would you describe him as "scrappy", or is he more of a "dirt-bag" type? I'm really hoping he can develop some of that toughness that made Nick Punto the key asset to those Twins teams of a few years ago. Enough of this "talent" business - I want to know about good old-fashioned hard work and "scrap-attitudi-ness" - which is a word you can feel free to use in your scouting reports, Jason.
Nov 15, 2012 09:53 AM
You are extremely high on Berrios and I understand that a No. 3 cost controlled starter at the Major League Level is a VERY valuable commodity. But what is holding back Berrios' OFP from being higher? I understand that it is only a small professional sample, but does that really have a large effect on his potential? With some repetitions at a full season level under his belt, do you expect his OFP to rise accordingly?
Nov 15, 2012 10:38 AM
It's possible, but I think his potential is likely to remain in the same range. I think his OFP is very high. This isn't a guy that is likely to pitch at the top of a rotation, though. Those guys are rare. If he develops into an ml #3, that's huge.
Nov 15, 2012 10:42 AM
Nils J
Did you get a look at Minnesota boy Madison boer?
Nov 15, 2012 12:27 PM
I liked Boer a fair amount coming out of Oregon, seeing his future most likely as an 8th inning guy. Minnesota has kept him the rotation for the time being, I assume to get innings under his belt. I think in short stints he can miss some bats and produce soft contact with his sinker/slider. I saw signs of a solid change-up with Team USA but didn't see the same quality in the offering the following spring. Jason may have more insight as to what others in the industry had to say about his Midwest League showing this summer.
Nov 15, 2012 12:56 PM
Great work again, guys. Did any of you happen to get reports on Josmil Pinto? He reached AA this year with some pretty good numbers and just turned 23. Is he more suspect than prospect? Thanks.
Nov 15, 2012 12:35 PM
Any chance we can get an Alex Meyer write up thrown in here? I'm assuming he would slide in behind Buxton, Sano and Hicks? Maybe in front of Hicks?
Nov 30, 2012 13:48 PM
Softy Electric
Thanks for your work, Jason y otros.
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SIEGEL: Well, apart from the statement, is there any indication of where the Trump administration is headed on this or what the plan is?
KEITH: Well, so one thing to know about President Trump - and this goes back well before he was the president, even before he was a candidate - is that he doesn't like politicians, political leaders telegraphing where they might be going on military matters.
So as a candidate, he said that he had a plan for defeating ISIS, but he wouldn't say what it was because he didn't want to tip them off. His critics said then and now that Trump didn't have a plan for ISIS and that he doesn't have one for dealing with Assad on Syria - in Syria.
What Press Secretary Sean Spicer says is that the president's statement speaks for itself and that he is meeting with his national security team. He's alarmed about what's happening and that there will be further discussions with allies about the appropriate next action. But he simply said he was not ready to talk about next steps, but they will, quote, "get there soon."
SIEGEL: Tam, before this latest development, there were mixed messages coming from top Trump administration officials about Assad, and I'm thinking of the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, who described the Syrian leader as a war criminal. What is the administration's position?
KEITH: Yeah, there's been something of a back and forth on this recently. First Haley said that the U.S. priority was no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson essentially said the same thing, that the Syrian people themselves should decide what happens with Assad.
But then - you're right - Nikki Haley on Monday said the administration has no love for Assad. She called him a war criminal and a hindrance to peace. Spicer says the administration's view is consistent, that there is not an option of regime change as there has been in the past.
SIEGEL: I want to go back to the president's statement criticizing President Obama and the red line that Obama drew in 2012 with regard to chemical weapons. Donald Trump has left a long Twitter trail in his wake, and Twitter presents a window into the mind of the private citizen Donald Trump. I gather you've been looking back at what he was saying then. What did you find?
KEITH: Yeah, so there are a lot of tweets about this, none from 2012 when President Obama first used the term red line. But then later in 2013 when the U.S. was thinking about a military strike in Syria to send a message about chemical weapons, Trump tweeted, quote, "President Obama, do not attack Syria; there is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your powder for another and more important day."
He around the same time also tweeted, President Obama put himself in a very bad position when he talked about Syria crossing a red line; amazingly, now he denies that. So Trump all along has been very focused on President Obama's response and at times said that he looked weak.
SIEGEL: That's NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith. Tam, thanks.
KEITH: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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James Dean's legacy closely tied to Porsche Spyder
It's hard to fathom why some movie stars become better known after they reach that big sound stage in the sky. In the 1920s, it was the early demise of Rudolph Valentino, the consummate Latin lover who achieved god-like status after his all too-early exit. Marilyn Monroe received similar status that far exceeded her earthly stature.
But perhaps the most celebrated deceased actor, and one who has influenced more generations of young adults than just about any other cult hero, is, unquestionably, James Byron Dean.
