Reimold on fire

He is off to some kinda start. Getting his first taste of triple A ball, the 25 year old LF prospect has put together some stellar numbers in a short time. Leading the league in OBP and Slugging, Nolan has shown the Baltimore brass that he should be next in line for a call up.

The problem is, we have ourselves a log jam at LF right now. Felix Pie and Lou Montanez are both currently on the O's roster and not to mention Luke Scott who can also patrol the area. The knock on Montanez, who is the reining triple crown winner at Bowie last year, is that he is a poor defensive LF and he is a little too old (27) to be considered a prospect. Pie on the other hand, is only 23 and has all the "tools" that teams look for in prospects. The problem with him is that he has seem to misplace the tool box because he even looks lost out in the OF, which is supposed to be his biggest asset.

It shall be interesting to see what the Orioles do over the next month with the LF position. I think giving Pie and Montanez a look isn't the worst thing in the world, but if Nolan keeps hitting the ball the way he has, it will be hard to leave him down in AAA for too much longer.

Baseball America has him ranked 2nd this week on their Prospect Hot Sheet, putting up a blistering line of 381/.480/1.095 while hitting 4 home runs in that span.

Also on the list at the bottom are two of Baltimore's top pitching prospects, Chris Tillman and Brian Matusz. Tillman has a 1.29 ERA in AAA in 14 innings and Matusz, while exclusively working on his fastball and change(his two worst offerings of the 4 plus offerings he has), K'd 8 in 6 innings for Single A Frederick.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/prospect-hot-sheet/2009/268037.html

Have some, won't you?