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New video of Freeland pitching in his conference tournament. I know it's not likely but if we somehow got him and Hoffman at 9 and 11 I might actually squeal like a little girl.

Nice. Let it be us. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/sports/baseball/a-future-barely-dimmed-by-elbow-surgery.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1

Ok, that's it. This is my dude. From what I've seen I just have a really good feeling about this kid. I hope someone takes him in a signable round so I can see how he does.

Here's what BA has on Castellani. Surprising to see no mention of Houck in their top 500. He looks a lot better than some of the guys on that list.

Ok, here's what I found.

He's a familiar name that I remember reading about from the PG National. He was one of the notable arms there according to Perfect Game, but I don't really know much about him other than that. What have you heard or seen? I'll look up what BA has on him and post it.

It's kind of stupid actually, but the first thing I noticed was that his delivery looked exactly like Roy Halladay's. I'm not sure if he was a fan and tried to emulate Doc or something, but it was pretty cool. His delivery looks for balanced and fluid. If you watch full inning clips you can see that he repeats his mechanics perfectly almost every time. In terms of other stuff, physically he looks the part. Big, lean, projectable build. The ideal pitchers build really. Pitches off his fastball which has both tremendous vertical and horizontal movement, but it's movement that he look like he can control (unlike Sanchez). Locates his pitches to both sides. Likes to pitch inside against leftys, and the pitch has some natural cut to his glove side, and bore to arm side. It looked painful to foul a ball off him cause of where on the barrel the ball moved to. He's going to be able to get outs with his fastball period. His other pitches are still developing, but the curveball shows flashes of at least being an average to slightly above average pitch. It's not very firm yet. With his arm slot and the natural tail on his pitches to his arm side, I can see him developing a pretty good changeup, though I haven't actually seen him throw one. He's going to be a pitch to contact guy though. Also check out Tanner Houck and Gavin LaValley if you guys get the chance. I liked what I saw from them too.

Just checking out MLB.com's top 200 and this guy def stood out based on his reports, footage.

Some scouting reports and rankings of note from BA. King's guys: Guys with late helium: Two late-ranked players I've liked in the past:

I think people should be prepared for the fact that there might be a good chance we take Turner. I don't like the pick personally but I'm hoping he proves me wrong anyway if we do pick him.

Bump. Fatcow donde estas?

Nick from BP is putting in some serious work answering people's draft questions. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/chat/chat.php?chatId=1164 A few of note so far:

This is the first time I can ever remember MLB.com getting up to 200 prospects for a draft. So glad Jim Callis is there now.

I was paraphrasing the kid the Jays drafted two years ago as a Senior sign for 5,000, who said he would have signed for a hot dog. I forget his name now.

Interesting.

Good news guys, I've agreed to be drafted by the Jays with their first round pick in exchange for a hot dog. Woot! #payrollparameters

Yeah, I agree. They tried to argue before that it's because age misrepresentation is less prevalent in VE than in the DR because they are stricter with record keeping, but that excuse only stretches so far. In any case, with news that the Jays are being somewhat restricted financially it's not a surprise to only hear the Jays connected to one guy, and not even the top guy for that matter, but it is frustrating considering the Yankees are about to spend 20 million on the IFA market.

Interesting note from BP chat:

Not a fan of Turner's swing or bat, but if we pick him, I'll be rooting against myself hoping that I'm wrong. It's just such an ugly, ugly swing. Kill it with fire.

Your boy Stone Garrett aka Phil Ervin 2.0, King: This guy Justin Steele apparently has a lot of late buzz according to Perfect Game.

Hey King, can you post Bowden's article? http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/the-gms-office/post?id=9471

Not quite sure where to put this. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/chat/chat.php?chatId=1158

Has anyone PM'd fatcow?

Pefect Game draft chat:

Kiley Minogue's Mock Draft: http://sbb.scout.com/2/1403161.html 2. Miami - Brady Aiken, LHP 3. Chicago W - Tyler Kolek - RHP 4. Chicago C - Aaron Nola, RHP 5. Minnesota - Nick Gordon, SS 6. Seattle - Jeff Hoffman, RHP 7. Philadelphia - Bradley Zimmer, OF 8. Colorado - Kyle Freeland, LHP 10. New York M - Alex Jackson, OF