Tim

You get 24 hours to draft. Total. If you exceed a cumulative 24 hours in your picks, you go on autodraft the rest of the time. You can still manage your queue, but you get autodrafted the rest of your picks. Thoughts?

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #13 prospect. Cast votes for the players you think would be deserving at #13. You can vote for up to two players. This is done because at this point, there will start to be greater diversity in whom people may feel is deserving. Voting for multiple players helps to gain greater resolution in the voting when there are many choices and relatively few voters. Ideally, the votes would be weighted, but that isn't possible with the board software. If you want to have a player added to the list, please say so. #1 Kris Bryant #2 Addison Russell #3 Jorge Soler #4 Kyle Schwarber #5 CJ Edwards #6 Billy McKinney #7 Gleyber Torres #8 Albert Almora #9 Pierce Johnson #10 Duane Underwood #11 Jen-Ho Tseng #12 Jake Stinnett

Roady gets my 2016 third rounder (and my first round milb pick this year) for his fifth round pick.

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #12 prospect. Cast votes for the players you think would be deserving at #12. You can vote for up to two players. This is done because at this point, there will start to be greater diversity in whom people may feel is deserving. Voting for multiple players helps to gain greater resolution in the voting when there are many choices and relatively few voters. Ideally, the votes would be weighted, but that isn't possible with the board software. If you want to have a player added to the list, please say so. #1 Kris Bryant #2 Addison Russell #3 Jorge Soler #4 Kyle Schwarber #5 CJ Edwards #6 Billy McKinney #7 Gleyber Torres #8 Albert Almora #9 Pierce Johnson #10 Duane Underwood #11 Jen-Ho Tseng

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #10 prospect. Last chance to put your favorite prospect in the top 10! Starting with #11, we'll move to a system of multiple votes, but I think it makes sense at the top to just vote for a single player. If you want to have a player added to the list, please say so. #1 Kris Bryant #2 Addison Russell #3 Jorge Soler #4 Kyle Schwarber #5 CJ Edwards #6 Billy McKinney #7 Gleyber Torres #8 Albert Almora #9 Pierce Johnson

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #9 prospect. Later on, we'll move to a system of multiple votes, but I think it makes sense at the top to just vote for a single player. If you want to have a player added to the list, please say so. #1 Kris Bryant #2 Addison Russell #3 Jorge Soler #4 Kyle Schwarber #5 CJ Edwards #6 Billy McKinney #7 Gleyber Torres #8 Albert Almora

It usually takes us a couple weeks to get through the major league portion of the draft, then another week to get through the minor league part. I'm going to propose next Monday morning (3/9) as the start of the draft. For those new to the league, we do an extended draft where everyone gets 24 hours to make their picks. That ensures that everyone has the ability to make their picks instead of being autodrafted.

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #8 prospect. Later on, we'll move to a system of multiple votes, but I think it makes sense at the top to just vote for a single player. If you want to have a player added to the list, please say so. #1 Kris Bryant #2 Addison Russell #3 Jorge Soler #4 Kyle Schwarber #5 CJ Edwards #6 Billy McKinney #7 Gleyber Torres

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #5 prospect. Later on, we'll move to a system of multiple votes, but I think it makes sense at the top to just vote for a single player. If you want to have a player added to the list, please say so. #1 Kris Bryant #2 Addison Russell #3 Jorge Soler #4 Kyle Schwarber #5 CJ Edwards

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #5 prospect. Later on, we'll move to a system of multiple votes, but I think it makes sense at the top to just vote for a single player. If you want to have a player added to the list, please say so. #1 Kris Bryant #2 Addison Russell #3 Jorge Soler #4 Kyle Schwarber

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #4 prospect. Later on, we'll move to a system of multiple votes, but I think it makes sense at the top to just vote for a single player. If you want to have a player added to the list, please say so. #1 Kris Bryant #2 Addison Russell #3 Jorge Soler

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #2 prospect. Later on, we'll move to a system of multiple votes, but I think it makes sense at the top to just vote for a single player. #1 Kris Bryant

Make your choice for the Cubs 2015 #1 prospect. Later on, we'll move to a system of multiple votes, but I think it makes sense at the top to just vote for a single player.

