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http://backinblue.kc-media.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/draft-578x289.jpg http://blogimages.thescore.com/mlb/files/2011/06/alex-anthopoulos-2009-11-10-19-44-412.jpg 1. Houston Astros Mark Appel RHP 2. Chicago Cubs Kris Bryant 3B 3. Colorado Rockies Jonathan Gray RHP 4. Minnesota Twins Kohl Stewart RHP 5. Cleveland Indians Clint Frazier OF 6. Miami Marlins Colin Moran 3B 7. Boston Red Sox Trey Ball LHP 8. Kansas City Royals Hunter Dozier 3B 9. Pittsburgh Pirates (M. Appel - unsigned) Austin Meadows OF 10. Toronto Blue Jays Phil Bickford RHP 11. New York Mets Dominic Smith 1B 12. Seattle Mariners D.J. Peterson 1B 13. San Diego Padres Hunter Renfroe OF 14. Pittsburgh Pirates Reese McGuire C 15. Arizona Diamondbacks Braden Shipley RHP 16. Philadelphia Phillies J.P. Crawford SS 17. Chicago White Sox Tim Anderson SS 18. Los Angeles Dodgers Chris Anderson RHP 19. St. Louis Cardinals Marco Gonzales LHP 20. Detroit Tigers Jonathon Crawford RHP 21. Tampa Bay Rays Nick Ciuffo C 22. Baltimore Orioles Hunter Harvey RHP 23. Texas Rangers Alex Gonzalez RHP 24. Oakland Athletics Billy McKinney OF 25. San Francisco Giants Christian Arroyo SS 26. New York Yankees Eric Jagielo 3B 27. Cincinnati Reds Phil Ervin OF 28. St. Louis Cardinals (K. Lohse) Rob Kaminsky LHP 29. Tampa Bay Rays (B.J. Upton) Ryne Stanek RHP 30. Texas Rangers (J. Hamilton) Travis Demeritte 3B 31. Atlanta Braves (M. Bourn) Jason Hursh RHP 32. New York Yankees (N. Swisher) Aaron Judge OF 33. New York Yankees (R. Soriano) Ian Clarkin LHP Competitive Balance Round A 34. Kansas City Royals Sean Manaea LHP 35. Miami Marlins (from the Pirates) Matt Krook LHP 36. Arizona Diamondbacks Aaron Blair RHP 37. Baltimore Orioles Josh Hart OF 38. Cincinnati Reds Mike Lorenzen RHP/OF Second Round 40. Houston Astros Andrew Thurman RHP 41. Chicago Cubs Rob Zastryzny LHP 42. Colorado Rockies Ryan McMahon 3B 43. Minnesota Twins Ryan Eads RHP 44. Miami Marlins Trevor Williams RHP 45. Boston Red Sox Teddy Stankiewicz RHP 46. Kansas City Royals Cody Reed LHP 47. Toronto Blue Jays Clinton Hollon RHP 48. New York Mets Andrew Church RHP 49. Seattle Mariners Austin Wilson OF 50. San Diego Padres Dustin Peterson SS 51. Pittsburgh Pirates Blake Taylor LHP 52. Arizona Diamondbacks Justin Williams SS 53. Philadelphia Phillies Andrew Knapp C 54. Milwaukee Brewers Devin Williams RHP 55. Chicago White Sox Tyler Danish RHP 56. Los Angeles Dodgers Tom Windle LHP 57. St. Louis Cardinals Oscar Mercado SS 58. Detroit Tigers Kevin Ziomek LHP 59. Los Angeles Angels Hunter Green RHP 60. Tampa Bay Rays Riley Unroe SS 61. Baltimore Orioles Chance Sisco C 62. Texas Rangers Akeem Bostick RHP 63. Oakland Athletics Dillon Overton LHP 64. San Francisco Giants Ryder Jones 3B 65. Atlanta Braves Victor Caratini C 66. New York Yankees Gosuke Katoh 2B 67. Cincinnati Reds Kevin Franklin 3B 68. Washington Nationals Jake Johansen RHP Competitive Balance Round B 69. San Diego Padres Jordan Paroubeck OF 70. Colorado Rockies Alex Balog RHP 71. Oakland A's Chad Pinder 3B 72. Milwaukee Brewers Tucker Neuhaus SS 73. Miami Marlins (from the Tigers) Colby Suggs RHP

lets do it up right and promote the s*** out of it on twitter. Give me a couple minutes.

Fear of losing players to other sports.

I have heard by a sports media person who I quite like (Sid) "If the Jays don't take pitchers with their first 11 picks AA should be fired.

Fine then I'll change my statement. Get a system where every player can afford-ably be tested everyday and be tested for everything that you think is wrong and then get stiffer penalties. If the league isn't willing to test every player every day and put this in the next CBA, than stop pretending like you care. Until then, you don't ban because some guys bought the s***, you don't suspend because some slimeball that deals in an illegal business is paid for his statement. It's a waste of our time.