Dean's flame was but a brief flicker upon the cinematic landscape. With only three feature-length movies under his belt (two released after his death), his star was still rising. But his moody, brooding acting style - the way he looked, spoke and carried himself - defined the role of the loner and the rebel that remains extensively copied to this day.
Aside from acting, the one thing the Indiana-born Dean loved was racing. His interest for the sport began at the age of 18 in Fairmont, Ind., when his father bought him a 1939 Chevrolet. At the time, he had been riding motorcycles for a couple of years and was to eventually own and race several, including a Harley-Davidson, Norton, Indian, Lancia scooter and a Triumph.
In May, 1954, Dean purchased his first sports car, a red MG TD. Before this, he had been working steadily in New York on the Broadway stage as well as in several TV dramas. After moving to Los Angles, Calif., he had also secured bit parts in a couple of movies, followed by his breakout role playing Cal Trask in East of Eden.
Ten months later, Dean traded in his MG for a white Porsche 356-1500 Super Speedster. This 70-horsepower air-cooled bathtub-shaped roadster helped earn him his first victory, a qualifying race at a track in Palm Springs. The following month, Dean placed third overall, and first in class at an event in Bakersfield. In his final race of his life at Santa Barbara, Dean's car suffered mechanical failure and didn't finish.
By now Dean was hard at work on two new pictures: Rebel Without a Cause with Sal Mineo and Natalie Wood; and Giant, which co-starred Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. Before shooting both movies, the studio executives at Warner Bros. had banned Dean from pursuing his dangerous hobby.
After Giant was in the can, the no-longer-constrained Dean decided to get serious about exploiting his early success on the race track.
Deeming the Speedster as too slow, he bought a new silver 550 Porsche Spyder in September of 1955. The mid-engine, 550-kilogram Spyder was, in fact, a limited-production race car. Its 1.5-liter engine produced 40 more horsepower than the Speedster's engine, and was capable of 135 mph, which was an impressive number back then. The 24-year-old Dean paid nearly $6,100 for the car, $3,000 in cash plus his 356 as a trade.
Dean took the Porsche to famed customizer George Barris who painted red stripes on the car's fenders and added the number 130 to the hood and sides. Ever the rebel, Dean also had Barris paint name "Little Bastard" across the back.
On September 30, 1955, Dean, along with his friend and Porsche mechanic Rolf Wutherich, began the drive from Los Angeles to a race track near Salinis, Calif. Dean had decided at the last minute that he would drive the Spyder in competition there for the first time.
Just north of L.A., Dean was pulled over by the police who issued him a speeding ticket. A few hours later, at an intersection near the town of Cholame, Dean's Porsche collided with a 1950 Ford driven by a 23-year-old university student with the unlikely name of Donald Turnupseed.
Failing to notice the speeding Porsche, Turnupseed had made a left-hand turn right into the car's path. His Ford hit the Spyder broadside, killing Dean and leaving mechanic Wutherich badly injured.
As the legend of James Dean lived on, so for a while did his last ride.
The mangled Spyder, minus its perfectly usable engine and transmission, wound up touring the United States as a ghoulish, "speed kills" type of exhibit. Today, its whereabouts are unknown.
James Dean, however, remains very well known as an actor idolized by countless fans around the world nearly 55 years after his death. It's impossible to imagine what he could have accomplished, either in the movies or behind the wheel of a race car, but for that one brief tragic event so very long ago.
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The UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship consists of three distinct stages: two qualifying rounds and the finals.
Qualifying round
The qualifying round, played in September, is made up of 11 groups of four teams playing in one-venue mini-tournaments. The 11 group winners and ten best runners-up progress to join three top seeds: Germany, England and France.
Elite round
In the elite round, played in April, those 24 teams go into six mini-tournament groups of four. The group winners and the runners-up with the best record against the sides first and third in their pool join the hosts at the finals.
Final tournament
At the final tournament the contenders are split into two groups of four, the top two progressing to the semi-finals, with the showpiece to follow.
Further details, including the criteria for separating teams that finish level on points in a group, or after extra time in a match, can be found in the official competition regulations.


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MOSCOW - A Russian lawmaker has proposed a bill that would deny gay parents custody over their children.
The draft bill, published on parliament's website on Thursday, would make the "fact of nontraditional sexual orientation" a basis for denying custody. Other grounds include alcoholism, drug use, and abuse.
The proposal comes in the wake of a bill banning homosexual "propaganda" among minors. Authors of the bill have justified it as a measure aimed at protecting children, and not suppressing the LGBT community.
Alexei Zhuravlev, the author of the bill, referred to the earlier law and said that homosexual "propaganda" had to be banned not only in the public space "but also in the family."