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I can't see it.

http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/40395496/v691036983/2016-mlb-draft-live-on-mlb-network Stream

jeff ellis ‏@jeffMLBdraft 7m7 minutes ago Harold saying Puk could be in the big leagues this year, shows why he is the worst at this lol

I'm pumped!!

Jeff Ellis mock http://www.scout.com/mlb/scouting/story/1677251-revised-final-scout-2016-mlb-mock-draft?s=304 Talk is Atlanta is off Kyle Lewis and on Ian Anderson or Corey Ray. In turn Milwaukee has had about 10 players connected to them today, and every team seems to be changing their minds. I am going to go with picks based on my gut, my best info here, and past history. Last year, every single late-developing rumor proved wrong, so based on that, I'm going what I expect based on months of analysis and leaving the rest as smoke. Clearing my head only using my best sources and trying to think about this purely from logical perspective. It's kind of like a puzzle using what I know to try and make the pieces fit. With that said, below is my revised, final take on the top-41 picks. So much news in the air today so last mock is a go. So here it is a last chance 5.1 Talk is Atlanta is off Lewis and on Anderson or Ray. In turn Milwaukee has had about ten players connected today, and every team seems to be changing their mind. I am going to go with picks based on my gut, my best info here, and past history. Last year every single week before rumor proved wrong, so going with what I expect based on months of analysis and leaving the rest as smoke. So clearing my head only using my best sources and trying to think about this purely, logically. It's kind of like a puzzle using what I know to try and make the pieces fit. Philadelphia Phillies: Mickey Moniak OF La Costa Canyon HS Cincinnati Reds: Nick Senzel 3B Tennessee Atlanta Braves: Corey Ray OF Louisville Colorado Rockies: Riley Pint RHP St. Thomas Aquinas HS Milwaukee Brewers: Blake Rutherford OF Chaminade HS Oakland A's: Kyle Lewis OF Mercer Miami Marlins: Braxton Garrett LHP Florence HS San Diego Padres: Jason Groome LHP Barnegat HS Detroit Tigers: A.J. Puk LHP Florida Chicago White Sox: Justin Dunn RHP Boston College Seattle Mariners: Zack Collins C/1B Miami Boston Red Sox: Ian Anderson RHP Shenendehowa HS Tampa Bay Rays: Joshua Lowe 3B Pope Cleveland Indians: Nolan Jones 3B Holy Ghost HS Minnesota Twins: Dakota Hudson RHP Mississippi St. Los Angeles Angels: Alex Kirilloff OF Plum High HS Houston Astros: Cody Sedlock RHP Illinois New York Yankees: Cal Quantrill RHP Stanford New York Mets: Will Craig 1B Wake Forest Los Angeles Dodgers: T.J. Zeuch RHP Pittsburgh Toronto Blue Jays: Matt Thaiss C Virginia Pittsburgh Pirates: Zack Burdi RHP Louisville St. Louis Cardinals: Matt Manning RHP Sheldon HS San Diego Padres: Eric Lauer LHP Kent State San Diego Padres: Delvin Perez SS International Baseball Academy Puerto Rico Chicago White Sox: Gavin Lux SS Indian Trail Academy Baltimore Orioles: Robert Tyler RHP Georgia Washington Nationals: Kyle Funkhouser RHP Louisville Washington Nationals: Bryan Reynolds OF Vanderbilt Texas Rangers: Forrest Whitley RHP Alamo Heights HS New York Mets: Taylor Trammell Mount Paran Christian School Los Angeles Dodgers: Jordan Sheffield RHP Vanderbilt St. Louis Cardinals: Chris Okey C Clemson St. Louis Cardinals: Anthony Kay LHP UConn Cincinnati Reds: Alec Hansen RHP Oklahoma Los Angeles Dodgers: Will Benson OF Westminster Schools HS Oakland A's: Corbin Burnes RHP St. Mary's College (CA) Colorado Rockies: Kyle Muller Jesuit College Prep Arizona Diamondbacks: Buddy Reed OF Florida Atlanta Braves: Joey Wentz LHP Shawnee Mission East HS Pittsburgh Pirates: Brandon Marsh OF Buford

I looked but there's nothing. Some of these obscure DSL guys are impossible to find information on

Well, yeah. He'll be 24 next season, it's do or die at that point.

