"He never was a big prospect," said Dodgers starter Chad Billingsley, who roomed with Ellis in the instructional league.
"It seems to me they don't think there is a big prospect of a short-term turnaround.
"He's probably not a really big prospect, but he's an important person to have around.
The coast's fishing industry, along with its tourism ambitions, shaped a population that was diverse, and ever open to the next big prospect.
"If I was a big prospect, put in the No. 3 hole, it would make life a lot more difficult," Nava said modestly.
"Joe Torre is the manager, and he looks at me and says, 'This is really tough.' But waiting in the wings was Omar Olivares, who was their big prospect at the time.
"We can't know how things will go down on Saturday, but given the circumstances, Virimi's potential, the fact that he is a big prospect for the future, we want to see him in real game conditions rather than believing in him, hoping he could be great but never give him an opportunity.
"If I had a team in Europe and I invested a lot of money in the formation of a player -- I took him to basketball school, fed him, paid all his expenses -- and by the time he turns 17, he's a big prospect, I would try to make as long a contract as I can possibly make," Martens said.
The biggest prospect on the horizon for NVE's spintronics is MRAM, which could potentially replace current RAM technologies.
