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Jose Rodriguez back to his BA self with a 3-4 day with 2 doubles. Slashing .355/.365./.500 with only a 6% k rate.

I think it's a possibility but also risky. He could have played the season at Mizzou, the doctors said he could rehab through the pain, instead he took back surgery to be fixed and then he "plays injured" to get to Bulls? I'm personally nervous about that. He seems like a nice kid and I hope he is awesome but there are some flags on this pick.

Adam Zagoria‏Verified account @AdamZagoria 12m12 minutes ago More Adam Zagoria Retweeted Adam Zagoria Asked if he would consider sitting out the entire 2018-19 season to recover, he said, "I wouldn't want to but like I said, when you get to the NBA, it's a business and it could be up to the team I get drafted by." "Would you consider sitting out your whole career?" "If my agent says that's not really in my hands"

As someone that's had to deal up close with MPJ for about a year, I'd be glad to get him but not gonna lie I do have severe worries that he's soft and would never play through pain.

Funny but I've read the one lock to go top three is Jackson.

Farmer sounded pretty rough in spring training but better once the season started, but I really wondered if he'd get through the year when I saw him at Soxfest plus this first few games this season.

Farmer and DJ are hilarious. The criticism of the broadcast booths are boring. If you made a frankenstein of all the things soxtalk critics said they wanted it would be the most terrible announcer. All you want is someone that flatters your super baseball intellects. "It's the top of the seventh, and ground ball to the right side BobBbled for a hit? That should be an error and yes he should definitely be cut and he is terrible they should just drag him off the field right now. Just garbage trash, no, NO color commentary man, you may not speak as I am not allowed to ask questions to clue you in on when to provide additional color."

Depends on how the bulls scout who is available at 4 (*shudders*). If they think "their guy" is there, one that is special across drafts, then you do it. Asik rolls off salary next year with a $3 mill buyout. You could trade off Lavine's salary to either get relief or trade exception to acquire an expensive good player. But, we'll see.

I feel like my aversion to Carter will burn me but I just can't get excited about a pick like that. Certainly could be a super valuable piece of a team but would be okay shooting for stars with Knox instead of him.

The Obama admin followed the law and enforced the law. The Appeals court said that children could not be held in indefinite detention but made no requirement of their mothers or adults. They held them for 21 days together and released them until their asylum case would be heard. As a reminder, from President Trump, Obama was called "Deporter in Chief".

To apply for asylum this is the way you have to go to a port of entry or be in the US. These cases went explicitly to the port of entry and this is how the us is "deterring" them.

Kevin O'Connor is very good.

Two things can be true at the same time: - US should be more lenient with house arrest-type set-ups for parents with children in many more cases than it is - Separating a child from their parent in a new country and putting them in a shelter with other lost children with no answers to when they can see their parent, family, or any familiarity ever again. And both the previous system and the legal system prioritizes finding some version of known family for children like these. The abundant growth and purposeful separation makes it very likely some to many may lose track of their parents (meaning the government will not know the whereabouts).

Now that they are in actual games, really wish we had two AZL teams. Easily could have filled out another team and gotten consistent playing time.

Sad to see Jendersson Caballero on DSL still and ok the DL with injury. He was prett good last year and was one of our bigger 2016 signings.

There are going to be a lot more moves than this.

I should also add that Tejada Jr did make it on Jesse Sanchez' "best of the rest", he's at least a name guy most of the INTL prospect guys would have run into.

Unlikely any will be in top 30. But last year we were so in-between with Robert they ended up having a very small class that was mostly filled out in February. This should be a much bigger one. And we're obviously seeing a ton of examples of some pretty cheap signings having big impacts so you want to put your line in the water a lot. I wanted to just sign 40-50 300k guys but obviously we aren't going to do that and a bunch of teams could just offer $305k.

I guess AZL starts today. DSL had a rough one, the legend of jose rodriguez goes 0-4, and they are 4-hit shutout. AZL/GFL/DSL only games today with the ASBs http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?cid=&lid=&org=145&sc=&sid=milb&t=affiliate&ymd=20180618

https://youtu.be/VibS_MbyLnw Miguel Tejada video

From Sanchez https://www.mlb.com/news/best-of-the-rest-international-prospects/c-273927932

Just posting some stuff on these guys I can find.

Honestly if it's in the badler preview it's pretty much a done deal.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/al-central-2018-international-signing-forecasts/ Names Still tied to Miguel Tejada Jr (SS likely Corner) Still tied to Anthony Espinoza (true SS) Bryan Ramos (Cuba) (3b) Alberta Lemay Brenal (Cuba) Catcher

Players sorta interested in seeing what happens: Mendick - may be a bit premature but he handled AA well so far Remillard - Old for W-S, mostly fodder, but has performed well at High-A, though his lack of power could be rough in birmingham.