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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 — Note: I will add periodic updates throughout Monday as new information comes in. — I'll call this the “final” first-round projection, but I'm hoping to update this throughout the day on Monday.
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Sports Illustrated, FanGraphs Baseball, Scout.com, Over the Monster, Projo Sox Blog, NATIONALS NEWS NETWORK, Beyond the Box Score, Lookout Landing, MetsMinorLeagueBlog.com, River Avenue Blues, The Crawfish Boxes, Federal Baseball, Royals Review, U.S.S. Mariner, Washington Post, MetsBlog.com, Rays Index, Bucs Dugout, MLB Rumors, Steve Melewski, Where Have You Gone … and AZ Snake Pit
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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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Lookout Landing, Steve Melewski, Baseball Nation and baseballmusings.com
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.
Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
MLB Draft live blog: Red Sox take Barnes and Swihart in first round — The MLB Draft has started. The teams are calling into their picks into a MLB Network studio in New Jersey to be announced by commissioner Bud Selig. — The first pick, as expected, was UCLA righthander Gerrit Cole to the Pirates.
Discussion:
Lone Star Ball, The House That Dewey Built, Over the Monster and Baseball Nation
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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Toronto Sun, Dodgers Blog, Over the Monster, Batter's Box Interactive …, Camden Chat, Lone Star Ball and South Side Sox
Dave Sheinin / Washington Post:
Draft surprise: Rice 3B Anthony Rendon falls to Nationals with sixth overall pick — Toss out all the projections and mock drafts, which were rendered obsolete two picks into tonight MLB draft. By the time the Nationals' turn came with the No. 6 overall pick, the players most frequently linked …
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Mr. Irrelevant …, Federal Baseball and Nats Enquirer
Dave Cameron / FanGraphs Baseball:
Are the Pirates Making a Mistake with Cole?
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Bluebird Banter and U.S.S. Mariner
Associated Press:
Konerko, Dans help White Sox beat Mariners 3-1 — CHICAGO—Paul Konerko homered and John Danks pitched into the eighth inning for his first victory of the season, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 3-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Monday night. — The White Sox beat the Mariners …
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South Side Sox and Associated Press
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Toni Ginnetti / Chicago Sun Times:
DL likely for White Sox' Jake Peavy
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HardballTalk, baseballmusings.com, Yahoo! Sports, Baseball Nation and Call to the Pen
Matthew Leach / MLB.com:
Cards select second baseman Wong at No. 22 — ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals continued a recent trend on Monday, selecting University of Hawaii second baseman Kolten Wong with their first pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft. Wong is the third college infielder selected by the Cardinals in the first round in the past four years.
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Viva El Birdos
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Alex Ruppenthal / MLB.com:
Cubs tab high school shortstop with ninth pick
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Baseball America and Britt's Bird Watch
Ken Gurnick / MLB.com:
Dodgers draft Stanford lefty Reed 16th
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Britt's Bird Watch and True Blue LA
Stephen Ellsesser / MLB.com:
Johnson moving up, though not to Majors — CLEVELAND — Nick Johnson was in the Indians' clubhouse before Monday night's game against the Twins, but Manny Acta said not to read anything into it. — The veteran first baseman, signed in early March and assigned to Double-A Akron, is headed for Triple-A Columbus.
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MLB Rumors
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Associated Press:
Cliff Lee fans 10 in win over Dodgers — PHILADELPHIA - Cliff Lee hit double-digit strikeouts for the sixth time this season, fanning 10 in seven shutout innings and leading the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night.
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Associated Press
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Tony Jackson / ESPN:
Gordon's promotion among moves by Dodgers — PHILADELPHIA — Dee Gordon, one of the top prospects in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization as well as one of the most compelling, is on his way to the major leagues. — The club purchased the contract of the lanky shortstop from its Triple …
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True Blue LA and ESPN
Michael Diaz / MetsMinorLeagueBlog.com:
A deeper look at Brandon Nimmo — Brandon Nimmo, OF, East HS (WY.) — 6'3″, 195lbs — [DOB]: 3-27-1993 — Brandon Nimmo is a tremendous athlete with outstanding tools across the board. Very high upside, with size, speed, and defense. Smooth left-handed hitting swing, with a lot of room to fill out.
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Baseball America and Amazin' Avenue
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National Post:
Blue Jays take a pitcher with first pick — After stocking up on pitchers in the early rounds last year, the Toronto Blue Jays took another one with their first pick in the 2011 draft. — Tyler Beede was ranked as the draft's No. 35 prospect by Baseball America. The Jays picked 21st in the first round.
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Bluebird Banter
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John Manuel / Baseball America:
Pick 1/21: Blue Jays Select Tyler Beede
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Batter's Box Interactive …
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.
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CBS New York
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Associated Press:
Orioles Hand Athletics 7th Straight Loss, 4-2 — BALTIMORE (AP) — Brian Matusz and three relievers combined on a seven-hitter, and the Baltimore Orioles beat Oakland 4-2 Monday night to extend the Athletics' losing streak to a season-high seven games. — Matt Wieters had two hits …
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Yahoo! Sports, Camden Chat and Athletics Nation
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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NESN.com
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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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MLB Rumors, Mets Merized Online and MetsBlog.com
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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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NY Daily News, Amazin' Avenue, ESPN and Patrick Flood
Nathan Rode / Baseball America:
Pick 1s/51: Yankees Take Dante Bichette Jr. — At No. 51 overall, the Yankees' first pick of the night, we see some major league bloodlines with Dante Bichette Jr. getting drafted. He will likely move to a corner outfield spot where he projects to hit for average and power.
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Orlando Sentinel, baseballmusings.com, The LoHud Yankees Blog and Pinstripe Alley
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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HardballTalk, NotGraphs Baseball and Call to the Pen
Associated Press:
Gomes and Stubbs homer, Reds send Cubs to 7th straight loss — CINCINNATI, Ohio — Jonny Gomes hit a three-run homer and drove in four overall, and the Cincinnati Reds sent the frustrated Chicago Cubs to their seventh straight loss, 8-2 on Monday night. — Gomes has only two homers since April 17 …
Steven Wine / Associated Press:
Brewers complete sweep of Marlins, 7-2 — MIAMI—Prince Fielder homered and drove in four runs to help the Milwaukee Brewers complete their first four-game sweep since August 2008 by beating the Florida Marlins 7-2 Monday. — Zack Greinke (5-1) allowed two runs in seven innings.
