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ROUND 12: Trevor Seidenberger, LHP 6'2", 195, L/L, Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas) DOB: 6/09/92 http://i.imgur.com/xTAc2f4.jpg (GoFrogs.com) SCOUTING REPORT: LINKS: TCU bio page

ROUND 11: Andy Hillis, RHP 6'8", 240, R/R, Lee University (Cleveland, Tennessee) DOB: 11/06/90 http://i.imgur.com/96SLjmq.jpg (GoLeeFlames.com) SCOUTING REPORT: MLB.com Hillis began his college career at Tennessee, but had Tommy John surgery in 2010 and never pitched for the Volunteers. He transferred to NAIA powerhouse Lee, where he has been used as a closer. Hillis' fastball sits in the mid-90s and has been clocked as high as 99 mph this spring. He also throws a slider, but Hillis relies on his fastball. Listed at 6-foot-7, 235 pounds, he is an imposing figure on the mound. Scouts view Hillis as more of a thrower, but if he can improve his breaking ball he profiles as a high-impact reliever. LINKS: https://twitter.com/andyhillis

ROUND 10: Michael Ratterree, RF 6'1", 210, R/R, Rice University (Houston, Texas) DOB: 2/09/91 (riceowls.com) SCOUTING REPORT: LINKS: Michael Ratterree Bio - RICEOWLS.COM https://twitter.com/MRat_Ocho

ROUND 9: Tyler Linehan, LHP 6'0", 240, L/L, Fresno State University (Fresno, California) DOB: 8/30/91 (gobulldogs.com) SCOUTING REPORT: MLB.com Linehan had a disappointing season at Fresno St. after moving between the rotation and the bullpen and struggling to find any consistency. He still has good potential, however, because of two good pitches in his fastball and curveball. His fastball sits in the low 90s and has good cutting action to it while his curveball has late, sharp downward action. If Linehan can become more consistent and add a third pitch, he could become a solid value for whatever team drafts him. NOTES: National Player of the Week - Louisville Slugger (Feb. 13-19, 2012) WAC Pitcher of the Week (May 7-13, 2012) LINKS: Tyler Linehan Bio - Fresno State Official Athletic Site Bulldogs' Linehan expects to sign with Milwaukee https://twitter.com/tylinny39

ROUND 8: Brandon Diaz, CF 5'11, 175, R/R, American Heritage School (Plantation, Florida) DOB: 4/14/95 (perfectgame.org) SCOUTING REPORT: Perfect Game Brandon Diaz is a 2013 OF/2B with a 5-11 170 lb. frame from Coral Springs, FL who attends American Heritage HS. Slender athletic build, deceiving physical strength. 6.43 runner, very quick twitch athlete. Right handed hitter, hand drop load, very strong and quick hands, whips the barrel, uppercut swing plane with lift out front, ball jumps hard and really carries, big time raw power, squares the ball up and hits under control, power/speed combination on offense is very intriguing. Second base build and profile, only played outfield,has some raw arm strength, looks inexperienced in the outfield, tentative jumps and approach to the ball. Still to define defensive position/skills but very top level offensive talent. Good student, verbal commitment to Florida International. LINKS: American Heritage CF Diaz drafted by Brewers in 8th round

ROUND 7: Omar Garcia, CF 5'9", 160, R/R, Miami-Dade Community College - South Campus (Kendall, Florida) DOB: 8/01/93 http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa319/toddecopp/OmarGarcia.jpg (perfectgame.org) SCOUTING REPORT: Perfect Game Omar Garcia is a 2011 OF with a 5-11 170 lb. frame from Oviedo, FL who attends Lake Howell HS. Live athletic build, some present strength. Excellent runner, 6.53/4.23 home to first from the right side. Quick hands hitting, sound swing mechanics, calm approach, good balance, some extension out front, some present bat speed, line drive contact. Good raw arm strength, footwork and approach to the ball still need developing. High ceiling athlete who can improve. Good student. Signed with High Point LINKS: https://twitter.com/therealOG_10

ROUND 6: Garrett Cooper, 1B 6'5", 230, R/R, Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama) DOB: 12/25/90 (auburntigers.com) SCOUTING REPORT: LINKS: Garrett Cooper: auburntigers.com https://twitter.com/CoopaLoop1

ROUND 5: Joshua Uhen, RHP 6'4", 185, R/R, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) DOB: 4/07/92 (uwmpanthers.com) SCOUTING REPORT: MLB.com With April 2011 Tommy John surgery clearly in his rear view mirror, this hard-throwing Wisconsin-Milwaukee reliever used a solid 2013 season to move up Draft boards. Uhen has plenty of arm strength, with a fastball that can sit at around 94 mph and touch as high as 97 mph at times. The 6-foot-4 redshirt sophomore has good life and sink to his two-seamer as well. His other pitches are still works in progress, though both his changeup and slider could be Major League average in the future. Uhen didn't pitch a ton this spring out of the pen and has some command issues to work through. Should he sign, his future is likely coming out of a big league bullpen. LINKS: Brewers make Josh Uhen's dream come true Joshua Uhen: uwmpanthers.com https://twitter.com/joshuhen

