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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 …
JSOnline:
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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Ben Goessling / The Goessling Game:
Nationals make Harper the No. 1 pick — On Monday night, the Nationals officially did what they've been expected to do for the better part of a year, making 17-year-old Bryce Harper the No. 1 pick in the First-Year Player Draft. — Harper, who obtained a GED and enrolled at the College …
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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:
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.
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.
MLB:
Sources: Pittsburgh Pirates set sights on prep RHP Jameson Taillon … The Pittsburgh Pirates are targeting high school pitcher Jameson Taillon with the second pick in Monday night's Major League Baseball entry draft, sources have told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney.
Associated Press:
Police: Gunman kills 4 women but doesn't shoot men — HIALEAH, Fla. — A gunman shot and killed his wife outside a South Florida restaurant where she worked, then targeted women inside and killed three others before committing suicide, police said Monday. — Police said 38-year-old Gerardo …
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 …
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 …
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 …
