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Brewers release Suppan — By Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel — No longer willing to carry Jeff Suppan on their pitching staff merely on the basis of his salary, the Brewers finally decided to part ways with the veteran right-hander by releasing him Monday.
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Jim Callis / Baseball America:
Mock Draft: Draft Day — Version 4.0 still finds little to be certain of — It's the morning of the draft, and we don't know for certain anything more than we knew heading into the weekend. JC of Southern Nevada catcher Bryce Harper will go No. 1 overall to the Nationals.
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Kevin Goldstein / Baseball Prospectus:
Final Mock Draft: Mock Away — 1. Washington Nationals: Move along, nothing to see here. — Pick: Bryce Harper, C/OF, College of Southern Nevada — 2. Pittsburgh Pirates: The needle seems to have move a bit towards James Taillon over Manny Machado. The Pirates think Taillon is the better talent …
Keith Law / ESPN:
MLB mock draft 4.0 — The final mock draft is predictable at No. 1, but deviates greatly from there — This is the final complete first-round projection I'll do for the 2010 draft's first round, but I will update this over the course of the day on Monday as I get more information.
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Fox Sports:
Diamondbacks have problems everywhere — Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on MLB on FOX. Follow him on Twitter. — “Organizational advocacy” isn't working out so hot for the Diamondbacks.
Associated Press:
Carlos Silva goes to 8-0 as Cubs finally beat Pirates — PITTSBURGH— Carlos Silva extended the best start by a Cubs pitcher in 43 years by allowing one run over seven innings, Ryan Theriot scored four times and Chicago beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-1 on Monday.
NY Daily News:
MLB commissioner's office looking into Oliver Perez's medical records after Mets place pitcher on DL — The commissioner's office is still receiving medical records from the Mets for its review of the team's decision to place ineffective pitcher Oliver Perez on the 15-day DL …
Associated Press:
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Jerry Stephenson dies — ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jerry Stephenson, who pitched for the Boston Red Sox in the 1967 World Series, has died. He was 66. — Family spokesman Steve Brener said Monday that Stephenson died Sunday at his home in Anaheim of cancer.
Conor Glassey / Baseball America:
Final Top 50 Before The Draft — Here is a final update on our Top 50 overall prospects before the draft. This isn't a ranking of where we think players will go, but how they line up based on talent. The First round is picks 1-32 and the supplemental first is 33-50. What do you think?
Corey Seidman / Phillies Nation:
Time to Release Raul — Raul Ibanez is killing the Phillies. I know, I know, there are a number of Phillies that are “killing the Phillies” right now: Jayson Werth, Chase Utley, the shortstop du jour, Greg Dobbs, etc. — But the difference is that the aforementioned players …
Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com:
Down to the wire: Who's going where? — With the first pick hours away, a final first-round projection — Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the last best (educated) guess at what Monday's first round will look like. — Teams were still scrambling to figure out who was going there …
