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  1. Hrubes20
    Another start or two, with no improvement, I think it's then time to send him back to EXST. For sure. He's close to entering "Duane Underwood" territory for me as a prospect watcher, in that he's going to have to string together 3-4 terrific starts in a row for me to even get a little excited. Amaya, on the other hand, is killing it. Awesome to see.
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    ODLC and Albertos continue to horsefeathers the bed so far. Abbott pitched well at least.
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    If we're guessing pricetags, Gallardo at 1.3, Lopez at 1, Machado at 800k, and Morel at 500k. Again, these are obviously complete guesses. But, it's adding up to. 3.6, when we've basically got 5 mill. And obviously we've signed other guys too. The budget is probably spent. Which means we'd have to acquire money to go get Rodriguez. Who's still not mentioned with a team. It won't surprise me if lots of teams are trying to acquire the 2+ mill it's going to take to sign him. Pretty fun that Gallardo is 5th and Rodriguez 9th, in their rankings. Also, nice to see us listed with Machado. Go get Rodriguez somehow and use the MLB draft for restocking hitting, at this point. Yes on both. See what AAAA player the Orioles need to get in return for as much IFA money as possible.
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    Mlb.com came out with their top 30 IFAs. They list the Cubs with Gallardo (5th) and Lopez (17), who we had heard about, but also have them on another LHP at the back end of the list named Joel Machado (28). That SS we heard them linked to, Rafael Morel, was not listed.
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    Yay for groundouts, I guess?
  6. Hrubes20
    Thanks for that. Seems about usual for Assad. Maybe he can gain a tick as he hopefully continues to shed the ample baby fat.
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    Little REALLY needs a good start today. Preferably with mid-90s velo.
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    Yeah, it's weird that there hasn't been anything connecting Rodriguez to at least a few serious bidders yet.
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    As davell said, the diminished velocity isn’t a new thing. It’s been diminished since spring of last year. That’s a problem.
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    Most of that was spot on, but I disagree with the bold. Brendon Little should theoretically be blowing away the competition. As a 1st round college arm with supposedly 2 plus pitches when drafted, he should be mowing them down in Low A ball. Probably why he's the only guy I'm truly down (or high) on in the first few weeks.
  11. Hrubes20
    Decided to walk another, just for good measure. At least Abbott was solid.
  12. Hrubes20
    That's really disappointing, especially on Serrano. Although maybe we will see more promotions from the DSL to the AZL now that there are 2 teams there.
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    https://www.minorleagueball.com/2017/6/9/15759876/2017-fabio-ratings-of-top-draft-eligible-pitching-prospects-from-ncaa He’s a contact manager who gets the whiffs and lots of popups Probably arguing semantics, but other than this made up stat from a poster on another message board, there is nothing that says Thomas was "excellent" in college. He needs to be striking 12 guys out per 9 to be "excellent" while walking 5 guys per 9. Even then it's debatable.
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    Hjelle is probably keeping himself off the radar. He's just a really boring prospect, other than that he looks like a giraffe out there on the mound. Low-90's fastball. No plus secondary, although the curve has flashed it at times. He doesn't even have any eye-popping performance numbers that stand out. Just boring all around. I agree with you on being leery of prep arms that are curveball heavy. But then again, I'm leery of prep arms in general.
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    I think you are getting him confused with someone else. Dude walked the entire Mountain West while at Fresno State and never had a SO/9 over 10. Even his ERAs were terrible for a collegiate prospect.
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    Did Kiley just comp Connor Scott to Kyle Tucker, but with 70 speed thrown in? That's #1 overall material. I can't imagine he has the power potential that Tucker had/has.
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    Boring pitching day. Good thing, too, as I can go at least one day now without a damn pitching prospect breaking my heart.
  18. Hrubes20
    I know you're asking about draft picks, but why doesn't anyone seem to want to give Thoyer credit for development of Hendricks and Edwards? Acquired as 22 and 21 year old A-ball pitchers, respectively, neither a top-100 prospect (although Edwards became one later). People claim Thoyer haven't developed any pitchers since coming to the Cubs, and I'm wondering what farm system they think Hendricks played in. Mostly because they were already balling out in the Rangers system. There was no switch that turned on upon them coming to the Cubs. Hendricks would never be a top 100 prospect because he doesn't sit above 90 with his FB. Edwards needed to prove himself more to the list makers, as he was a really late round pick, who had not been scouted much at all. Those types have to sustain success a lot longer.
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    That was a good read. I like what Badler had to say about both Pertuz and Ovalles. The Verdugo section did not sound great about his bat.
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    Or have an almost equally shitty start. Whatever.
  21. Hrubes20
    I couldn't find any tweets, but according to this, he at least pitched on Monday. http://www.onlineathens.com/sports/20180410/high-school-sports-roundup
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    If Albertos wants to pitch 5 shutout innings with 10 Ks and 0 BBs today, so that I can forget about Brendon Little, that'd be great.
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    What kind of velocity did you see? 89-92 was what I was told.
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    That's an understatement. What a damn abortion of a first full season start. It's cold still, but the velo still isn't up to what the pre-draft scouting reports had him at.
  25. Hrubes20
    4 weeks of SEC play and India is at .429/.547/886 with 12 HRs and a 25 BBs to 22 Ks, and a perfect 4 for 4 in SBs for good measure. He's not going to make it to 62 as I once hoped. Yeah, he’s played his way up to 24 at this point. Likely. He gives off a big Jed Lowrie vibe to me. Certainly no superstar, but could be a really big piece of a contending team with his positional versatility and ability to be "solid" if pressed into starting duties.
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