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I lost a little bit of ground this week, doubt I'll catch Vance but I'm in it for 2nd.

If you ever need any advice or any questions answered just hit the PM.

I didn't go over did I? I thought I was at 7.

If you could get any velocity readings on Archer (and Huseby if he pitches, that'd be fantastic). Don't go by the KC radar, fwiw.

Good game between Ole Miss and the underdog UVA Cavs. I'm hoping Aaron Barrett gets in the game for Ole Miss.

Worst week of the season for me as my pitching has been awful, including Greinke.

Don't hate on Daniels, he was just broken down when the Cubs got him, but they traded Gary Scott for him instead of FA. For me, it'll always be Jose Guzman given that he was brought in to replace Maddux, had one sub-par year and then was hurt.

I can't think of any travel team in OK that was any good. I wouldn't put much stock into it though, as it might be just for the name and maybe 1 game. I'm not what you would call a fan of travel ball.

Let me know if this looks right for the Chiefs upcoming games? Fri-Carpenter :( Sat-Beliveau Sun-Archer Mon-Hatley Tues-Bristow

In Hill's case, Kranitz is probably better at correcting mechanical flaws than Rothschild.

I'm disappointed that a Cards fan is ahead of me.

I'm the one that keeps getting screwed over in that race. I've finished 2nd to Tim 3 of the last 4 weeks.

They could be close to their 21st birthday as a Soph. and be draft eligible.

I seen Shafer throw against ISU his final year of college and was not impressed as he hasn't been the same pitcher he was in his early WSU career, it was evident last year. It's similar to Brownlie, IMO with slightly less hype and financial commitment.

Fwiw, that farm has improved dramatically recently under Wilken and recent moves around the Pacific Rim. The Cubs have likely aged past their peak w/out winning it all and Hendry had a poor off-season where the team with increasing age and players lost did not improve and likely regressed over last year. The Cubs had a mediocre bullpen at best last year and instead of improving on it, they replaced an expensive but productive part with several mediocre parts. Hendry likely rec'd maximium value for Derosa for the 3 pitchers but did not follow up with someone to replace Derosa. (Based on expected production) Miles would likely be considered a replacement for someone like Cedeno, not Derosa. Someone like Wigginton would likely have been similar replacement value for Derosa. It's extremely frustrating knowing that they went into the season with a poor bench with such a fragile roster.

Leave Calipari out of this. Don't be my buzzkill.

2.5 mil. would be perfect for them, which they could likely do in their good years, the majority of the team w/winning records would love to have that. That's 30K a game. Baltimore even with the tradition and outstanding stadium isn't a threat nor a roadblock for Washington given the direction of their franchise.

Agreed, the trade itself is fine by me. It's trying to replace that ability to play multiple positions on a fragile team with someone like Miles. Fontenot and Miles playing awful just compounds the problem.

I'm basing it on the DC metro area of 4+ mil. (not including Balt.) & a new stadium. If they cont'd to play in RFK and cont'd to lose I would have not doubts as to whether or not they'd draw b/c they wouldn't. I'm saying with that park, that area, and a winning club, that they would draw as much as winning franchises. Some people get tunnel vision as far as trying to compare every team to the Cubs, most fans aren't as dumb as Cubs to where they'd go sell out a park to watch a crappy team. It would take time, but I could see them supporting that team and eventually build some sort of baseball foundation.

No it's not as they were one of the worst teams in MLB the year before going into a FB stadium, MLB rushed the Expos into Washington and it's a completely different situation between that and a typical expansion team. The Expos were an unwanted orphan, completely botched by MLB between Montreal and Puerto Rico the year before. When they win, they'll start to draw.

Washington will probably be fine, they finally have a good GM with Rizzo and will very soon have the most hyped player waiting in the wings and a decent core. They're still a couple years away from possibily becoming a contender and once that happens, you'll see whether or not it can support a market. Trying to gauge whether or not the area will support a team while it is constantly losing isn't a fair test.