Let's get this party started!

Assume the options are the people currently on the 40 man: Pitchers Jake Arrieta Dallas Beeler Drake Britton Felix Doubront C.J. Edwards Justin Grimm Jason Hammel Kyle Hendricks Edwin Jackson Eric Jokisch Jon Lester Jason Motte Joseph Ortiz Blake Parker Neil Ramirez Hector Rondon Zac Rosscup Brian Schlitter Pedro Strop Jacob Turner Tsuyoshi Wada Travis Wood Catchers Welington Castillo Rafael Lopez Miguel Montero David Ross Infielders Arismendy Alcantara Javier Baez Starlin Castro Tommy La Stella Mike Olt Anthony Rizzo Christian Villanueva Outfielders Chris Coghlan Chris Denorfia Dexter Fowler Junior Lake Jorge Soler Ryan Sweeney Matt Szczur

Sully broke the site! The error was that we finally made enough posts there to run out of disk space. I blame Sully for making the post that put us over the edge! We should be all better now.

Rematch! It's 14 total starts, right? Not 7 and 7 since the last week sucks and half the teams rest their starters?

The Sure Thing: • Jake Arrieta Under Contract or MLB Veteran with Control: • Edwin Jackson • Travis Wood Bosio Guys: • Dan Straily • Felix Doubrant • Jacob Turner Under Control: • Tsuyoshi Wada • Kyle Hendricks Bullpen Conversions: • Neil Ramirez • Justin Grimm • Arodys Vizcaino Other Internal Guys In Picture (some 2nd half): • Eric Jokisch • Dallas Beeler • Chris Rusin • Corey Black • Pierce Johnson • CJ Edwards International Free Agents: • Kenta Maeda MLB Free Agents: • Jon Lester • Max Scherzer • James Shields • -- • Jason Hammel • Brandon McCarthy • Brett Anderson ($12M club option) • Aaron Harang • Gavin Floyd • Justin Masterson Take your picks and make your guesses!

For next year? Does anyone know?

There's a new front page article up on why we should have more faith in Alcantara's 2014 performance vs Lake's mirage of a 2013. btw - I have three people who have committed to contributing to the front page (for at least a while!). Thank you to Raisin, IMB! and Kyle!

Awww, hell. Should have tried harder to trade for Kershaw.

