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I'm looking forward to following Gatewood & Harrison on their rise through the minors, especially Gatewood

Jimmy Nelson plus Marco Estrada plus Clint Coulter *might* get you Lee....kinda doubtful Jimmy Nelson plus Jean Segura is a more likely price tag (I'd say "no" on either of those trades)

Catcher>Outfielder I'd still take Trout However yes, Lucroy is fantastic

I think they need to end the Wang experiment, move Estrada to long relief and bring up Jimmy Nelson

A great great hitter who will now serve as a teaching tool for kids to a) not chew tobacco and b) put in extra time on hitting

Zobrist has over 1500 MLB innings at SS, including 41 innings this season and over 100 in 2013 He is a switch-hitter, however he is more effective vs LHP than RHP...but he can play 2B/SS/OF

Ben Zobrist!

Samardzia is a very very good pitcher and would be an upgrade to any MLB team's rotation

It would likely take Nelson & Peralta to get Price, wouldn't it?

I could see the Brewers trading for James Loney, as an upgrade over Overbay Personally, I'd love to see them trade for Zobrist, but I don't think that is going to happen

Machado might have a little roid rage goin' on. Just sayin'

I think it'd more be like Nelson for Price and no its not worth it

We make our 11 year old take 3 months off from throwing a Baseball every year. Previous to this year it has been 3 months of no Baseball activities period but we are going let him do Batting Practice twice a week after taking a month off from hitting, but still no throwing for 3 months.... anyways yes burnout is important for them to avoid 8 years old is a good time to get them some proper instruction. I coach an 11U Travel Team, and I can tell you there are plenty of kids who get away with poor hitting mechanics who rake on Little League pitchers throwing 40-45 mph and end up on All-Star teams. But then if those same kids go to Rockford or Milwaukee for Travel Team tournaments and face the best pitchers throwing 60-70mph, they are going to strike out or hit weak ground balls a lot. They then need to really improve their hitting mechanics in order to face better competition. Let me tell if your kid is a Baseball nut and has taken 5000 swings or whatever between the age of 7 and 11 with poor mechanics, it can take a long long amount of very focused work to undo that. My kid led his league in coach-pitch 8 year olds in HR's, Doubles etc etc... "played up" in Fall Ball that year for his first year of kid pitch with 9-10 year olds and hit .000.... hit .750 in 9U Machine pitch....was 3rd on his All-Star team in 10U in hitting, batted over .500 "playing up" as a 10 with 11-12 year olds in Fall Ball Little League, all using fairly poor mechanics Now he's getting humbled in 11U Travel Ball by great pitchers. He's still getting a good amount of hits due to athletic ability but he's having to completely remake his swing in order to compete. I told him better now than in High School

I've spent a ton of time coaching youth players and some high school players lately, and studying film on college prospects and pro prospects and watching a lot of college games, and from that perspective it is absolutely astounding how great Irving Falu & Jeff Bianchi & Caleb Gindl and the rest are. They are unbelievably great Baseball players I realize this is the MLB forum and, relative to the rest of MLB, fans want those guys to be better, but I know about 50 Dads who would give their left nut for their 11 year old to grow up to be as good as Irving Falu

I like the DeMuth pick. Good potential there

Agreed and especially if we sign Lara on July 2nd

I don't think so, though that is a good & valid question. Lara is 16 years old and is a legit blue-chip top flight prospect. Similar to many Dominican Republic athletes, he is an extremely confident ballplayer. Most Dominican Republic baseball players don't think there is any way possible that an American can out-play or especially out-work them. And oftentimes they are right. I seriously doubt Gatewood will ever develop the defensive skills of Lara. The question as always is can they hit MLB pitching? Lara looks incredible. I like his swings way better than Gatewood, and Gatewood is amazing in his own right http://dplbaseball.com/scouts-corner/gilbert-lara-ss-2014/

And, possibly Gilbert Lara at SS!

Being a Nebraska Cornhusker football player is the only game in town for that whole state. Those players are treated like Gods there. Harrison is sitting in a pretty great place. Either become a Millionaire Baseball player or be a Celebrity football player in a state that is rabid for Football

Harrison is a very highly regarded Wide Receiver committed to Nebraska. How good are the chances that he'll sign with the Crew?

They have to give Ryan Braun to the Yankees

nice call Splitter!

yeah thats a lot of pitching

Gatewood is a 6-5 Shortstop with incredible power. Sure he may end up a bust but I think that picking him is incredibly smart. Such a huge upside/ceiling with that kid

awwwwww yeah!!!!! Gatewood! Gatewood!