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Well [expletive].

YEAH U DO! Id use the same reasoning to make the opposite pick. I think the 2nd round safeties Bucannon, Ward, Brooks are better than the 2nd round DT options like Sutton, Quarles, etc. Unless they are really confident on Easley's knees. Plus I like Pryor slightly more than HCD.

The struggling Vogelbach, Candelario, and Shoulders moved to 6-7-8 in the Daytona lineup today.

Yes.

I remember having this conversation about Sammy Sosa and then Corey Patterson. I think there are 2 ways a hitter becomes patient. Either A) he's naturally patient and has a good grasp of the strike zone. Or B) he's a really good hitter. A is a player like Valbuena, maybe IDK. But not a great hitter, but he has a good idea of the zone and doesn't swing at a ton of bad pitches especially early in the count to get himself in a hole. B is a player like Sosa, who became a dominant hitter and became patient based on the fact he didn't get a ton to hit. Even Miguel Cabrera wasn't a naturally patient guy to start with. But when a player starts hitting a ton, they naturally get less to hit. The ones that lay off the ones they can't hit are the superstars. The ones that don't are Alfonzo Soriano.

You're up again for Tampa.

He does look like he's going to hit for power at some point. He's a really big dude. Listed at 6'2", 215, but looks like a good 230-240. Maybe some RH Randall Simon to his game? IDK, haven't seen him play.

Yeah, I could justify any of the three directions and maybe it's just my personal bias, but I don't see enough of a gap between the top 4 QBs (Bridgewater, Manziel, Bortles, Carr) and the second and third tier guys (Garrapolo, Murray, Shaw, McCarron, Mettenberger, etc). I could see Bradley going with Mack/Watkins in the first and then waiting a bit to get one of the later QBs in a Russell Wilson-esque move. Mack was extremely tempting there, though, with Bradley being a defensive coach. Mack is perfect for Bradley's system. I think they start him at Sam LB next to Posluszny and then work him into what will be Chris Clemons' role. But they do look like they can get by for the year on D. Makings of a strong front 4. Good MLB. And their best players on offense are Cecil Shorts and Toby Gerhart. Ugh.

Been trying to give that goal up for like 8 minutes.

How he do that?

Daury Torrez took a perfect game into the 6th. Gave up a walk and a couple hits and a run now. KC up 13-1

Who scored?

Those are 2 very ideal picks for the Bulls.

Tennessee sent the minimum to the plate in the 7 inning DH opener and Bryant only got 2 ABs..... struck out in both.

LaPortly.

No ejectioin that game, but 4 hit batters so far. Black with 2 and 5 walks.

Alcantara with a triple for the 2nd day in a row. Also has 6 doubles out of 14 hits.

If they're comfortable with the medicals, getting Easley in the second round would be fantastic. He was quicker off the line than Aaron Donald when he was healthy. Dee Ford like first step from the interior.

The only issue I see is the Bears would have to cut somebody to add somebody, unless they want to keep 7 LBs. And they're probably already keeping 5 DTs, probably 5 safeties, and 6 CBs. But right now, the Bears have Briggs (missed 1/2 of last year), Williams (missed 1/2 of every year this decade), Bostic and Greene (terrible last year), McClellin (never played LB in the NFL), and Jordan Senn, who probably can't play any of the LB positions well, but was signed as a FA to be a special teams stalwart and leader. That's still a terrible group of players. I agree its not a good group, but the whole thing needs to be fixed. To me the order of importance is: DL, Secondary, LB. Yes, and in that mock, those 2 positions are addressed first.

I don't see the need to move him up much before mid-July/August. 300-350 PAs at AA. I don't think AAA is a necessity for an elite prospect. He could conceivably come up this year in August after dominating AA. Or he could get a taste of AAA this year and make a token appearance there to start 2015 before being in the majors for good. I don't really think this FO is going to be skipping AAA for many/any of these guys (I also don't think the 600PA thing is to be taken literally, either, FWIW). Like Baez, Bryant could probably use a taste of some of the softer stuff AAA would bring, too. I ask because they weren't reluctant to move him from A to A+ (and, well, A+ to AA) quickly after he dominated in a pretty similar fashion to what he's doing at AA now. A to A+ in the draft year for a college prospect isn't the same as AA to AAA. A+ was probably his planned destination but he needed to get the rust off first after a few months off. He's going to get a couple months before a promotion just to make sure it's not just an elongated hot streak. Yeah, I realize that and thought I had mentioned it. I realize AA is a big deal and it's not a fair comparison to those promotions. I guess Javy's 240 PA would be a decent benchmark. Javy also had about 600 other minor league ABs before AA, though. But yeah, I think after 240 is when you start thinking about promotion, provided he's dominating.

I don't see the need to move him up much before mid-July/August. 300-350 PAs at AA. I don't think AAA is a necessity for an elite prospect. He could conceivably come up this year in August after dominating AA. Or he could get a taste of AAA this year and make a token appearance there to start 2015 before being in the majors for good. I don't really think this FO is going to be skipping AAA for many/any of these guys (I also don't think the 600PA thing is to be taken literally, either, FWIW). Like Baez, Bryant could probably use a taste of some of the softer stuff AAA would bring, too. I ask because they weren't reluctant to move him from A to A+ (and, well, A+ to AA) quickly after he dominated in a pretty similar fashion to what he's doing at AA now. I didn't mean to imply they would have him skip AAA. That was just me commenting on the lack of need for elite prospects to hit AAA.

I don't see the need to move him up much before mid-July/August. 300-350 PAs at AA. I don't think AAA is a necessity for an elite prospect. He could conceivably come up this year in August after dominating AA. Or he could get a taste of AAA this year and make a token appearance there to start 2015 before being in the majors for good.

The only issue I see is the Bears would have to cut somebody to add somebody, unless they want to keep 7 LBs. And they're probably already keeping 5 DTs, probably 5 safeties, and 6 CBs. But right now, the Bears have Briggs (missed 1/2 of last year), Williams (missed 1/2 of every year this decade), Bostic and Greene (terrible last year), McClellin (never played LB in the NFL), and Jordan Senn, who probably can't play any of the LB positions well, but was signed as a FA to be a special teams stalwart and leader. That's still a terrible group of players.

A) That is not necessarily more realistic. B) That is not necessarily the point of this exercise. Obviously pre-draft talk/rumor is always up for scrutiny, but almost all signs point to it being a QB. I'll be pretty surprised if it's not. If Clowney is taken I'll gladly eat crow for buying too much into the pre-draft rumors. It seems pretty obvious the direction they'll go at the moment though. Understood about point two, in all the years we've done this mock there's never been a consensus so people do different things. Which is no big deal cuz I think it's still fun. If everyone was as draft obsessed as I was I'd suggest running two concurrent drafts - one "what would I do" and one "what I think will happen". That'd be the most fun but I think not enough posters would share that level of enthusiasm to do this twice. The rumors I've heard have suggested the exact opposite.

It's OK. I don't see Smallwood as more than a 5th/6th round pick. He's not very fast, athletic or all that good. But he did play under Bears DL coach Pasqualoni. Mettenberger will be long gone by the 4th, but he'd be an excellent pick. I like him more than Murray, and I do like Murray also.