1 Stephen Strasburg RHP Jr. R-R 6-5 225 San Diego State San Diego Never drafted 7/20/1988 2 Dustin Ackley OF/1B Jr. L-R 6-1 185 North Carolina Walnut Cove, N.C. Never drafted 2/26/1988 3 Tanner Scheppers RHP --- R-R 6-4 170 St. Paul (Amer. Assoc.) Laguna Niguel, Calif. Pirates '08 (2) 1/17/1987 4 Kyle Gibson RHP Jr. R-R 6-6 200 Missouri Greenfield, Ind. Phillies '06 (36) 10/23/1987 5 Donavan Tate OF Sr. R-R 6-3 200 Cartersville HS Cartersville, Ga. North Carolina (FB) 9/27/1990 6 Alex White RHP Jr. R-R 6-3 195 North Carolina Greenville, N.C. Dodgers '06 (14) 8/29/1988 7 Matthew Purke LHP Sr. L-L 6-3 180 Klein HS Spring, Texas Texas Christian 7/17/1990 8 Aaron Crow RHP --- R-R 6-1 195 Fort Worth (Am. Assoc.) Wakarusa, Kan. Nationals '08 (1) 11/11/1986 9 Grant Green SS Jr. R-R 6-3 180 Southern California Anaheim Hills, Calif. Padres '06 (14) 11/7/1987 10 Tyler Matzek LHP Sr. L-L 6-3 185 Capistrano Valley HS Mission Viejo, Calif. Oregon 10/19/1990 11 Zach Wheeler RHP Sr. B-R 6-4 185 East Paulding HS Dallas, Ga. Kennesaw State 5/30/1990 12 Shelby Miller RHP Sr. R-R 6-3 200 Brownwood HS Brownwood, Texas Texas A&M 10/10/1990 13 Jacob Turner RHP Sr. R-R 6-4 205 Westminster Academy St. Charles, Mo. North Carolina 5/21/1991 14 Mike Minor LHP Jr. L-L 6-4 195 Vanderbilt Lewisburg, Tenn. Devil Rays '06 (13) 12/26/1987 15 Mike Leake RHP Jr. R-R 6-1 190 Arizona State Fallbrook, Calif. Athletics '06 (7) 11/12/1987 16 Mike Trout OF Sr. R-R 6-1 190 Millville HS Millville, N.J. East Carolina 8/7/1991 17 Bobby Borchering 3B Sr. B-R 6-4 195 Bishop Verot HS Fort Myers, Fla. Florida 10/25/1990 18 Rex Brothers LHP Jr. L-L 6-1 195 Lipscomb Chapel Hill, Tenn. Never drafted 12/18/1987 19 Jared Mitchell OF Jr. L-L 6-1 200 Louisiana State (FB) New Iberia, La. Twins '06 (10) 10/13/1988 20 Andrew Oliver LHP Jr. L-L 6-4 210 Oklahoma State Vermillion, Ohio Twins '06 (17) 12/3/1987 21 Eric Arnett RHP Jr. R-R 6-5 225 Indiana Pataskala, Ohio Never drafted 1/25/1988 22 Tim Wheeler OF Jr. L-R 6-4 205 Cal State Sacramento Sacramento, Calif. Never drafted 1/21/1988 23 Drew Storen RHP So. B-R 6-1 170 Stanford Brownsburg, Ind. Yankees '07 (34) 8/11/1987 24 Chad Jenkins RHP Jr. R-R 6-4 225 Kennesaw State Canton, Ga. Never drafted 12/22/1987 25 Matt Hobgood RHP Sr. R-R 6-4 245 Norco HS Norco, Calif. Cal State Fullerton 8/3/1990 26 James Paxton LHP Jr. L-L 6-4 215 Kentucky Ladner, B.C. Never drafted 11/6/1988 27 Everett Williams OF Sr. L-R 5-10 195 McCallum HS Austin, Texas 10/1/1990 28 A.J. Pollock OF Jr. R-R 6-2 200 Notre Dame Hebron, Conn. Never drafted 12/5/1987 29 Tony Sanchez C Jr. R-R 6-1 220 Boston College Miami Never drafted 5/20/1988 30 Rich Poythress 1B Jr. R-R 6-4 236 Georgia Grovetown, Ga. Never drafted 8/11/1987 31 Max Stassi C Sr. R-R 5-10 190 Yuba City HS Yuba City, Calif. UCLA 3/15/1991 32 Wil Myers C/3B Sr. R-R 6-3 190 Wesleyan Christian HS Thomasville, N.C. South Carolina 12/10/1990 33 David Renfroe SS/RHP Sr. R-R 6-3 200 South Panola HS Batesville, Miss. Mississippi 11/16/1990 34 Kyle Heckathorn RHP Jr. R-R 6-6 240 Kennesaw State Ringgold, Ga. Never drafted 6/17/1988 35 Chad James LHP Sr. L-L 