Is there any legitimate hope for Max Pentecost at this point?

I don't think he's anything worth keeping an eye on. He's been shredding AAA since like, 2008 though. Might be a decent SP option if injuries start to hit, but hopefully it doesn't ever get to that point, since he's probably pretty low on the SP depth chart.

Yep he's starting to come around.

http://i.imgur.com/TTedT3s.png http://i.imgur.com/kzLQf20.png http://i.imgur.com/fgCQ55y.png http://i.imgur.com/YcsJz68.png http://i.imgur.com/EoMx4Bg.png http://i.imgur.com/vmoV9sL.png MANCHESTER, NH - Melky Mesa and Dwight Smith Jr. each had two hits and an RBI, but the Fisher Cats came up short in a 4-3 loss to Richmond on Wednesday at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. New Hampshire (26-32) had a chance in the bottom of the ninth when Christian Lopes led off with a single and was bunted to second, but Tyler Rogers slammed the door for his eighth save to give the Flying Squirrels (22-37) a second consecutive win over the Fisher Cats. Richmond's Ryder Jones lifted a two-out, solo home run in the top of the first inning to give the Fisher Cats an early 1-0 lead. The Flying Squirrels put together three consecutive hits in the top of the third inning for a 2-0 lead. Christian Arroyo doubled, Jones singled and Ricky Oropesa knocked in the run with a single to left field. New Hampshire scored in the bottom of the third inning. Jorge Flores singled, moved to second on a groundout, scoring on a single by Smith Jr. Richmond added three more hits against Fisher Cats starter John Anderson (L: 2-5) in the top of the fifth inning. Carlos Moncrief singled and scored on a double by Angel Villalona. Ali Castillo drilled an RBI single to make it 4-1. The Fisher Cats rallied to 4-3 in the bottom of the fifth inning. Jorge Flores walked and Roemon Fields singled. Melky Mesa singled to score Flores and Rowdy Tellez delivered Fields with a single. Matt Gage (2-5) picked up the win for Richmond. He worked six innings, allowing three runs on ten hits. He walked one and struck out three. Tyler Mizenko and Ray Black carried the game to Rogers, who recorded the final five outs. Anderson allowed four runs on ten hits for the Fisher Cats. He issued no walks and struck out four. Chris Smith and Matt Dermody combined for three innings of scoreless relief for New Hampshire. http://i.imgur.com/pYk0gW0.png http://i.imgur.com/eoEEsgl.png http://i.imgur.com/tatqDXa.png http://i.imgur.com/PtBjSG7.png http://i.imgur.com/J9DtnwF.png http://i.imgur.com/SARH9la.png http://i.imgur.com/w3LHTMz.png http://www.milb.com/assets/images/8/9/4/178336894/cuts/Thomas_9163_8d03ta4a_tnywbhva.jpg EASTLAKE, OH - The Lake County Captains (35-24) overcame six errors with a 20-hit barrage, rallying past the Lansing Lugnuts (29-28), 14-12, in a wild Wednesday matinee at Classic Park. Seven of Lansing's 12 runs were unearned, with a four-run first inning and a five-run third inning buoyed by a pair of two-out errors from Lake County third baseman Sam Haggerty. The Lugnuts built an 11-8 advantage, but the Captains scored two runs in the sixth to shave the deficit to a run before rallying for a 14-11 lead in the eighth on consecutive two-out, two-run singles by Martin Cervenka and Jose Medina off Dan Lietz (Blown Save, 1; Loss, 4-1). Lansing crept closer on a Gunnar Heidt RBI triple in the ninth before dropping its second straight game in the series. The Nuts used three pitchers in the game, none of whom was spared from the Lake County hitting assault. Starter Tom Robson lasted two innings, reached for seven runs on eight hits and allowing home runs to Nathan Lukes and Francisco Mejia. Ryan Cook gave up seven hits and three runs, striking out four, in the next 3 1/3 innings. Lietz pitched the final 2 2/3 innings, allowing five hits, four runs and three walks while striking out three. Lake County starter Sam Hentges gave up seven runs (three earned) in just 2 1/3 innings before he was sent to the showers. Captains long reliever Brock Hartson (Win, 5-2) stepped up significantly in Hentges's stead, working 5 2/3 innings out of the bullpen and holding the Lugnuts' offense to three runs (two earned) on five hits and three walk. Billy Strode (Save, 1) relieved Hartson for the 27th out. In defeat, center fielder Lane Thomas went 1-for-4 with three runs scored, slamming his team-leading fifth home run of the year. It was Thomas's fourth home run since the start of June. Lansing and Lake County will play the finale of the three-game series at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, with left-hander Angel Perdomo (2-1, 1.28) dueling with Captains right-hander Matt Esparza (6-2, 3.63). http://i.imgur.com/ecGa3rY.png http://i.imgur.com/RRFbO4S.png http://i.imgur.com/F4ec6dO.png http://i.imgur.com/4ssPmwS.png http://i.imgur.com/igVco6m.png http://i.imgur.com/I74EPrT.png http://i.imgur.com/0EDOp1B.png Kings 3 Stars of the Night 1) Wade LeBlanc: LeBlanc keeps proving to be a valuable depth SP in Buffalo as he pitched 7 innings Wednesday striking out 9. 2) Meliton Reyes: The 18 year old RHP had an excellent professional debut pitching 3 innings and striking out 6. Reyes was signed out of Panama this past February. 3) Conner Greene: Greene, who has a very disappointing season to start the year, had one of his better starts striking out 6 over 6 innings. Kings Platinum Arencibia 1) Tom Robson: Robson started the season with Dunedin, where he pitched 16 innings with 22 walks and a 7.01 FIP. After not pitching there since the end of April, he returned to Lansing for his start today. He got torched for 8 hits, 7 earned runs in 2 innings.

