This should just be a running thread as Cubs fans always have their hope placed in the next prospect.

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If they are able to sign Maples that would be a huge get for the Cubs.

Papa Lockhart is a Scout for the Cubs

This post must be from one of Terry Boers secret sources!
Only a true mlb scout would have the knowledge to break down high school pitching stats like this.
Hopefully this scout doesn't feel the same way about college stats otherwise the #1 overall pick should probably be a 60th round pick................stop drinking gasoline.

Drafting high school players is the cheap way to go

Please Google the term leverage.

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Leverage? So you're just going to assume every high school kid in the country has the ability to get into and pay for college?

I could be totally off base here, but...something tells me if you are good enough to get picked in the MLB draft, you should be able to find some school that will give you a scholarship to play baseball for them.
The only exception to this rule may be Hendry, who would be the one to waste a pick on a player not even good enough to play NCAA baseball.

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It was more fun to think that the Cubs actually drafted a shorter Freddie Patek.

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Yeah, you're off base.

The NCAA allows each division I baseball program 11.7 scholarships and in division II there are 9 on offer.

NAIA colleges can offer a maximum of 12 scholarships.

A college baseball team has 30 players. You can do the math.

College baseball is not like college football or basketball where all the players are on full rides. College is pretty damn expensive and a quarter or third of a scholarship doesn't help much for less than well to do familys.

If a pro baseball team comes with a $100,000 or even $50,000 signing bonus it's not a very difficult decision to make. Leverage my ass.

Fine, but my point about Hendry drafting suckily still stands.

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Cubs 2nd round pick is a Mog.

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Wow you actually typed that...........
I won't resume toss but I promise you are so far off that it's pretty fun.
With the rare exception of the White Sox drafting women, children and farm animals I promise you are way wrong.

Mom..Dad....you know how I was so upset that I didn't get any scholarship offers to play college baseball....Well don't worry I just saw myself drafted on the MLB network and it's not even day 3 of the draft. Well done son!

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I think it's pretty cut and dry - if you cannot dominate as a pitcher at the HS level, then you are not ready to be drafted in the fifth round.

Bruce Miles had this to say about the Cubs chances at signing Maples:

Bruce -

Having read the article on Maples, it says clubs are aware of the price it will take to sign him. Do you think the Cubs drafted him knowing the price and will meet that price tag to get him into the system?
Posted by mck on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:23

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I can see it

It goes along with their stated plan of building from within. They also shelled out money for Szczur. I'd give it better than 50-50 that they'd sign him, with all the stuff that goes along with it, like paying for the kid's schooling.
Posted by Bruce on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 11:29

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50/50 is higher than I would think, but hearing a bit of optimism is nice. I hope by drafting him they are prepared to offer somewhere close to his reported 3million.

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What's going to be pretty telling with Rickett's is that he mentioned that there would be some money available come the trade deadline if we were somehow in contention...I'd like to see that money used to signing the vast majority of our draft picks and not just put back into the bank

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Who is the mystery call up from AA? McNutt? Maybe Flaherty...doubtful that its Vitters or Jackson.

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Chris Carpenter per Bruce Levine. To be a reliever, not a starter.

The time in AAA has done Colvin well. He is hitting .291 with 5 bombs and I think 18 or 19 rbi. He started off terrible when he got down there so its good to see that he has been able to settle things down and find his swing. He does K 1 out of every 4 AB's though.

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Look for Hendry to trade him for a journeyman starting pitcher to plug in to the rotation!

I'm thinking more along the lines of a white utility infielder.

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He already has the great Blake DeWitt.

Since I was advised yesterday that all fanbases hype their prospects equally, I just spent forty minutes searching for the White Sox Minor League prospects thread. Can one of you gentlemen kindly direct me to it?

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Where is Whistler? I want a list of all the white utility infielders the Cubs have had in Hendry's tenure. I think he has had them all. Fuck it....I will look it up. Since 2002 when Hendry was the asst. GM there have been 20 different white utility infielders. The man has a fetish.

Fontenot
Baker
Dewitt
Theriot
Miles
Barney
Lemehaui
Bellhorn
Bobby Hill
Mueller
Stynes
Grudzielanek
Nomar
Todd Walker
Mcclain
Mabry
Moore
DeRosa
Freel
Tracy

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Can you or any sox fan even name their affiliates let alone the prospects, if any, that play on them?

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The Appleton Foxes?

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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

Good lord They are the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers and the class A Midwest League affiliate of the Brewers these days.

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Just keyword your saviour....Viciedo

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The Iowa Oaks?

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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

Dayan: .316: For Kenny so loved the fans that he gave his one and only legitimate prospect, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Matthew, Tulsi, and Don

Plus he just allowed Bobby Scales to go to Japan. Damn you may be on to something.