6-4 195 Yukon HS Yukon, Okla. Oklahoma State 1/23/1991 36 Jiovanni Mier SS Sr. R-R 6-1 175 Bonita HS Pomona, Calif. Southern California 8/26/1990 37 Garrett Gould RHP Sr. R-R 6-4 190 Maize HS Maize, Kan. Wichita State 7/19/1991 38 Brett Jackson OF Jr. L-R 6-2 210 California Orinda, Calif. Never drafted 8/2/1988 39 Jeff Malm 1B Sr. L-L 6-3 215 Bishop Gorman HS Las Vegas, Nev. Southern California 10/31/1990 40 Matt Davidson 3B Sr. R-R 6-3 210 Yucaipa HS Yucaipa, Calif. Southern California 3/26/1991 41 Billy Hamilton SS Sr. B-R 6-1 150 Taylorsville HS Taylorsville, Miss. Miss. State (FB) 9/9/1990 42 Sam Dyson RHP So. R-R 6-2 195 South Carolina Tampa Nationals '06 (19) 5/7/1988 43 LeVon Washington OF Sr. L-R 5-11 170 Buchholz HS Gainesville, Fla. Florida 7/26/1991 44 Brad Boxberger RHP Jr. R-R 6-2 195 Southern California Tustin, Calif. Royals '06 (20) 5/27/1988 45 Tyler Skaggs LHP Sr. L-L 6-5 180 Santa Monica HS Santa Monica, Calif. Cal State Fullerton 7/13/1991 46 Brody Colvin RHP Sr. R-R 6-4 190 St. Thomas More HS Lafayette, La. Louisiana State 8/14/1990 47 Brooks Raley LHP/OF So. L-L 6-2 185 Texas A&M Uvalde, Texas Never drafted 6/29/1988 48 Aaron Miller LHP/OF Jr. L-L 6-3 220 Baylor Channelview, Texas Rockies '06 (11) 9/18/1987 49 Keyvius Sampson RHP Sr. R-R 6-1 180 Ocala Forest HS Ocala, Fla. Florida State 1/6/1991 50 Madison Younginer RHP Sr. R-R 6-3 190 Mauldin HS Mauldin, S.C. Clemson 9/24/1989 51 Daniel Fields SS Sr. L-R 6-2 200 U. of Detroit/Jesuit HS Detroit Michigan 1/23/1991 52 Raymond Fuentes OF Sr. L-R 6-1 160 Fernando Callejo HS Manati, P.R. 2/12/1991 53 James Jones LHP Jr. L-L 6-3 180 Long Island Brooklyn, N.Y. N ever drafted 9/9/1988 54 Kentrail Davis OF So. L-R 5-9 200 Tennessee Thoedore, Ala. Rockies '07 (14) 6/29/1988 55 Steven Matz LHP Sr. L-L 6-3 185 Ward Melville HS Stony Brook, N.Y. Coastal Carolina 5/29/1991 56 Joe Kelly RHP Jr. R-R 6-1 170 UC Riverside Corona, Calif. Never drafted 6/9/1988 57 Brian Goodwin OF Sr. L-R 6-1 185 Rocky Mount HS Rocky Mount, N.C. North Carolina 11/2/1990 58 Blake Smith RHP/OF Jr. L-R 6-2 220 California Modesto, Calif. Never drafted 12/9/1987 59 Chris Dwyer LHP Fr. R-L 6-4 200 Clemson Swampscott, Mass. Yankees '08 (36) 4/10/1988 60 Colton Cain LHP/1B Sr. L-L 6-3 225 Waxahachie HS Waxahachie, Texas Texas 2/5/1991 61 Mychal Givens RHP/SS Sr. B-R 6-2 190 H.B. Plant HS Tampa Oklahoma State 5/13/1990 62 Alex Wilson RHP Sr. R-R 6-1 200 Texas A&M Hurricane, W.Va. Cubs '08 (10) 11/3/1986 63 Randal Grichuk OF Sr. R-R 6-1 195 Lamar Consolidated HS Rosenberg, Texas Arizona 8/13/1991 64 Chris Dominguez 3B Jr. R-R 6-5 235 Louisville Miami Rockies '08 (5) 11/22/1986 65 Trayce Thompson OF Sr. R-R 6-4 200 Santa Margarita HS Ran. Santa Margarita, Calif. UCLA 3/5/1991 66 Mike Ohlman C Sr. R-R 6-4 205 Lakewood Ranch HS Bradenton, Fla. Miami 3/23/1991 67 Angelo Songco OF Jr. L-R 6-1 190 Loyola Marymount Granada Hills, Calif. Never drafted 9/9/1988 68 Jason Kipnis OF Jr. L-R 5-11 175 Arizona State Northbrook, Ill. Padres '08 (4) 4/3/1987 69 Nick Franklin SS Sr. B-R 6-1 170 Lake Brantley HS Longwood, Fla. Auburn 3/21/1991 70 Steven Baron C