Gibbons taking Dickey out before he can implode.

Robson was demoted to Lansing and got rocked. 2IP 8H 7ER 1BB 2K 2HR. 1 wild pitch

Thanks for this.

John Lott article on Max Pentecost https://sports.vice.com/ca/article/max-pentecost-is-back-and-ready-to-reclaim-top-prospect-status The U.S. Customs officer at the Sarnia border crossing was a curious sort, and in a most friendly way. Why are you going to Lansing? What are you writing about? Who's Max Pentecost? What position does he play? Why write about him? He's a catcher who can't throw? Wow. OK, travel safe. Have a good day. *** Max Pentecost can throw. He can catch, too. He just doesn't do it in games. Not yet. But every day he throws and catches bullpen sessions. His meticulously planned throwing program is going well. He is optimistic. His manager says Pentecost might be ready to catch in games by mid-July. He has traveled a long road to Lansing. In 2014, he was a first-round draft pick. The Blue Jays pegged him as a blue-chip prospect, a catcher projected to hit and play superb defence. But then, for nearly two years, he virtually disappeared. He endured three shoulder surgeries within 13 months, proving once again that medicine is not an exact science. It was never clear whether the first two surgeries were part of the solution or part of the problem. "There were days when I was wondering, 'My shoulder—is it done, or is it just something that has to be fixed?'" says Pentecost, who is currently limited to a DH role for the Class A Lansing Lugnuts. "I just kept pushing through it. There were days I'd have progressions and I'd think, 'We're really onto something here.' Then it would go backwards. Your mind is just spinning. But that's when it's good to have something you can do outside of baseball to get your mind off of it." For Pentecost, that something was fishing, a passion since his early childhood in Georgia. "Fishing was my getaway," he tells me. "That was the time I took to clear my head." Casting for bass didn't bother your shoulder? "No," he says with a grin. "Luckily, I cast mostly left-handed." *** Maxwell Glen Pentecost owns a ready smile, a staunch work ethic and a knack for looking at the bright side. His shoulder struggles have made him mentally stronger, he says. If he were able to catch now, he says, he might not be able to focus so much on fixing his swing and refining his timing at the plate. But he longs to catch again. At 6'2" and a slender 200 pounds, he does not present as a prototypical catcher, but he comes advertised as a savvy defender and a hitter who uses the whole field. "Once I get back to catching, it'll be more normal, like I'm used to baseball being," he says. Pentecost was the 11th player chosen in the 2014 draft. The Blue Jays gave him just under $2.9 million to sign and sent him immediately to the rookie-level Gulf Coast League, where he played only six games before he was promoted two levels to Vancouver. There he batted .313 with a .731 OPS in 19 games before shoulder pain stopped him cold. His last game for Vancouver was on Aug. 7, 2014. He did not play in another game until May 12 of this year in Lansing. "People don't realize how hard it is, how exhausting it is to come back from what he went through with the three surgeries," says John Schneider, his manager in both Vancouver and Lansing. "You see Devon Travis in the big leagues say it was the 10 toughest months of his life on the DL, and it was that times three for Max." During Pentecost's long absence from the public eye, I occasionally asked Blue Jays officials what was going on with him. The answers were vague. He was always recovering from surgery, rehabbing, trying to get back, but no one seemed to know for sure what the problem was or how long it would take to fix it. Doctors, apparently, were facing a similar challenge. Before his first surgery in October 2014, an MRI indicated a labrum tear. But the