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Nationals Have Interest In Kris Bryant The Nationals are among the teams with interest in Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant, reports MLB Network’s Jon Heyman (Twitter link). There will certainly be plenty of other suitors for the former NL MVP, who might wind up being the top player traded over the next two weeks. Indeed, the Nats aren’t the only team in the NL East reportedly looking into a Bryant acquisition. The division-leading Mets were linked to the four-time All-Star last night. On the...

Cardinals Sign First-Round Pick Michael McGreevy 9:20pm CDT The Cardinals announced this evening that they’d come to terms on a contract with first-round pick  Michael McGreevy. Terms of the deal remain unclear. The slot value for the #18 overall selection, with which McGreevy was selected, is $3.4813MM. McGreevy dominated hitters over his three-year career at UC Santa-Barbara. The righty worked to a 2.33 ERA across 189 1/3 innings as a Gaucho, striking out 25.1% of batters faced while walki...

Cubs Sign First-Round Pick Jordan Wicks The Cubs announced this afternoon that they’ve agreed to terms with first-round draft pick  Jordan Wicks. Wicks will receive a signing bonus of $3.1323MM, reports Jim Callis of MLB.com (Twitter link). That’s exact slot value for the 21st overall pick, with which Wicks was selected. In fact, the Cubs have come to terms with nearly all of their top picks, the club announced. Among their draftees in the top ten rounds, only second-rounder  James Triant...

Red Sox Expected To Promote Jarren Duran The Red Sox are promoting top outfield prospect  Jarren Duran to make his major league debut tomorrow night against the Yankees, reports Joe McDonald of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette (Twitter link). Boston’s 40-man roster is full, so another move is required to accommodate the formal selection of his contract. Duran is one of the game’s more promising young talents. While he fell to the seventh round of the 2018 draft coming out Long Beach State,...

Jul 10, 2021 After months of anticipation, we are finally on the eve of the MLB Draft. The Texas Rangers have the second overall pick in the draft for the first time since 1974, and there is a lot of external pressure on club management to get the pick right. But before Jon Daniels, Chris Young and Kip Fagg make their selection on Sunday night, lets take a look around the baseball world and see who the experts believe will be announced in Denver. Jack Leiter, RHP, Vanderbilt Jim Callis, MLB.com...

Indians Acquire Damon Casetta-Stubbs From Mariners To Complete Jake Bauers Trade The Indians have acquired right-handed pitching prospect  Damon Casetta-Stubbs from the Mariners, the two teams announced. The move completes the clubs’ June 10 deal that sent first baseman  Jake Bauers to Seattle for a player to be named later. Casetta-Stubbs was Seattle’s 11th-round draft pick in 2018 out of a Washington high school, signing for an overslot $325K bonus. He has spent the past three years in ...

Mariners pitching prospect, King’s Way grad Casetta-Stubbs traded to Cleveland Move completes an earlier deal for Jake Bauers By Columbian staff, news services Published: July 9, 2021, 6:21pm Share: Damon Casetta-Stubbs saw action with the Everett AquaSox in 2019. He was with the Seattle Mariners Low-A team in Modesto, Calif., when he was traded to the Cleveland Indians on Friday, July 9, 2021. (The Columbian files) Former King’s Way Christian standout pitcher Damon Case...

The Indians have acquired right-handed pitching prospect  Damon Casetta-Stubbs from the Mariners, the two teams announced. The move completes the clubs’ June 10 deal that sent first baseman  Jake Bauers to Seattle for a player to be named later. Casetta-Stubbs was Seattle’s 11th-round draft pick in 2018 out of a Washington high school, signing for an overslot $325K bonus. He has spent the past three years in the low minors, topping out at High-A in 2019 but pitching in Low-A to this point...

El lanzador Zach Thompson es la nueva joya de los Marlins Con solo cuatro salidas en las Grandes Ligas, el lanzador de los Marlins Zach Thompson ha hecho cosas importantes. Logró algo que solo se ha hecho nueve veces en la última década.  En su última salida, Zach Thompson Enfrentó a los Nacionales y estuvo seis entradas, permitió solo dos carreras (una limpia) y ponchó a 11. En el proceso, se convirtió en el décimo lanzador en las últimas 10 temporadas en ponchar a 11 o más bateado...

Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images The 2021 minor league season is not two months deep, so we’re long past due for a check-in with the Double-A Midland RockHounds. The Hounds roster is light on top names from our Community Prospect List Top 30, as most of the advanced talent has already moved up to Triple-A and the next wave hasn’t yet arrived from the lower-minors. The high stock they do have is mostly on the infield, where a few shortstops are sharing the diamond. Far and away the top pros...