Farm Aid: Fans Decide They Know Everything About Prospects  | |
Comments (11)  Tomorrow night is the Draft for our friends in
MLB. The Mets actually had you pretty high up on the board until
you lost your amateur status by letting your friend hit you in
the stomach with a metal bat for beer money. But if you're like
most other baseball fans you'll still have your eye on the
proceedings. See, thanks to the internet, and its specialization
and range of coverage, you now think you're a damned expert when
it comes to young talent. Even Theo Epstein has had enough of
your big mouth.  The Internet allows fans to track how players
are doing. And now that the Red Sox have three farm teams within
easy driving distance of Boston - the Triple-A Pawtucket Red
Sox, Double-A Portland Sea Dogs and short-season Singl-A Lowell
Spinners - fans can get in the car and go on scouting missions.
"Five or six years ago, the fan on the street wanted to tell you
what superstar you should go trade for, using all your
prospects," Epste