way the MRI dye pooled in his shoulder fooled the eye, he says. There was no tear. It took arthroscopic surgery to find that out. But there was inflammation, so surgeons did a cleanup. He underwent a second surgery in February 2015. "I had really bad impingement symptoms," he said. "They decided to take some of the acromion bone off to give my shoulder a little more space to move around." That procedure is more often performed on pitchers. Post-recovery, his throwing program went well. He felt a little pain, but did not consider it worrisome. But it began to get worse, and he could not recover between throwing sessions. He was also reluctant to tell anyone. "Sometimes (the pain) wasn't as bad as it had been, so therefore that was a good day," Pentecost says. "I wanted to play so bad. I was just praying that one day I'd go out there to throw and it would be like it miraculously fixed itself." He missed the entire 2015 season. October brought a third surgery, this time to fix a tear that formed a groove in the rotator cuff and inhibited the normal movement of his triceps tendon. Dr. Craig Morgan, an expert in that type of procedure, performed the surgery. Then, it was back to rehab again. A strong support group kept him going, he says. "Good friends. People in the Blue Jays organization—the coaches, players, everyone. They never gave up on me. Always encouraged me. Kept me sane," he says. "And I did a lot of fishing." *** In his first game with Lansing, Pentecost hit a homer and two singles. He went 9-for-20 in his first five games. In 18 games since then, he is hitting .200, with 13 hits—all singles—in 65 at-bats. He has never faced such good pitching. He has a lot of catching up to do. The adjustment has been tough. "It has," he says. "I'm not going to lie. At the beginning, I was just so excited to get back on the field that I wasn't thinking about anything. I was just going out there and playing. And then you start getting beat on a pitch, and you're like, 'How am I going to fix this?' And you start thinking about fixing stuff. I just have to get back into a groove, build an approach at the plate, getting back into that everyday routine. It's just a matter of time." Kenny Graham, a Blue Jays roving hitting instructor, agrees. "He's still learning, and he knows that," Graham tells me. "He's learning to make adjustments that all professionals have to make in their careers. "But he's a very athletic kid. He's got a good sense of the strike zone. He's a very handsy hitter; he can manipulate the barrel and move the ball around all over the field. He's got that hit tool in him." Through Tuesday's action, Pentecost had 205 plate appearances in his pro career, divided almost equally between 2014 and 2016. He is still raw. "Max has a knack for hitting," Schneider says. "But it's tough to explain to him sometimes that he really doesn't have that many at-bats under his belt over the course of his career." Meanwhile, a committee has been at work supporting his throwing program. His rehab therapists in Florida and trainers in Lansing have supervised his daily workouts. Lansing pitching coach Jeff Ware has worked with him on mechanics. Minor-league pitching co-ordinator Sal Fasano helped him find a new arm slot that puts less stress on his shoulder. Some days he works on throwing for distance, others for velocity, others just throwing lightly to let his body recover. He estimates he is throwing at about 85-percent effort. "The short-term goal is around the all-star break to have him built up, totally ready to catch and hopefully rebounding well from the day-to-day throwing process," Schneider says. Meanwhile, Pentecost says he is finally learning to stop thinking about his shoulder when he throws. "I'm still weaning off of it, but we've had a bunch of good days throwing, no pain," he says. "The more of those you get, the easier it becomes to get it out of your head."