Sr. R-R 6-2 210 John A. Ferguson HS Miami Duke 12/7/1990 71 Slade Heathcott OF/LHP Sr. L-L 6-1 195 Texas Texarkana, Texas Louisiana State 9/28/1990 72 Victor Black RHP Jr. R-R 6-4 205 Dallas Baptist Amarillo, Texas Mets '06 (41) 5/23/1988 73 Andrew Susac C Sr. R-R 6-1 190 Jesuit HS Roseville, Calif. Oregon State 3/22/1990 74 Ryan Buch RHP Jr. R-R 6-3 190 Monmouth Yardley, Pa. Never drafted 11/8/1987 75 Jake Eliopoulos LHP Sr. L-L 6-3 165 Sacred Heart Cath. HS Newmarket, Ontario Kentucky 5/21/1991 76 Billy Bullock RHP Jr. R-R 6-6 225 Florida Valrico, Fla. Dodgers '06 (20) 2/27/1988 77 David Hale RHP Jr. R-R 6-2 200 Princeton Marietta, Ga. Never drafted 9/27/1987 78 Ben Tootle RHP Jr. R-R 6-1 170 Jacksonville State Oxford, Ala. Never drafted 1/9/1988 79 Jake Barrett RHP Sr. R-R 6-4 235 Desert Ridge HS Mesa, Ariz. Arizona State 7/22/1991 80 Evan Chambers OF So. R-R 5-9 220 Hillsborough JC Tampa Never drafted 3/24/1989 81 Garrett Richards RHP Jr. R-R 6-3 200 Oklahoma Edmond, Okla. Never drafted 5/27/1988 82 Brooks Pounders RHP/3B Sr. R-R 6-5 225 Temecula Valley HS Temecula, Calif. Southern California 9/26/1990 83 Kent Matthes OF Sr. R-R 6-3 220 Alabama Orlando, Fla. Never drafted 1/8/1987 84 Jeff Kobernus 2B/3B Jr. R-R 6-2 195 California San Leandro, Calif. Never drafted 6/30/1988 85 Matt Bashore LHP Jr. L-L 6-3 200 Indiana Tipp City, Ohio Never drafted 4/6/1988 86 Kyle Seager 3B/2B Jr. L-R 6-1 194 North Carolina Kannapolis, N.C. Never drafted 11/3/1987 87 Justin Marks LHP Jr. L-L 6-3 195 Louisville Owensboro, Ky. Red Sox '06 (37) 1/12/1988 88 Cameron Garfield C Sr. R-R 6-1 195 Murrieta Valley HS Murrieta Valley, Calif. San Diego 5/23/1991 89 J.R. Murphy C/OF Sr. R-R 6-1 190 Pendleton School Bradenton, Fla. Miami 5/13/1991 90 Chris Owings SS Sr. R-R 5-11 170 Gilbert HS Leesville, S.C. South Carolina 8/12/1991 91 Robert Stock RHP/C Jr. L-R 6-1 190 Southern California Westlake Village, Calif. Never drafted 11/21/1989 92 A.J. Morris RHP Jr. R-R 6-2 200 Kansas State Humble, Texas Never drafted 12/1/1986 93 Marc Krauss OF/1B Jr. L-R 6-3 220 Ohio Deshler, Ohio Never drafted 10/5/1987 94 Mike Belfiore LHP Jr. R-L 6-3 225 Boston College Commack, N.Y. Never drafted 10/3/1988 95 D.J. LeMahieu SS/2B So. R-R 6-4 190 Louisiana State Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Tigers '07 (41) 7/13/1988 96 Tommy Mendonca 3B Jr. L-R 6-1 200 Fresno State Turlock, Calif. Never drafted 4/12/1988 97 Zach Von Rosenberg RHP Sr. R-R 6-5 205 Zachary HS Zachary, La. Louisiana State 9/24/1990 98 Josh Phegley C Jr. R-R 5-11 215 Indiana Terre Haute, Ind. Never drafted 2/12/1988 99 Brett Wallach RHP So. R-R 6-2 185 Orange Coast JC Orange, Calif. Never drafted

I took out Helton and Lopez becuase they were both listed as day to day, I put both of them back in because Helton is playing and I have no other spot to put Lopez.

While defense appears to be theme of the minor league followings here, Lalli is not a very good defensive C by any stretch.

Samardzija too, but I was speaking as far as trade commod. and I doubt unless he feels like he'll never get a shot with the Cubs, he'll exercise that NTC.