Comments on: The Brackman Experience

By: frank

frank — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:24:34 +0000

Couldn’t help but laugh at all this now. It’s amazing what a little patience will do.

By: frank

frank — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:22:52 +0000

“Brackman is a top-level prospect like Austin Jackson is a budding superstar.”

You sir, are a prophet.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:34:50 +0000

I saw Brackman’s first professional victory this May and my observations were basically the same.
MLB hitters, even MiLB hitters, aren’t going to chase bad breaking balls in the dirt. In the game I saw, he was throwing that bad curve when he was ahead in the count and batters happened to bite. However, if he’s not tossing a good fastball and it’s sitting at 88-90 (nowhere near the high 90′s we expected from him), he’s going to learn how to pitch, not just blow guys away or have them chase bad balls.
I didn’t know his velocity had dipped so much. He was working consistently in the low to mid-90′s when I saw him.
Here’s my write up of the game: http://bloggingaboutbaseball.com/2009/05/23/yankees-prospect-andrew-brackman-is-a-giant/

By: matt

matt — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:16:21 +0000

Maybe everyone should wait until after next year to bury Brackman. Does anyone remember a guy named Daniel Bard? How was his first minor league season. Brackman is coming back from TJS and clearly his stuff has not returned to what it was pre-op. Let’s wait and see if it does next year or if he will never be the same again. He is clearly not 100 percent back if he is topping at 92 when he was in the high 90′s in college.

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:02:34 +0000

It’s too early to reach a final conclusion on Brackman, but perhaps TJ surgery isn’t has “routine” as some have recently maintained. For example, Humberto Sanchez and JB Cox have also had less than overwhelming recoveries from the surgery.

By: Andy S

Andy S — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:08:58 +0000

Dave, while it definitely sounds like he has command problems, I hope you’re not saying this mostly based on the one start you saw of him…all pitchers have bad days.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:08:50 +0000

Brackman was a better basketball player than a pitcher in college – no joke

By: C

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:51:16 +0000

I think people are rushing to judgement. He was throwing mid 90s gas in the HWL and then he had a decent start to the year. All these stuggles seem to be within the last couple of months, like GregF noted. Hes a guy who is coming of TJS and never topped 90 IP at college.(When you combine the 34 HBL innings with the 50.2 innings from GregFs comment above, you get close to 90). Plus hes learning new mechanics. You have to expect struggles.
In my mind this season hasn’t really impacted his prospect status at all. You don’t like him for what he is, but for what he could develop into two or three years from now. I don’t think thats changed.

By: Ant

Ant — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:51:05 +0000

I am hoping it’s just a dead arm period.

I know the results are shitty but at least hes still getting innings in. As long as he still is taking the ball every 5th day I won’t be severely disappointed.

By: Ant

Ant — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:48:50 +0000

You’re wrong. Brackman name is known because he was a highly touted prospect coming out of college that only fell to the Yankees because of injuries and signability concerns.

Before surgery he was hitting as high as 100 mph and sitting at 95 consistently with a hammer curveball.

http://baseballexchange.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/draft-report-andrew-brackman-1st-round-30th-overall/