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Jordan Kankam celebrated his 28th birthday with takeout, using his small monthly allowance to order ginger beef from a Chinese restaurant in northeast Edmonton.
Few restaurants deliver to Alberta Hospital Edmonton, a psychiatric facility on the outskirts of town. The hospital is at the end of a bumpy two-lane road, and once the driver gets there, the wooded complex of institutional buildings is like a maze. Kankam met the driver outside the Helen Hunley Forensic Pavilion, returned to his room, and ate alone.
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In years past, NCAA Division I postseason play wouldn’t impact the Draft landscape too dramatically. The conference tournaments that just wrapped up last week would typically be the last serious looks teams would get at potential draftees.
Scouts would keep an eye on Regional play, but clubs generally would be
May 6, 2021
Prospect writers Kevin Goldstein and Eric Longenhagen will sometimes have enough player notes to compile a scouting post. This is one of those dispatches, a collection of thoughts after another week of college baseball and the return of minor league play. Remember, prospect rankings can be found on The Board.
Kevin’s Notes
After nearly 600 days without them, it was sure nice to have minor league boxscores. It was also overwhelming in terms of thinking about who to highlight for today’s notebook. During a lunchtime call with Eric Longenhagen, we probably discussed 40 or 50 guys. To celebrate the long-awaited return of minor league baseball, I’ll push the draft aside for a week and talk about some prospects with real numbers next to their names for the first time in over a year. Instead of just finding five players, I decided to focus on a quintet of catchers who had big starts to the season. Catching prospects fascinate me as it’s the toughest position to find.