Another Saturday night drinking with the scouts at the Barleymoe

Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by George Dickell, Jack Daniels and Jim Beam.

Elijah: George did you get my email?

George: Elijah, you know I don't read emails or check for voicemail; I'm an old guy if you haven't noticed.             What was the email about?

Elijah: I wanted you to rank the top prospects in the league for the coming 62 seasons.

George: Oh that. Doris read that email and told me to do it.

Jim: Your wife reads your emails?

George: Oh hell no, I'd be in divorce court if she did. Doris is just a very good friend I have when I'm scouting out of town.

Jack: George, don't you live in Bucksnort Tennessee? There is nobody in your home town to scout. You're always on the road when you're scouting.

George: That is why I need a really good friend like Doris.

Jim: How many of these really good friends do you have on the road?

George: I'll take the fifth on that , you guys can just imagine what you want.

Elijah: Can we get back to the prospects; have you got a list?

George: I've got all kinds of lists about prospects. I decided that to make the list a player had to have played below double-A ball last year. My list is:

                    Best Player: Elian Ozuna of the Syracuse franchise

                    Best Pitcher: Roger Kazmir of Cincinnati

             Other top players- Henderson Moriarty, Viosergy Carpenter, Paxton Owen, and Dan Leach.

             Other pitchers are: Sandy Shelby, Timothy Gray, Willie Fernandez, and Alejandro Martinez.

Jim: What strikes me as interesting is that Viosergy Carpenter was included in a trade already this season.

Jack: Burton traded  Viosergy Carpenter, Samuel Cooper and Ricardo Montanez for Erasmo Lima, and Dariel Adams.

George: Samuel Cooper was on the long list of top prospects. I think that was a big deal and Burton seems like he's in a win now mode.

Jack: I'm not sure you guys know this but my contacts tell me that Paxton Owen might make the jump from high-A to the majors this season.

George: One last thing Elijah, on the really long list I had Willie Scavuzzo. Willie was blocked in the El Paso  system by Fred Logan and had a really disappointing season last year and retired. I think if he had stuck it out he would have surprised people.

Elijah: Thanks for the information. Let's have another round of drinks and call it a night.