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Keith Law / ESPN:
Cole still No. 1 in final 2011 mock — UCLA righty goes to Pirates; Nationals are poised to add another potential superstar — I'll call this the “final” first-round projection, but I'm hoping to update this throughout the day on Monday. Many high-level sources are telling me they're …
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Jim Callis / Baseball America:
Final Mock Draft — As draft morning dawned, one thing was certain: The Pirates will take UCLA righthander Gerrit Cole with the No. 1 overall selection. After that, teams were still scrambling to line up their picks. — The consensus in the industry is the Mariners will choose Rice third …
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Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com:
Pirates will take Cole with No. 1 Draft pick — Power right-hander from UCLA eyed as durable, front-line starter — The Pirates will take UCLA right-hander Gerrit Cole with the No. 1 overall pick in the First-Year Player Draft on Monday, a baseball source told MLB.com.
Associated Press:
Pirates take UCLA's Gerrit Cole — SECAUCUS, N.J. — The Pittsburgh Pirates selected hard-throwing UCLA righty Gerrit Cole with the No. 1 pick in the baseball draft Monday. — Cole, a 6-foot-4, 220-pound junior, posted mediocre numbers this season for the Bruins (6-8, 3.31 ERA) …
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Kevin Goldstein / Baseball Prospectus:
Future Shock — The 2011 Mock Draft — 1. Pittsburgh Pirates: Gerrit Cole, RHP, UCLA. Upgrade this call from “lean” to “heavy lean.” It seems clear that Anthony Rendon is out of the picture, so it's between Cole and Danny Hultzen, who did himself few favors by throwing out a big bonus number over the weekend.
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Dave Cameron / FanGraphs Baseball:
Are the Pirates Making a Mistake with Cole? — In the run-up to tonight's MLB draft, the Pirates have been linked to a host of various players at different times, but this weekend the chatter all began to point toward Pittsburgh selecting UCLA right-hander Gerrit Cole.
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The7Line:
Don't Trade Reyes! — The Don't Trade Reyes movement went national last night! — Here's the story: — I made the sign for the official “Don't Trade Reyes” event that was posted on Facebook by a few of the fans. That was on Friday night and I brought the EXACT same sign.
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Duk / Yahoo! Sports:
Mets give blogger a bigger audience by ejecting him from Citi Field — Whoops! In an attempt to curb the exposure of outside business interests, the New York Mets did the complete opposite over the weekend and unwittingly gave extreme exposure to something their very policies were designed to prevent.
Doug Padilla / ESPN:
Jake Peavy day to day with strain — CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox right-hander Jake Peavy underwent an MRI examination that revealed a mild strain of his right groin, the White Sox confirmed Monday. — Peavy will be examined on a daily basis, but no move was made to put the right-hander on the disabled list as of now.
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Toni Ginnetti / Chicago Sun Times:
DL likely for White Sox' Jake Peavy — The frustration of this White Sox season might be epitomized by starter Jake Peavy, who likely is headed to the disabled list again. — Less than a month after his return from shoulder surgery, Peavy left the game Sunday against the Detroit Tigers with a strained right groin.
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NY Daily News:
Madden: David deserves to be dealt — These are both strange and estranged days for David Wright, who is seen regularly strolling the clubhouse at Citi Field, occasionally stopping to chat with the media regulars, scarcely casting a glance at the handful of bats in his locker.
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Associated Press:
Dykstra charged with car theft, drug possession — SAN FERNANDO, Calif. — Former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies star Lenny Dykstra was charged Monday with grand theft auto and drug possession by prosecutors who claim he used phony information to lease a car from a Southern California dealership.
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Brian Costa / Wall Street Journal:
Mets Look to Open Their Wallets — With their finances in distress, the Mets need to stay in the good graces of Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig. And yet, now more than ever, it's essential that they ignore Selig's wishes in one critical area: the amateur draft.
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Andy McCullough / New Jersey Online:
As mind behind Mets' future, Paul DePodesta tasked with replenishing farm system
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Troy Renck / All Things Rockies:
Rockies' Fowler considered for disabled list; Blackmon possible replacment — SAN DIEGO — With their offense struggling mightily, the Rockies couldn't stomach having a position player unavailable for another game. So Dexter Fowler might land on the disabled list with a sore left abdomen …
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Fox Sports:
Cubs mess just getting worse — The worst thing about the Cubs? You can't even blow them up. — Left fielder Alfonso Soriano, immovable. Third baseman Aramis Ramirez, immovable. Right-hander Carlos Zambrano, movable only if he is in the right mood to approve a deal.
