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Has anyone seen Focus? Top American movie here in China is Taken 3. Yucks. Cinderella and Big Hero 6 off the charts successes. Jupiter Ascending topping U.S. Box office Numbers. Thankfully Kingsman Secret Service is out this Fri.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 02:56 PM) Uribe, Kendrick and Rollins are all FAs after the year. Cant imagine wasting what could be his best remaining Mlb season and $10 million on a bench player...if you take his $28 million signing bonus into consideration, its an even costlier budget line item. Then theres the $50 plus million tied to Guerrero and C. Rondon-lite.

Sale to throw simulated game Friday. 75 pitches. No timetable on actual Cactus League return.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 24, 2015 -> 02:51 PM) If that is the standard they must think more of him than Salado no who was sent packing earlier. Chef's or Chicken Ceasar Salad(o）？

http://minors.mlblogs.com/2013/12/06/what-...to-an-mlb-team/ Arruebarrueana sounds a lot like Leury and Rondon. Alex Guerrero and Juan Uribe both just became expendable. Dodgers have Kendrick, Rollins and still need to find room for top propect Kyle Seager...and Olivera as well. 3b? http://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/dodg...0324-story.html Expensive "win now" insurance policy for Juan Uribe/Seager at third. Might not start until year 31 season.

Yay....the mods can celebrate, haha. Actually, they now have three arguably overpaid middle infielders from Cuba....and just signed a backend starter/long man for $8 million as well. Now we can officially change this to the Vladimir Gutierrez/Yadier Alvares thread!!! Sponsored by LDF. http://www.baseballamerica.com/internation...nt-sign-july-2/

Gordon Beckham of course right there in the middle of it all...no doubt with Hawkeroo in tow. http://m.whitesox.mlb.com/news/article/114...white-sox-party

Surprised they didn't put Byron Buxton in top five. By the way, the Twins have a quandary with Escobar, Salazar and Hicks...finding pt for all three. Ideally, theyd have Hicks in Cf, Salazar at SS and Escobar superutility.

Mike Pelfrey and Erasmo Ramirez (M's) on the trading block.

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/03/whit...adam-eaton.html

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/12506567...center-fielders #'s 6-10.....your what hurts? Idiotic. Mirotic.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 23, 2015 -> 12:44 PM) I'm guessing Hawkins is more 2017, if he makes it. He's still just 21 years old, would be 23 for the entire 2017 season. And he has showed he's still quite raw. He has already jokingly predicted 2016 MLB Roy.

http://www.csnchicago.com/cubs/kris-bryant...&ocid=yahoo Boras an integral part of cubs' way

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 23, 2015 -> 04:30 PM) Valentine's a junior, and I wouldn't be shocked if Melo Trimble goes pro. Without Melo, Maryland should be more in the 7-8 range. Ooops, confused him and Dawson. No chance he goes pro, right? Dawson's the one shaped like Kirby Puckett/NFL running back? (Sorry, never get to see the games until NCAA tourney every year.) Hayes, at this point, doesn't seem like he's a surefire 1st round draft pick or anything like that. I'd put him more in Aaron White territory, very late first round but more likely second round.

1. MD 2. MI (if LaVert returns) 3. WI (lose Kaminsky and maybe Dekker) 4. Purdue 5. Indiana (4/5 could easily switch depending on what transpires with Crean/personnel) 6. MSU (lose Trice/Valentine, adding 5 star recruit) 7. tOSU (Russell a huge loss to NBA, obviously) 8. Iowa (bubble team with 5-6 freshman mixed with a decent core of Uthoff/Gesell/Woodbury/Jok/Clemmons/Uhl, Uthoff becomes NBA first rounder and blossoms as he comes out from under Aaron White's shadow) 9. Illinois 10. Minnesota 11. NW (trending back up with Colllins, A BIT) 12. Nebraska (Petteway returns, can they get up off the deck?) 13. Rutgers (could easily be last...but they did mystifyingly beat WI) 14. PSU (loses Newbill) When you look at 7-12, you can make a million arguments for any of those teams being higher or lower. I'm 90% confident that Top 6...at least 4 or 5 of those teams will be there.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Mar 23, 2015 -> 03:56 PM) Jose hasn't looked very good this spring. Thank god it means jack. Assuming you mean Quintana, not Abreu.

Nice....no Gameday Audio today. Stuck listening to the Royals/Giants.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 23, 2015 -> 12:33 PM) C - Flowers 1B - Abreu 2B - Johnson 3B - Gillaspie SS - Ramirez LF - Cabrera CF - Eaton RF - Garcia DH - LaRoche Bench - Soto, Beckham, Bonifacio SP1 Samardzija SP2 Quintana SP3 Danks SP4 Noesi CL Robertson SU Duke SU Petricka MR Jennings MR Putnam There are your presumable 21 locks. Of those, the following need to be added to the 40: Soto and Johnson. Most likely one position player and three pitchers. Four other spots would be available to these nine players: Shuck, Kottaras**, Carroll**/Penny**, Cleto, Webb, Surkamp, Albers** and Guerra. Bolded means out of options, ** means would need to be added the roster. -------- My personal guess would be Shuck, Penny**, Albers** and Guerra grabbing the last four spots. Leaving four players to be bounced from the 40 man. I would guess Cleto and Surkamp are gone and Jones goes to the 60 day DL. Leaving one other person to get bounced between Wilkins/Smith/Brantly. It would certainly make sense that it would be a catcher as it would be superfluous to carry five catchers on the 40 man. They're not going to choose a veteran in Brantly over their own homegrown player in Smith...who has risen up in the organization and advanced level by level with pitchers that are familiar with/confident in throwing to him. Wilkins is 50/50. They'd prefer he be the "next man in" rather than someone like Dan Black or Keon Barnum...dealing Ravelo exposed a little bit of their lack of quality hitting depth at this position.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 23, 2015 -> 10:37 AM) all the Soto's Mario "Circle K Change" Soto, too?

Gonzaga definitely looked like a Final Four team...when/if they play Duke, that will be an extremely entertaining, up and down the court game to watch...if you were watching the game the other day, you came away with the impression both of those teams loved to get out into transition, and that's huge for future recruiting IMO.

Heck, the White Sox might even be higher on Diaz at this point than Leury... In Charlotte, Saladino plays SS and some 3B, Sanchez plays 2B and Diaz/Garcia are the back-ups. Maybe one of them (or both) will be gone, but it's not important one way or the other.

Justin Anderson wasn't the same player after he returned from his injury IMO.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 23, 2015 -> 08:00 AM) If they have to add 4 guys, my guess would be that it's Jones to 60 day DL, Surkamp traded. I would imagine that Cleto will be one of the subtractions as well. If Albers does indeed make the team, I would assume that Guerra wouldn't then. He's out of options, correct? He would need to be DFA creating the other spot. Robertson Duke Petricka Putnam Guerra Albers Dan Jennings LONG MAN? (Carroll/Penny) Webb, Cleto, Sanburn to the minors....Crain starts the year on the DL as well? Between Putnam, Guerra and Albers, one is probably superfluous since all RH set-up guys.

Saladino's not going anywhere. They really envision him as a key piece going forward...whether as starter, platoon bat or Joe McEwing/Oquendo "jack of all trades" type. Leury Garcia is more likely to be on the way out. He doesn't have a role anymore.

Related to adding spots for Kottaras/Soto, Brad Penny, Micah Johnson and Matt Albers. One is going to be Nate Jones transferring to the 60-day DL. So, along with trading Surkamp, they'll need to make at least two more roster moves...theoretically. What are those moves going to be?