ROUND 4: Taylor Williams, RHP 5'11, 195, S/R, Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) DOB: 7/21/91 (kentstatesports.com) SCOUTING REPORT: MLB.com Williams began his college career at Washington State, but played sparingly as a freshman in 2011 before transferring to Mount Hood Community College in Oregon. He transferred to Kent State this year and has become the Golden Flashes' top starter. Williams, a right-hander, grabbed attention in February when he struck out Kris Bryant three times in a Kent State victory. He mixes his low-90s fastball effectively with a slider and changeup. Williams' delivery has some effort to it, though he is athletic enough to largely compensate for it. Still, his delivery and short stature (he's listed at 5-foot-11) will likely make him a reliever as a professional. LINKS: Williams gets the call by the Brewers -- Dream comes true for Camas pitcher Long road to Kent State paying off for pitcher Taylor Williams https://twitter.com/TWilly_KSU

ROUND 3: Barrett Astin, RHP 6'1", 200, R/R, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, Arkansas) DOB: 10/22/91 (arkansasrazorbacks.com) SCOUTING REPORT: MLB.com Astin served as the Razorbacks closer in 2012 and helped them reach the College World Series. This season he has bounced back and forth between the rotation and bullpen, pitching well in both roles. Astin relies on his low-90s sinker. It has good tailing action and he isn’t afraid to attack hitters with it. His secondary offerings aren’t as well-developed as his fastball, but he has the makings of a solid slider. Astin will have to improve his offspeed pitches to be a starter as a professional, but he also has the makeup to pitch in high-leverage situations as a reliever. LINKS: Barrett Astin - Six-Minute video with Arkansas press upon being drafted https://twitter.com/BarrettAstin17

ROUND 2s: Tucker Neuhaus, SS 6'3'', 200, L/R, Wharton High School (Wharton, Florida) DOB: 06/18/95 (tampabay.com) SCOUTING REPORT: Perfect Game From Perfect Game Presents: MLB Draft Prospect Reports 51-100 (on Baseball Prospectus)… Neuhaus established his prospect credentials at the Florida Diamond Club event last October, a showcase type event organized by the Florida Scouts Association. The 6-foot-3, 180-pound left handed hitter blasted a long home run and a double in the game and put on a similar display in batting practice. Unfortunately, Neuhaus has had nothing but adversity since, beginning when his older brother, Ty, a catcher at Hillsborough CC, was tragically killed in car accident in December. This spring has seen Neuhaus miss time with an illness, a head injury caused by a ground ball and a quad muscle issue, giving him few chances to show his full range of tools in game situations. Scouts who like Neuhaus the most feel his bat is worthy of first-round consideration, although that is not a unanimous opinion due to how infrequently he has been evaluated. Neuhaus currently plays shortstop, and signed with Louisville in part because he was told he could continue to play that position in college, but scouts agree that he will likely move immediately to third base as a professional. From Florida HS All-Star Game notes… On Thursday he showed all the tools necessary to be a top five round pick in this year's draft. He has nice, compact, and controlled swing that he uses to hit line drives to all-fields. Has great range, good footwork, and plus arm strength at third base. Due to limited at-bats during the season because of illness and injury, he struggled to adjust to top-quality pitching during game situations. He projects to gain significant strength as he matures. MLB.com Left-handed hitting third basemen are always a valued commodity and while Neuhaus typically plays shortstop for his Florida high school team, most see a move to the hot corner in his future. He profiles well there, with the chance to hit with a whole lot of power. He's more of a pull hitter than anything else and he'll have to learn to use the whole field to be a more complete hitter. He has good hands and solid footwork and will show glimpses of a plus arm. His range might have been a bit shy for shortstop, but he has more than enough for third. LINKS: Following rough season, Neuhaus picked by Milwaukee Trials, tragedy put Wharton senior's spirit to the test https://twitter.com/Tucker_Neuhaus