I'll see if someone local agrees first.

according to bluebird banter McGowan still has 2 options. May as well wait until he's 100%. He can refuse the assignment but what are the chances he does that.

don't...who cares

so I'm out tonight...who is going to text me with all the picks. I'd prefer it be done by taking a picture of your own personal draft board (everyone creates their own board like I do right?) but just a text version is fine. Maybe every 5 picks.

he screams an AA type guy. If they had 15th or so pick I'd 100% believe it. With the 10 and the team doing poorly, I can't see AA risking having "experts" question his pick. I think someone reaches up from his ranking (33 by BA, 21 in PG) but I just don't think it will be us. His brother Kris is in the Pirates org, maybe he goes 14.

My biggest draft pet peeve...every single comp is in all star discussing ceiling. Rather than an actual comp. I have seen very little from the high schoolers. I'd just be stealing so guy I read's opinions

Might be the best rant of the year (might have been others but they didn't have my name in it so I didn't read them). I think you should end all of your rants with fully written out quotation mark. It could be your signature move.

As soon as Wilnercibia is thanking you in posts you probably should put down the keyboard and re-evaluate things. The negative trolls just don't get that saying "This team is s***" isn't going to draw a rise out of people. Mike Wilner (the real one and our troll) already have the "everything is okay" side taken up so there is no room for that troll. So what's left for the trolls, maybe learning some baseball and having semi-intelligent conversation about the games.

Buxton ended up 5 for 6 with two triples giving him 7 to go with his 7 HR's...he easily won the battle of the top 2 draftees as Correa was 1 for 4 in the game. Look out for Jorge Polonco from the Twins too. Still hasn't turned 20, playing both 2B and SS and hitting up a storm for the 2nd straight year and doesn't strike out. At a minimum he'll be a utility IF who plays against all lefties. There is no team even close the Twins in offensive minor league depth. 1. Buxton CF .333/.435/.545 2. Sano 3B, 20 .333/.427/.641 in High A 3. Rosario 2B 21, .335/.376/.535 in High A 4. Kepler all OF, but probably LF 19, Got hurt in the Germany WBC game against Canada, extended ST, should join A Ball when healthy .925 OPS in Rookie ball last year 5. Polanco 2B/SS 19 .297/.347/.462 in A Santana is an interesting guy too. Big arm settling in now at SS. No walks but starting to show an ability to hit. Is very Pedro Florimon esk. Add that to Arcia and Hicks in the majors and it's one of the most solid young offensive corps I've seen. Should be able to deal at some point from their middle IF depth.

Had that game going on my computer while the Jays game was on, wasn't paying full attention obviously but watched more while Stro was pitching. It was the first time I've watched Stroman in a situation where he could be stretched out since his college days. He has to learn to pitch more efficiently. He threw in mid 90's throughout the first 3 innings but after the first he threw way too many pitches. In the 2nd he got the first batter on the first pitch, faced three more batters and threw 19 pitches to get the 2 outs. Each of the three had full counts. There was no need to try and hit the corners while no one was on. He's a Dukie...we know he's smart, he just has to pitch smarter. By inning he went 1st - 12 pitches, no hits no walks (I would say almost all FB's with a few sliders) 2nd - 20 pitches, 1 hit no walks (not one change up that I saw) 3rd. - 9 pitches no hits, no walk (almost all sliders. I loved this inning, sucks that the sound was gone on the broadcast as I heard nothing about the speed on the sliders) 4th - 27 pitches, 1 hit, 1 4 pitch walk. (started every batter with a slider, the 4 pitch walk was slider, slider, FB, FB...after that he worked slower, he did have a few change ups...one that was killed by Moncrief but foul) 5th - 21 pitches 1 Hit (HR), no walks (again he had 3 batters at 3 balls). Right now that would be my only concern about him. He'll never be able to work deep into games if he's pitching this many pitches in good outings.

Can't take the FisherCats game anymore cause of the feed. I'd rather listen the Cedar Rapids game on radio, where Byron Buxton is a HR away from the cycle...in the 4th inning

If anyone is watching the Akron game on MILB.TV it's hilarious. There is someone, I'm guessing that it's the Akron on field promotions person, is talking to some kid and you hear that over the announcers. The kids stories are fantastic. I'd rather it be some drunk hitting on her though

He pitched like Jenkins. Not a bad outing at all. I missed the HR, so I don't know how solid it was. he gave up 2 in the 4th which could have been very different if it were someone better than McCoy in CF and Langerhans in RF. The run in the 5th was all defense related (partially his own). A few too many line drives tonight but still only a couple fly balls, it just happens that one got out.

