Bound Edition: Sample feature

Reminder – if you pay for your 2009 Bound Edition of the Newberg Report by November 15 (this Saturday), the price is reduced from $25 to $23. Also, if you buy at least two 2009 books, you get a free copy of any previous year's edition (your choice). And a gift set of all ten Bound Editions is available for $125, which is a $35 discount. To order, you can pay by credit card at www.PayPal.com, sending payment to the gjsneaker@sbcglobal.net account. That should take about 30 seconds, or even less if you use this shortcut: http://tinyurl.com/6ndb8m Or you can send payment by check or money order to: Jamey Newberg Vincent & Moyé, P.C. 2001 Bryan Street, Suite 2000 Dallas, TX 75201 For a teaser, here is one of the 72 position-by-position prospect features that appears in the front of the book, in conjunction with my ranking of the top 72 prospects in the Rangers system: ============================== Michael Main, RHP After making what amounted to three rehab appearances in Surprise as he was coming back from a ribcage injury that cost him half the season, righthander Michael Main was assigned in early July to Clinton, where he logged 45.1 innings for the year. To give you some perspective, Roy Halladay had a heavier workload (49.2 innings) in April alone. C.C. Sabathia worked more innings in both July (47.2) and August (48.1). Sidney Ponson racked up more innings in May (46.1) for Texas than Main did as a LumberKing. Main didn't pitch a lot in 2008, but what he did with his 10 Midwest League starts was remarkable. At age 19, pitching against significantly older competition, he posted a 2.58 ERA, never allowing more than three earned runs, and he set 50 hitters down on strikes in those 45.1 innings, issuing only 13 walks. But it's what the stat pages don't show that has the Rangers as excited as they are about the Florida native. Aside from the mid-90s fastball and sharp curve, the consistency, and the athleticism that made him a top center field prospect in some clubs' eyes, Main earns raves for his makeup, his tenacity, and his coachability. Following the season, Rangers Minor League Pitching Coordinator Rick Adair told Mike Hindman of the Dallas Morning News, regarding Main: "Mentally he's easily the most polished guy out of high school I've ever been around. The only comparison I can think of is [Adam] Wainwright when I had him." Wainwright came out of high school in 2000. Tim Hudson logged 268 minor league innings (24-10, 3.22) before he reached the big leagues at age 23. Bret Saberhagen needed only 187 innings on the farm (16-7, 2.55) before getting to Kansas City at age 20. They're probably the two pitchers to whom Main (5-4, 2.91 over 86.2 pro innings) is most often compared. Does Main need 100 more innings before arriving in the big leagues with a pro workload similar to Saberhagen's? Probably. But maybe not. Main is a man who, along with fellow high school righthander Neil Ramirez, the Rangers drafted as compensation for the loss of Gary Matthews Jr. As lopsided as that exchange looks right now, just wait until we look back at it in another year. ============================== Let me know if you have any questions. Jamey