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Ian Happ homer!

Would be ideal if the Bears fall into Darnold or Rosen next year.

[tweet] [/tweet] Lol, you're not serious with actual good football players like Bouye and Gilmore but have to blow everyone out of the water for Glennon.

Yeah, he hit one off Kershaw in LA in 2015 too. And since we're talking best games attended, Game 5 of the NLCS is mine.

Chris Crawford mock draft: http://m.herosports.com/mlb-draft/2017-mock-reds-tab-hunter-greene-oakland-kyle-wright-c6c6

THAT is the part that I'm concerned about. Maddon isn't admitting that he completely horsefeathers the bed in games 6 and 7. You can't learn from mistakes if you aren't recognizing their existence. Yes. We won the World Series. We were and are all very very pumped. But this board never stuck me a completely results-oriented, ends justify the means, stick-with-what-got-you-there hug fest. Are we seriously going to just repeat "we won the World Series" when Maddon very nearly kept that from happening with gross over-management? Right or wrong, in Maddon's eyes, he had 3 relievers he could trust by the end of the World Series (Chapman, Montgomery, Edwards). He didn't even trust Strop to finish a big lead in Game 6.

Like with any position outside C and maybe CF, Baez is the primary backup, it just might not be him playing the position. You can put Baez on the IF and move Bryant/Zobrist to LF and Schwarber to 1B. If not that, then Bryant would likely be at 1B. He started 6 of the 11 games at 1B Rizzo didn't start, and 2 of those other 5 were days Bryant also had off. Candelario would probably be an option too.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/charlesrobinson/status/838588037915426817[/tweet] [tweet] [/tweet] If you're not bringing back Cutler, just re-sign Hoyer on the cheap rather than paying that much for Glennon. Yep: [tweet] [/tweet]

Today was the 4 month anniversary of Game 7.

Reading through Black's tweets, it looks like Carson Sands also had surgery. Mentioned on the previous page. It's a bone spur in his elbow, do not as bad as TJS.

Corey Black had surgery. [tweet] [/tweet]

I'll help with the Bears too. I'll take the 49ers.

Eric Berry re-signs with the Chiefs. Melvin Ingram, Chandler Jones, Kawann Short and Trumaine Johnson have all been franchise tagged. Not sure where the Bears are going to spend money but it seems like Alshon Jeffery would be a better usage of their immense cap space than most of the remaining options.

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Today's game is on MLB Network at 7 CT. Also MLBTV has the Cleveland broadcast.

javy basically was the giants series http://i.imgur.com/bKg82QK.jpg My Giants fan coworker who sits next to me hates Javy (and he talked a lot of horsefeathers in Game 3 and early in Game 4). So, naturally, I have a picture of Javy's bat drop from Game 1 on my desk aimed perfectly at his desk.

Maybe now UCLA won't be a 4-seed in the next top 16 bracket they release.

Who would you plop them ahead of on Callis' list, though? With Mills/Zastryzny/Williams, we're talking largely end of the rotation possibilities. Johnson's probably more middle relief at this stage, although if he found something late in the year, the raw fastball/breaking ball combination back in the day had enough potential to possibly think about a late inning arm. Considering his career path so far, though, hard to get excited. Much as I am not as down on Hudson as everyone seems to be (I guess it's relative) ... he's raw and really far away and Hannemann is 26 ... at some point, hope for the tools drops low. I mean, from his 14-21 ... I'd take Ademan/Paredes/Sepulveda over them on youth, up the middle, and upside (btw ... was that the first mention of Sepulveda as a possible catcher ... I don't recall hearing much about that before ... that'd be fascinating ... somewhat reminiscent of Robinson Chirinos making the move back in the day). I guess I can understand some questioning of Paulino being that high (that writeup is extremely positive, it seems ... and uh ... he claimed a 40 man spot? guess there wasn't a proofreader), although his ceiling is more intriguing than those guys in the 20's. Underwood is a lightning rod point, I guess ... but being in the top 20 is probably okay for most. Rosario and Young are two guys that seem like they could help soon and in a more significant role than some of those upper level guys in the 20's. That leaves Pena at 21, which I'd be fine dropping him and sliding others up. All in all, not sure who you'd jump a lot of those guys on the list over. I could see sliding Alec Mills up several slots. I'd honestly slot them above everyone 14 or lower save for Paredes and maybe Ademan. I'm not super high on Underwood anymore. None of the others there impress me that much. I guess we're not slotting them a lot higher and I guess it becomes a crapshoot with a lot of these guys once we get past the top 10-12 but I like their chances to be somewhat decent major leaguers. I'm with you on Zastryzny and Mills since they can slot into the back of a big league rotation immediately. I don't see any glaring issues with Williams (injuries/limited ceiling), Johnson (injuries/horrible 2016) and Hudson (stuff regressed, extremely raw and far from the big leagues) in the back end of the top 30, even if we disagree with some of the guys ahead of them.

Leathersich and Duensing looked good. As did my guy Berg. But it's only 1 inning in spring training.

Charcer Burks. 9th rounder in 2013, played in Carolina last year. Not much of a prospect. His draft video when he was drafted consisted primarily of him dunking on a basketball court.

MLB.com's top 30 is out. I still think Callis is the best. http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2017?list=chc 1. Eloy Jimenez 2. Ian Happ 3. Albert Almora 4. Dylan Cease 5. Jeimer Candelario 6. Oscar de la Cruz 7. Mark Zagunis 8. Trevor Clifton 9. Jose Albertos 10. DJ Wilson 11. Eddy Martinez 12. Thomas Hatch 13. Victor Caratini 14. Chesny Young 15. Jose Paulino 16. Duane Underwood 17. Aramis Ademan 18. Carlos Sepulveda 19. Isaac Paredes 20. Jose Rosario 21. Felix Peña 22. Alec Mills 23. Rob Zastryzny 24. Pierce Johnson 25. Bryan Hudson 26. Jacob Hannemann 27. Ryan Williams 28. Bailey Clark 29. PJ Higgins 30. Preston Morrison

And Albertos' stuff isn't questioned like Paredes' big league position.

Ugly trade for Sacramento.