ROUND 2: Devin Williams, RHP 6'3", 165, R/R, Hazelwood West High School (Hazelwood, Missouri) DOB: 9/21/94 (perfectgame.org) SCOUTING REPORT: Perfect Game From Perfect Game MLB Draft Preview: Missouri… Williams has been steadily moving up draft boards all spring and will be talked about by many clubs in the later parts of the first round. He is the epitome of projectable with a fast, loose arm and an athletic 6-foot-4, 190-pound build that has plenty of room to add strength. Williams pitches with a fringy plus fastball that will reach 95 mph now with the anticipation that it will be comfortably a true plus velocity pitch in the near future. His ascension on the draft boards actually stems more from his continued flashing of a potential plus changeup and the improvement in his slider, which he just started throwing in the last year. For more on Williams, read his Perfect Game Draft Focus profile here. ------------- Devin Williams Perfect Game profile (Insider content provided by Patrick Ebert from PerfectGame.org) Position: RHP Height: 6-4 Weight: 190 Bats/Throws: R-R Birthdate: Sept. 21, 1994 High School: Hazelwood West City, State: Florissant, Mo. Travel Team: St. Louis Pirates Commitment: Missouri Projected Draft Round: 1S-2 Missouri high school right hander Devin Williams, currently No. 27 in the PG Class of 2013 rankings, provides a great topic for a “Baseball Scouting 101” conversation because there exists an almost perfect and symmetrical series of notes on him since the first time I saw him pitch at the 2012 Perfect Game Pitcher/Catcher Indoor Showcase about 15 months ago. Before pitching in Cedar Rapids that February, Williams had pitched for the St. Louis Pirates at the 2011 WWBA 17u National Championship and at the 2011 WWBA World Underclass Championship, pitching in the mid-80s and topping out at 87-88 mph to go with a 71 mph curveball. There is a history of Missouri high school pitchers taking big steps forward at the Pitcher/Catcher Indoor dating back to Jacob Turner, who went on to become the Tigers first round pick in 2009, and Williams generated immediate buzz at the Perfect Game building between his very athletic and projectable build and his very live 91 mph fastball. Here are my full notes from his appearance. Very long, slender Dominican type build, full hand drop delivery, gets turned and swings the gate, full arm circle, good rhythm, FB heavy at times, loose fast arm, gets leverage at release, tends to lean/fall off, can improve direction, big drop/sink on Chg at times, good pitch, gets under CB with poor release at times, rare CB to hitters, snapped off 75 CB with bite once when on top, occ slider, got tired (dr) FB 88-91, CB 71-75, SL 79, Chg 80. The major components that stick out here in a junior pitcher were a) his body and athleticism, b) the easy velocity that projected very well, Williams being 6-foot-3, 170-pounds at the time, c) the amount of life on his both his fastball and changeup, and d) his lack of consistency and feel for a curveball. The next time Williams appeared on the Perfect Game stage was at the 2012 PG National Showcase in mid-June. Here are my notes from that outing at the Metrodome. Fast paced, side step delivery, drifts sideways, lands open, some effort, will struggle with consistency, some feel for CH, doubles up on CH, occasionally plus CH sink/fade, very hard to spin ball with his mechanics and he didn't try, maintained velo well, had horizontal leverage, FB aggressive (dr) FB 88-91, CB 75, Chg 78. What I gained from this outing were that a) Williams stuff hadn’t improved and that his mechanics had gone backward during the intervening four month high school season, b) his changeup was still an impressive secondary pitch he had confidence in, and c) the curveball was becoming a bigger issue due to his digressing mechanics and his lack of confidence in even throwing it to hitters. The next time I saw Williams was in late October in Jupiter at the WWBA World Championships pitching for the Mets Scout Team. Williams threw twice and was dominant both times. I didn’t take notes but the most impressive things were a) his velocity had taken a bump up, now consistently in the 90s and topping out at 93-94 mph, b) his delivery had firmed up and he was throwing strikes with all his pitches and pretty much overmatching hitters working ahead in counts, and c) he was throwing a slider instead of a curveball anywhere from 77 to 83 mph and the slider flashed some potential. Just as important, Williams was using it properly and without fear. He had clearly taken a big step as a pitching prospect and he shot way up in the Perfect Game 2013 class rankings. The full year cycle was completed when Williams returned to Cedar Rapids for the 2013 Pitcher/Catcher Indoor. Below are my notes from that event. Long loose athletic build, starting to fill in, looks 6-4/190 now, slow paced side step delivery, leans back in delivery, needs better body angle, long clean deep arm action, nice arm speed on Chg, Chg has life, works downhill, some effort on 93-94’s's but still commands, velo comes pretty easy, twisty SL, shortens arm arch on SL, occ + FB sink down, doesn't mix, consistent FB life and velo, command suffers from stretch, couldn't command off speed, did not throw SL for a strikes but did flash spin (dr) FB 91-94, SL 83, Chg 84. Keeping with the pattern here, this is what I took away from Williams outing, a) he was getting stronger and more mature physically and that was reflected in a plus fastball pretty much any time he wanted it, b) he still had the one delivery flaw, the upper body lean, that in context of his arm action and release causes his problem, in my opinion, with spinning the ball consistently, c) the slider spun hard and was the proper velocity but whether because of the time of year or some other factor, he couldn’t throw it for strikes, d) the body/arm, present stuff and projection definitely made Williams at top three round pick but the breaking ball would likely prevent him from being at first round consideration if not changed by June. I had the opportunity to recently ask a scout for some thoughts on how Williams has thrown this spring and as you’ll see, they cleanly and clearly continue the progression of scouting information that has already been built up on Williams. Here are his paraphrased remarks: Devin has the makings of two average to plus pitches. Right now he has a 5-6 fastball with a chance for a 6-7 in the future. Four-seamer is straight but touches 94-95 and he tends to overthrow it. Two-seamer is 89-92 with tremendous life. Changeup is a big league quality pitch right now, throws two different types for strikes, including one with split-like drop. Everyone wants to see his slider but he is very shy about throwing it, which could hurt him. It has the makings of a power pitch but neither he nor the scouts have a feel for it. I can see top 50 picks for him, though, and a bright future. So there we have Baseball Scouting 101, the anatomy of Missouri high school RHP Devin Williams as a prospect. As the reader/student in this lesson, where would you put him on your draft list? MLB.com If projectable high school pitching is your cup of tea, then Williams might be just the kind of right-hander to pique your interest. The Missouri prepster is tall and lean with a projectable pitching frame. He's a bit raw on the mound, but there's a lot to like, starting with a fastball that sits in the low-90s, with plenty of room for added velocity as he gets stronger. His secondary stuff needs work, but he does show a feel for a solid sinking changeup and his slider shows glimpses of having good, short tilt to it. Like with many high school arms like this, his command and control need a good amount of refinement. A team taking Williams will have to be patient, as it might take some time for everything to come together. But the upside potential is there and is bound to have many organizations interested. LINKS: Brewers take high school righty with 54th pick https://twitter.com/DTrainn_23

