Outshined_One

BA has Dustin Fitzgerald as signed on their draft database.

Box Scores Iowa won 4-1 Box Score CF S. Fuld 0/4, BB, R, K SS D. Barney 2/5, 2B (11) 2B B. Scales 2/5, R, RBI, 2B (15) LF J. Dubois 0/4, BB, R, 2 K RF B. Snyder 1/3, BB, R C W. Castillo 0/3, RBI, K, HBP, E (4, throw) 1B B. LaHair 1/4, 2 RBI, 2B (13) 3B M. Smith 2/4, E (1, fielding) PH/1B M. Hoffpauir 0/0, BB SP J. Samardzija 4 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 5/2 K/BB, 2-3 GO-FO RP J. Berg 2 scoreless, 0 H, 1/3 K/BB, 3-1 GO-FO RP J. Gaub 1 scoreless, 1 H, 1/1 K/BB, 1-1 GO-FO, E (2, pickoff) RP B. Schlitter 2 scoreless, 1 H, 5-0 GO-FO Tennessee won 7-3 Box Score CF/RF B. Guyer 2/4, BB, R, 3 RBI, HR (3) SS N. Samson 2/5, 3B (1), E (4, fielding) LF T. Wright 0/5, 2 K, E (4, throw) C R. Chirinos 0/3, BB, R RF/1B M. Spencer 2/3, BB, 3 R, RBI, HR (7) DH R. Canzler 2/4, R, 2 RBI, HR (6), 2 K 3B J. Vitters 1/4, R, RBI 2B T. Thomas 0/3, BB, K, SB (5) SP A. Bibens-Dirkx 6 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 8/2 K/BB, HR, 2-7 GO-FO RP L. Sommer 2 scoreless, 0 H, 1/0 K/BB, 4-2 GO-FO RP D. Cales 1 scoreless, 1 H, 1/0 K/BB, 2-0 GO-FO Daytona is off on their All Star break until 6/14 Peoria won 5-1 Box Score SS HJ Lee 1/4, R, RBI, 3 K, SB (17) 2B L. Watkins 1/4, 2B (7) 3B M. Cerda 1/3, BB, R, RBI, 2 K DH G. Rohan 0/4 1B J. Bour 2/4, R, 3 RBI, HR (4), K LF DJ Fitzgerald 1/4, 2B (6), 2 K RF JH Ha 0/3, BB SP K. McNutt 5 scoreless, 3 H, 7/1 K/BB, 1-6 GO-FO RP R. Morla 3 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 4/0 K/BB, HR, 3-2 GO-FO RP J. Leverton 1 scoreless, 1 H, 1/1 K/BB, 2-0 GO-FO DSL Cubs 1 won 8-5 Box Score DSL Cubs 2 lost 7-6 in the 12th Box Score OVERALL: 4-1

Box Scores Iowa lost 7-2 Box Score CF S. Fuld 1/4, K SS D. Barney 2/4, 2B (10), E (7, fielding) RF J. Adduci 1/4, K, CS (7) 1B M. Hoffpauir 0/4, 2 K LF B. LaHair 2/4, R, RBI, HR (6) C W. Castillo 1/4, PB (4) 3B M. Smith 1/3, BB, R, RBI, HR (2), K 2B M. Camp 2/4 PH B. Scales 0/1 SP C. Coleman 4 IP, 9 H, 7 R, 6 ER, 3/3 K/BB, HR, 6-3 GO-FO RP J. Grabow 1 scoreless, 0 H, 0/1 K/BB, 3-0 GO-FO RP B. Parker 2 scoreless, 0 H, 1/2 K/BB, 4-1 GO-FO Tennessee lost 11-3 Box Score CF T. Campana 1/5, K SS M. Gonzalez 1/4, E (9, fielding) LF T. Wright 1/3, 2 R, RBI, HR (10), HBP C R. Chirinos 2/4, 2 RBI, 2B (15) RF B. Guyer 1/4, 3B (4), Assist (3B) DH R. Canzler 0/4 3B J. Vitters 0/4 2B T. Thomas 1/3, 2B (10), HBP SP A. Cabrera 4.2 IP, 6 H, 6 R, 1 ER, 3/1 K/BB, HR, HBP, 4-6 GO-FO, E (1, fielding) RP J. Muyco 2.1 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 1-5 GO-FO RP D. Sasser 2 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 2/2 K/BB, HR, WP, 2-2 GO-FO Daytona lost 12-8 Box Score CF B. Jackson 0/4, BB, R, K 3B DJ LeMahieu 3/5, 3 R, 2B (9), K SS R. Flaherty 2/4, 2 R, 3 RBI, 2B (15), 3B (2), K, E (6, fielding) 1B R. Ridling 1/3, R, 3 RBI, 2B (13) RF K. Burke 0/4, K, E (6, fielding) SP B. Raley 4.1 IP, 7 H, 6 R, 4 ER, 0/2 K/BB, HR, WP, 7-5 GO-FO RP M. Carrillo 1.2 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 1/1 K/BB, HBP, 1-2 GO-FO RP D. Patton 1 scoreless, 0 H, 0/2 K/BB, 2-1 GO-FO RP A. Shafer 1 perfect, 1/0 K/BB, 1-1 GO-FO RP C. Siegfried .1 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 2 ER, 0/2 K/BB, HBP, 1-0 GO-FO RP M. Perconte .2 perfect, 0-2 GO-FO Peoria lost 7-3 Box Score SS HJ Lee 1/3, E (19, fielding) 2B M. Cerda 1/4, RBI 1B G. Rohan 2/4, K DH J. Bour 0/4, K LF DJ Fitzgerald 1/4, K, Assist (1B), E (2, fielding) C J. Mota 2/4, R, 2B (3), PB (6) RF N. Perez 1/4, K 3B C. Thomas 1/4, R, 2 RBI, HR (4), 2 K SP N. Struck 6 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 1/2 K/BB, 9-7 GO-FO RP L. Suarez 1 IP, 3 H, 5 R, 1 ER, 1/1 K/BB, HR, WP, HBP, 0-1 GO-FO RP J. Latham 2 scoreless, 1 H, 3/0 K/BB, 2-0 GO-FO DSL Cubs lost 8-5 Box Score DSL Cubs 2 lost 9-4 Box Score OVERALL: 0-6 :(

