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Known savings Patrick Murphy: $150,800 Evan Smith: $96,100 Daniel Lietz: $134,000 Connor Greene: $87,400 Garrett Custons: $135,800 Total space created: $604,100 We need to get up to at least 1mm to get Brentz.

5th rounder Daniel Lietz LHP signed for $200k -- slot was $334k 7th rounder Connor Greene RHP signed for $100k -- slot was $187.4k 10th rounder Garrett Custon C signed for $1k -- slot was $136.7k

Somewhat old article from BA so it should be okay.

This is my personal list. Not sure if you wanted scouting reports. Let me know if you do. 1. Aaron Sanchez, RHP 2. Roberto Osuna, RHP 3. Marcus Stroman, RHP 4. Daniel Norris, LHP 5. Phil Bickford, RHP 6. Alberto Tirado, RHP 7. A.J. Jimenez, C 8. Sean Nolin, LHP 9. Adonys Cardona 10. Andy Burns, 3B 11. Mitch Nay, 3B 12. Anthony Alford, OF 13. Franklin Barreto, SS 14. D.J. Davis 15. Matt Smoral, LHP 16. John Stilson RHP 17.Kevin Pillar, OF 18. Chase Dejong, RHP 19. Michael Crouse, OF 20. Dwight Smith Jr. OF 21. Dawel Lugo, SS 22. Jairo Labourt, LHP 23. Richard Urena, SS 24. Ryan Borucki, LHP 25. Clinton Hollon, RHP 26. Oscar Cabrera, LHP 27. Christian Lopes 2B 28. Dalton Pompey, OF 29. Gustavo Pierre, 3B 30. Santiago Nessy C 31. Rolando Segovia, SS/2B 32. Deck McGuire, RHP; G 33. Danny Barnes, RHP 34. Jeremy Gabryszwski, RHP 36. Zak Wasilewski LHP 37. Tyler Gonzales RHP 38. Justin Jackson, RHP 39. Justin Atkinson, 1B 40. Tom Robson, RHP 41. Jesus Gonzalez 42. Yeyfry Del Rosario, RHP 43. Chris Hawkins, OF; 44. Griffin Murphy, LHP 45. Deiferson Barreto, 2B 46. Matthew Dean, 3B 47. Jacob Anderson, OF 48. Willy Dupont, 2B 49. Nathan Desouza, OF 50. Evan Crawford, LHP Others: Ronniel Demorizzi, 3B Manuel Cordova, RHP Osman Gutierrez, RHP Andres De Aza, OF Juan Tejada, OF Jesus Tinoco, RHP Francisco Rios, RHP Miguel Castro, RHP Juliandry Higuerra, LHP

Why does bad grammar always make sports talk sound so sexual. Ah BP, you're the greatest. lol

Found some nice footage of 2nd round pick Clinton Hollon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFa0dh5-7DA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-AmEP7YEGc

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Baseball America's on July 2 free agents:

I wasn't that happy with the breaking ball. He was getting under it and leaving it up a lot. His changeup however is as good as you could hope for an 18-year-old. I think it's a future 60 pitch. His fastball shows excellent late life, and his delivery, where he throws his glove out like Gustavo Chacin, creates deception and allows the pitch to get on the hitter quickly. The other thing I like about him is that while he's a strike thrower and can command the fastball very well, he's not afraid to expand the zone and throw the pitch out of the zone in pitchers counts to get the hitter to chase.

Agreed. This isn't a bandwagon thing for me either. I was wanting us to sign him last year ahead of either Mujica or Castillo, though mainly because he was cheaper as well. Imagine him and Osuna on the Lansing staff? Los Bloo Hays. lol

Very astute hiring in my opinion. Hopefully the program can help keep our guys healthy.

A couple more vids of the great Osuna. I like the vantage point on this one best. It's like a major league telecast.

A somewhat old tweet but not sure if it was posted before. Jared Macdonald ‏@Jared_Macdonald 21 May Also, unrelated to the Lugnuts, Adonys Cardona hit 99 mph yesterday in extended spring training.

Everyone pray AJ stays healthy. He's our only hope to get rid of JP.

Nice long video from Marcus Stroman's 8k game a couple of weeks ago. More video from his 5k game three weeks ago.

I don't know what to think about the team's recent winning ways. As much as I want to see the team to make the playoffs, I hope this doesn't turn out like one of those patented Maple Leafs-like loser rallies that don't allow us to make the playoffs, but just win enough to take us out of prime drafting position in next years deep, but top-heavy draft. Right now I believe we're in the 11th spot, which is good, but the kid I really want us to take (Tyler Kolek) will likely be gone before the top 7. Just watched some footage of him from the Perfect Game National Showcase on Friday. This kid is seriously ridiculous. ^'5 240, with a fastball that sits 93-96 with a peak of 98, flashing a plus slider, and he's still only 17. I'll post a write-up for next years draft once, I watch all the showcase videos.

Nice for them. That gives them at least 1.2mm to spread around just from that pick alone. However looking at their draft list, they didn't really take anyone that would be a very difficult sign, even in the later rounds, and certainly no one I would want to give 1.2mm to. 10th-Austin Nicely, LHP 11th-Devonte German, RHP 35th-Kacy Clemens, RHP I guess they could spread the 1.2mm to both Nicely and German, or give it all to Clemens who I don't think is worth it.

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Since it's too early to create a 2014 draft thread, I'll continue to post about those prospects here.

Yeah, I made a few changes so it would make sense. lol

I figured I'd google translate it for everyone.

I just realized something after reading that article. They mentioned that this could be one of the last July 2 classes before an International Draft. I can see a team like the Jays eschewing the spending limits this year (especially if the next free agent class is weak), and just signing whoever they want. They would not lose a draft pick cause there's no International Draft next year, and the penalties for exceeding the bonus pool by even as much as 100% isn't really that punitive. It would explain a lot, since the Yankees and a bunch of other teams without much bonus pool space keep getting connected lots of players, who they couldn't possibly hope to all sign, unless they exceeded the bonus total.

Awesome, I forgot you are fluent in Spanish. I'm shocked we're in on Jimenez. I don't think we have the bonus space to match the Cubs who are enamoured with him, but in the end it's the player's choice who he signs with. If him or his trainer likes our organization better he may take less money like Barreto did. I'll have to brush up on Amador, don't really know a lot about him, and he wasn't one of the top players on my list. I'd rather have Encarnacion or Asuncion personally. I like their bats better at this stage.

Hey Angrioter, do you have a link to someone connecting us to Amador or Jimenez? I Haven't heard us on anyone other than Gudino yet. I'm hoping to hear us connected to more players, notably Asuncion.