John Sickels has graciously agreed to be Da Box's first interview of 2004. Most of you know that John publishes his annual Baseball Prospect Book. The 2004 issue will be mailed Feb 1 and can be ordered here.
Sickels fine-tuned his baseball knowledge while working as Bill James's research assistant from 1993 to 1996. He has authored the Minor League Scouting Notebook for the past seven seasons, six of those for Stats Inc. Sickels also writes the weekly Down on the Farm prospect reports for ESPN.com, the Down on the Farm mailbag, and produces his own subscription newsletter. Last week we discussed John's opinion of Dustin McGowan.
So the floor is open, what would you like to ask John? Remember John would really like you to buy the book so we will not be able to go through every Blue Jay prospect and get him to reveal all of his opinions. We will trim the questions down to a representative sample and ask John over the next two weeks. Look for the final interview in the last week of January.
Ask away........
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