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As far as we know, the main Detect-O-Vision Plus site is still nominally under construction. That is fine with Dr. D, since he's had eighteen kinds of tangerine trees and marmalade skies of his own to deal with recently.
One site that is clear sailing for yer, though, is the Future Mariners sub-domain that is being worked by Jim (Spectator) and Tod (Tacoma Rain).
I'm still kinda figuring out the bells and whistles myself :- ) but under http://futurems.detect-o-vision.com, "Home" takes you to Tod's area. This is "Stud on the Farm" territory and, below the carousel, you can sort Tod's articles by date, name, and category.
On May 27th, Tacoma Rain/Tod published a 3rd update for Clinton, our class A affiliate in the Midwest League. This was the 2nd update, and this rat cheer was the 1st update. Perhaps the categories on this site should be "Tacoma," "Jacksonville," "Padres" and so forth?
Any time Tod proclaims a Mariner farmhand a "stud" he lays it out neatly with:
- Physical stats
- Rankings / draft position
- Video (maybe)
- Pictures (def'ly)
- "Arsenal" (for pitchers, FB/CH/CU with velo)
- Game logs to date
- Commentary
The first Clinton update profiled Pat Peterson, one of the "Doublemint Twins," and points out that Peterson models his game after Cliff Lee. Fun stuff.
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Go to http://futurems.detect-o-vision.com and click the 26 in the Mix tab or the Watch List tab, and you're wallowing in the archives of Spectator's minor league stylings. Here is Jim's April 10th list of pitchers to watch, those outside his Top 66 but, in his view, still worth a simoleon. The list nods politely at an old Dr. D fave, Forrest Snow of the "forrest fire" fastball and "snow flake" changeup. Spec sez:
The Mariners love giving chances to Snow. I mean, they drafted him in 2007, and, after he chose UW, they drafted him again in 2010. Since then, he’s had all kinds of mixed results and hopped around all different levels, but he’s not out of chances yet. The organization gave him an invitation to spring training after a decent year mostly at Tacoma. He’s still a longshot, but he keeps lurking and running strong strikeout totals, so he still may make a Seattle appearance.
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Bat571 was running a really cool minors "Daily Digest" in April. Since it's a subdomain, you can click to it along the top menu bar that Benihana set up. Here, it's not so hard :- ) go to http://futurems.detect-o-vision.com --- > then click Daily Digest in the dark gray menu --- > then sort by date in the blue ribbon below that if so desired --- >then click on Future Mariners Daily Digest 2015 04 24. That day's entry alerted us to a Chris Taylor surge...
OK, I think I'm startin' to get it. If not the M's talent below decks, at least how to navigate a 21st-century website.
Enjoy,
Dr D
