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Some new Boise Hawks today...

LHP Michael Heesch to Boise Hawks from 2012 Draft RHP Eddie Orozco to Boise Hawks from 2012 Draft RHP Mike Hamann to Boise Hawks from 2012 Draft OF Bijan Rademacher to Boise Hawks from AZL Cubs

Hilarious.

That's an absurd oversimplification, but sure. Really? Your argument was: Dodgers spent money, Pundits typed at keyboards, therefore Dodgers are more likely to be correct. I fail to see the absurd oversimplification.

Someone was wrong, either the pundit comments or the Cubs. Given that the Cubs are betting $136 million and the pundits were betting the energy it took to post a blog entry (is that what they were doing in 2007?), I'll assume the Cubs were closer to right. /smartass Teams sometimes have dumb people running them. The Dodgers have a really dumb guy running them. There's a difference in orders of magnitude here. If the pundits were saying Puig was a $20 million dollar prospect and he got $42 million, then maybe the Dodgers are just idiots. The Cubs paid a $90 million player $136 million. The reports on Puig implied he wouldn't be worth a tenth of what he ended up getting. You can't reconcile that with just "well, maybe the Dodgers are dumb." You do realize your logic still boils down to "the Dodgers spent a lot of money, therefore they are most likely correct", right?

For those following along at home:

Adrian is 21. Numbers from the DSL last season didn't really pop out. http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=P&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=608584 Boise's PBP guy hinted at some promotions from Mesa today. Vogelbach, please.

Will TODAY be the day Concepcion achieves more strikeouts than walks? That would be more momentous than the Supreme Court ruling.

Apparently. Seriously, is Puig even going to crack their Top 10?

Dodgers just gave him $40 million. Now THAT'S insane.

Box Scores Iowa lost 3-1 Box Score CF B. Jackson 1/5, 2 K SS M. Tolbert 4/5, R, 2B (8), 3B (1), SB (7), E (4, fielding) 2B A. Cardenas 2/4, 2B (8), BB, K, SB (2) C W. Castillo 0/4, BB, 2 K, E (5, fielding) 3B J. Vitters 0/4 RF D. Sappelt 0/3, BB SP C. Volstad 7 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 7 K, HBP, balk, 10-2 GO-FO, 82-62 pitches-strikes RP J. Jackson 1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K, 0-0 GO-FO Tennessee lost 13-6 Box Score 2B L. Watkins 1/5, E (5, fielding) CF JH Ha 2/5, RBI, K, outfield assist at home DH J. Lake 2/5, R, RBI, 2 K 1B J. Bour 1/5, R, 2B (20), RBI, 2 K RF N. Perez 1/4, R, HR (2), RBI C M. Brenly 2/4, R, HR (3), RBI SP T. McNutt 0.2 IP, 6 H, 8 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 0 K, HBP, HR, 1-2 GO-FO, 36-22 pitches-strikes RP C. Weathers 1.2 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, WP, 3-0 GO-FO RP K. Rhoderick 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 0 K, 2-1 GO-FO Daytona won 14-4 Box Score CF M. Szczur 3/3, 3 R, 2 RBI, 2 BB, 3 SB (26), CS (8), outfield assist at second base SS A. Alcantara 3/5, 3 R, HR (5), 4 RBI, SB (23), E (28, fielding) RF R. Silva 3/5, R, 2 2B (11), SB (5), 2 RBI 1B R. Ridling 1/4, 2 R, HR (1), 3 RBI, BB LF J. Andreoli 0/3, R, 2 BB, K, SB (27) 2B R. Torreyes 1/2, 3 R, HR (3), RBI, BB, HBP, E (6, throw) SP R. Whitenack 4 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 4 K, 2 WP, 8-0 GO-FO RP AJ Morris 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 3-1 GO-FO Peoria lost 7-3 Box Score 2B Z. DeVoss 1/4, R, BB, K, CS (6) CF T. Easterling 1/4, R, 2B (10), RBI, BB 3B D. Geiger 1/4, 2B (3), RBI, BB, E (4, fielding) DH Ja. Baez 3/4, R, 2 2B (3), BB, 3 SB (11) RF O. Zapata 1/3, 2B (5), RBI, 2 BB, outfield assist at second base LF PC Chen 0/3, BB, E (5, throw) SP G. Concepcion 6 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 1 BB, 2 K, 8-4 GO-FO, 87-58 pitches-strikes RP L. Suarez 2 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 2-0 GO-FO, E (2, pickoff) Boise won 12-2 Box Score 2B G. Amaya 0/4, K, PO SS M. Hernandez 1/4, 2 R, BB, 2 E (7, throw, throw) DH C. Krist 4/5, 3 R, 2 2B (3), RBI 1B R. Shoulders 1/5, R, 2B (2), RBI, 2 K C W. Contreras 4/5, R, 2B (2), 3 RBI CF S. Dunston 0/4, R, BB 3B S. Bruno 2/3, R, 2B (1), RBI, HBP LF DY Kim 1/3, 2 R, HR (2), 4 RBI, BB, K SP I. Dickson 5 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 6 K, HBP, WP, 3-2 GO-FO RP R. Diplan 2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 1 K, HBP, 2-1 GO-FO AZL Cubs in progress Box Score CF T. Martin 3/4, R, 2B (5), 3 RBI, BB, HBP RF G. Schlecht 0/6, RBI, 4 K SS D. Bote 1/5, R, 2B (1), 3 K 1B D. Vogelbach 1/5, 2B (6), 2 K C J. Marra 1/4, 2 R, 2B (3), RBI, BB, K DH J. Rogers 4/4, 2B (1), 2 HR (2), 4 RBI, BB SP H. Ackerman 1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 K, 1-1 GO-FO RP C. Martinez-Pumarino 5 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 K, 7-3 GO-FO RP C. Martin 1 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K, 0-1 GO-FO - pro debut DSL Cubs 1 won 7-1 Box Score CF Je. Baez 2/5, 2B (3), 3B (1), 2 RBI 1B R. Alcala 1/4, R, K SP C. Rodriguez 5 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 8 K, 3-2 GO-FO DSL Cubs 2 lost 4-3 Box Score 3B L. Acosta 0/4, K, E (8, throw) SS M. Malave 1/3, R, BB, E (4, fielding) LF R. Marcano 0/4, 2 K SP J. Diaz 3 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 7-1 GO-FO RP C. Pieters 5 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K, 8-4 GO-FO

Holy crap, Vitters

Vitters with an RBI double

Hahahahahaha

Gameday makes it seem like the strike zone is crazy small today.

It would appear that is in fact the case.

Caught this on Twitter: Hopefully they can get him to Arizona/Boise/Peoria

Vogelbach with a walk. Get excited, everybody.

So, so good.

Even though he's still pretty much a non-prospect in my eyes, I'd like to see Burgess in Iowa next year.

Also, thanks for your opinions everyone. Much appreciated!

Christ, KJax. Got an especially early start today. He makes me irrationally mad at this point.

Random question for you all: if you could subscribe to either Baseball America or Baseball Prospectus, which would you subscribe to?

A few more days of production and he'll have two straight months of over .900 ops. Tough to just call it a hot streak at this point. Doubters! :) you mean cumulatively? his OPS in may was .884 (.284/.333/.550/.884) Yep, cumulatively. He's pretty close after the hr today. Even if he comes up a bit short of .900 for the two months, it'll still be tough to just say he's in a hot streak. do players like him move back into the top 100 after they've fallen out? I'd imagine they certainly can when they're only 22