Another 5 since I find myself with some time today.
Will Inman – Round 34, pick 10 in 2007 CPL draft. Round 3, pick 5 (85th overall) of 2005 draft by the Milwaukee Brewers. Ranked in the Brewers top prospects in 2006 and 2007 (#11 and #3 respectively), before being traded to the Padres in 2007 for Scott Linebrink, where he continued to rank in the top of the organization in 2008 (#7) and 2009 (#18) before his stock sunk. Always credited with a funky delivery, it apparently was not funky enough to mask his mediocre stuff and poor command. He would start in AAA in 2010, before shifting to the bullpen in 2011, tossing another 80 IP and hanging up his cleats with Tampa in 2013. Some of this may have been related to a 2010 elbow surgery, but there’s just very little about this guy after 2008. No great anecdotes about coaching his kids or moving to sales, he just quietly disappeared in the middle of 2013 (https://tucson.com/sports/baseball/article_ec52413d-cad1-5a2c-b3f3-eef527327e5a.html).
Ryan Goleski – Round 39, pick 10 of 2007 CPL draft. Round 24, Pick 11 (708th overall) of 2003 MLB draft by the Cleveland Indians. Ranked #24 in Cleveland in 2005, he fell off before being the top Rule V draft pick by the Oakland Athletics in 2007, good enough to be their #19th best prospect going into the season. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Goleski messed up his wrist at the end of the 2006 season badly enough he needed surgery. Struggling in Spring Training as a result, the Rays shipped him back to the Indians for at half price (https://www.news-herald.com/2008/01/22/tribes-goleski-waits-his-turn/). 2007 and 2008 were not kind to Goleski who enjoyed two medicore seasons at AA (and a new child, https://247sports.com/mlb/indians/article/social-media-explodes-with-disdain-over-mlb-considering-the-so-called-golden-at-bat-rule-241153723/). After 250 PAs in indy ball, he hung up the cleats in 2009, where his coach openly expressed he strikes out too much and has a poor average (https://www.ydr.com/story/sports/baseball/blogs/revs-inside-pitch/2009/09/19/who-will-be-back/31754249/). After that, we can’t say anything for certain. No follow up interviews, no teary retirement announcmenets. However, there is a Ryan Goleski working as the Director of Operations at Detroit Baptist Manor with several pictures of softball players, so we can reasonably file this one under “coached kids” in retirement.
Tyler Lumsden – Round 43, pick 8 in 2007 CPL draft. Competitve Balance round 1, pick 4, 34th overall by the Chicago White Sox.Ranked 13th and 18th in 2005 and 2006 for the White Sox. Traded in 2006 to the Royals for Mike MacDougal where he came in as the 5th overall in 2007 and 13th overall in 2008 amongst prospects. After posting a 7.21 ERA in 2008 though, his shine quickly vanished. He threw for Houston and San Diego over the next two years, posting ERAs between 4 and 5.5 with more walks than strikeouts, before being ousted from the MLB. In 2011 he went overseas to play for the Chinese baseball league, where he put up decent numbers, bit still few strikeouts. In 2022 Lumsden pops up again after being inducted into his high schools HoF (https://www.wsls.com/sports/2022/08/01/salem-roanoke-baseball-hall-of-fame-inducts-5-new-members/). After that there’s little to nothing. At least little that I can confirm is this exact Tyler Lumsden. Google AI says he’s a coach, but I’ll be damned if I can figure out how it arrived at that conclusion based on the links it provided.
Matt Moses – Round 43, pick 12 in 2007 CPL draft. Round 1, pick 21 in 2003 draft by the Minnesota Twins. Ranked a top prospect in 2004 through 2007 (#3, #8, #3 and #12 respectively). He never had a wrc+ above 90, and maxed out at 71 after his first season. He never participated in another major, minor or independent game after that. In 2016 he resurfaced as an instructor for the Carolina Baseball Academy (it’s a Facebook post, so no link). No other posts of note involve Matt Moses, but Twins Daily did opt to take a crack at him 14 years after he fizzled out (https://twinsdaily.com/news-rumors/just-for-fun/guy-who-overvalues-prospects-thinks-matt-moses-is-finally-ready-r13865/).
Beltran Perez – Round 44, pick 1, 2007 CPL draft. Signed as an undrafted free agent in 1999 by the Arizona Diamondbacks.Pitched 21 IP in 2006 for the Washington Nationals and 0 IP for a professional team after that. Made the top prospects list for the Arizona Diamondback sin 2001 through 2003 (#29, 10 and 25 respectively). His stock, up and down for about a decade, finally toppled in 2008. He pitched for the nostalgic Mexican-Pacific league in 2010 (poorly) and was never heard from again due to the generic-ness of his name, and my inability to read Spanish.
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