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  1. Hrubes20
    That may have been recently updated. AZPhil posted that INF Aramis Ademan, INF Jhonny Bethencourt, RHP Hector Garcia, OF Jose Gonzalez, RHP Jose Leidenz, 3B Rafael Mejia, SS Rafael Narea, LHP Pablo Ochoa, LHP Eugenio Palma, SS-2B Yeiler Peguero, SSF Yonathan Perlaza, OF Ruben Reyes, OF Abraham Rodriguez, RHP Andri Rondon, and OF Jonathan Sierra have been called up to participate in ExST. It was originally reported that there'd be a total of 18 so there may be 3 more to come. Yeah, I jumped the gun with my whining. Looks like the only big 2015-16 IFA signings still in the DSL are Henderson Perez, Brailyn Marquez, Yunior Perez, Jose Gutierrez and Christopher Morel, who is rehabbing some injury. And as you mentioned, 3 more are expected which could easily be one or more of these names.
  2. Hrubes20
    A little surprised that more of the big money IFA signings aren't in EXST. Ademan, Sierra, Perlaza, Marquez, Henderson Perez, Yunior Perez, Morel and Gutierrez are all still currently slated for the DSL, per AZPhil.
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    No nothing from BA, Fangraphs or anywhere else for that matter. The following 4 were left with no team "favoured" to sign between either MLB and Kiley McDaniel. Keeping an eye on these 4. Name Pos Rank Alvaro Seijas P 6 Albert Guaimaro OF 11 Miguel Aparicio OF 22 Simon Muzziotti OF 24 MLB has Seijas likely signing with the Cardinals. :banghead: They also have the Red Sox in the lead for Guaimaro and Muzziotti, but other teams (including the Cubs on Muzziotti) are in the mix. Yeah they seem to have updated the list. Looks like we will have to be happy signing 6 of the Top 30. Did nobody else find it odd that he would list the Red Sox as the lead team for 2 top 30 prospects, yet they are subject to spending restrictions of $350K after signing Moncada? I just highly doubt that they are legit contenders for any top 30 types.
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    Per Kiley's update today, the Cubs are already committed for $3.5 million on only two guys. Kiley also alluded to the fact that they have several guys they are going to bring in. Sounds like the FO didn't want to chance the international draft becoming a reality, and are taking what could be their last chance to spend freely in the IFA market. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-international-signing-market-part-1/
  5. Hrubes20
    The Boise website lists the probable starters as Ihrig, Leal, Clifton, Conway and Trevor Graham. I'm guessing some piggy-back starting will end up taking place on Ihrig, Conway and Graham days.
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    We can wish. But the "light" part might be the key there. This guy is not much at all like Kris Bryant, other than that the Cubs drafted both from college. Bryant hit 31 HR's last year, Schwarber 13 this year. That's kind of a big difference! If you took away 2/3 of Bryant's HR, I'm not sure how popular Bryant would be? Schwarber may well be the best power-hitting guy available in the college ranks this year. But Bryant's HR hitting is kind of unique. This. If you must equate Schwarber's bat with a 2013 draft pick, go with D.J. Peterson.
  7. Hrubes20
    Had a "dead arm" period to start the year. Was sitting high 80's, and barely touching 90, so they sent him back down to EXST to work through it. He reportedly hit 98 in his last EXST start, so he's going to be sent back up to High A here shortly. Or at least, that's what the almighty twitterz says.
  8. Hrubes20
    It doesn't help the perception of the #4 pick when the Pirates had 3 of the past 8 picks and reached quite considerably on each of them. Most had Tim Lincecum as the BPA when the Pirates took Brad Lincoln in 2006. Everyone had Matt Wieters as BPA when the Pirates took Daniel Moskos in 2007. Tony Sanchez was viewed as a late 1st rounder at best when the Pirates took him at 4 in 2009. Somewhat similar with Christian Colon and the Royals in 2010, although he was at least viewed as a legit top 15 option. Man, some terrible drafting FO's have had the 4th pick a lot.
  9. Hrubes20
    Amlung's only previous start, I think, was when Paniagua was home in DR, right? Is he replacing Paniagua in the rotation, do you think? Or Tseng? Or Tseng hasn't pitched in 10 days. He was on a 6-day schedule, right? Tseng was supposed to start on the 16th, I believe. I am really hoping that it is just an early effort by the organization to keep his innings in check this season, but the Cub fan in me is thinking that he probably suffered a serious injury in a freak pogo stick accident.
  10. Hrubes20
    Counting today, he's played 3B twice and 1B twice. Lots of position shuffling happens down in those leagues to get everyone ABs. I think I saw Galindo ranked around 50th on another list, and it stated that he possibly should be ranked even higher as he was sort of a guy that snuck up on people at the end of the period. Likely a little overrating on Mayo's part, but he was at least in consideration for someone else (forget who, though). Galindo with his 2nd HR of the year today, btw. And yes, I know, these stats are essentially worthless. Still fun to follow.
