"Eight months after Sean Gilmartin pitched his first game of 2011 for Florida State, the Braves' first-round draft pick was still pitching, for the Surprise Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League. It was late October and there were maybe 150 people in the stands at Surprise Stadium, including 27 major league scouts.

A reporter from Atlanta approached a radar-gun-wielding scout for an American League team and asked what he thought of Gilmartin, after the 21-year-old left-hander completed five innings of five-hit ball against the Phoenix Desert Dogs (four or five innings is as many as you'll see pitchers typically work in the AFL)."