I'm going to start typing out box scores for the DSL teams some time in the next week or two. In previous years, I just typed out the names of anyone who was 18 and under, but it was a pain not knowing who was any good and who wasn't. I'll probably only do 3-4 players for each team once it becomes clear which guys seem worthwhile. Arcila is the top name on my radar at the moment.

He's really improved power-wise in the past week or two. It's nice to see.

My initial reaction is underwhelmed, but intrigued. Andy Seiler had it half right, I think. Tim Wilken and the Cubs have specific molds for players they want to draft. Coming into this draft, they had a plan and they stuck to it. I don't think Wilken ever drafts defensively (i.e. "We have to take X player because he won't be there when our next pick comes around"). Where he wasn't right was I think the Cubs' FO legitimately thought these guys were the best players available at the time as far as their specific molds were concerned. They did not care what other teams thought about the guys they drafted. The two guys who struck me as emblematic of this draft are RHPs Hayden Simpson and Ben Wells. If Simpson was two inches taller, or if he pitched at a bigger school, he would have been more heralded and would have gotten more consideration in the 1st and 2nd. If the Cubs had drafted him in the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, I think people would have liked, even loved, the selection. He has enough present stuff and projection remaining that he could conceivably end up as Oswalt Lite. The problem with the selection was that he conceivably could have been had later, meaning the Cubs could have picked someone else in the 1st and taken him later. In other words, Wilken and company had him as their #1 and didn't care what other teams thought of him. Ben Wells is someone who irked me, although, in fairness, it's hard to get worked up over a 7th round pick. Andy Seiler laid it out pretty well. BaseballAmerica similarly echoed those concerns in their writeup on him. Wells clearly was a guy who wasn't scouted much and had some upside. However, considering he was throwing in the low to mid 80s for most of his career, and only recently had a few outings where he worked in the low 90s, you really have to wonder what the future holds for Wells. Those kinds of guys usually aren't early round players. However, for whatever reason, Wells was the top guy on the Cubs' board in the 7th round, and they took him, risks and other teams be damned. Like any draft, it will come down to who the Cubs sign. As it stands for now, a lot of these guys have very intriguing upsides, enough so that I get a sneaking suspicion this draft will turn out to be a lot better than I currently think it is. Cautiously pessimistic would be the way I describe how I feel about this draft, if that makes any sense. I don't like it, but I could easily be proven wrong.

What the hell. CSN is interviewing Toews' family. His mom's grasp of English is fantastic; she sounds like a leaking tire.

i heard it on my way home. i don't know a lot about the blackhawks radio announcers, but it was pretty damn close to how i would envision ron santo reacting to a cubs world series. ...dropping dead from shock?

In case you missed it, Roenick's response to the Hawks winning

The WGN montage has numerous shots of Buff flattening Pronger. I am okay with that.

Sweet playoff montage on WGN set to Chelsea Dagger.

It's been pretty funny so far. Their coverage is so low-level.

Interviewing loud and drunk fans on WGN? Always a great idea.

One of your teams actually won.

Kris Versteeg just loaded a squirt gun with champagne.

Now they're mixing the champagne with Bud Light. Puking on the plane will be a given.

They're now filling the Cup with champagne. Looks like there'll be communal drinking. Hossa got first pull.

The grapes are sweet and delicious in Chicago right now.

Niemi's sharing champagne with the fans.

Shut up WGN News lady, no one cares about Detroit.

King Henry VIII supposedly died from it.

WGN News has just turned into QVC.

And now the Blackhawks are showering fans with champagne. They've somehow managed to run out of champagne bottles.

It's about time some of these Hawks pull an Urlacher and knock one of them up. from what i've heard, kane will be up to the task. madden can probably help. Pretty much every bartender in Chicago has a story about the Blackhawks. These guys are like some horrifying combination of Mark Grace and Kyle Farnsworth. Oh, John McDonough, you should have been popping that champagne 7 years ago.