Let's use the existing thread to talk about the draft as a whole and this one to focus on the actual picks for the Cubs. Edit - No offense Tim, but we're using this post to update signings and info. 2014 Bonus Pool (signed picks only): $8,382,200 2014 Bonus Pool (signed picks only) Including 5% Overage: $8,801,310 2014 Bonus Pool Spending: $8,864,000 2014 Bonus Pool +/-: $381,800 Over Budget (the first $100,000 in a bonus for players selected after round 10 doesn't count against the pool) 2014 Bonus Pool +/- Including 5% Overage: $37,310 Under Budget (the first $100,000 in a bonus for players selected after round 10 doesn't count against the pool) Cubs Picks (signings in bold; all scouting reports are free from MLB.com): 1.4 (Pool Amount: $4,621,200) - Kyle Schwarber, C/1B/OF, Indiana - $3.125 million bonus - BA rank: 17, MLB.com: 16, Scout.com: 20 2.45 (Pool Amount: $1,250,400) - Jake Stinnett, RHP, Maryland (sr) - $1 million bonus - BA rank: 67, MLB.com: 72, Scout.com: 81 3.78 (Pool Amount: $714,900) - Mark Zagunis, C, Virginia Tech - $615,000 bonus - BA rank: 111, MLB.com: 149, Scout.com: 112 4.109 (Pool Amount: $480,600) - Carson Sands, LHP, North Florida Christian HS (Tallahassee, FL) - $1.1 million bonus - committed to Florida State - BA rank: 53, MLB.com rank: 53, Scout.com: 64 5.139 (Pool Amount: $359,900) - Justin Steele, LHP, George County HS (Lucedale, MS) - committed to Southern Mississippi - $1 million bonus - BA rank: 121, MLB.com: 122, Scout.com: 154 6.169 (Pool Amount: $269,500) - Dylan Cease, RHP, Milton HS (Milton, GA) - committed to Vanderbilt - $1.5 million bonus - BA rank: 77, MLB.com: 76, Scout.com: 80 7.199 (Pool Amount: $201,900) - James Norwood, RHP, St. Louis - $175,000 bonus - BA rank: 79, MLB.com: 119, Scout.com: 102 8.229 (Pool Amount: $191,800) - Tommy Thorpe, LHP, Oregon - $135,000 bonus - Scout.com: on the list of 292-546th best prospects (only the top 291 are ranked) 9.259 (Pool Amount: $151,000) - James Farris, RHP, Arizona (sr) - $3,000 bonus - BA rank: 357 10.289 (Pool Amount: $141,000) - Ryan Williams, RHP, East Carolina (sr) - $1,000 bonus 11.319: Jordan Brink, RHP, Fresno State - $100,000 bonus - BA rank: 164, MLB.com: 102, Scout.com: 105 12.349: Tanner Griggs, RHP, Angelina College (TX) - committed to Texas A&M - Corpus Christi - BA rank: 425, Scout.com: on the list of 292-546th best prospects (only the top 291 are ranked) 13.379: Kevonte Mitchell, 3B, Kennett HS (Kennett, MO) - $200,000 bonus - committed to Southeast Missouri 14.409: Chesny Young, 2B, Mercer - Scout.com: on the list of 292-546th best prospects (only the top 291 are ranked) 15.439: Jeremy Null, RHP, Western Carolina - BA rank: 441, Scout.com: on the list of 292-546th best prospects (only the top 291 are ranked) 16.469: Jason Vosler, SS, Northeastern 17.499: John Michael Knighton, RHP, Central Alabama CC - committed to Troy 18.529: Austyn Willis, RHP, Barstow HS (Barstow, CA) - committed to UC Santa Barbara 19.559: Brad Markey, RHP, Virginia Tech (senior) 20.589: John Tomasovich, SS, Charleston Southern (senior) 21.619: Charles White, OF, Maryland 22.649: Joey Martarano, 3B, Boise State (freshman) - BA rank in 2013: 149 23.679: Isiah Gilliam, 1B/OF, Parkview HS (Lilburn, GA) (HS jr) - committed to Chipola CC - BA rank: 132, MLB.com: 114 24.709: Daniel Spingola, OF, Georgia Tech 25.739: Tyler Pearson, C, Texas State - (senior) 26.769: Zach Hedges, RHP, Azusa Pacific 27.799: Calvin Graves, OF, Franklin Pierce (senior) 28.829: Jacob Niggemeyer, RHP, Olentangy Liberty HS (Powell, OH) - committed to Ohio State 29.859: Gianni Zayas, RHP, Seminole State CC 30.889: Michael Cantu, C, Foy H Moody HS (Corpus Christi, TX) - committed to Texas - BA rank: 161, MLB.com: 139 31.919: Brad Deppermann, RHP, East Lake HS (Tarpon Springs, FL) - committed to North Florida - BA rank: 192 32.949: Andrew Ely, 2B, Washington 33.979: Brad Bass, RHP, Lincoln-Way Central HS (New Lenox, IL) - committed to Notre Dame - MLB.com rank: 165 34.1009: Steven Kane, RHP, Cypress CC - committed to Tennessee 35.1039: Jordan Minch, LHP, Purdue (sophomore) - $110,000 bonus 36.1069: DJ Peters, OF, Glendora HS (Glendora, CA) - Cal State Fullerton commit - BA rank: 112 37.1099: Riley Adams, C, Canyon Crest Academy (San Diego, CA) - San Diego commit - BA rank: 154 38.1129: Daniel Wasinger, C, Eastlake HS (El Paso, TX) 39.1159: David Petrino, C, Central Arizona JC - committed to Oklahoma State 40.1189: Diamond Johnson, OF, Hillsborough HS (Tampa, FL) - committed to St. Petersburg College

With Baltimore announcing Machado will begin the season on the DL, my roster should be legal and set to begin the season.

Are set to begin at 2am on Thursday morning. ETA----- Yes I know I misspelled the title. I'm at a bar. Sue me! :)