Pretty sure that Drop In is a Cubs fan.

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I don't know who that meathead pulls for, its not relevant to you accusing me of not reading the thread.

The hype was intense for Beckham, he's white and Dan McNeil wanted to blow him and comb his hair. The Score overhyped him early and often..it made me hate Gordon Mendoza.. If Castro was white and spoke English as a first language he would have been hyped like Gordon.

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We are discussing him being hyped BEFORE he made it to MLB. Of course he was hyped while he was in his rookie year. He was pretty good.

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Beckham looked and played like The Natural until his second year in the majors.

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Sox fans hyped ONE prospect, who came up.abd had a good rookie year.

Cubs fans were anointing Bryant an MVP candidate before he saw a single pitch in the majors.

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yeah, you might not want to talk about that.

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Why not? Cubs fans hype prospects all the times. Actually it's about time some of them worked out. It's better than them hyping the Felix Pies and Corey Pattersons of thier world.

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OK, but don't bring up Bryant.

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literally every fanbase does this

Literally, no. Literally your fanbase is the worse at it.

Cubs fans don't care about the Sox, but Cubs fans care about a guy who came up with the Sox in 2009

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are you aware of red sox, jankees, doyers, or pretty much any fanbase with prospects worth a damn? every fanbase that has a guy that's projected to be good get very excited.

look at a guy like tim anderson. sox fans are penciling him as a stud SS when all indications show he's going to suck ass facing major league pitching.

Look at AHA backing me up against rpb and IMU. You are my rookie of the year!

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still haven't given up lake.

miss u

No one is hyping Cubs prospects. Cubs fans are informing White Sox fans of upcoming can't miss studs.

Kris Bryant had more billboards in Chicago as an Iowa Cub than all White Sox combined. Cubs fans can't hype up a player more than Adidas or Red Bull did.

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Even the Presidential candidates are not telling lies that are this egreious.

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As a comparison to the allegations leveled by Sox fans about the Cubs and their prospects. Don't make me get the skillet

Be careful when attempting to use big words there Franky!

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I'm not penciling him in anywhere, but I don't believe the indications suggest he won't hit major league pitching, but rather that he may not be able to field the ball.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

You did not even see an Anderson-Stud-World Series thread about him.

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Kenny Williams fell for the banana in the tailpipe

The Cup is still at the Cell

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you are correct...many see him moving to CF where his near elite speed would be put to better use.

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The CSFMB wasn't around when Brian got drafted in the first round in 2003 I am sure you must have posted it somewhere though.

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Bigfan posted enough about Anderson for us all.

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The Padres signed Trey "greatest 32nd round pick ever" McNutt to a minor league contract.

Willson Contreras .359 .432 .453
Albert Almora .351 .390 .527
Dan Vogelbach .343 .443 .507

Good.

Almora coming thru and contributing at the MLB level would be huge and offset the loss of Schwarber quite a bit

Well Szczur seems like he would be doing that right now and doesn't play all that much.

I still think Soler is going to hit well...just cannot do it early in the season.

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Keith Law at ESPN did his Top 25 MLB prospects update today>

14. Gleyber Torres, SS
Chicago Cubs
Previous rank: 15
Current level: High-A

Torres will play this entire year at 19 and is already in high-A, where he had a slow April but has hit .320/.363/.533 so far in May, along with continued strong defense at shortstop. The Cubs are going to get a lot of calls about this guy in July.

18. Willson Contreras, C
Chicago Cubs
Previous rank: 27
Current level: Triple-A

Since the start of 2014, Contreras has hit .332/.415/.478 between Double- and Triple-A while throwing out 29 percent of opposing runners. He's a very athletic catcher but is considered a poor framer, though that seems to be a skill that can be improved, at least sometimes, with good coaching. I think teams would live with some below-average framing if they're getting a star-caliber bat behind the plate.

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Eh... I can't believe how many experts dropped Almora between last season and this season. They all look stupid because of it.

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