Edgy MD

I don't let Rex bat here.

Well, hit or miss, this should spark a transaction or two in Metville.

And Campbelled our way out of it.

HbP rally, suckas.

Nah, we're at home. Villainy will not prevail so easily.

Hey, Keith's back!!

It's the commitment to geographic diversity that makes this team great.

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I think Mariano, Jr. is listed as a fourth-round talent, tops, so if they go for him at #54, they must have seen somebody other folks haven't. 4th round it is at #134 to ... the Nationals. Was selected by the Yanx in the 29th round last year. I don't get this. The same thing happened with the Mets and Glen Johnson. You go to the trouble of selecting the son of an alum-in-good-standing, and you think you'd have a good-faith good idea beforehand how much money it's going to take to keep him out of college.

Because every team needs a Chase, to go along with the Tylers and the Codys. Lousy cheapass Mets (LCAMs) just trying to save on travel expenses to get everybody to St. Lucie.

Mets southeast regional staff better get a sweet bonus: Florida, North Carolina, Florida, Florida.

Thompson: got a baseball body. Long torso, with relatively short limbs. Those guys stick. I'm putting $20 on this guy.

There are supplemental picks after round three now? WTFMLB?

Jacob Nix, taken #86 by the Padres. A year after million-dollar payday vanished, Jacob Nix set for MLB draft Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY Sports 7:36 p.m. EDT June 1, 2015 SAN DIEGO - A year ago, Jacob Nix was strolling around downtown Houston, proudly wearing his new Astros cap, trying to figure out what he was going to buy with his $1.5 million signing bonus. The signing bonus, verbally agreed upon by his representatives and the Astros, suddenly disappeared. The college scholarship to UCLA, offered by the school and readily accepted, was yanked by NCAA officials. Nix was a pitcher without a home. Nix, an innocent bystander in a dispute during last year's Major League Baseball Draft, is now set to try it again, anxiously sitting at home in Los Alamitos, Calif., with no place to go. "Last year pretty much sucked,'' Nix told USA TODAY Sports. "I was literally in the wrong place and the wrong time. It was a bad situation. The whole year was pretty difficult for myself and for my family. "I weeded a lot of people out of my life, friends who I didn't trust. So would just go to the gym every day and work all of the anger out. I stayed positive. Even now, I've got to think everything happened for a reason.'' Turns out that the Astros discovered an abnormality in the UCL, and because of stupid slot rules, reaching a compromise on the offer was impossible, but like Tom Seaver, he found he's suddenly couldn't take his talent to college either.

The Mets' insatiable appetites for Wotell have led them to go for Max Wotell. What I don't know about kinesiology could fill a... well, a kinesiology library, frankly... but that video sure shows what looks to my untrained eyes to be a pretty violent motion.

Was Brandon Nimmo a guy off the radar to that extent? Courageous Mets. They went for this guy after Colorado jumped on Tyler Nevin in the hateful competitive balance round with the #38 overall pick

I've seen that image floating around, but nobody is mentioning which paper.

Drafting with the compensation pick won from the Mets, the Roxx take Mike Nikorak of Stroudsburg HS in Pennsylvania. So maybe that pick comes back to haunt us, six years and Tommy John surgery down the road.

All the blue bloods seemed to have gone early. Carson Fulmer, Tyler Stephenson, Garrett Whitley, Kolby Allard, Trent Clark, and Brady Aiken are all off the board. It's a reunion of all of last spring's most sought after cotillion escorts.

The Diamondbacks open the proceedings by taking that handsome but spoiled country club swain Dansby Swanson with the first overall pick. Swanson is a shortstop from Vanderbilt, the notion of which only enhances the effect of his name.

Great Cleon Jones material in a US-based pan-African (aggregator?) journal.

I'll stick with whatever's behind the curtain, I think. Anyhow, baseball with the ending pre-written (even a mostly good one) takes most of the fun out.

Maybe. I think they're gonna do well better than 82-79, though.

METSSC repeatedly at the MOFo: "And we let Mike Hampton go for nothing. FOR NOTHING!"

Yeah, noted up top by FK: Frayed Knot wrote: Aaron Heilman with pick #18 when the Rox signed Mike Hampton (and some guy named Wright was the 'sandwich' pick that year 20 slots later)

And Matt Reynolds and Kevin Plawecki with the compensation picks for Jos� Reyes. And Al Shirley and Bobby Jones with the compensation picks for Darryl Strawberry. That same year, the Cardinals selected Brian Barber as the supplemental pick for losing Vince Coleman to the Mets. The next year, there was some uninspiring drafting by the Mets, taking Chris Roberts and Jon Ward (who?) with compensation picks awarded for losing Frank Viola. The Pirates took Shon Walker (double-who?) and Trey Beamon with compensatory picks after losing Bobby Bonilla to the Mets.