  11. Hrubes20
    They just signe Moreno for $800,000. The question I have is if the acquired bonus pools are also eligible for the 5% overage without surrendering anything next year. That opens them up for another $50,000-ish. Why is it only 50,000ish? Wouldn't it be 5% of all their bonus money? Or is that bonus pool number including the overage? You're right - I assumed bukie had included the overage in the Cubs' pool but he hadn't. If you can count 5% overages for all pool space, they had a total of $5,576,130 to work with. Cubs 1: $2,873,000 Cubs 2: $462,300 Cubs 3: $312,100 Cubs 4: <$209,700> Cubs base: $700,000 Orioles 3: $237,200 Orioles 4: $150,900 Astros 2: $468,400 Astros 3: $316,300 Equals $5,310,600 Times 5% overage = $5,576,130 Torres: $1,700,000 Mejia: $850,000 Moreno: $800,000 Equals $3,350,000 Leaving $2,226,130 for Jimenez. I get over 2.4 million left. Original pool - 4,557,000 + Astros 784,000 + O's 388, 000 - Dodgers 209,000 = 5,520,000 x 1.05 (overage before penalties kick in) = 5,796,000 - Torres 1,700,000 - Mejia 850,000 - Moreno 800,000 = $2,446,000 left for Jiminez.
  12. Hrubes20
    Just wait until July comes around. Indeed. You probably haven't even hit the "OMG, this one single test will determine if I've wasted $100,000 and 3 years of my life or not" stage yet. That was shortly after the 4th of July for me. Fun times.
  13. Hrubes20
    wouldn't they still be punished with spending limits next year? Yes. The best case scenario is to try and trade for more spending cap space. Trading for more cap space is definately the best option, as it would likely cost little to nothing. But the spending limits are hardly a big deterrent. Considering this might be the last year when IFA spending wouldn't impact international draft picks the following year, I'm on board with it.
  14. Hrubes20
    Good news. Now that they won't face any international draft pick loss in 2014, I would have to imagine the idea of spending like crazy in this year's IFA period has gotten a lot more attractice to the FO. SIGN THEM ALL!!!!!
  15. Hrubes20
    Wow. I thought Houston was the team to beat for Jimenez? He would be a nice get, if this is true. Both of those signings would probably preclude the team from going after one of the big name pitchers, though.
  16. Hrubes20
    BABIP is fairly simple to calculate, but I'm assuming you are talking about his LD% and such. His BABIP is currently sitting at .280. I didn't realize it before, but dang near half of his hits this season have been HRs (25 of 58). That would explain the absurd ISO of .518. Yes, ISO of .518, not SLG%.
  17. Hrubes20
    The Marlins and White Sox are the most obvious. The Rays can't sign a player worth more than $250,000 from July 2013 - June 2014, so they might be a good trade match. It'd be great if the Marlins, after selling a rebuild, didn't spen their IFA money. I suspect Hahn will begin to spend more though. In 2012, the teams that spent the least were the Orioles, Rays (hah, how that changed in 2012-13), White Sox, Marlins, Nationals, Diamondbacks and Dodgers (obviously that's changed too). Also, it's been suggested that teams like the Astros who don't normally spend as much will be more likely to spend more because of their bonus pool advantage. The Astros have been linked to some of the bigger names this year, which I have never noticed before. They were linked early on to Ariel Ovando in 2011, weren't they?
  18. Hrubes20
    Nice. $4,785,059 if you include the 5% overage. If Torres does, indeed, garner a $2 million bonus, that still leaves well over $2 million.
  19. Hrubes20
    He's likely hurt, given Arizona Phil's reports during spring training. Indeed he is. He was listed as being placed on the 7-day DL by BA. Michael Jensen was also placed on the 7-day DL, so that's where he is. Another name I came across was Marcelo Carreno. I completely forgot that we acquired him in the Baker deal. He, too, was placed on the 7-day DL.
  20. Hrubes20
    Cubs can spend $11,084,325 without incurring draft pick penalties.
  21. Hrubes20
    Yeah, that makes no sense to me. Although AZPhil didn't see an injury, it's entirely possible that Torreyes has a minor one. Really the only thing I can think of as to why he's still in EXST. Disappointed that Pierce Johnson is only starting at KC. He'll be 22 in May, had no problems in his tiny cup of coffee at Boise, and threw 100 IP in college last year.
  22. Hrubes20
    That's very nice to see. Along with the 10 K's, he had a 11:6 GO/FO ratio.
  23. Hrubes20
    Given what seems to be an almost guaranteed international draft in 2014, I completely ignore MLB's assigned IFA budget for the #2 pick. I sign everybody I want, for as much money as I feel is a good investment. Actually, I asked Ben Badler what was there to stop a team from going all out this year with a draft likely next year and he said there would probably be some sort of penalty similar to penalties for overspending in the Rule 4 draft. I wouldn't give up a potential top 10 pick in next year's IFA draft, especially when next year's class appears much stronger. And if that is the case, then it obviously changes things. But if MLB doesn't have its poop in a group by the start of the 2013 IFA period, and has not given notice of any penalties that would apply to a 2014 international draft by overspending in 2013, I proceed as I stated above. You can't be penalized under a rule that wasn't in place when the infraction occurred.
  24. Hrubes20
    Given what seems to be an almost guaranteed international draft in 2014, I completely ignore MLB's assigned IFA budget for the #2 pick. I sign everybody I want, for as much money as I feel is a good investment.
  25. Hrubes20
    I want the Cubs to be in on him as well.
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