The Book on Jonathan Meloan
Prospect Info
Jonathan Meloan
Born 7/11/1984
RHP, OAK
When a pitcher blows through five teams in a few months, you have to figure he's a pretty dominant reliever on a hot streak. But when that pitcher blows through by changing uniforms four times, something must be very wrong. A dominant minor league reliever two years ago when the Dodgers packaged him up with catcher Carlos Santana for a three month rental of Casey Blake (!) from the Indians, Meloan has since changed teams many more times: Since the end of 2008, he's been a Dodger, an Indian, a Pirate, a Ray and an Athletic.
The arm, by all reports, is just fine, with the same sneaky-late fastball and passable breaking ball that makes him valid closer material: in just nine innings of late-season relief work for the for the A's at the end of the year, Meloan faced 29 major league batters and struck out 11 of them.
Ranking in ScoutingBook (7/30/2010): #208 
Ranking in Baseball America 2010: Unranked
Ranking in Baseball Prospectus: Unranked
Ranking in MiLB.com 2010 Season Preview Unranked
Ranking from the Sporting News: Unranked
Ranking from ESPN: Unranked
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