PEDs! http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft/perez-shelby-fail-mlsb-drug-tests-2/#JvTMEfWJKE0RAbkC.97 Perez failed the test for an undisclosed performance enhancer, according to sources. Perez has been linked to teams throughout the first 10 picks, as high as Cincinnati at No. 2 and also including the Brewers at No. 5, the Marlins at No. 7 and the White Sox at No. 10. A positive test does not affect a player’s eligibility to be selected. Read more at http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft/perez-shelby-fail-mlsb-drug-tests-2/#ueHKMihOQm8s4gHk.99

Pompey has been hot. 134 wRC+ over the past calendar month not including today. Still prone to the odd bone headed mistake though.. All this happened within the first two innings of the same game lol http://i.giphy.com/l3UcqcYWgdp8Z3tS0.gif http://i.giphy.com/3oD3YypshPxid2r1Cw.gif http://i.giphy.com/3oD3YzebirqcogNK3m.gif

http://i.imgur.com/4foxdnb.png http://i.imgur.com/N3hdTH7.png http://i.imgur.com/Gir32N4.png http://www.milb.com/assets/images/8/0/6/182734806/cuts/Diamond_Scott_640_vdlj4hk2_ddhr4yw5.jpg Scott Diamond For just the second time this year, the Buffalo Bisons failed to win while outhitting their opponent. The Herd left 11 runners on base in a 5-2 loss to the Red Wings Tuesday night at Frontier Field. The Bisons had a streak of five consecutive innings where they got their leadoff batter on, but also went through five frames in a row where they stranded runners in scoring position. Buffalo started the night off well by scoring a run in the top of the first. With one out, Andy Burns smacked a ball high off of the fence in straightaway center for a double. He came around two batters later as Jesus Montero lofted a ball just over first and inside the right-field line for his 64th hit of the campaign. Domonic Brown was the only other member of the Herd to successfully navigate the base paths. The 6-foot-5 right fielder shot a ball down the first baseline in the sixth for a double and was cashed in on Darrell Ceciliani's second single of the night, making it a 3-2 game for Rochester. Coming in with a team-low 2.2 runs of support, Scott Diamond pitched well but was still saddled with the loss. The lefty struck out a season-best six batters over 6.1 innings of work while walking a pair. The Red Wings used six hits to score five times off of Diamond, including two runs which were unearned. Both unearned tallies came in the fifth after Brown dropped a fly ball while moving to the line in right field. That allowed Wilfredo Tovar to reach third and John Ryan Murphy to belt his first homerun of the year with two out, giving the Red Wings the opportunity to take the lead and make it a 3-1 contest. Rochester then boosted its advantage to 5-2 with a run in each of the next two innings. Eddie Rosario doubled off of Diamond and was batted in by Tovar in the sixth. Adam Walker walked to lead off the seventh and moved to second on a wild pitch. He eventually made his way to third on Diamond's 100th and final pitch of the night - a strikeout of Murphy that bounced in front of catcher A.J. Jimenez, forcing a throw to first as Walker scampered up 90 feet. At that point, Chad Girodo came on in relief and gave up an RBI single to James Beresford for the Wings' fifth run. Logan Darnell gave up 10 hits and was charged with both runs while improving his record to 6-5. The 27-year-old lefty came into Tuesday's action having allowed just one run over 15 innings in two starts against the Herd this year. BISONS NOTES: Prior to the game, reliever Pat Venditte was recalled to the Blue Jays…Dalton Pompey's third-inning single extended his road hitting streak to 14 games. He also has an overall streak of nine games going as well…Scott Diamond has now pitched 74 innings in 2016, retaking the IL-lead from teammate Wade LeBlanc. LeBlanc goes tomorrow back in Buffalo to start the second half of the home-and-home series with the Red Wings. http://i.imgur.com/KHjxhcQ.png