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The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt 12. Kyle Hendricks 13. Arodys Vizcaino 14. Paul Blackburn 15. Rob Zastryzny 16. Corey Black 17. Neil Ramirez 18. Eloy Jimenez 19. Josh Vitters 20. Ivan Pineyro

The poll will be open for 48 hours. There is a tie breaker vote at the same time for #17 and #18. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt 12. Kyle Hendricks 13. Arodys Vizcaino 14. Paul Blackburn 15. Rob Zastryzny 16. Corey Black 17. Neil Ramirez 18. Eloy Jimenez 19. Josh Vitters

The poll will be open for 48 hours. There is a tie breaker vote at the same time for #17 and #18. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt 12. Kyle Hendricks 13. Arodys Vizcaino 14. Paul Blackburn 15. Rob Zastryzny 16. Corey Black 17 & 18. Eloy Jimenez/Neil Ramirez

This is a tie-breaking run-off vote between Eloy Jimenez and Neil Ramirez for the Cubs #17 prospect. Feel free to post your rationale below. The loser of the run-off vote will be the #18 prospect. We will have a concurrent poll for #19. The results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt 12. Kyle Hendricks 13. Arodys Vizcaino 14. Paul Blackburn 15. Rob Zastryzny 16. Corey Black

The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt 12. Kyle Hendricks 13. Arodys Vizcaino 14. Paul Blackburn 15. Rob Zastryzny 16. Corey Black

The poll will be open for 48 hours. There is a tie breaker vote at the same time for #14 and #15 Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt 12. Kyle Hendricks 13. Arodys Vizcaino 14 & 15. Paul Blackburn/Rob Zastryzny

This is a tie-breaking run-off vote between Paul Blackburn and Rob Zastryzny for the Cubs #14 prospect. Feel free to post your rationale below. The loser of the run-off vote will be the #15 prospect. We will have a concurrent poll for #16. The results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt 12. Kyle Hendricks 13. Arodys Vizcaino

The college baseball season starts on Friday! Perfect Game's preseason top 25: 1 Virginia 2 Cal State Fullerton 3 Oregon State 4 Florida State 5 Indiana 6 Mississippi State 7 South Carolina 8 UCLA 9 Oregon 10 North Carolina State 11 Vanderbilt 12 Louisiana State 13 North Carolina 14 Clemson 15 Florida 16 Louisville 17 Rice 18 Arizona State 19 Texas A&M 20 Miami (Fla.) 21 Alabama 22 Kansas State 23 Oklahoma State 24 Florida Atlantic 25 Texas BA's: 1. Virginia 2. Oregon State 3. Indiana 4. Cal State Fullerton 5. North Carolina State 6. Florida State 7. South Carolina 8. Mississippi State 9. Louisiana State 10. Vanderbilt 11. Oregon 12. UCLA 13. Clemson 14. Louisiana-Lafayette 15. Rice 16. Miami 17. North Carolina 18. Texas 19. Texas Christian 20. Louisville 21. Alabama 22. Kansas State 23. Florida 24. Texas A&M 25. Arkansas Here's ESPN's scheduled of televised games. Here's a great website that has the schedule for every college baseball team by day, with box scores posted during games. This forum has a nice list (with links) of teams that stream their home games. Good follows on Twitter for college baseball are BA's Aaron Fitt (@aaronfitt) and Perfect Game's Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogersPG). We'll have to wait till next weekend to see Carlos Rodon and Trea Turner as North Carolina State couldn't fly out for their series against UC Santa Barbara because of the winter storm in the South. Many other games on Friday in the South and East have been postponed to Saturday.

The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt 12. Kyle Hendricks 13. Arodys Vizcaino

The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt 12. Kyle Hendricks

The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario 11. Mike Olt

The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva 10. Jeimer Candelario

The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach 9. Christian Villanueva

The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson 8. Daniel Vogelbach

Obviously the Cubs won't be very active next year. Nevertheless, here are some of the top prospects for 2014-15: SS Dermis Garcia - possibly the top prospect. He'll sign with the Yankees OF Bryan Peña RHP Huascar Ynoa - Michel's younger brother Some early 7/2/2015 names: OF Rafioly Urena OF Franmil Reyes - Franklin's younger brother (Padres prospect) OF/1B Vladimir Guerrero, Jr 3B Fernando Tatis, Jr ---- Cubs signings: Wander Cabrera, LHP, Dominican Republic - $250,000 bonus Yeiler Peguero, SS, Dominican Republic - $250,000 bonus Emilio Ferrebus, RHP, Venezuela - $250,000 bonus Tony Rijo, 3B, Dominican Republic - $100,000 bonus Francisco Garay, SS, Panama

At least we don't have to worry about a re-vote for Tanaka.You can vote for up to three players. The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara 7. Pierce Johnson

You can vote for up to three players. The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards 6. Arismendy Alcantara

You can vote for up to three players. The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler 5. CJ Edwards

Only one vote again for this poll. The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora 4. Jorge Soler

Only one vote again for this poll. The poll will be open for 48 hours. Results so far: 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant 3. Albert Almora

One vote only. 1. Javier Baez 2. Kris Bryant This poll will end in 48 hours (+/- 48 hours).

Make your vote, state your case if you so desire. I'll let this vote go 48 hours. You're allowed to change your vote too.

Oregon QB Marcus Mariota and C Hroniss Grassu will be returning to Oregon next year. Really wanted the Bears to draft Grassu. So far, the only likely first rounder to declare early is UNC TE Eric Ebron.

Hopefully Paea and Ratliff will be healthy. The run defense needs all the help they can get.