Bisons are so much fun to watch. Were down 5-0 in the game, now 5-3 in the 8th as they are getting to Aumont. Jimenez just hit one into the gap but it was caught, leading to a sac fly. Mauro has his 15th HR tonight and is up with 2 outs now

Last time Addison Reed pitched into a third inning was August 2011 when he was 2 and a third. Hasn't gone three since his Pioneer league days but does so striking out the side.

one guy needs to get on to allow Seager another shot to tie it.

Found the record for men left on base in an extra innings game...25 by the Senators in 71 in a 20 inning game (second game of a double header too) and 91 KC Royals in an 18 inning game. Unreal that both teams could beat it.

I don't know what the record is for an extra innings game (20 for a 9 inning game) but the Mariners have left 28 men on base in the game. 6 DP's for Chicago ties the AL record as well.

And Seager ties it...Grand Slam. I love that guy

And probably the best draft story ever...and a big point towards scouts and a drum that some regulars have been beating to death here. http://dirkhayhurst.com/2013/06/5308/ My Life Is A Lie tag : Baseball, Blue Jays, Dirk Hayhurst, Kent State, MLB, Pitchingcomment : 0 My entire baseball career is built on a lie. It started just after my junior year, on the day I wasn’t drafted but was told I would be. I spent 2002 playing ace to my college staff, leading the squad to a regional bid, making the all-conference all-star team for my effort. My fastball sat in the low-90s, I struck out hitters in bunches, and ate up innings in big gulps. A Cleveland Indians scout said I should expect to go in the top 10 rounds. You can’t imagine what that was like to hear. Me, a stupid kid, never had a paycheque bigger than $300, told I’d get drafted to play my dream and probably make a $100,000 or so in the process. Surreal. The day of the draft I sat in my room, on the floor, surrounded by dirty clothes, useless textbooks and dorm room furniture. The only thing I’d bothered to unpack was my phone, which I held, waiting for it to ring. The call never came. I thought there had been a mistake. I had no reason to doubt my sources. Besides, I was one of the best in my conference and the best are supposed to get drafted, right? Turns out that was just another naive belief, one of many I had about the professional baseball world. That 2002 draft day taught me a valuable lesson: Baseball is cruel. It will tell you one thing and do another. And if you want to make the most out of your time in it, you have to be willing to do the same thing. I came into my 2003 season angry. I wanted answers for why I didn’t get drafted, but even more so, I wanted answers for why I was told to think I’d get drafted, and drafted high, when I wasn’t on anyone’s radar. But scouts aren’t very definitive about things like why your dreams aren’t fulfilled. Some say it’s you; some say it’s the league; some say it’s timing and fate and baseball. General cliché statements that sounded like baseball’s version of, “It’s not you it’s me.” After watching video and consulting my coaches, we came to the consensus that I needed to showcase more potential tools, leave something up to the imagination and create something for scouts to “project,” as they are fond of saying. It was a violation of one of baseball’s doctrines, to fix what wasn’t broken. I was a two-pitch pitcher – fastball and curveball. I had broken Kent State’s all-time innings pitched and strikeout records throwing them. I could run and sink my fastball, raise and lower my hook, but that was it. No changeup, no cutter, no splitter and no slider. I was told to mix them in. Things I’d never thrown before in my life. I was told that when the right counts and situations presented themselves to make sure scouts could write down more than “fastball/curveball.” And so my entire 2003 season was one of waste pitches that looked like backed-up sliders and tumbling splitters, and change-ups that were about as deceptive from my fastball as a fake mustache. But throwing mystery pitches was only part of it. I had to talk the talk. That’s why, when a certain scout from the San Diego Padres plopped down next to me in the stands of my college, asking why I didn’t throw my slider during the previous day’s game, instead of telling him I didn’t have one to throw, I told him it was because I had a blister on my finger. As fate would have it, I had a Band-Aid on my middle finger. Not from a blister, but because throwing my sinking two-seamer caused my fingernail to split. Damn thing was split all the way into the centre of my nail and kept catching on my jacket and pulling open. Hurt like hell. A Band-Aid kept it closed until it grew out. It also made a hell of a prop for my blister story. “Ah,” the scout said, “sorry to hear that. I saw you down in Vanderbilt. I wrote down that you had good command, nice plane on your pitches, and a budding slider.” I thought back to the day in question. I actually threw two curve balls sideways by accident that day. “Yeah,” I said, “I wish I had it yesterday. Would have made the day a lot smoother, but,” I held up my finger and shook my head at it, “this stupid blister, ya know?” “Let it heal up, son,” the scout said. “I’m just glad to know you still go it. I think it could be a real separator for you.” Separator indeed. On draft day in 2003, when I sat in my room, surrounded by boxes and useless text books and a pile of baseball equipment I wouldn’t use again if I didn’t get an offer from a pro team, my phone rang. It was the Padres. They were calling to tell me they’d selected me in the eighth round of the draft. Two days later I signed a contract to play professional baseball, made it to the big leagues six years after that, and wrote a best-seller about life in professional baseball the year after that. All thanks to a slider I didn’t throw.