http://i.imgur.com/VFLwmHj.png http://i.imgur.com/NVB9kst.png MANCHESTER, NH - Ryan Lavarnway went 3-for-3 with a home run and three runs batted in, but the Fisher Cats fell 5-3 to Richmond on Tuesday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. Lavarnway doubled into the left field corner in the bottom of the first inning, driving in Melky Mesa, who had singled. His two-run homer in the sixth, the first Lavarnway has hit as a member of the Fisher Cats, cut the Flying Squirrels lead to 5-3. Richmond (21-37) moved in front with solo homers by Ryder Jones and Hunter Cole in the top of the third inning off New Hampshire starter Shane Dawson (LP: 3-3) to take a 2-1 lead. The Flying Squirrels tacked on two more runs in the top of the fourth inning. Steve Lerud reached on a hit-by-pitch and Ali Castillo doubled. Myles Schroder singled to make it 3-1 and Christian Arroyo followed with a sacrifice fly. Richmond tacked on an insurance run in the eighth. Ali Castillo singled, stole second and scored on a single by Myles Schroder. Richmond starter and winning pitcher Dan Slania (4-4) worked the first five innings, allowing one run on six hits. He walked one and struck out five. Tyler Rogers earned his seventh save, working around a walk to Roemon Fields in the bottom of the ninth inning. Dwight Smith Jr. went 2-for-4 with a single and a double for the Fisher Cats (26-31). http://i.imgur.com/5sy15Xy.png http://i.imgur.com/48BORUp.png http://i.imgur.com/RTYDt3s.png http://i.imgur.com/AfT7ihe.png http://www.milb.com/assets/images/3/2/6/174095326/cuts/Kelly_7319_gcbl54u6_4re5lgou.jpg EASTLAKE, OH - Willi Castro's sacrifice fly capped a two-run rally in the bottom of the ninth, giving the host Lake County Captains (34-24) a rollercoaster 7-6 victory over the Lansing Lugnuts (29-27) on Tuesday night at Classic Park. The Lugnuts had come back from 4-0 and 5-4 deficits in the opener of the three-game series, taking their first lead in the eighth at 6-5 on a pinch-hit home run from newly-minted All-Star Juan Kelly. But Lake County came back against All-Star closer Dusty Isaacs (Blown Save, 3; Loss, 1-2). Sam Haggerty drew a leadoff walk and Anthony Miller reached on a fielding error by second baseman J.C. Cardenas. Isaacs struck out Silento Sayles before Nathan Lukes tied the game with an RBI double to left. Castro followed with a fly ball to deep center field, easily bringing in pinch-runner Jose Medina with the decisive run. In the loss, the Lugnuts collected seven extra-base hits, including a double and a triple from left fielder Jake Thomas in his Midwest League debut. Center fielder Lane Thomas added a 1-for-3 showing, scoring two runs, drawing a walk and belting his fourth home run of the year. Thomas's and Kelly's roundtrippers were two of the five home runs swatted in the game. Lake County catcher Francisco Mejia hit a two-run homer in the first inning, and Connor Marabell knocked a two-run home run in the third and a solo shot in the sixth. The second game of the three-game series is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. Wednesday; the Lugnuts' starter is yet to be announced, while Lake County has tabbed prospect left-hander Sam Hentges (1-4, 6.30). http://i.imgur.com/Nmm5qV5.png Kings 3 Stars of the Night 1) Ryan Lavarnway: The recently signed Lavarnway went 3/3 with a double, home run and a walk. 2) David Adams: David Adams went 3/4 with a double. 3) Jake Thomas: Jake Thomas, making his Midwest League debut, had a great start to his full season career going 2/4 with a double. Kings Platinum Arencibia 1) Matt Dean: Dean went 0/4 with 4 strikeouts. Sorry Matt it wasn't your day.

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Could you link the follow us on twitter image at the top of the page to the new board twitter account. Thanks

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matt harvey ‏@halladayfan32 24s25 seconds ago sportsnet please get rid of these two morons god damn they are so freaking irrating Even Big Harv is agitated.