TAIJUAN WALKER RUMORS
Taijuan Walker has seen Fresh Prince of Bel-Air pilot 30 times
Growing up as a teenager in the 90s, there were two TV shows that were constantly in the loop between 5pm-7pm in syndication. One, Saved by the Bell. Two, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The latter helped to launch the acting career of Will Smith. But let’s be honest, we all watched because Carlton Banks was the funny one. One individual is still watching it, all the time. Seattle...
Taijuan Walker, Francisco Lindor and Cactus League Sleepers
Simultaneously FanGraphs’ trip to the desert and minor league games began Wednesday in Arizona. Trips to Goodyear and Scottsdale begot opportunities to view dozens of top prospects and some sleepers too.
Taijuan Walker – Upon arriving in Peoria Walker announced he was scrapping his traditional curveball for a “spike” curve. The decision was a shock, Mike Newman called...
30 Prospects in 30 Days: Taijuan Walker — SP — Seattle Mariners
The Mariners selected Taijuan Walker with a first-round supplemental pick (43rd overall) in the 2010 MLB Amateur Draft. The Yucaipa, California product is an athletic right-handed starter that stands at 6’4”, 210 pounds entering his age twenty season.
Walker’s three premium offerings — fastball, curveball and changeup — are still developing, but each appear to ooze the...
Q&A: Taijuan Walker, High-Ceiling Mariner
Taijuan Walker is more than the top pitching prospect in the Seattle Mariners organization. The 20-year-old right-hander is among the best in the game. With only 126 innings under his belt he remains a work in progress, but his ceiling is sky high.
A two-sport star at Yucaipa (California) High School — he also excelled in basketball — the 6-foot-4 Walker was taken 43rd overall...
Seattle; It's OK to talk about Taijuan Walker
Let’s take a look at Taijuan’s 2012 season in three pieces:
From 4/09 - 5/27 - 2.24 ERA
9 GS (4-1) - 44.1 IP, 38 H, 11 ER, 14 BB, 44 K.
3.14 K/BB ratio
In these 9 starts Walker posted 2 quality starts (mainly due to pitch count control) and never allowed more than 2 ERs in a single game.
From 6/02 - 7/14 - 8.07 ERA
7 GS (1-4) - 31.2 IP, 33 H, 28 ER, 23 BB, 33 K.
1.43...
Prospect watch: A look at the three future aces of the Seattle Mariners
The Seattle Mariners Farm Arms
Today we’re kicking off a new monthly duel series here at NWSB called “prospect watch.” Each month I’ll be writing two pieces, one covering the top three-four pitchers in the Mariners system, and the other covering the top three-four hitters in the system.
For our inaugural piece we’ll be exploring the pitching side of things. It’s not often...
Dylan Bundy or Taijuan Walker?
Since seeing Taijuan Walker last week in Chattanooga, the requests for comparisons between the young right-hander and fellow uber-prospect Dylan Bundy of the Orioles have been coming hot and heavy. The exercise of choosing between the two best pitching prospects in baseball (for me at least) is essentially splitting hairs. Does one prefer velocity or movement? Tall or short? Ceiling...
Taijuan Walker Still Scratching The Surface
During the 2011 season, Mariners Taijuan Walker quickly morphed from project to one of the best pitching prospects in baseball. Entering 2012, an aggressive assignment to Double-A skipped him past the hitters’ paradise of the California League. The upper level assignment was expected to challenge the teenage right-hander. However, with a 2.86 FIP, nearly a strikeout per inning...
Mariners Top 5 options in the 2012 MLB draft (1st Round)
Expect M’s to look for bats
With a farm system consisting of Taijuan Walker, Danny Hultzen and James Paxton, one would assume the Seattle Mariners aren’t going to be looking at a lot of pitchers on draft night.
Even with the old adage “you don’t draft what you need, you draft the best possible player,” it’s hard to see the Mariners not taking an impact bat with their...
Taijuan Walker and Yasmani Grandal: Scouting the Unknown
Taijuan Walker | RHP, Mariners | Born: 8/13/1992
The Double-A Jackson Generals have quite an impressive rotation. With Danny Hultzen and James Paxton alone, it’d be among the best rotations in Minor League Baseball. Toss in Taijuan Walker, however, and now we’re looking at a truly special Double-A collection of arms, the likes of which doesn’t come around very often....
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