ROUND 10: height, weight, b/t, school http://abc (source) SCOUTING REPORT:

Edith got away from the rapist by shoving a cake in his face. There was one episode where Jean played two parts, Edith and her German-accented doppelganger, Judith Klammerstadt. For playing Judith, Jean's name appeared in the credits as Giovanna Pucci, with Pucci being a play on her married name (Putch). Judith first appears at the 7:15 point in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o8DsNdr6R0 Part two of the episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX6lc6-37p4

I hadn't heard this, but I knew exactly what this thread was going to be about when I saw the truncated title in the Last Post column on the main page. Edith was a great character. She came off as scatterbrained and was somewhat naive, but the reality was that she was the wisest member of her family. I always think of her when I encounter cling peaches in heavy syrup.

I probably have the Cactus League Nachos at over half the games I attend. I also have the baked potato fairly often. One place to check is the stand that has food from the current opponent's stadium (provided it's still there this year). It offered a great sandwich when the Phillies were in town last year.

The word "crap" appears 5,389 times on this board. This is number 5,390.

Logan, if you want something to compare to re slowness, the server work started early Thursday morning. support, thanks for handling this for us.

It's hard to estimate an ETA, but figure on at least another couple of days. The entire board is being re-indexed. Hopefully, this will help us to get better search results. The impetus for doing this was that "Ryan" and "Braun" were unsearchable because the words were "too common." We had the same issue some time back on LambeauLeap with "Aaron" and "Rodgers." Because that board is so small, the search was able to be re-indexed pretty quickly.

TV used to typically have two play by play guys too. I think the proliferation of ex-jocks who'd be totally unqualified to do play by play has changed that.

When the Brewers adopted the idea of play by play guys completely disappearing, it was at Uecker's request and was considered unusual. Are more teams doing that now? My impression has been that most teams had two play by play guys, but that both would be in the booth almost all the time. That's the "traditional" way. The Yankees use Joe Sterling for play by play and Suzyn Waldman for color, although I've heard Waldman do play by play in the past.

I actually think it's pretty simple and the hiring pattern has been easy to detect. Macha was the opposite of Yost strategically and Roenicke was the opposite of Macha from a personality standpoint. Every manager has been strongest in what the manager before him was the worst at. Often, teams will shift from a "player's manager" to a "disciplinarian," or vice versa… although none of the recent Brewer ex-managers have neatly fallen into either of those categories.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results." Most people attribute this to Einstein, but the evidence is lacking to know for sure. It's part of the basic text of Narcotics Anonymous, copyrighted in 1982 and published in 1983.

Baldkin, you shower once every couple weeks?

Getting "excited" for the other team is OK if the announcer is acknowledging good play. I think I latched onto Provus when he had to do all the play by play for a few weeks. I'm still pretty neutral on Block.